find other Duties, recotñmended. 291 filled, I have ftretched out my hand, and no S k R M. man regarded it ; but ye have fit at nought XI. all my counfels, and would none of my reproof; `"' I will alto laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear eometh ; when your fear come eth as defolation, and your de/iruelion as a whirlwind; when dßrefs and angu Jh cometh upon you ; then Jhall you call upon me, but I will not anfwer ; they /hall feek me early, but Jhall not find me ; for that they hated knowledge, and did not choofe the fear of the' Lord; they would none of my counfel, they defpifed all my reproof; therefore /hall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filledwith their own devices. Thefe threaten' ings in their full meaning are certainly intended againft obftinate incorrigible fin - ners ; but even lower degrees of difre -. fpet to the appointed means of inflrucö tion are' faulty, which yet do not amount to an titter hatred of knowledge and rejec. ting the feat of the Lord. As it is very plain that Chriftianity requireth our affem- bling together for the purpofes of worfhip; I cannot but obferve, that fome chriftians neglefting it fo much as they do, fheweth too great an indifference to the injunctions of our Lord, and to the defign of fuch affemblies. This is fo much the rather to be
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