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Ifa. 27.
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cifes
not
a
pure
negativeA&
ofhisWill towards
any
thing,or
perfon.,Whom he
hates
not, he
loves: foHeb.13.5. thefe
words,
I
will
not
farfake
thee ,
hold
out
a continual) fupply
of
all
thofe wants, whereunto
in
our
felves
we are
expo-
fed,
and what from
his
prefence we
doe
receive.
I
will not
forfake
them,
is
I
will
continue my prefencewith
them,
a
God
in
Covenant.
fo
he expreileth
his
prefence
with them. Ifa.
27.3.
I
the Lord
doe keep
it,i
doe
water
it
every mo-
ment, leaft
any
hurt
it,
I
will
keepe
it
night
and
day.
He abìdeth with
his
vine
-,
yard,
fo
as
to
keep it, and
to
preferve
it
from being deftroyed. But may
it not
at
one
time or other befurprized
into
defolation
?
No,
faith
he,
I
will
keep
it
night
and
day:
but what
if
this vineyard
prove barren, what
will
he then doe?
Nay
but
he will
fo
deale with
it, that
it
fhall
never be
fo
barren
, as
to
.
caufe
him
to
cart
it
up:
He
is
not
with
it for nought
, his
prefence
is
attended with
Grace,and
Kindneffe.
I
water
it,(faith he)
and
that
not
now and then
,
but,
every
moment.
He powres
out
frefh fupplies
of
his
Spirit
upon
it
,
to
make it
fruitfull.
Thence it
becomes a vineyard
of
red
wine,
v.2. the belt wine
,
the
moft
delicious,
the
moft pretious,
to
cheare the
heart
of
God
himfelfe,
as Zep:
3.17.
The
Lord
thy God
in
the
midft
of
thee is
mighty,
he
will
Save thee
he
will
rejoyce over thee
with.
joy,
he
wil1refi
in
his Love,
he
will
joy
over thee
with
fing-
ing. He
caufes
them thereby
that
come oflacob
to take
root,
he
makes Ifrael
bloffome and
bud, to
fill
the
face
of
the World
with fruit.
This
is
that
which
God promifeth
his
people;he
will
not
forfake
them,
he
will alwaies
give
them
his prefence, in
the
kindnefe
and
fupplies
of
a
God
in
Covenant ,
to
protect
them
from others,
to
make them fruitfull
to
himfelfe:
This
is
his
not
forfahing
them:
He
will
preferve them from others
,
who
(hall
take
them
out
of
his
hand?
he
will
make
them fruitfull
to
himfelfe; he
will
worke, and who
(hall
let
him?
2.
The
Reafon
why
the Lord
will
not forfake
his
People,
why he
will
conti-
nue doing them good,
is
expreffed
in
thefe words
for
his
owne
name
fake,
and
in
this
Afertion two
things are confiderable.
a.
A
tacite
exclufion
of
any
thing in themfelves, for which,
or
upon
Con
-
fideration
whereof God
will
conftantly abide with them.
It
is
not
for
their
fakes,for
any
thing
in
them, or what
they have
done,
may,
or
can
do, it
is
not
upon
the
account
of
any
Condition, or
qualification
whatever,
that
may,
or
may
not
be
found
on
them,
but'
meerely for
his name
fake;
which in
the
like
cafe
he
exprefeth
fully Ezek.36.32.
Not
for yourfakes
doe
I
this;
faith
the
Lord,
be
it
known
unto
you,
be
afhamed
and
confoundedforyour
owrae
mayes,
Oh
Houfe
o
f
ifrael
!
The truth
is,
they
may
.
prove
fuch,
as
on all accounts
what-
ever
(hall
deferve
to
be rejetted,that
nothing
in
appearance,or
in
their
owne
fence,
as
well
as
others, though
the root
of
the
matter
be
in
them,may
be
found upon
them,
when
God takes delight
in them. Like
thofe you have
defcribedat
large.
Ifai.4322,23,24,25.
But thou
hail
not called
upon me
oh
7acoh, but thou
haft
been
weary
of
me
oh Ifrael,
thou haft
not
brought
me
the
fmall
Cattell
of
thy
burnt
offerings,
neither
hag
thou
honoured
me
with
thy
Sa-
crifices,
.I
have not caufed
thee
to
ferve
with an
Offering,
nor wearied
thee
with
Incenfe, thou
hail
brought
me no
fweet
cane
with
money
,neither haft
thou
filled
me
with
the
fat
of
thy Sacrifices, but thou haft made
me to
ferve with
thy
finnes,
thou
haft wearied
me
with thine iniquities:
I
even
I
am
he
that
blotteth
out thy tranfm
grefflons
for
mine
omne
fake,artd will not
remember thy
Panes
any
more.
Weary
of
God they are,
neglehting his worfhip,
making
his
Patience and
Forbea-
rance to
ferve
with their
iniquities.
It
feemes
to
be impoflible ahnoft for any
Creature
to apprehend,that God
will
not
give
them up
to
everlafting con-
flation. Yea
perhaps
they
may
be
forward
in
their
follies
,
and
contend with
God
when he
goes
to
Neale
them. Ifai.57.17.
For the iniquity
of
his covctouf-
neffe
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