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The life of faith in times of trial and affliction cleared up and explained from Hebrews X:XXXVIII ... / by Ioh. Brown ...
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Brown, John, 1610?-1679.
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thus hate Him and corrupt His Ordinances This was also given as a cause of the destruction that came on this People 2 Chron. 36 v. 14. They polluted the House of the Lord which He had hallowed in Jerusalem So Ezek. 5 vers 11. it was threatned Wherefore as I live saith the Lord God surely because thou hast defiled my Sanctuary with all thy detestable things and with all thine abominations therefore will I also diminish thee neither shall mine eye sparer neither will I have pity See also the following Verses where the dreadfulness of the blow is laid forth yea saith he Vers 13. thus shall mine anger be accomplished and I will cause my fury to rest upon them and I will be comforted And all is sealed in end Vers 17. with this I the Lord have spoken it So Ezek. 7 vers 20. As for the beauty of his Ornament he set it in Majesty But they made the Images of their Abominations and of their detestable things therein This was their sin and what followeth Therefore have I set it far from them or made it unto them an unclean thing And further in the following Verses He threatneth to give it into the hands of strangers for a prey and to robbers who shall defile it c. See likewise Chapt. 8. throughout and Chap. 23 vers 38 39 So Jerem. 9 vers 12 13 c. The Land was perishing and was burnt up like a Wilderness that none passeth thorow And wherefore was this Because saith the Lord they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein but have walked after the imagination of their own heart and after Baalim which their Fathers taught them c. 4. When a land or Church maketh defection from God apostatizeth breaketh wedlock renounceth their Covenant relation then a sword is to be expected wherewith the Lord shall avenge the quarrel of His Covenant Levit 26 25. there is ground to fear that judgment shall inevitably overtake such sinners For thus was it with this people of Judah Ier. 2 9 10. 11 12 13. So Ier. 4 16 17 18. They had forsaken God and rebelled against Him and therefore came destruction upon destruction v. 28. and Ier. 11 10. Because they brake God's Covenant which He had made with their Fathers Therefore v. 11. He threatned to bring evil upon them which they should not be able to escape and that He would not Hearken though they should cry unto Him And then followeth vers 14. Therefore pray not thou for this people c. So Ier. 22 6 7. The Lord threatned to make them a wilderness and Cities not inhabited in so much that Nations shall be astonished and enquire what can be the cause of this And the answere they shall receive is this v. 9. Because they â—…ave forsaken the Covenant of the Lord their God and wâ—…rshipped other Gods srved them And in this same place Ier. 15 6. it is said Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord thou art gone backward therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee destroy thee I am weary with repenting See what was threatned for breach of Covenant Ier. 34 v. 17 18 19 20. The Lord said He would proclame a liberty to the sword to the pestilence and to the famine and would make them to be removed into all the Kingdomes of the earth and give all ranks among them into the hands of their Enemies and give their dead bodies to be meat unto the fowls of heaven and to the beasts of the earth We see Ezek. 16. how the Lord deduceth along process against them and proveth them to have plaid the harlot and that in a most impudent manner And how therefore he saith that He will judge her as a woman that breaketh wedlock v. 38. make his fury towards them to rest and his jealousie shall depart and He will be quiet vers 42. and againe v. 59. He saith I will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the Covenant See the like charged upon Israel as the ground of their desolation Hos. 4 12 13 14. 5 4 5 6 7. 8 1 2 9 1 2 3. 13 16. 5. When this Defection and Apostasie from God in the matter of Religion is accompanied with gross immoralities fearful sins against the Second table of the Law which the very light of Nature condemneth then may the guilty fear an unavoidable stroke a blow of justice that shall not be evited for the Lord will not have it said or supposed by strangers that He will bear with gross impieties in His own professed people and suffer them to exceed the heathen in wickedness without control or punishment We see this people of Judah upon whom inevitable ruine was coming were charged likewise with many gross and hainous impieties Ier. 5 26 27 28 29. There vvere among them wicked men they did lay waite as such as laid snares they set a trap they watched men their houses were full of deceit yea they did overpasse the deeds of the wicked thereupon it followeth v. 29 Shall I not visite for these things saith the Lord Shall not my soul be avenged of such a Nation as this So Ier. 9 1. They were all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men they bend their tongues for lies like bowes they did proceed from evil to evil they taught their tongues to speak lies and deceived their Neighbours they spoke peacably but in heart they did lay wait Therefore it is added v. 9. Shall I not visite them for these things c. So Jer. 21 12. O house of David thus saiâ—…h the Lord execute judgement in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressour lâ—…st my fury go out like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings These things were neglected by them and therefore wrath came upon them at length and there was no remedie Jer. 22 3 4 5 6. And the Prophet Ezekiel hath the same charge against this people Chap. 5 5 6. They changed Gods judgments into wickedness more than the Nations and his statutes more than the Countreys And therefore the Lord threatned v. 8 9 10. to execute judgment in the midst of them and to do that unto them which He had not done before and the like whereof He would not do any more He would bring on them an unexemplified stroke and a stroke that should not have a parallel And againe Chap. 9 9 10. The iniquity of the house of Israel and of Judah is exceeding great and the Land is full of blood and the city full of perversness And therefore it is added mine eye shall not spare neither will I have pity but I will recompense their way upon their head Therefore was it that commission was given to the Lord's executioners to go thorow and slay Old and young
