LORD of hofts ? in luz hi d Ye that are the Children of Forefathers, who had this ;.. | NC Land given to them, and ever made fruitful while they feared m=w_ £2 beyed their God, you thar have been well rewarded for 6 on ſh; dence, or you Prieſts who have Tithes, Sacrifices;. Offerin : be Scc Firſt-fruirs given you for your Services. e Have thought go and | Re: next have diſcourſed itz unthanktul toyour God,you have Athe: F an Col maintain'd it in Diſputes. F That all is Ioft Labour, no pr Ulke ] yer God, nor any to your ſelves; therefore berter fit ſtill. an q "i to | Gr thing, than to no purpoſe. g While what they have before their _ Rig 15 the Fruit of God's Goodneſs, and what they waar is Puniſhm ” _w_ their not doing it better; whilſt a very unſutable obſervin "_s of dinances of God, hath ſo much Profit for you, dare you 6 rg we no Profit? Sottiſh Atheiſts! who will not try what a more - - The able Service would do? h Sothe Hypocrites and Ungodl! "greece | 4 againſt God, Iſa. 58, 3. Yet theirs, a5 4hab's, difſembled gs 71 had their Reward, and inflaitely better than they deſeryed, "nngs P 15 And now 7 * we call the proud happy &: yea, *C they that work wickedneſs are + ſet up /: Yea, the, teu FÞ h, | "ot " 4 : en d F 3 - Dey i _w tat * tempt God are even delivered 2. Pry; MAWb:d. 18. tha 7 Or now therefore, on theſe falſe Reaſoninss of EIN Ones, they proceed to farther Impicty, and nt _ k we (ſay they) ſee before our Eyes,and muſt pronounce —_ : 4 that the proud Contemners of God and his Law, are the Aourifhir? brat Ones; they are at preſent happieſt, and there appears no Si "Eg a) atiy change of Affairs tothem: They do boldly and defpirefull;, a oe poſe God and yer proſper: And could this be, ſay they, if mans bd _ a God of Judgment to ca!l Men to account, and to deal with then ſhoul according to their ways? } Who contrive, and then work x ney teſt C neſs ; who chuſe it, findy it, and glory in it, as the whole of mak and | Lite 3 are built up, are advanced to Honours, and filled with Ri 4 _ and have fair Probability rhat all this will laſt to them and _ ty ſhoul And could this be, ſay theſe Priefts and Zews, under the Eye of a - forc-1 and Sovereign Judge ? where is the God of Judgment when f £ ho Diſorders ate every where ſeer?? m They that dare him to his os ey Face, that do the higheſt Afffronts to God, purpoſely to prove = you (| ther he would or could puniſh the Sinners amongſt Men : Thoſ. x 4 eſcape Puniſhmenrthough the Law and Prophets threaten them and Ry { would you hayc us ( fay theſe.Men) believe there is ſuch a God of repret Judgment, when all 15ſo diſorderly earried in the World ? Thus fx more-c | the proud Behaviour of theſe againſt God, For | arched | 16 © Then 7 they that feared the LORD o, ſpaks and it often one to another p, and the LORD hearkned 9, and Its Ter heard zz 7, and a book of remetnbrance was written he. EMT, { tore him s for them 7 that feared the LORD x. ad Py that thought upon his name x... ; £ This n When Atheiſm and bold contempt of God w joh.21 tory of was ſo plainly and ſmartly popewplt boy the =p = oy will be were truly rehgious, that knew God's Judgments were a great "—_ as foon and that his Ways were as high above our Ways as Heaven aoveth & Tot a Earth. p Diſcourſed arighr of God's Mercy, Juſtice, Patience, 6 certain! lineſs and Wiſdom, 1n his Government and Manage of the Sons of can do Men; eſtabliſh'd one another againft the Afſaulrs of ſuch proud cor- of Tree: terapruous Diſputersz encouraged each other to wait for God in the the Ro way of his Judgments: Thouy} *tis not ſaid what they ſpake, we remains have reaſon to believe it was a> god of God and his Proceedings as —_— the diſcourſe of the Wicked was-evil: The Godly ſpake things that City aud did as much become the ways of God, as what the. Wicked ſpake 2 did diſparage the ways 0t au omniſeient, holy, patient, and juſt God, w* 6 qg After the maaner of Man, che Lord is repreſented as if he did liſten $ 1un to hear more diftinly, and as if he did incline his Ear. y Clearly | CC WINgS « perte&tly, and fully underſtood and obſerved, and what the Godly Ef the ſpake of him and for him. s A Regiſtry was made of the Perſons n So and their Diſcourſes : This is after che manner of Men ſpoken of Book of God, whoſe Omniſcience ſeeth, knoweth, and remembrech all; but who belii this Book 1s written before the Lord; he will have every good Man, promiſec cyery good Word of ſach, and every good Thought ſuch have for they mi; him, catred under his Kye, that they may be aſſured of a comforts humbly | ble Reward forit. 7 On their behalf, Sec let. o. x With Lore, irom on | Eſtecm, and holy Admiration, = os | 1s Churc 17 And * they ſhall be mine y, faith the LORD of of Merc hoſts, in that day when = I make up my || * jewels 2;76 ws a hi and I will Ipare them b as a man pareth his own fon(% Wrath ; that ſerveth him «c, en on and R y Though now they ſeem to lie nnregarded, as if they were not rent ſhal
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worth the owning, they ſhall appear to be mine. 2 The Day where-
in God will ſever between Men and Men, and between ARions and God, to Ations; which Day, though ye know it not, is well known to the g His Be Lord: and befide the great Day of final Diſcrimination, God kath and Joy ſeveral other Days of Viſitation, which are Times wherein he will from the own his, as the good Figs, &c. Fer. 24. the Day that God hath ap- went for pointed, and will and did bring upon this People in che Deftruftion 9. 20, 2 of Jeruſalem by Titus Veſpaſianus. a Or peculiar Treafare, that whici firmities I highly value and Keep moſt ſafely : now they are pack'd up among ruſalem, things of no great value; but when the Casket is opened, thelc hence to Jewels ſhall be laid up among the richeſt Treaſures, as when they Vigour, were all ſent to Pelia, not one Chriſtian left in Feruſalem; and which you on cryed (
ſhall be fully made good in the laſt great Day of final Judgment, and in Heaven toeternal Ages, bIn the mean time they ſhall be ſparcd,