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God
on
earth
for
a
more
intimate
blessed converse with
.him in
the world
of
sight and enjoyment.
4.
Those
who
regard
not
the works
of
the.
Lord,
."
provoke
him to
deprive them
of
all
the
blessings
of
life,
and
to
abandon
them to
utter
ruin."
How
can they
ever hope
that
the Lord
will
bestow
repeated
mercies
upon
them,,
when they
take
no
notice
of
his
power
and
his hand
in
the
blessings they have
already
received
?
How
camthey
expect
to enjoy the
continuance
of
present
comforts
:"
"
Israel
did
not
know
that I
gave them corn,
and
wine,
and
oil,
therefore
I
will
return and
take
away
my corn
in
the
season thereof,
and
my wine in its
season,
and
I
will
recover
my wool
which
was
given to cover
their
nakedness
;"
Hos.
ii.
8,
9.
If
this
be
our
practice,
we
may
justly
expect
to be
left
of
God, and bereaved
of
the
mercies
that
relate
to
this
life and
the
life
to come.
If
we
like
not
to
retain God
in
our
knowledge,
and to glo-
rifÿ him as
God,
we
may
justly
fear
to
be
given
up
to
a
reprobate
mind and to
final
destruction
;
Rom.
i.
21, 28.
Let
such
stupid and regardless sinners
read
the
threaten
-
ings
of
the Lord against
such
brutish people
in
the
words
that
follow my
text. "
Therefore
my
people
shall go
into
captivity, because they have
no
knowledge;
their
honourable
men
are
famished,
and their
multitude
dried
Grp
with
thirst
;
Therefore
hell
hath
enlarged itself; and
opened
its.mouth without
measure, and
their
glory
and
their multitude and their pomp, and
he
that
rejoiceth
shall
descend into it." A
just
vengeance on
such
impi-
ety
!
I
proceed
now
to
The third
General
head
which
I
proposed, and
that
is
to
" apply the
sense
of
my
text
to
the
particular
event
of
the
last week."
And
I
shall
divide the circumstances
of
this
great
event,
viz.
the death
of
one
king,
and the suc-
cession
of
another, together
With
the notices
we
should
take
of
it,
under
the three
particulars
before mentioned,
viz.
We are called
to
consider what there
is
in,it of
ari
awful
and
afflictive
kind
;
what
blessed
mixtures
of
_mercy
attend
the
afflictive
providence, and what are
our
present duties,
both
to
God
and
man, which
are derived
thence.
I.
Let
us
consider
what
there
is
in
this
providence
that
is
awful
and
afflictive,
and
what
lessons
of
serious instruc-
tion
we
may draw from it.
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