or a timeof`Liberty 2. They /hall morn. I. Not by the knowledge ofthe' bain, for that they know now, but knowledge of experience, as it's laid in EZek b tilt. When I (hall have made the Land defolate in all their habitations , they (hall know that I am the Lord. Nowwhat (hall they know ofit ? Anfv.The difference beta ecn them, thefarrow of the one, the_fweet ofthe other; the miferyof the one, and bleffedneffe of the other ; the bondage of the one, an the liberty of the other. - É) Theremight be many things obferved from the words, but I note only thegeneral". Obfer. That when ' any people of God forfake the Lord, Doifr. and raft off`his government over them, they provoke the Lore to put them under the bondage ofanother government. they that abufe Gods liberty mutt be under bondage; the Lord path a Kingdome in this world molt glorious;hence when 'Den will not he under it, if they will not be ruled 'by him, they mat be ruled by the whip; and if Chrifts laws can- not bind, thriftschains muffler. 5, 19. And it(hall come topaffe whenyefball fay, Wherefore loth the Lord all thefe things unto us? then/lialt thou anfwer them, Like 'asye have forfaken cn^, andfervedtrange gods inyour land, fofhallye ferve (bangers in a land that is not yours. Pfal, 107. to, II. Such as fit in darkne,jfe and in the /hadow ofdeath, being in afflitlion andiron, becaufe they rebelled againft the words ofGod, and contemned the counfell of the molt high. Ijzek. 20. 24, 25. Becaufe theyhadnot executedmy Judge®. silents, but had defpifedmy Statutes, andpollutedmy sab- baths, &c. Wherefore Igave them alfoftatutes that were not good, andjudgements,whereby theyAould not live, &c.Zach. 16. And theLord unto me, Take unto thee yep the it f rumentsofa foolifh Shepherd. Veri.. s 6. 1 er lo I will saife up afhepherd in the landwhich/hallnot vifit thofe that be cut off, norfeekthe young one, nor heal that that it, broken,. norfeed that thatftandethRill, jc. Whenpeople break covenant with God, and loath hits, then faith the Lord, I'le notfeed and then he fees o4 <ver them Idol- fhepherds. ' This is certain, when the foul will not-fubjeh it felf to God, hegoes about tofubjea Gód tohim,nay to his lulls, Mfr." 43.24. Thouhaft made me to fame with thyfins. For Q114 ofthem moll ftoep, and a man would have the Lord tae ereitiall, patiog, and pittifull oohim, when he is in 2 league
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