the body of this death 7. We think it also strange that they should have so little rest from Satan and from his inward hellish Injections tending to Atheisme Infidelity Blasphemy and all Profanity Seemeth not that dispensation somewhat crooked that Paul met with after he was taken up to the third heaven 2 Cor. 12 7 8. It seemeth many times uncouth to us that His people have so many sad and bitter houres that they are so far from enjoying Comfort Joy and Delight from that life of rejoyceing in the Lord continually which is allowed to them and they are called to that their life is nothing almost but a continual complaint sometimes compleaining of the Hardness of their heart Blindness Weakness Impotency Treachery c. sometimes of the weight of Duties and of their Failings and Shortcomings sometimes of the prevailing of Corruption and of the power of Temptation c. These and the like dispensations of the Lord in and about his Saints seem to themselves to others sometimes crooked and very unstraight and as they wish it were otherwayes so they suppose it would be more glorious and honourable to the Lord if it were otherwise Thus it appeareth how many things God hath made crooked to our apprehensions But now who shall who can make these crooked things straight This is the Second Particular in the words That what God hath made crooked no man can make straight with all his Wisdome or Power or by all the meanes he can use or devise for that which is crooked cannot be made straight Eccles. 1 15. I know said the wise man Eccles. 3 14. that whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it When He giveth quietness said Elihu Iob 34 29. who then can make trouble when He hideth his face who then can behold him Whether against a Nation or a Man only And the reason is manifest because 1. He is Unchangeable and hath fixed all upon Eternal and Immutable Purposes He is the Lord he changeth not Mal. 3â—… v. 6. With him is no variablness nor shadow of turning Iam. 1 17. He doth all things after the Counsel of His owne will Ephes. 1. 11. taking Counsel of none Rom. 11 v. 34. Esai 40 13 14. His Counsel hath an immutability Heb. 6 17. 2. He is Almighty and who can justle with Him and put Him to take new Resolutions He is in one minde said Iob Ch. 23. 13. and who can turn Him And what His Soul desireth that doth He. So Psal 115 v. 6. He hath done whatsoever he pleased I know said the Psalmist Psal. 135 5 6. that Iehovah is great and that our Iehovah is above all Gods whatsoever the Lord pleaseth that did He in heaven and in earth in the seas and all deep places So Iob tels us Chap 9. 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardened himself against him hath prospered So vers 12. Behold he taketh away who can hinder him Who will say unto him what dost thou 3. He is Absolute and Soveraigne to do what he will as the Potter is absolute over the clay Ier. 18 6. Rom. 9 10. Esai 45 9. And he is uncontrollable Who can call him to an account Who can say unto him what dost thou Iob. 9 12. He giveth not account of any of his matters Iob. 33 vers 13. For he is greater then man vers 12. 4. All his wayes are done in Wisdom and all his works Psal. 104 24. 136 5. And there is no wisdome against the Lord Prov. 21 30. He hath established the world by His wisdom Ier. 10 12. 51 v. 15. He is mighty in strength and wisdom Iob 36 5. And what then can foolish man that is like a wilde asses colt do With the Ancient is wisdom said Iob Chap. 12 12 13 14. c. and in length of dayes understanding With him is wisdom and strength he hath Counsel understanding and thence inferreth Behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built againe he shuteth up a man there can be no opening c. See further to the end of that Chap. 5. All his works are perfect Psal. 18 vers 30. And then what can be added to them or taken from them to amende them What is perfect cannot be made better or amended one way or other What we then think and account to be crooked is Perfect Straight and Even and contributeth to make up this compleat perfection of the whole 6. There are Depths and unseen Mysteries in the work and wayes of the Lord that we cannot search and ignorance of which causeth the sinstruous Apprehensions that we have of them And how shall we think to amende that which we do not understand His works are great sought out of all them that have pleasure therein His works are honourable glorious wonderful Psal. 111 2 3 4. Then I beheld said the wise man Eccles. 8 ver 17. all the work of God that a man cannot finde out the work that is done under the sun Because though a man labour to seek it out yea further though a wise man seek to know it yet shall he not be able to finde it And againe Chap. 11 v. 5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with childe even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all The consideration of which should first cause us sorrow and mourne before the Lord for our seeking to amend God's work as if we could make straight what God hath made crooked and set all things in a righter posture than God hath done Concerning which we would 1. Take notice of some of these wayes whereby we are attempting this vaine work And 2. Take notice of the evil of this sin As to the First We are seeking to make straight what God hath made crooked when 1. We are in a quarrelling humore Disputing with God and Condemning him in our minds for what he is doing and Justifying ourselves in our Anger and Displeasure against the Dispensations and Wayes of the Lord as did Ionah who was displeased exceedingly very angry that the Lord spared Ninive Chap. 3 v. 10. with 4 v. 1. And when the Lord said unto him Chap. 4 vers 4. Doest thou well to be angry was not for all that satisfied and againe vers 9. when the gourd was withered and the East winde blew and the sun beat upon his head he fell againe in this distemper and when the Lord said unto him the second time doest thou well to be angry he answered I do well to be angry even unto death 2. When our vaine Ratiocinations are engaged against the wayes of the Lord in one particular or other and we have this or that to object against that course which the Lord taketh as if we would impute iniquity unto our Maker and