; ter hean Appeal totheſe Creatures in ſo jut a Cat for their Cre: ; tor. 6 Whole Soveraign Majeſty may well command what he pleatcths and expctt to be obeyed, and whoſe unyaralletd Gootnes to Jjr.e! ought ro have been uncontroverted Motive: to o55v him in all things © yet the Soreraige Goonun-G is flighted and diſobeved, on which he now impleads his People, brings his Afftion ag2inft them. 4 Call'd
before /7ills : Tr is an ex2lanation uf the tormer, outings, 7 it may he an Appeal to thoſe deep Foundations which are hid trom any Lye. anil which ſeem moſt remote from what is dene on Farth + but the ill | Carriage, the Diſobedience and Sin of J\* a21 is {o notorious, that the
whole Creation may be Subpena'd Witneffes againſt them. &t © ove- nant, redeemed and only People, as Amos 3.2. I No longer put off the Cauſe, nor forbear to puniſh them, and right himſelf, he will bring the Cauſe to Hearing, Judgment and Execution too.
3 O my people m, what have I don? vnto thee #, and wherein have I wearied o thee ? teſtify againſt me þ
m You whole Houſe of 1-421, my People choſen in Abrakem, 1ſzac and F4co5, multiplied in Fg ypt, and by many Miracles owned, redcem- ed and carried through the Wilderneſs, and ſettled in the promiſed Land, 7 It I have done only Good, why art thou weary of me ; if thou know any Evil I have done, declare it, ſay what Iniquity haft | thou found in me, as Fe". 2.5,31. 0 What grievous or burden- | ſome Impotlitions that thou mighteſt juſtly groan under. p Speak, de- mepr ſpare nor, thou who canft not recount all the Good I have done Z0r thee, and who canft nor find out one Evil I ever did to thee, de- Clare what *cis hath cauſed thee to be weary of me.
4 For * I q brovght thee up out of the land of * Fx: 12,
Egypt 7, and redeemed s thee out of the houſe of ſer-
vants ft, and I ſent before thee Moſes «, Aaron x, and * Vuriam y,
q Look as far back as thy coming out of Fg ypr, near ſeven hundre1 and forty Years agone, with an outftretched Arm. »r Where by Ser- vants thou wert oppreſt, where thy Oppreſſors did plot thy utter ex- tirpation, where thou ſervedft in the Iron Furnace. 5 Delivered thee by mighty Power, and gave E-ypt tor thy Ranſom, I made them pay dear. for their detaining thee, and ill uting of thee, t Being Off- ſpring of Canaan, they were in their Fathers Eurle doomed to be Ser- vants, and were ( as ſervile Minds are) moft barbaroufly cruel to J/- 7.201, As appears by the bloody Edi againſt the Male-Children,and by requiring Brick withour Straw z their Bondage was a cruel Bondage un- der which they groaned. u A Man excellently qualified to be a Condu&t to them, a very learned, Martial and experienced Man ; he improved his firſt :orty Years by the Advantages of a Royal Education firft, and next by the great Employments which ſuch Perſons are called to : for his Wiſdam and Learning, his Might and Valour, you have witneſs, Acs 7, 22. the #ebr, Tradition is, that he fought and got many Bat- tels, in which he commanded as Generaliſimo ior Pharaoh, Moſes was beſide this admitted to extraordinary Conſults with God, by this means their Model of Polity was made very exatt. x A Fer- ſon called to the Exerciſe of the higheſt Office in the Prieſthood, to offer Sacrifice, and make Atonement for the Sins of the People, and to be a Type of the great Interceſſor. »y A Propheteſls to be Aſh- ſtant to her Brothers laſt mentioned, to be Example and Counſellor * the Women ; God furniſh'd them with Magiftrate, Prieft and Pro- pnet.
5 O my People, remember z now what * Balak * Rev. 2,
King of Moab conſulted a, and what Balaam b the Son 14: of Beor anſwered c him from * Shittim 4 unto Gil- gal e, that ye may know the Righteouſneſs of the LORD F
7 O J1/rael think well of it, what I did then was worthy of a grate- tul Remembrance to this Day. 4 This Man, though a great and war- like Prince, yet would not adventure by plain force to ſet upon 1ſ-ael ; he wiſh'd their Ruine, he contrived it, and had he ſucceeded in his firft Attempt to bring 1/7ae] under a Curſe, he was reſolved next ta attack them by Force. 6 A Man accounted to be a Prophet, and a holy Man able to blaft any by his Curſe, and able to advance any Af- fairs by his Bleſffing, but really he was a Soothſayer, and a Man of per- nicious Counlels, ©c Forced againft his Intereſt and Inclination to bleſs Iſrael, Deut. 23. 4, $. and Foſh. 24+ 10» and to confeſs he could not prevail with God to curſe J/rae1, So alſo remember how Ba/aam coun- felled Balak to draw your Fathers to Sin, how this Snare took, and how it coft twenty fcur thouſand Lives. The Story at large you have, Numb. 22, 23, 24, and 25, chap. d This the Place where Ea- lak began by fair but lewd Women of Midian to debauch 1/ra21 as Balaam had counſelled, and fo continued to Gz/gal all along the Bor- ders of his Dominion : or elſe thus, remember O my People, how L ſpared thee in the matter of Baal-Peor, for which thou delervedſt to be deftroyed at Shitrim, remember alſo the Mercies I gave under the C ondutt of Foſhua after Myjzs, his Death, which fell out while you abode at Shitrim, Foſh. 3. 1. e Where 1/7221 firſt took Poſſeſſion of the promiſed Land, and ſaw viſibly the Faithfalneſs of their God, f The Mercy, Juſtice, Uprightnels Veracity, as it ſignifies, but here it ra- ther denotes the Right on God's Side in this Controverily with h1s People.
6 4 Wherewith z ſhall I þ come before the LORD 7, and bow my ſelf before k the high God 1? ſhall I come be-
fore him with burnt »: offerings, with calves | of a year ny 0 a4 Yars
old 1 ? Me ns In the foregoing part of the Chapter you have God's Relolution to have a hearing, ver. 1, 2, and his Plea for bim'clt agamic ant un- rateful People, ver. 3,4, 5 Now in this Verie you have the reſi! t, which is either an unfeigned Submiſſion and Jaitincation of God's juic Proceedings made by tome of the belt of this Peop:e, or elc an En- quiry made by Men among them, who did yet retain 16m? Vpinion of their own Integrity 3 much like thoie, 1/4. 55. Vere 3» REY Were ready to fay, WE have offered SACrifices as F. quired, Ce WHAT WOu, God have us do more ? Or elle "tis an Enquiry whar tne Prophe: would farther direc them to do in this Ca'cy Its an 101mLEGOR Lat
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