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rnay take, when we will,out of
Liber Bellomm Domini?the
booke of
God's
batc-Jiles.
.
Wteked words
liril:.
Prefumptuous
terme~
oftrufl:
m,
out
OWl)
.fl:rength :
1
ri{ill
go~ ,
1
"/1purfue andovertake: I rvtfldivtde thejfotle
:·
Phara• s
words, the canf'tt.o6his pe-
·o'·
and all hishofl: (ExDd.r5 .) To keep them{r:om that.
Rtlhfakeh's
blk kemou-
.
~~
1
:rtlafphemie:
Let not ilezekiah caufeyoutDtrufl in God.over m11rh
·: .r:h~~nainent
.E<od.'5·9·
caufe of the overthrow ofthe ho.fl:
of.Asjluer (
E(ay.36.)
to
l<cepe.~hemfrom
that. .
Ell. 36 ., 5 ,
And iffrom words;
~rom
rvtck;d workes
much~arher
•
·\)(chJ~ rfi~,f~t
rs/Sach-
, , ,
leoe:
Al"'tbema in medto tilt
,n~n
poteru flare. coram hofltbm
lt1~
1(
GH~
n
.~ 0\Yrl~
to"'Iojrta)
Thecaufeof the armtes rtufcarrymg; before
A~,
To·:ketpnhem!:fro(n
that
rolh.
7
~ ..,,
,;,
n•ickednejfe.
Such fl1amefull abufesas.was that at
Gtbea.:·'tnl!
e')lpre'flild.c)Jufepf
~he
dellruchonof a whole Tnbc. To
k~eperh~nJ
from thar-_
pro~lJanH1g·}J~IJ<trefTelsor
Jud., 9 .
h•IJ!I•ces
with unholy uf.1ge:rhe rume of
Balthafar,and
wtrh
mm
oftbe
v>li1'Jiecha1-
Dan.p ..
J
4
•n
Momrchie. To keepe themfelves from that.
Corruprmg ortr compafton,,and ea-
Amos ,_, , .
fling
ojfpitie q11ite,
and fpilling bloudliknhter: thdln
oLEdom;
~d
!he
bufc
h~
cook luch a foile, as he was never a people fince.To keep them from that wtckcdnes
From thcfe andfrom the refl:;you !hall havd time
to
read cherri,I haire nor
to
fpeal<e
them.
Arming
themfdves with a
mindto ceafefrom fin, lueping't/Jeir v effe!s holy : htt-
ving pay wherewith they may.be content
,~nd
betng conunt wtt!i tlmr pay:Et.nemmem con-
Luk.3.si;
ctttientes
(fatth S.
John Bapti}l .-)
not bcmg
TPrrentcs Be!Ml,
land-flouds of ;vtckednes.
Or, if this
will
not
be,tharprivate conformity
will not kecpe them ;
atl~afl:,
that
pu6~
like authoritiedoe
tt : that
kept
they may be, one way or other from tr; If
Acban
will
fo far forger
him~elfe,
as
tofin
in
the execra6!ething :
0
r
Zimri,
to play the wretch,
andabufe himfeltein thecampe: Let
lofr,alind
out
Achan,
and fee him have his due•
nnd
Phinees
follow
Zimri1
and
'.~.'.~N<Ihli~n,f.?!:]~.:~~~f(1,~f,~flt.~~ ·~ft:lf~i9ne;
a.nd rhe
villani~
of
th~ other:b1'WP.O,v~d;~l(,~~~~tt,~5,_!1tMP,~f~
_
,[ftmf'!l§~l~~
tmg
and pullmg downe GoD' swt'.ith upMtl\e'whole'R"ull:.
for,llfttt
if:iS,'-F fmue s
Prar..os
jd;
ftanding up
andexwningjtt~gement;
hath rhe force of a prayer, no leffethan
Mofe's
to>.•1;
flanding in thegap
to make mterceffion: and both ahke forctble, to turne awayGud'
s
anger, and to remove evillfrom the midfl:of
lfrael.
This advicds tO takeplace,as in them
thAt
g•e(as beforehath becnc touched) ro;
in us likewifc
that flay at home :
that what theone build, the other defl:roy not; Nor,
by
Mofe's
excrcife
ofprayer,and
unceffant prayer ; or
Iofaphat'
scxercife of
fafling
and
abftinence,
z chro.zo.
(both,arc out ofthe compaffeof the
text : )
but (that which
•Chro. >o.i;
is
in
it) by
t11rning from'fin to God,
and that, with a ferious, no fl1allow; and an in-
ward, not hollow repentance. Not confeffing our finnes
to
day, and committing
them tomorrow :But evet:y one
Caying,Dixi Crejlodiam,I havtfayd,I will
henceforth
l'iai.
19 .,;
more narrowly
look to my wayes;
at leaft,whilethe found ofwar is in our eares. Thin-
,king with onr
fd.~e~,it-i~n?w
.w..j!f,
~~.i?. n\JA'W,O~imer<;>~c~-
Sp,~;
and fepmtebe-
.
tween H1m
an~~hts.Heclf!J1l~,tnne of~i~
helpe
an.~r.o
8'£1oR
:By
entnng mto
that good and vcrtlious confiderat(onof
lf.rta s
:The
Arke
o{i)f1Jordand
alii
frael and
,
s,m,
1
t.n;
Juda dwellin
Tents,
Ioab andtheJervants
af'our
Soveraigni!ahjt/e.iiJ the Oftn
fields,
and
Jhall wepermit our{elves
:U
r~nteh"'
wewotdd,in tlie time of
pepce,aod,noc conforme our
felves,
m
abridging fome part of our
won'~dJi'b~t'tie, ~dJo~~ring
ro enjoy the
pleaflmsef fin
for a
feafon?
T~ conchid~,'i:f~
1ve
!h.all
1
·~I~.hen
1ve fl1all be tempted
to any of our former fins,to thtok upon
Go;/,:r
own count.fll,even Goo'
s
ownc coun-
fellfrom Goo'
s
ownemourh,
Memento helli &.nefeceris:
To remerriber the
Camp,
lob
4o.i1.
and
not to doe it: To thinke upon them in the
fi~lds,andtheirdanger;
and for their
fakes, and forrheir fafetics ro forbeare it.
·
.
Thus,ifwe fl1all endevour our felves,and efchew our ownwickedneffe,our hofl:s
~aU
goe for:h in the{lrength of the Lord,
and the
Lord
fl1all goe with them and order
t
etr attempts to an happie iffue.
He
that madeour forreine enemies
likea,vheele
to goe round about us,and not to
Pfa!.8;.•1:
~ome
neere us;fl1al! make thefe
"'jlttbbte before the
~ind:caufingfeare
and
faintnefTe of
1 bid.
hart
to
fall
upon them as upon
Madian:
fendin<> an
ea.-illjfirit
of diffcofionamong
Num.u.; .
t
cm as
upon
Abi~t•de,·h,
and the men
oCsiclie<;, :
caufing their owne
woods
to de-
Iud.pJ.
vour~
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