3. How we have abused those things, or our selves in those things, wherein or whereby God doth punish us. For there is oft an Analogy and ⟨p. 70⟩a proportion between mens practises and Gods punishments, between their transgressions and his Judgements. Look gwherein men offend, therein usually are they punished. And blessings abused are turned oft into curses, as “the staff sometime into a Serpent, *that men may be crossed and plagued in those things, which they were not thankful for, or used not well, when they were blessed in them. hDAVID was too indulgent a Father to his children, and he smarted shrewdly for it in iAmmon's rape of Tamar, kAbsaloms murder of Ammon, and both lAbsaloms, and afterwards mAdoniaes rebellion. nWhen Gods people abused those temporal blessings of gold and silver, corn and wine, wool and flax, that he had bestowed on them, God threateneth to return, and take them again away from them. And in like manner he threateneth them, when they observed not his Sabbaths, that otheir Land, during their captivity, should rest and lye waste untilled and untoiled, because it rested not on their Sabbaths, when they dwelt in it: As also that because they set light by the word of God when they had it, he would psend a famine of hearing it, when they should be constrained to seek far and near for, and yet not find that, which they then refused when they might have had it, or made no reckoning of, when in great plenty they had it: And qbecause they did not serve the Lord their God with a good will, and with a cheerful heart in the abundance of all things; they should therefore serve their enemies, which he should send upon them, in hunger, and ⟨p. 71⟩thirst, and nakedness, and want of all things: And ras they had served strange gods in their own Land, so they should serve strangers in a Land that was not their own.14
3. How we haue abused those things, or our selues in those things, wherein or whereby God doth punish vs. For there is oft an Analogie and ⟨p. 70⟩a proportion betweene mens practises and Gods punishments, betweene their transgressions and his Iudgements. Looke gwherein men offend, therein vsually are they punished. And blessings abused are turned oft into curses, as “the staffe sometime into a Serpent, *that men may be crossed and plagued in those things, which they were not thankfull for, or vsed not well, when they were blessed in them. hDAVID was too indulgent a Father to his children, and he smarted shrewdly for it in iAmmons rape of Tamar, kAbsoloms murther of Ammon, and both lAbsoloms, and afterwards mAdoniaes rebellion. nWhen Gods people abused those temporall blessings of gold and siluer, corne and wine, wooll and flax, that hee had bestowed on them, God threatneth to returne, and take them againe away from them. And in like manner he threatneth them, when they obserued not his Sabbaths, that otheir Land, during their captiuitie, should rest and lye waste vntilled and vntoiled, because it rested not on their Sabbaths, when they dwelt in it: As also that because they set light by the word of God when they had it, hee would psend a famine of hearing it, when they should be constrained to seeke farre and neere for, and yet not finde that, which they then refused when they might haue had it, or made no reckoning of, when in great plentie they had it: And q
- gWisd. 11. 13. In quibus peccamus, in eisdem plectimur. [Greek or Hebrew]. Dion Chrysoft. orat. 55.Wisd. 11. 13. In quibus peccamus, in eisdem plectimur. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Dion Chrysoft. orat. 55.
- “Exod. 4. 3.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Greg. Naz. •rat. 6.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Greg. Naz. •rat. 6.
- h1 King. 1. 6. 2 Sam. 18. 5.
- i2 Sam. 13. 14.
- k2 Sam. 13. 28, 29.
- l2 Sam. 15. 10, 12.
- m1 King. 1. 5, 9, 11.
- nHosh. 2. 8, 9.
- oLevit. 26. 35.
- pAmos 8. 5, 11.
- qDeut. 28. 47, 48.
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