S84 Chap, 29. An Expofition upon`tbe Book of J D. Verf.-2F. or o yed D them. Rear O my peop&(faith theLord, 4Pfal, 8r, 8,) Acrd I will tefiifie unto thee, O Irrgel, If thou wilt hearken unto W. Thus the Lord did even entreat 1 frail for audiience.But what did Ifraelrwe have their carriage towards God(v. t t.)My people would not hearken to my voice,Ifrael would none of me. They could not but hear the voice of Grvd(whether he fpake immediately from him- felf, or mediately by his Prophets) but theywould not hearken or give ear to ic, And not to give'ear toor obey the word of God, is to refea it ; and to rejea the word of God, is to rejea God hirnfelf, as appears in the next words; for as loon as ever the Lord had laid, Ifraelwouldnot hearken to my voice, he adds,Ifrael would none.of me.Thus he complained(Jer. 44.4,5 .)ICent untoyou all my fervantsthe Prophets,rfing early andfending them,faying, Odonot this abominable thing that I hate: But they hearkned not,nor incli ned their ear) They heard the meffages which God tent by his Prophets, but they did not incline their ear to them, nor fubmic to them. And how ill the Lord relented ir,even as an affront or con - tempt put upon him, that they fhould hear, but not give ear to him,was not only to be heatd,but feen loon after among them and their fight told them what ill hearers they had been, as it fol- lows in the,next verfe, wherefore my fury and mine anger was powredforth, and was kindled in the Cities ofJudah, and in the flreeto of /eru(alem, and they are wafted and defolate, as at this day. When God cannot be heard, he will be feir. And when men will not give ear to hiscounfels, their eyes (hall fee and their hearts tremble when they fee his Judgments. It will turn to a fad account, at la(f, with the world, when the Lord shall lay, I fpake,and men did not give ear ; whereas if lu$ fpake, yea if the Devil fpake, they did give 'care. And how will men anfwer ir, when if.a wite man or a Magiftrate (peak about civil or worldly things they will give ear, but if God fpeak:by his Meffengers aheat fpi: irual and heavenly thingr, they have never an ear to give him. To me mengave ear, faith Job, rr Dicit dortTgol, j . And waited and kept Pencefor mycornfel. nfcatanixèèt Waiting is an a&, firf of patience fecondl of oblervance enixèex effa- e ' P Y 9 re. thirdly, of hope and earnefi expo &ation; be that waiteth truly, looks with his eye, and Hens with his ear, and puts himfelf body and foul into fuch a pofture, as if hewere Made up of theft three
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