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JEREM. CHAP. 8. VER. 22. Why is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

IEREM. CHAP. 8. VER. 22. Why is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered?

WE have described the Person, the Church of Israel, as she is her own, as she is her owners: what in regard of her self, what in respect of her God. It remains now only to enquire, how she is affected. She is Sick; which is necessarily implied from Gods complaint. Why is not the health of my daughter recovered? She was sick, and so sick, that the Prophet complains, ^aHer wound is incurable, for it is come (even to the heart) unto Judah. Incurable, in regard of her own misery, not of her Saviours mercy. She was low brought in the Babylonish Captivity. ^bExcept the Lord of hosts had ⟨p. 54⟩left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom,^c and like unto Gomorrah? It is of the Lords mercies, that we are not consumed, because his compassions (though our obedience) fail not. But her honour lay in the dust, when her Apostasy had forfeited her happiness: Superstition taking the upper hand of Devotion, and the traditions of man getting the start and ascendency of Gods precepts; When her disease grew too frenzy, and her sickness so excluding from it self all recoverable hope, that she had slain her Physician, and killed him that should have carried her.

WE haue described the Person, the Church of Israel, as she is her own, as shee is her owners: what in regarde of her selfe, what in respect of her God. It remaines now only to enquire, how shee is affected. Shee is Sicke; which is necessarily implied from Gods complaint. Why is not the health of my daughter recouered? She was sicke, and so sicke, that the Prophet complaines,