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John Trapp on Job 26:6

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Job26:6

Verſe 6. Hell and deſtruction are before him] Here beginneth a Magnifical and ſtately deſcription of the Majeſty of God; and 1. from his Omniſcience; 2. From his Omnipotence. For the firſt, Hell and deſtruction are before him: Not the grave only, but the neathermoſt hell, that moſt abſtruſe part of the Univerſe, and moſt remote from heaven, Gods Court. Of hel we know nothing ſave only what the Scripture ſaith of it in general, that there is an hell, and that the pains of it are endleſſe, eaſeleſſe, and remedileſſe, &c. but God only knoweth who are in hell, and who is yet to be hereafter hurled into it. It is the Saints happineſſe that to them there is no ſuch condemnation. Rom. 8.1. that over them this ſecond death hath no power, Rev. 20.6. That if hell had already ſwallowed them up (as they ſometimes when deſerted feel themſelves to be in the very ſuburbs of it) it could no better hold them, then the whales ſtomack could do Jonas. Luke 22.31. Satan hath deſired to have th[illegible: 1 letter]e; ſcil, to hell, but that he ſhall never have; for they are the Redeemed of the Lord, ſaved from the wrath to come, and may triumphingly ſing, Death, where a thy ſting? Hell, where's thy victory? &c.

And deſtruction hath no covering] that is, Hell the place of deſtruction, the Palace of King Abaddon, (ſo the Divel is called, Rev. 9.11) and ſo hell is called in this Text, becauſe thereinto are thruſt all that are deſtined to deſtruction, all the brats of fathomleſſe perdition, ſuch as was Judas the Traytor, who went to his place, and all wicked ones, who ſhall ſurely be turned into hel, with all thoſe that forget God. Pſal. 9 17. This place is not covered, ſaith Ferus here, but open to God, for whomſoever he will caſt thereinto.

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