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Chap.
3
a.
an
F_xpofition upon
the
Bock.,
of
o
x.
Verf.
I.
And
When
God
bath fpoken long
to
a
people
who
regard
it nor,
e c
ra.feth
to
ïi
e
,k
any
more,
huc
faith,
Why
f;.ould
ye
he
taught
any
more
?
Let the Prophets
tongue cleave to
the
roof
of his
motitrt,
let
him be
dumb
and
filent,
as
the
word
is
(,Ez,ek.3.26.)
hou
¡halt
be
dumb, and
(halt
not
be
a reprover
(why
)for
they
are
;a
rebellious houfe.
After
all rhy
fpeaking,
they continue rebelling,
therefore
fpeak no
more.
We
read the
like dreadful!
prohibiti-
on (
Hof:
d.
4.
)
Let
no
man
flrivc
nor
reprove
another (
let
all"
wayes
of reclaiming this people
be
laid
afide ) For thy
people
are
as
they
that
(trove
with the
Prieft
;'That
is, they are
obdurate
and
defperately ingaged
in
wickednefle (
Hof
4.
t7.)
Ephraim
is
joyned
to
Idols
(he
cleaveth
and flicketh fall
to them,
he
will
not
be pulled
from
his
ovine
inventions)
Let him
alone.
Thus
God
faith
to
his
Prophets
and
Miniflers,ceaf
,
he faith
to
his
Ordinan-
ces,
ceafe,
when
fanners
will
nor
ceafe
to
fin
and
doe wickedly
againfl
the
Lord. The
fame
unprofitable and incorrigible
people
are threatned
in
the
fame manner by
another
Prophet (Amos
8.
9.')
It
jhali
come to
paffe in
that
day,
faith
the
Lord
God,
that
I
wilt cau
fe
the Sun
to
goe
downe
at
none.
And
(ver.
t
a.
) I
will
fend a famine
in
the
Land,
not
a famine ofbread, but
of hearing
the
words
of the Lord.
God
would flop
the
raining down
of
heavenly
Manna,
and the
people fhould not
heare,
becaufe they would
nor.
Such
was
the
fentence of Chrifl
again]]
the
ewes
(Math.
z
3.3
7.)
O
)erufalem, ferufalem,
thou
that
104
the Prophets,
and
ftones
them which
are
feat
unto thee,
how
often
would
I
have
gathered
thy
children together as
a
hen
gathereth
her
chickens
under
her
wings,
but
ye would
not
?
What
follows
this refufall
?
read
and
tremble
(
ver.
313.)
Behold
your
houfe is
left
unto you defolate,
for
I
fay un-
to
you,
ye (half notfee me
henceforth,
&c.
As
if
he had
Paid,
becaufe
ye have
been
fo
unteachable ,
therefore
ye (hall
be taught
no
more.
It
is
fad, when we give
God
occafion
to
give over
either
(peaking
to
us
or
affil
ing us.
God
will
not
alwayes
Ilrive with
the
unwillingneiîe,
much leffe
with the
wilfulnefhe
of
man
;
nor
will
men be
alwayes
doing
that
ro
men,
which
they fee.doth'thena;
no
good.
So
thefe
three
men
coifed, &c.
Secondly,
Note
hence
;
When men
are
obfhnate and
will
.not be
reclaimed,
it
is good to
give
over.
Why.fhould
they who
in
any
kind
are abfolutely
refolved, be
further
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