17$ ~p_c'fiap.3Qr an Exprftion upau the Bask of Jo B. Verfr9. am in the mire, I was wont to fit upon the throne, but now I fit in the duiy, or upon a dunghil ; Ile bath caft Mt into the mire. Hence take notice; Firft , How canfiant lob was in acknowledging Gad as the au- thour of all hisAft.rings ; He loath cal? me, &c. This truth bathbeen touched heretofore, and therefore I only 'name it. Weought to.own God in our throwing downe as well ns in our lifting up, as well eating us into the mire, as letting us with Princes. Secondly , Note God fowetimes dcclaretb indignation agaiaaft hisfervans in afjliE ing theca,. Hecateth his jewels into the mire, as if they were but mire. TholeCities who had re;eáed the preaching and miracles of Chrift, who had raft away the tenders of grace and mercy in the Golpel, as a worthleff, ufeleffe thing, are only threatned to be tat to deflruC3ion, (Math. ¡a .23.) ufrd thou Careron um which art exaltedunto heaven , ßoalt be brought (thruft or (-at) downe tohell ; thou fhalc not only fall down tohel by thy- own weight;, or according to thy own natural! tendency, (f r indeed hell is the centerof all wicked men) but thou fisalt be brought or prof- fed downe with violence and fierce wrathful! indignation. We . have a like deîcriptionof the ruine ofBabylon, ( Rovr1. 8. 2.r.) Anda mighty Angel teoke up afont, like agreat rviillßcne, andcalf it into the Sea ( This aftion of the Angel was emblematical, and himfelfe had order to expound it) laying, thus with violence (hall that great Citie Babylon be throwne downe , and [ball be found no more at all. As with violence Babylon (hall br throwne downe, fo with violencedoth the Lord fomctimesthrow downe many of the Ions of Sion. He throwes downe .his I/rae/ite.r as he threw downe the Egyptians, ofwhom 'cis fayd (Exod. is. 4.) Pha- raohsCharets and his heft bath be call into the Sea; God threw them as aman throwes a ftoneout ofhis band into the Sea. And thus Ethan fpeakes of the great change whichGod made in the ftate of the kittgdomeof Ifrael by jeroboam, to whom ten tribes oftwelve revolted, ( Pfal. 89.39. ) Thou haft made voide-the Çovenant ofthy ferveent : elms haft profanedhis crownby cafting it
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