Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

+do ei Chain ofPrinciples Aph. 6. My people would not hearken to nay voice ;si,p z.1 r,1 2. and Ifrael lvouldnone ofme. So Igave them up unto their own hearts lulls ; and they walked in their own counfels howmuch more is this true of God's enemies ,Pharaoh byname. See how there three lulls of his Idolatry, Ambition, and Covetoufnefs concurred to the ma- king of him fo hard-hearted towards God fo hard to be prevailed with by Mofes. As an Idolater he was loath to receive a menage from the Vid. i.pm, God of Ifrael whom he knew not. findici,part,z, PaZ943 &C Who is the Lord laid he that Ifould obey his voice to let IJraelgo ? I know not theLord, neither will I let Ifrael go. As an Ambitious Prince it went to his heart to have Mofes control him in his own dominions , and to admit the commands ofany fuperiour Lord, Thus faith the Lord , Let my people go was as fire to his bones, andenraged him, who would not hear of any lord over that people but himfelf. As a Covetous man , he was loth tohave fo

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