PROVERBS. C gyp. %ó not be forfaken in them : he a iI1 pittie them, and not laugh at them : his ccimpaflion fhall be for their comfort, and not his viimercifulnetfefor their difcourage,nent. That which het profeifeth concerning Ephraim, whom beehad fo fharpelycorrected, belongeth to all the ref} of his people; whomwith his rebukes and rods hee nurtureth. Iet.3L to. Eraer (ìnce1jia4,e againfl him (in threatnings and appoynting the execution thereof) I fall.-remembred him : thereforemy bowels are troubledfor him I will Purely haue compafon vpon him,faith theLord. Dolt. Whenyoúrfeare, &c.] Boldnetfe in committingof (inne will make the punifhrrient thereof very terrible. When they reieetedhis counfels,when they. regardednot his promifes, when they tulht at his nnenacings, they little thought of trembling at his iudgemet ;ts,.they fate for the prefent, and therefore dreamed offafety perpetual', but plagues muff come, andwill difìnaythemwith their ve- ry lookes, and afterwards moi heauilie pr.etTe and crufh themwith their waight and violence. Beltazzar, that execrable King of Babel-1, was meruei- lous hardy, euen to profetfe defiance again[} the God of heauen, bythe profanationof hisholyVefels,and byother tetlimonies of defpight; but fo Toone as he lawhis doome written vpon the wall, though asyet hee vnderl}ood not the meaning of it, hiscountenance was changed, and his thoughts troubledhire,fo that the ioynts ofhis loynes were loofed, and his }mees [mote one againf theother. We may reticle a1Co ofSaid is 41". s8. lo. in what wofuli perplexitie hce was, when the Diuell, (whom bee was wont toobey more than God) in Samuels likenes, deiiuercd to him Gods mcffage, and told him what euill would befall him ()lithe morrow;theapprehenfionofperill caufed him through feare, to fall downe flat on the ground like a beat}, fo that all which were prefent had mucha-doe to make him rile and take food, although hee had beene a whole day falling, Reade Deut. 28.65.66. Leuit. z6.36. 1'fal. 14. 15. Ifay 35. 24, Job 15. 21.24. and 18.1i. and 27.2o. Firl}, Dam.. 5`. 6.
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