564 CPtar. 3 r. rdn Expa,(etion upon 'tin Rook! of J o a.irert.2f. to all men in the world, holding as it were the Candle to them in, ail the labours ofthe day. The Creatures how high or noble fo- ever were made for mans fervice, and fliall manat once both de. grade himfelfe and difhonour God by ferving and. worfhipping the creatures in the place of God, or as if they were Gods ? G. Take heed, that ye doe not this great evill ; which is indeed two. great evills ( Per. 2. I.3 .) e.4forfakingofthefottntaine of living waters, and a digging to your [elves Crffernes , broken Cifiernes which can bold no water. Hence that leyere threatning (Dent. r7:. 3, 4-) Ifthere befoundamong youman or wcman &C. that bah_ gone andferved other gods and worfhipped them, either the Sumac or .A-Io,one,or any of the hti ofheaven which 1bavenot commanded &e., Then (v. y.) Thost/halt bring forth thatman or that woman (which /oath committed that wicked thing) unto thygates , andfhalt float them withHones till they die. Arid when the Magifirate did not punifh this fin, God tttmfeife (in due time) did. (2Kings 17. 16,17,18.. 2 Kings 21. 3. Per: 7. 18, r 9, 20. Ezek: 8. x6, 17, 18. ) If any queftion what fhould move eyther Jew or Gentile to worthp the Swine Mooríe andStarres ; I anfwer, Firft, the flu. pendions greatnes, or vaftnes rather, of thofe heavenly body es ;; Secondly, the exact order in which they move and have moved (in their natural courfe)from the beginninguntil! now ; Thirdly,. tTet et Gnag' the unwearied conflancy of their motion ; Fourthly, the incredi- iát.' lj,icuinc, ble lwifrneffe oftheir motion : Fifthly, their beauty and bright - yr.aßantia et neffe ; Whence 'David fpeakingof the heavens, faith (Peal. I 9. magna atiiirete 5.) In them bath hejet a Tabernaclefor the Sunne , which is as a t b coinnivre t bridegroome coming out ofhis Chamber, and rejoyceth as airing 0114.9j gust man to runa race. TheSunne cornea forth like a Bridegroome, fdeja hi.: as if he would make all the world in love with him, and therefore tninibus aferkt no great wonder if many are. Sixthiy,,their power, operations, ea pnrarunt deli and influences, whence ; Seventhly, their beneficiallnefs and nie- e¡j et era di}t fullnels to the world elpecially to mankind ( there's no living Me,rc.xnr, without them) may with all the former confederations eafily en- tice worldly men to wot Chip..them, Yea forne were perfwaded that there was a kind of divinity in them; at leaft that God would never have endowed them with Inch admirable . beauty, vernie, andefficacy, but that he intended force honour and re- fpea.. fhould be done to them by theEons ofmen. Yea force of the:
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