0 proue: for in that bee fhed 1\laboths innocent blood, and cotn.mitted ldolatrie, and ferued Balaflm., who could haue · done greater vvrong to his pofleritie,.then hee did himfelfe by thefe chings? for hence .it came, that the Kingdome ~as take,nfrom his houfe: and his _childrett,to the nurQb.cr offe– t.Xing.r4. uentie perfons,had thtir heads chopt fro.m their bodies;and all his kinsfolkes and acquainrance fared the worfe for h_is · -fake. So lerlJboam(rhat feducer oflfrael)rh0ughcby hi sido~ latrie to haue elhl?lifhed the Kingdome to him and his, fo · thar it (hould neuer haue been taken from his houfe and of. fpring.But wa·stdtJ? Nay,this ouerthrew him atHi _h'is houfe, this was· the bane ofall his. For bccaufe hee made lfrad eo J.King.ltf.. finne,therefore God (wept awayhim and his Hock,as dung 10 • from the face of the eanh, that none remained of thertl. Euen as orte would doe with an vncleane and filthie beaH, which,if he ~bi d e long in aplace, will defile the houfe, fo that the place cannot bee cleane and r~veete) till both the . beafl he remoued,and his dung fwept out: fo /a tJb()ams of .. fpring were as excrement~ ofan itnpure beatl, that did fo .pollUte the Iand )as it could not be purified till-they were all fcoured avvay. · So Chams poHeritie/or many generations.; bare the curfe vpon them ,for the impietieoftheir wicked father. 1/'fi 1~. .This ferues to rebuke thofe parenrs., thac rh.mke and goe about by oppreffion, by wrongfull an~ iniurimH dealing, and fuch wicked courfes, t'o bener rhe ctlate of their 'hil.. dren )and hope by thefe meanes to make their fee<ie great· vpon the eanh,afcer rhem. Nay this is the way to· bring the cmrfc ofGod; and coniequently deHruction v,pon their fa– tnilie.lfmen diJ but giuecrcdjt vnto the word of.God, that · fuch vile praaHes would ouenhrow,and not build vp their~ houfes, and that they did by thefe things pull dowl'le the plague ofGodfr~m hea.uen,vpoR thtm and theirs;it would, keepe them frotn,. enriching thcmfelues by wicked waies. apd m,ake tbt:m take heed how they filled their houfes wirl} the rkh~s,.of iniquitie,, for fctare Iell they ~ould -fill r:hcm al fo with th-e rewar.d ofiniq~ide,euen thevengea,e .ofGod~. lame•. s •4· For thefe ·filtne~.,.as. S~I~tnJ~s. faith,_doe c;rie vp t.orheauen) they . .make
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