3`2 Awhole,foine Caveat Lord to be their God, butbyTome Covenant, theybound themfelves to the Lord. Whereby they were either made his people, or continued to be his people, and he their God; but I cannot now fund to clear this. Now look, as when the Lord breaks his Covenant , he carts them off from being his people ; ( though this henever doth.to the Elea) So when peoplebreak Covenant with him, they call him offas much as in them lies, from being their God ; they do as much as in them lyes , make the Lord to be noGod. You [hall fee therefore, Hofea i o. 3. They fay, we have no King; becaufelwe feared not the Lord. It is the fpeech of Confcience, and that at a fad time, wherein they did not fear the Lord ; They have f oken words, fwearing falfly, andbreaking theCovenant. In their time ofCovenanting with the Lord, there feemed tobe much forrow and humiliation ; yet in thefe very Cove- nants, Hemlock, did fp.ring up, and hence captivity came. Many times the Covenants that are made, there isfuch outward kerning reality, that not only men, but the Lord fpeakingafter the manner ofinen , He thinkscer- tainly thefe. Promifes, thefe Covenants will never be broke;, yet they are broken, Ifa. 65. 8, 9, to. Ifaid, ('urely, faith the Lord ; This is a people that will not lie. Such profeflion, and fuch acknowledgements, &c. fo it is faid; In all theiraflillions, he wasafffttled, and the An- gel ofhisprefence didredeem them But afterward, they re- belled, andvexed his holy Spirit : They calf off the Go- vernment of the Lord, they would not be under the bonds of the Lord, andfo he was turned to be their eneny ; this is that which brings captivity andbondage, Jerm. 2. z4, a 5, &c. Is Ifrael afervant faith the Lord ? ye (hall fee the reafon why he was fo ; Ihave broken their ironyoke, faith the Lord, and I have burft thy bonds, and I have planted thee ambleVine;yet haft thou degenerated : and this is that which Both make them vaffals or (laves. And in truth you ''never"fee Churches laid defolate ; but when that time comes, men fhall fee,and [hall profeffe it. When other - Nations (hall ask; Whybath the the Lord dealt thus with his people? The anfwer thall be cleat- ; They have broken the Covenant of the Lord. When man miferies come upon particular perfons, what is the caufe of it then remember the Covenant thou haft brokenwith the Lord. Ifa. 24. 5, 6. They have' tranfgrefed the Law, fpeaking ofthe whole earth And they have changed their Ordinances,
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