___ - ^ _ ' ^ place above-mentioned, I pray confider of it. Balaam his defire was but todye the death of the righteous, therefore lice perifhedamong Gods enemies ; hede- out any labour to live the life of the righteous, God did with thofe, Erly 23 . 15', who faid, Wee have made Efay acovenant with death, andwith hell arewee at agreemeat not come onto rid : There men thought all fure,nothing could come to hurt them,they are as well as any man; for they had an agreement with hell and death, nei- ther fhould the fcourgemeddle withthem : but thefe were but theirowne thoughts, they reckoned without their hoft,as we ufe to fay ; for feewhat God faith to them,verf 18. Toar Covenant with death [ball bee dfa- fhall be troddendowne by it They inigh.t contrive, but hee would difpofe ; thoughthey did thinke all well, and hope for peaceand quietnefre, yet bee woulddif- anull their covenant, and breakoff their a,,reement, fo thatthe overflowing fcolirge, that is, fubdden ftruCtion fhould take holdof them, and utterly con- found them. Ammon going tohis brother Abrdom's feaft, little thought tohave beene fo foone cut off; a &mall 3 neither is it likely that1259rah and his com- pany thought their tent-dores fhould be their graves ; I warrant you they hop'd for repentance, yet this fud- denclef/ructionwokeaway all poffibilityof repenting fix= thew; - Callfd
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