434 Chap. 19. an Expofitson upon the Tookpf J o s, Verf. 29, fhould be a judgment, but they judgedhim as ifthey hadnever looked to have been judged themlelves, their ae4ions did not fpeake what theyknew ; therefore he charges them with igno- rance( r Sarn.2, t2,)The font cfEli were children cf Bella'', they did not know the L?rd. Did not they know him, and yet Priells !: not know him, and yet bred up under Eli the high Prieft a god- ly man ! could it be faid ofthem they did not knowthe Lord ? Though they had a forme ofthe knowledgeof God in the let- ter ofthe Law, yet becaufe their lives were unfutable, and they afted as they who know not God, therefore 'cis faid exprefly, thej knew not God. They threw off the yoake ofobedience, they were f n.r.ofBeliall, they walked not in the power of their knows ledge, and therefore they are faid not to know. When Manaffes being carried away to Babylon in chaines, began to come to- himfelfe ( the Lord haveing thus humbled him by his afili8 ion) theText faith, ThenMonaffes knew that the Lord he was god, (2 Chron. 33. 13. ) Manaffes being fon to 1=1, zekiah, a godly King, nodoubt was tutored, and inftrueted to know that God was the Lord; yet Ma:1,4esnever knew God to purpofe, till he was taught by the rod. Whatfvs-ver truth we doe nor hold forth in life, we may be laid not to know it, how much knowledge foever we have about it, Thirdly, From hencenote alto ; There fhall certainlybe a 7udgemext. This point was handled before (v. z5.) confult that verl"e -: about it. Fourthly, From the tonne&ion, when he faith ; wrath bring- sib the punifhment of thefroord, thatye may know, e'c. From the connexion, we maylearne, That, The prefentjudgmentsof are arguments of afuturejudge- ment. When we fee the face ofthe (word," fame vifible judgement, t iatteacheth us to believe a judgement as yet uJ feene, The dayes of judgement in this world are intimations of that great dayof judgement at theend ofthe world : Thofe are leffer days ofjudgement. And, as when Goddoch not bring judgements on grillers in this life, it hardens many in this opinion, furely there.
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