., ;,. ,. 34 I The Builders of Babel Mat. 15. 13. Luk.2r.6. Efa: r7.r. 845. 2: Ibid.64. 6 Ezek. 22. 14. what he doth, nor once thinks of returning ; for every man is right in his own eyes , and nothing will be reftrained from them, and ifI go not down, if! do not difcover my Pelf, and make their folly and madncfíe, and their mifery appear, they are running on confidently, never to return. Therefore Iwill go down and confound their Language ; I muff bring to naught all their works, wifslome, confidence, and inventions, that I may fave man from deflru&ion. Now the work of the Lord is to pull down, ruin, and cleflroy all this flately building of mans ereúing,and to lay it allflat, and to let man fee, that whatever he plants is in vain ; Everyplant which the Father planteth not, muff be rootedup : whatever man hath wrought by his own power, and in his own wifdom,mufl be brought to confufion, and be made Babel, and not afone left upon a flow' : Though the Temple which the Sons of men have let up, be never fogloriousand precious in their beholdings, yet all mull be deftroyed, and they andall their works and en- deavours, all their forms and inventions turned into a ruinous heap. And theLord will not onely fay this, but he will allo do it verf. 8. So the Lord fcattered them abroad from thence upon .the face ofall the Earth, and they left off to build the City. When man is once convinced of his miferable condition, and fees himfelfand all the fons of men thus deluded and befoeled,and begins to fee that all their confidence is madnefs, and all their work fin, and all their duties as menflruous rags, and all their forms and inventions no other but Babel and deftru&ion, then and not before, they leave off to build this City ; for then they fee themfelves (as it were) fwallowed up in death and mifery, and that their beft a&ions are but dung and droQe, and abominable things, and that there is no fta- bility in any ofthe fons of men ; and this is the Lords work alone, this man hath nohand in, tís theLord that faithand doth it, to confound this Language, and fcatterethmen from this building, fo that they can now no more contribute their wifdome or counfei, theirffrength or endeavours to this City ofConfufion. Verf. 9. 7herefore is the Name of it called Babel, becaufe the Lord
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