A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. Absalom the Rebel, Absalom the Traitor. 2 Sam. 15.10. Having prepared the People for a Rebellion by a wicked insinuation of his Fathers unjust Government, he sets up, as King, in Hebron, and the Conspiracy was strong. His Eye is on the Metropolis. His first March must be to Jerusalem: To make room for the young Rebel, the poor old Father must pack up, and be gone; v. 14. with an heavy heart, weeping eye, covered head, and bare feet as it were. Never did he with more Joy come up to this City, than now left it with Sorrow: And how could he do otherwise, when the Insurrection of his dearly beloved Son drove him out from his chief City, and Throne, yea from the Ark of God?

2. Absalom the Rebel, Absalom the Traitor. 2 Sam. 15.10. Having prepar'd the People for a Rebellion by a wicked insinuation of his Fathers unjust Government, he sets up, as King, in Hebron, and the Conspiracy was strong. His Eye is on the Metropolis. His first March must be to Jerusalem: To make room for the young Rebel, the poor old Father must pack up, and be gone; v. 14. with an heavy heart, weeping eye, cover'd head, and bare feet as it were. Never did he with more Joy come up to this City, than now left it with Sorrow: And how could he do otherwise, when the Insurrection of his dearly beloved Son drove him out from his chief City, and Throne, yea from the Ark of God?

1. His first Prank was a sufficient Earnest of what was like to ensue. An Act of the highest incestuous Uncleanness, that ever the Sun saw. They spread Absalom a Tent upon the top of the House, and Absalom went in to his Fathers Concubines in the sight of All Israel. 2 Sam. 16.2.22, 23. The Practice was like the counsel, v. 22. as deep as Hell it self. An Act uncapable of Forgiveness. Beside the usurping the Throne, to violate the Bed of his Father; unto his treason, to add incest, is no less unnatural; that the World might see, that Absalom, neither hoped nor cared for the reconciliation of a Father: And, as if the villainy could not have ben shameful enough in secret, he sets up his Tent in the top of the House, and lets all Israel be witness, of his own sin, and his Fathers shame. Ordinary sins are for Vulgar Offenders: but Absalom