~6o The hardened Confcience. Cap. I 8. God fends JeannrJfe into their foulu, under fat- .. nefs of Ordinances, barrennefs under fruit .. . Ffal. Jo6. full Ordinances. Go teil thuPetJple, faith ·he 15. to Ifaiah the mofr Evangelical Preacher un– der the old Teftament, Ifa. 6. 9,10. Hear ye indeed but unaerftand not, and fee but perceiv~ not, ma~ the beart of thu People fat, and their tars heavy, a1-:d fbut their eyeJ &c. Then doth the preaching of the Apoftles themfelves prove but a Javour of death to death, 2 Cor. 2. 16. Then cloth the beft Gofpel Preacher become but a hardening preacher ; hard he found them, harder he leaves them ; aOeep he found them, afleep leaves them ; deceived he found them, · and he cannot undeceive them. Thus Mofes alfo hardened Pharaoh's heart, viz. accidentallyandoccafionally Pharaoh grew worfe and wor ie by every precept, by every reproof, byevery fign, by every plague; by every deliverance, and by every mercie. .;. Divine 5· Befi des thefe there is a moft dreadfull hardning. hardeningofGod' 1 part, a Divine hardeni1flg, a Pam~l hardening by Divine Vengeance: ThisGodcalls the fenaing of all hu plagues u on the heart, Exod. 9. 1 4· Aheart hardened by, the cur.fe of God, is an Epitome of all Exo. to. t. plagm:s in the world ; yea all the plagues 8[ ~20.&:27• heil are in it. Thus is God{aid often to have · hardtned Pharaoh's heart, which what it cloth pat~ticularly implie, I fhall not here enquire: How far God cloth aB: in the Judidall hard– t'ning of a finner to fin, yet is not the Au- · thour or approver of the fin. It cannot be meant
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