F This is Recorded, Pſal. 95. 10. and remembred by the Apoſtle, 4 Hb. 3.8, 9. And to be admired through all Ages,that God ſhouldhe it ſo patient, or a People could be fo perverſe : ſome inſtead ofj\;;7;- 1? pognarp read eJeopoptenary,there being but one Letter difference (and /i# luch as are uſually changed into one another, ) and then it ſpaks Gods providing for this People all that while, and carrying them x | in his Bolom, as a Nurſe bears the ſucking Child, Nun. 11. 1: Dent. 1.31. Or as an Eagle beareth her young ones on her Wings, Deut. 32. 11, 12. But it ſeems God did not bear with their ba thers, bur deſtroyed them in the Wilderneſs, 1 Cor. 19. 5. Fill, (od bare long with thoſe that periſhed. Secondly, The fucceeting Generation took not that warning which did become them, but tollowed their Fathers ſteps; and whilſt one Generation wu wearing away, and another coming, this ſpace of Forty years was ſpent, through the abundant compaſſion of God towards them ; who did not conſume them as they tempted him to do, 1n3 moment. |
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