ObieEtionsoigatnJ? perfesseraricetalken
frorn
examples,anf.7a9
Now Gods
loue
is
immutable, for whom
he
loucth;to
the
cnd
he
loueth them
:
Ioh.13
.
x.
Cohn
13,10
Secondlie,
he
is
Paid
to
haue
loucd
God,and
to
haue
wal-
ked
in
the ordinances
of
Dauid
his
father,only.through
infir-
mity
doting
upon his
wiues,he
facrificed and.offered incenfe
in the
high
places
:.1.King.3,3.
So
it
is
faid,
that
the godlie
,I.King.3;.
Priefls and Leuites, and
fuch
as
fet
their
hearts to
feeke
the
Lord,
ioyned
with
Rehoboam
in
Gods
worfbip
and feruice,
and
/lrengthcned
his kingdome t
hree_yeere lon_On
which
time
they
walked in
the
way
of
Danid
and
Salomon:
z.Chro.
i
i.
j
6.17.
2.Chron.i06,
Thirdly, veto
him
was made
a
promife
from
God,
that
his
merde
fhould
netdre
taken
from
him,
though
hee
fin
ned
againf}
him
;
brit
FSt
nne
fhould be corre
&ed
with
tern
porall
chaftifetnents
:
2.Sam.7.I4.
1
will
be
his
father,
and
he 2.Sam.7.i4
.
jhall
be my
fonne,and
sf
he
ßnre,
1
wrll
cha/len
him
with
the rod
of
men;and
with the
plagases
of
the children
o
f
men.
15.
Tut
my
mercieJlmll
not
depart
away
from
.him,
45
.1
tooke
at
from
Sail,'"
whom
I
hatte
part
away
before
thee.
The
which promife
is
plied
to
all
Gods
elea
to
the
fame purpofe
:
Pfalm.89.29.
Pfa1.89.19.3o
3o.31.
&c.
And this
promife alto was
accordingly accoin-
plifbed,for when
Salomon
fell
into that
fearefull (inne
of
ido-
latrie,God threatneth to
chailifc
this
his finne
with the
di
ttifion
and
renting
óf
his
kingdoine,which
was
buta
tempo
rarie
punifllinenr
i.King.11.11.'
Yea,butthis
prómife
is
made
not
concerning
his
fpirituall
eilate,but concerning
his
worldly
kingdome
and
gouerne-
ment. I anfwere, this obie&ion
is
confuted by
experience
3ï
for Salmons
(nne
was
punifhed
in his
nextfucceffour,
by
taking
from him
ten tribes
of
the
twelue,fo
that
the greatefl
part
of
his
worldly
goucrnement
ceafed in his forme,
and
that
which remained
was in
times fucceeding
taken
from
his
,.
pnfleritie,
And therefore
Gods
promife could
not
be
vider-
flóod after
a
worldly
and
Carnal'
manner,
feeing
in
that
it
was
not
accomplifhed, and
made
good
veto
him.
Fourthly,he
was
a
type
ofChrifl,and
-his
kingdome
ofthe:
f
ourifhing
and peaceable
gouermnent
ofthe
Meifas.
Fiftlie;
hee
wvas,a:penman
nf:an
excellent part ,of
Iiòlici
t
Scriptures
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