10 God affti8s hu oume People. ------: he would have ilaine him in the Inne, for noc cir– cumdfiog his Child, and alfo becaufe of that other fin at the waters of M erihr~~ he chufeth an affiiction for ·him, wherein he moft of all croffedl1is deftres denying him to goe into the Land ofCana.cn,ic may bee fome [mall afRiction in fhew as this feemed to be, which yet pincheth forely, and fame great af– fliction on the contrary in bulke to others,that is nof fo to him that beares it; And thus healfo deales withEti., a zealous nun (would any ofus were foin thefe dayes) -for when newes was brought that his fonnes were dead, and many ofthep~ople flaine, he ' was not fo much troubled at that, as that the Arke · of the Lord was taken, and thjs amazed him fo as that he fell backward and brake his-necke: you fee the holinelfe of th;e man, yet becaufe he had prefer- , red his fonnes before the Lord~ did not gov~rne them well, God did not onely thus take away his life, and ofhis fonnes, but the Priefthoodalfo from his houfe for ever, and have not wee a.ll caufe to ., feare then-: How did hee deale with thegood Pro- . phet that was flaine byaLion, his f~ult that he be– leeved another mans word, pretending thlt he had Gods Word, when hee had Gods Word exprefiy given tohimfelfe, this finne was as the fin of Eve who beleeved the Divels word, when iliehadGPds Word exprefiy, and therefore let us whenwe have the Word of the Lord fiicke clofe to it. And fo , however hee deale wich Gidto» a worthy man . reckoned up among thofe wortqies, Hefl. 1 i. yet . whenhe made aaEphod,feewhatjudgemendel upon his children, IuJg. 9· and ;Ill his houfe was cut off. · Thefe
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