Ofturningfrom our el1i011ayes. if we negleCt: thofe his dealings with us, he takes it ill at our hands, and fo gives us up toour lulls more and more. Dan. 5. :a. there hadbeen~ a Judgement · brought upon Nt!Jucht~dnezzar in the fight ofBel{h~tzzar bis Sonne, which fhould have beene ameanes to have turnedhim : butThou B-el· /ht~zzt~r hil Sonne b4Jnot hur!iMedth1 [elfe, though th1u knewej ,a thiJ. As if he had Caid, 1did all this tooneneare thee in thyfight, that thou might.. eft be hpmbled, and tcrne to me. Tbiswas.the - cafe of Ierobuam, I Kings 13. God fent the Pro· phet to him with fignesand wonclers, both in tear. ing the Altar and withering his hand, yet .frill he went on.. And verfe ~3. itis noted and fet downe :on ·purpofe by the HolyGhoft, that after thille– roboam returned not from hil evi!J wa1, &c. as if l God hadfaid,llooked thou lhould'ft have returned upon the fight of all thefe Judgements, but thou woulde!l: not. So I ere. 3• 8. you know that if rt1el was carried captive long before ludAh. I gave Ifrael abiNof divorcemene for her4dultery : yet trtA-· cher~m luJAh fearednet; as ifhe had faid, a Judge- · ment on their next neighbour fhould have made them to have returned. Thereforedoe thou think, what the Lordwould byall fuch paffages of pro· I 141 l I . vidence towards thee, which are all as warning peeces before the great army, .ascrackes before the fall, crevefes through which the Lord reveales himfelfe :For you muft know, that God brings · men in by his workes as well as by his word ; and you may take his workes in vaine as well as his word, and to let thelll paffe without profit is to R i take - · --~~~------------
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