to drQlpfie..á A IN T $ the earth,te be a curfe,atnd aflanifhtnent and an bung and a re- proach, among all Nations whither I have driven them. Mart now ; what is the reafon, why Ggc wouÍddoe thus ? l'ec4úfe they have not hearkened to my Prord,faitli the Lord,which %"fens unto them by my fervants the Prophets, riling up early and . fending-them, but yee would not heare fayth the Lord. This was the reafon, why God would plague them Co grievoufly, becaufe they would not linen to his Embaffadors, that he fent them for their good. Theiike we teadéof the ten Tribes : tl e Lord powred his vengeance on them too for this very reafon, becaufe they would not heare his Embaffadors, there - fore the Lord call them out of his fight, and flung them away from being his people, and hee would never be their God more, the place is z King.i y.z 3,14,z s. The Lord teflified againfl Ifrael and Judah, by all the Prophets 8t Seers, laying, Turneye from your evil wayes & keeps my Commandments and my Statutes, according to all theLam which 1 commanded your fathers notwithAandingthey would not heare ,but hardned their necks, like to the xech, of their Fathers, and did net beleevc in the Lord their God and they rejefled his Statutes and his Cove- nant, that he made with their Fathers. Mark, this was the caufe why the Lord was th angry with them, and removed them out of his fight. Becaute they would not doe as his Embaffadors did command them in his name. Now as God bath let out his fury upon them for not attending to his Em- bafladors, fo he bath done, and daily doth and will yet more doe upon us. Fór though for temporali Judgements, God be patient and forbearing, beyond all admiration, we feele yet no Sword, no Famine, no Peffilence, we maybe aftonilht to fee how long fuffering he is. O if we had the grace to con- fider of it, nevertheleffe the,Lord is effufing out upon us the very dregges of his Cup, he fats us up for his eternal) ire, he hath done converting of our hearers, he bath done hieing of our Sermons,. he bath made us Leammies, and Loruha- mahs, and turned us into a generation of his wrath. You w hole eyes God hath opened whole hearts God bath inclined unto Q 2
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