powertully before them, and ſet it bome upon them by the Expoltti ons and Applications of all the Prophets, tor this was their Work,
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none to and in ir. Then the Curſe comes upon a People, z.e. tiz;
ty and Excellency of Jeſus Chriſt, who was ſent of God to bleſs us, in freeing, us from the Curſe of the Law by becoming a Curſe foru;
ſpake againſt us p, and againſt our judges that judged: us q, by bringing upon us a great evil - for * under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been don: upon Jerutalem 7.
p By this it appears that God's Judgments threatned againſt Sin are to be teared,becauſe of the great and terrible God, ver. 4. Deut.7,q 10. Nech-m. 1. 8. q Whoſe Place and Duty it was to govern the I& ple, to judge their Cauſes, and to appoint others for it, wherein! there be a Failure, as there ofcen was, is was a Sin, and Judgment !
here the Words of his Prayer, becauſe it is the Prayer of a righteous
Man, and one of God's eminent Saints and Favourites in Scripture, ;
on the People, and upon the Rulers and Judges themſelves allo," which we find many Inftances and Complaints in Scripture, 7/al-2-%
who had great Power with God in Prayer, J60 42. 7, $,9. Eck. 14. | 9, 10- and 58. 1, 2. 7 A Place privileged many ways above all others
I4, 20. Fam. 5.16, e He puts God in mind of his Covenant, Deur. 7. $. Neb. x. 5. he calls him great and dreadful, as to his ſevere Juſtice and Wrath; now though the Covenant hath Promiſes and Mercy, yet it includeth Obzdience on our Part, as here 15 exprels'd. _— * We have ſinned and have committed iniquity,
p +5 and have done wickedly, and have rebelled f, || even | Or; arg by departing from thy precepts, and trom thy judg- kave de- ments. parted, SH f As if he had ſaid, we are not only Signers, but our Sin 15 Wicked- Gr. neſs aggravated to the Height ; thus much the Gradation here inti
mates, by doing wicked!, and rebeity, In our Coni.thons of Sin to God there mult be no mincing nor civaking of Sin, but a [full and naked Diſcovery, with ſelf-judginz and felf-abhorrence. Note here, all along atter this holy Man Danze! puts himſeif in the Number of the greateſt Sinners : S0 when we are Supp!iants and Penitents, we muſt include our ſelves in the general Petition,
6 Neither have we hearkaed unto thy ſervants the prophets y, which ſpake 1n thy name to our kings, our princes, 2nd our fathers, and to all the people of the land b.
£ For God to ſend his Prophets to his People was their high Privi- ledge,and the higheſt Att of Favour to chem,and of his Authority over tiem, for they were Guil's Ambaſladors, and came to them in the iord's Nam?, and theirtore their Sin and Puniſhment was the greater. h God's Ambaſſadors havea large Cmimiſhon, and general Initruction to [peak in the Name of their Lora with all Autiurity,and without Re- Ipect of Perſons. And this ſhews, 1. Gud's Autlority vver al], 2.God's Mcrcy towards all, of all forts. 3. The Agyravation of this Sin, be- caule it was of all lorts, as Gem, 6* 12, 13. 2 Criren, 26. 16 Now the
' chiefly by the ſignal Preſence of God there, and his Promiſes to Pſal. 56. 1, 2. yet when Sin is found there, as it was in Ferwlem, the height, as in Sodom, it was puniſh'd to the height. Read the Bow of Limentat0ns, ; 13 As * it is written in the Law of Moſes s, All th, evil is come upon us; yet -+ made we not our prajf!: before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our
intquiries, and underſtand thy truth. * |
s lev. 26.14, tO v.40. The Sum of all is this, As the Lord threte, ned an1 forewarned us long ago,ſo is it come to paſs this Day upon Þ5,' becauſe we took no warning, we under{tood not, but tinned and If turned not. The Lord is true and juſt in all that is come up ©: chiefly becauſe we have not made our Prayer unto God to prev-n* 0 Milſcry beſere it came upon us, nor to remove it when 1 lay hegryol us. Sec it in Ezekiel, who prophcked in the Captivity, 21id how 01e! received him: and though they kept a formal Faſt, yet wha: did tha hignity ? Zech. 7. 5, 6, 7+ :
14 Therefore hath the LORD watched ft upon - evil, and brought it upon vs: for the LORD vr GN '5 righteous in all his works which he doth - for obeyed not his voice.
r This notes, 1. God's taking notice. of all their ways, © Men (leep in carnal Security, and dream of no Danger. 2. Gy watching here notes the fit ways that he always takes 10 —— ners. 2. It notes. his haſte in executing Judgment auly and 1ca\c —_ when it makes moſt for the Honour of his juſtice, 4. 1145 ue like a careful Watchman, not luffer any to eſcape his Hans. | oh
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7 Tt, When Sin is Epidemical, it's ſad and fatal to a Nation; By in Pſal, 14. 3. K2M. 3. 12. ſo a Deluge of Sin bronght a Deluge of, Judgment, Gen. 6.13,17. 2. This makes the Gap great, and leare,,
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