Jfea3 I. T!J~ .Explication if the Text •. according. to. the rules of their faith, but of their fan– cy ; they faw tha.t they were fair: ; and their ,marriage with them, occafioned \hei.r divot c~ from God. This was· ene of ,the caufe~ <>f the deluge,. which fwept .away the old world. ~vVouJd to God all profelfors in our. day, could plead n9t guilty: but tho•gh that ftn bw~tght .oo the de– luge, yet the deluge bath noc fwept away that fin; . wh.ich., • tlS of olJ,_ fo in our da.y, may j.ufUy be lookee upon,. as:– ene of the c:aufes of the decay of religion, Jt. was an ot ·– t!inary thing among the Pagans-, to change their gods, as. they changed their condition into·a. married lot: a.nd. ma.. , ny fad inflances· the chrd1:ian:world affords-of the f-ame, as / if the people were o( Pharaoh's opinion, That reLigion /is only for thofe that ha.ve no other car-e ~pon their heads, E xod. v. I 7. (2.) Great oppreilion, ·uer. 4· There rwen gi;– l'lnts in the ear:th in thofe day{, men o[_great fia~ re, gre-at firength,_ and monHrous wickednefs, jiiling_ the edrth> wi11i ~ '' 'lliolenc~, ~er.. 1 I. B tH neither their fhength,. nor, treafures 0f wickednefs, could pn;>,fit them in the day-of wrath. Y~t t-he gain of oppreffion fi~IJ carries. man.y <Wer ~he ter·ror of this dr'eadful example. Thus much f.or the conne:&ion, -and. ·what particular crimes that generation was guilty of. Bu~t' ne1y pe~fon that was fwept away with th'e~ood, could not be guilty of thefe things:: ,a:ndfl9ali nat thejudge~ of-all the · ea.rth do right? Therefore in my text, there is a ge,ne~·a,l· _indittment drawn upagainfhhem an) Therwickedncfloj'ma?J. •v.Hu great in the earth, &c. And this is well inHrutl:ed, for God fa.w it. Two things are laid to their ~harge here.~ Firfi, Cormption-of Jife, wick,edn €-fs, great; wickednefs ~ I. undedland this of t·be wickednefs of their lives; for it is, plainly dill:inguifhed from ' th iek~.oefa _of their. beans,• . The fins: of their -outward converfa~ion,. w~re g:reat,in the: . nature of them, · and:-g,reatl yaggravated by their attendin-g ~irc~lmHances : and this- not onl.y ~mfmg thofe of 'the race of curfed Cailt, b~t thofe of holy S.etlf: The wick-otdnefs if. '!~an ·was grectt.. Ancl then it is added,-in t-he (dr-th, ( 1.)TG> \\indicate y ·od's feverity, in t_hat-l:le ot onJy cut off finners, but·defaced the beauty of the earth; ,and fwept off the bnHe creatures fr;om-it, by the deluge ; that as men bad fet the marks of-their impiety, Goq might iet the marks of his in· tli~n~tion , on the eaHh .. ( ::;:. ) To fhew 'the heinoufoefs of ~h:ei r..
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