44; ofConverfion, orTurning unto God. S E c T. IX. intoheaven I Oh that youwere notalmoft, but altogether perfwaded toturn from your evil waits;icmaybe Godmay infpire this holy purpofe at this time in thy heart: Oh go home andcherifla it, pray overit, mourn over it; fay, O Lord, keep this alwaies in me : As thou haft plantedit, fowater ir, and give it fore en- creafe, h .46Ate-0, ' 14k-9., SERMON LXXIII. Of .godsframing anddeviling evillof Calamities, `I hat men might turnfrom their evilldoings ; Ill- fo what Codsframing anddeviling evill implies; eAndwhy judgements and affliffions which are the good effeEls of Clods Nice, Wifdome, and Power,are calledevil. Jan. 18. I. Thus faith the , Behold, Ifreme evil againflyou, and devife a device a- getinft you, returnye nowevery onefromhis evil way, 6-c. N the former part of this Chapter , you havean injupftion laidby God on7e- remiah, and the executionofit. The injunaionand execution, is ingoing down to the Potters houle, and beholding a workupon the wheels which was mar- red , the Potter made it another vcffel, as it teemed good to him: This was a Type, or cutwardvilible fign,in a lively and ocular manner to reprefent the power, Soveraignty, and Omniporency of God, in refpeft of all Kingdomes and States, and more particularly of that of Ifeael. Every Kingdom is but as the Pottersunformed and rude clay ; God is the Potter , and he can eafily make it on a luddain a valet of honour, or difhoncur : He can eafily make it , and then break it in pieces again. This is the meaning of that Type, as appeareth by verles, 6, 7, 8,9, ro. Now myText is a conclufion, or inference from this Type ex- plained . wherein is partly information, and partly exhortation ; onely to make axle the more prevalent, you may obferve7eremiabs Commiflios, given him by God hirnfelf, whichfhould make him bold and ccuragious, Go to, (peak to the men cf dab, &c. a. The fúbjeft to whom he mutt perform this emballage, in the Hebrew, To themen of 7udebaed Jerujalem, to every man ; which denoteth the univerfal and general corruption thatwas onevery man. This coming from God oughtto be received by hito with all fear , reverence, and fubmillion. The matter of his Commiflion is partly co inftru&, and partly toexhort, as you heard. To iliaruft,and that is in the beginning of the 8.verfe; Behold,!frame evikagainji yón,,sed devi(edevices eigaiafi you ; wherein is the efficientcaufe, a. God : Our Galanaitiesand Judgements come not bychance, or by inferiour ioffrumentsoae- ly, but God is the principal agent : And it is his (word, his famine, bis plague, his War, becau(e arrows (hot out of hisquiver. a. The manner of his efficiency , or caufality,
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