he fïnf ulneffe of , nerh, yet hee mull not omit the duty, upon pretence to efcape the fin. 'econdly, when a Ching is evill proper ! fieri, becaufe it is do le, the doing of that thing is unlaw_ 0111, and inttinfecally lìnfull,and therefore to be avoided; but when a thing done is evill, not becaufe it is done, but becaufe fomething which fhould make the doing of it good and acceptable is omitted, and to it is evill not in the fubílance of the thing, but by reafon of the defèas which cleave unto it, here this ought fall to be done, but the other ought nor to be left undone. Iehu, was com- manded to deftroy the houle of eflhab, bee did fo, and thus farre he did well ; but his ends and Gods divide the fame Aaion, God out of luffice, he out of.policie, and therefore though bee el-teemed it zea<ie, yet-God accomp- tcd it murther and fhedding of bloud, and though as it was in fubfiance the thing which.God commanded, hee did reward it, vet as the execution thereof was other wife than: he required,fo he threatneth to revenge it: I roil avenge the blóud of lezreel upo, t he hossfe of 7ehu. W hat then, , is lehu to commit murther ? God forbid : and yet is he to doe that, in doing whereof he did commit mur- ther ? yes,for God requir'd it. So then he was to perforrne Gods Command, but hee was not thereby to worke out his owne projeas, God commanded him to execute his j uftice, but not his owne revenge. When the Prophet Jeremy foretold the captivity of the Iewes, if bee had preached judgement with fuch an of e ion as Iehu did execute it, with aimes at his owoe credit in the truth of his meffage, with dAlight in the ruine and defolation of the Church, with expectation and detire to fee the la- mentable accomplillhment of his owne preaching (as Jonah dici at Ninive) thoaigh bee had done that which God required, yet had bee greatly tinned in corrupting his rrefiäge with,his owne tuff : but herein was the faithfulneffe of that holy man feene, that though bee did proclairne the woefuli day, yet hee did not detire it, but R 4 fart 2. -7 L King. io.3o. Eiofea 1.4. Tonata 4, r,5, t
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