On the Excellency of the Soul. wee are about anfwering, ®ü. take heed that you bee not found in this , like unto thofe wretched Jews (which God forbid that there fhould bee any one in this place found like unto) thatr'would fain = have the Prophet Jeremiah be inquiring what the mind of God was concerning them, and they. proff+, that whatfoever the Lord ihould reveal by him,. Char they woaild do, but when, it came, loe they fling o,`fall, and it was tonopurpo the Scrip-ure is in f er. 42. 5. Thenthey faid to Jeremiah, The Lord bee a true and afaithful witnefe between rtie, if wee do rot even according to ',odl,th;ngs,,for the which the Lord thy..Grod Mall fend th :e to us. Wee delire thee to go and know the mind of God, awl tell it us, and here wee -profefs and call God to wir ;- nefs, that wee will do what lies in us to perform all that the Lord thy God (hall require; This was a very fair pro - mi-fe, and I hope there are fome foals,: if not generally all . of you, have fuch a kinde of difpofition. oh . let his fer- vant fearch his Word, and finde out what ihould be done 3 and whatfoever bee ihall fpeak according to his Word, that will wee do, and God forbid it fliould bee otinerrvife ; it were jut} with God that our fouls ihould perilla , if wee should do otherwife; but there is a mighty deal of deceit - fulnefs irrthe hearts:oî men; erémiah went, and did as they defired him; but mark, chip.- 44. z 6} and -you alai( fee what a dif e ent difpofition there wag :in them, td what there feemed to' beedie ore ; `fiat you Than =fin-de =in chap. 443. they bgin to -wiia gie at what fe. emih'fpake to them, all the proud men began to wrangle at what Jeremiah fpake, mark, it is all the proud men, they are proud fpirits that do contend with Gods Word, but mark, fir} they wrangle , chap. 43.2. and then they g.ow refolute and t }ubborn,chap. 44. 16. As for the word that thou hail fpoken to us in the Naine of the Lo_d,we will not hearken unto thee;why,what, are-thefe the men that called God to witnefs , that whatfo- ever 7eremu h ihould declare in the Name of God, they would do it ?and yet now,firf+ they wrangle at what he faith, and then they refolve that. as for what lee hath fpoken to them 319
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