On the CoRONA T I<iN.-day. plague for the peoples finnes ;} Notmany; Nay, not t!l'o; as .0f1ate_; Bu~ ~ now, ~X indeed, oneK._ing irver (Ill Ifr.ael. We know;wherlthere weie i two I(ings, one in Iuda, and.the othe~jn,the Ten Tribes; tw~ iu one ter.ri~ tory ; .it was amaime anct ableniifh both; =That ~li~re was.1_ri.Qt fitex, one. entire I(ing, but two .diverfe Kings (as~t were) ?V~J:JWO f:aiv?s ofa (~n~ try. The like imperfeetion.was ir,everi the dtvld~hgof.thts ond[land,un~: der twoSoveraignes. The rt:ducingof bdth theR: under.oriej was..pro~ mifed lfrael, as an bigh fa'iiO.ur. The [arrie; tO":tlS •.perform~d, can be no lelfe : even, that (now) there is a!(in~4n4e.ed:, 'l\~~j·'o.ne f\ing 1: One (and . · .. ~ ~~ no more) abfolu~e, entire I(ing <>v.er ail'theTribes.; byei: alllfrad: , J..et tty~ Ezek:;7.2!~ be theSecond. Jc. : z; '! -, '·.-, r;, ~~ .o .....::_ , - And this our third. That not onelyo'lierlfrhel: .but_{asthe words are) In Ifrael. Thefe arqwo diff'crenc t:hings. To lpeake (as the! Proph'et doth) that, this I(ing is not .Ajfur. For,tbM.~at(e AJJuiifhal/beyou.r Ho!. xi~ l(ing, is ·a: fearefull threat, Go o ufech to His people;,for their unAind;, , ne.ffe. To have a meere .Alien; one from beyond tpewater~ ailNebucbodo~ _,,' no:{OYw.is; out of a people, 1PhofeJJmcE 'they did not undeellani:l: Oll.e,t not in, but extra lfr4elem; that is, 'o1>er lfcael,. but neither ildt,.nor. ofjt~ That this is not our cafe, as (it is well k"llOWrre) ;fomy.{N(lllld-·have had ir. Therein then, n1t1£l: we alfo acknowlepge,,G o nliathdeaft .gratioully with us, fending us fuch an one, as;bymprothari one .or two, Beforethi~ very lafl:ofall,is come ofthea{_ace!J(oyaO;arld is by due.andundoubted rigb~ al(ing, not onlyo'Ver, but in, aridoflfrae.l. Is riot this a third? · _ · - And fure, this fotJrtb. That 1 as :He fent us n.,ot.Ajfur a:Jlranger ~ fo; neither fc:nt He a Jeroboam. ' No fl:ranger, in birth; he; but onc:!'addiCI:ed to a Jlrange 1/lorfhip: aJlrangerin a{_eligion. (And; itwas even Micbas.xe~ ligion jull: : As; Michas Country-man he was ; for, both, were ofEpbra- _ im.) Whodid that J~Jbich JIJas e1>ill in G.o D s eyes 1 bydoing that, JIJI,ii:h was .. . , good in buoil1ne; and fo, ma4e Ifrael ta finne.. , Such,an oneH~ bath not fent ! Kings i$i us. but one that'knowetb God: doth neither favour Micab, nor Micabs ~!!< wo;fhip; fince,that was a pr.incipall:caufe, why there is a'l\.ingin Ifrael~ that Michas Idols might not belfet up. _• . _. 1 And then fifthly.As nor-a-Ierob~am fatotiringMicaT,,nota (]?,.pf,obodm nei~ ther; who was•(indeed) well for his a{_eligion, but otherwife not able to ad'Vifehimfelfe, and fo ready to be advifed to thelvorfe. One, that vvasfull dchra:~ ofgreat n>ords, but fo faint-hearted, as not able i:o refiJioug/Jt: i:hat under 14! him, every one did 1vlJatheJDOuld; for all the l(ing. Itwas (as iri another caf~ thePropbet fpeaketh) rt{r:x,a{.ex,& non eff (](ex. It is otherwife,where ~ Chrci. rj/ P:mces areintelligpd, learned, and (as 'Ddvid was) bdth religlou.s arid wife., .~7; wife M an .A'ngell ofGod, to difterriegood and eilill. Such aI(ing MVavid a fpeciall blefsing: not omnibm data, not given to every people; Nay: . _ _ . many times, noqo!frae'l it,felfe. May\ve not report this for a fifth? 2 Sain.~~ . And for afixth, this. Thai n·ot as 'D~vid neither,though he were both 271 1,entle and wife 1 which IP.Jhoboamwas not. For though he were both; ' , Mmmmm l yet ( I
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