An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

Further, Yet there are divers Titles that are given to this Land; it is called an Holy Land in Zach. 2. 12. and it is called a good Land in Numb. 14. 7. that which is translated in your books exceeding good, is, very very good: it's a pleasant Land in Ezek. 7. ult. a garden of Eden in Joel, 2. 3. a glorious Land in Dan. 11. 16. & 41. verses. and the glory of all Lands, Ezek. 20. 15. and a goodly heritage Jer. 3. 19. Now (saith my text) They shall not abide in the Lords Land. Now from all these Titles we are not only to take notice of this: ⟨p. 159⟩That it should be a great Judgment of God to drive them out of such a good Land.

And observe,¹ It is a great judgment of God, for God through the sins of a people, to drive them out of a good Land. Truly some times, I suppose when you travel abroad where there are fair prospects, you cannot but have such a meditation, Oh! how vile are the sins of this Land, that should provoke God to cast us out of such a good Land as this is? And most of the Titles,² though not all, they may be given to our Land that was given to the Land of Canaan; and certainly if God should proceed in his wrath to cast us out, it would be a heavy judgment to consider of, They laid the pleasant Land desolate. Howsoever wicked men may cry out of Gods servants that they are the cause of the trouble of the Land, yet certainly it is the wicked and ungodly that are false in the Worship of God,