Confoundedin their Language. Publicans, wicked andprophane; but we wil forfake finne and liveuprigh tly,andwe wil doforething that we may get us a Name that we are holier then others,and we wil be no 'ifs then Mafler Builders ; no fuch wife men as we ; no. fetch f}ri& holy men as we ; and the endofall this, is, leaf} death and mifery, andfin, hell, and condemnation fhould break forth and feize upon them, with the aft ofthe world. But now in all this time what does Goddoe ? Hebeholds their works, and their doings, and their contrivingsverf. 5. And the Lordcame down tofee the City and the Tower, which the children of men budded ; which is not to be underflood as ifGod removed or came downLocally,as leaving Heaven, to come down to the Earth, as menwhen they remove from ene piace to another : But God came down, that is, hebe- gan tomanifrft himfelf, to fhewhimfelf to the Sons ofmen ; before he let them alone, and they thought themfelvesfe- cure and all was right, fafe and well, which they had done ; now theLord he begins to appear, to confound their thonghts and inventions,and to thewall the fons oft-Den their folly, va- nity and madnef, inall this they acre fo confident of, they think they arefecuring themfelves from ruine, when alafs poorfoules, they arerunning as madly upon their own ruin and deftruthon as any elfe in the whole Earth nay, are far- therfrom returning then any other, in as much as they are more wife, more holy, and more confident then others. And herein is their mifery the greater ; therefore it is high time for theLord now to come down, to fcatter this building, and to make it BABEL and Confufion. Fehold, thepeople are one, and they have all one Language, and this they begin to do, andnothing will be reflrainedfrom them which they have i- magined to do. As ifhe fhould fay, all the fons of men are running headlong to their own dcftruaion, they are all as one man, all do one and thefame thing, and they have one Name and one Language, andall go oneway : Satan hath almoft gotten hisfull pof eon, and they will be whollygui- dedby him, and follow his counfel, they are all departed from me, and he is almoft quite& irrecoverably loft andgone: and yet every man thinks he is right, and no man confiders F what 33 Efa.65. 5. i. Cor. 3. io: Luk. 13. 28,
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