for a time ofLiberty. tier : and hence break the yoak of fubjetion to any one of thefe, you raft offChrift, the Lords government and fervice ; and being fo linked together, in truth if you break one you break all , and this will provoke the Lord to make youkiffe the clink , and to put your necks under iron bondage that refute fubjetion to him. Iueft. 2. What is that bondage or other government/2,gf#. 2: towhich the Lord gives over his people when they have caft off his government, this will provoke the Lord if the Lord be raft off, and the carting off the government ofChrift will bring the molt famous Kingdoms,Churches and Families into bondage; you will fay what is this bondage ? when is it that the Lord takes his fèafon for . the execution of it ? A. i. The Lord takes his own times to do it,thefe wereAnfrr. r. a 12. moneth before the Lord ,:fent Shifbak: Here he was more quick. Nebuchadnezzar comes at Taft, and many years 'cis before the Lord doth it. 2. The Lord is various in working, as he is wonder- Anfw. 2, full andbath divers wayes or means of bondage, he hash moreprifons and chaines than one. Firft, fometimes the Lord opens the door of a King- dom or State, for the inrode offorce forraign, or is may be barbarous Enemy,breakinginfometime bypower, corn- ming in fomerime by craft, and then ruling like Lions, which the Lord makes to vex and prick the people of God; thus here their lives were (pared, but liberties loft. Thus Judg.2. r 3, r4. They forfookthe Lord, and ferved Ba- aland Afliraroth. And in verf. 14. The anger ofthe Lord waxed hot againfl Ifrael, and he dilivered them into the handsof fpoylers that [puled them. Ver. x 5. Whitherfoe- ver they went out, the hand ofthe Lord was againft them for' evill. And this the Lord cloth many timesfuddenly,tlíat one would never think that ever the Lord fhould be fo fodden ; the Lord can beas quick to punifh, as man to fin, and that unexpeaedly. Ecc!, 9. 12. Man knows nrr his time but are taken likefifli in an evill net fuddenly, Lam. 4. I2. The kingdomes of the earth,' and all the inhabitants of the world would not have beleeved,1udg. 5. 8. They fet up new gods, andwar was in the gate. I. Sometimes the Lord turns the edge of that lawfull authorityGod bath fet ever them againiit themfelves, to be a heavy fcourge from God upon them : Thus it was With Ifrael in Egypt, E_ xod. b 8, 9. there arofe a King 13 4 wf1ÍC14
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