Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

3. Then also they will lay aside their Ornaments that they cannot rejoice in their former comforts as they did before: And the Lord said unto the Children of Israel, that he would not go up with them; I will send an Angel before you, Exod. 33. and drive out the Canaanite, and the Amorite, but (saith he) I will not go in the midst of thee: then the children of Israel stripped themselves of their Ornaments; When the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned, and no man did put on his Ornaments; For the Lord said unto Moses, say unto the Children of Israel, ye are a stiff necked people, I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee; Therefore now put off thine Ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the Children of Israel stripped themselves of their Ornaments, by the Mount Horeb: And Moses took the Tabernacle, and pitched it without the Camp, afar •ff from the Camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation; And it came to pass that every one which sought the Lord, went out unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was without the ⟨p. 198⟩Camp. The presence of the Lord was removed: They were fain to go out unto the Tabernacle: The presence of God was departed, and God said, he would not go with them; and though he had promised them an Angel, yet they fall a crying and weeping: O the Presence of the Lord with us, else we have no comfort; and then they laid by their Ornaments: So that look when the Solemn Assembly lies under Reproach, then the Presence of the Lord is gone from the Solemn Assembly; and therefore the Saints and Servants of God, will and must lay by their Ornaments.

3. Then also they will lay aside their Ornaments that they cannot rejoyce in their former comforts as they did before: And the Lord said unto the Children of Israel, that he would not go up with them; I will send an Angel before you, Exod. 33. and drive out the Cananite, and the Amorite, but (saith he) I will not go in the midst of thee: then the children of Israel stript themselves of their Ornaments; When the people heard these evil tydings, they mourned, and no man did put on his Ornaments; For the Lord said unto Moses, say unto the Children of Israel, ye are a stiffe necked peple, I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee; Therefore now put off thine Ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee. And the Children of Israel stript themselves of their Ornaments, by the Mount Horeb: And Moses took the Tabernacle, and pitched it without the Camp, afar ff from the Camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the Congregation; And it came to passe that every one which sought the Lord, went out unto the Tabernacle of the Congregation, which was without the