An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Fourthly, For men not only to disobey Gods call, but to ¹turn away themselves from it, and from those that speak to them in his Name, this is very wicked, a high degree of sinfulness before God: In Jer. 2. 27. They have turned their back unto ²me, but not their face; and so in Jer. 32. 33. They turn their ³backs, that's more than not to obey. Our backs, that is, to refuse to obey, to resolve not to obey, in Jer. 18. 17. ⁴God threatens them that in the day of their calamity he would show them his back too; as when a Traitor is ⁵petitioning to his Prince, so long as the Prince is but willing to parley with him, and read his Petition, there is hope, but if the Prince turns his back and will not look upon his Petition, there's no hope then: So there is hope of people that we may bring them to obedience so ⁶long as they will hearken to the Word, but if once they turn their backs, then there's little hope; so when God turns his back upon sinners there's little hope then. Remember you that turn your back upon calls to obedience, ⁷Oh! remember that Scripture in Jer. 18. 17. that God threatens in the day of your calamity he will turn his back to you. Now this wickedness men do not grow to on a sudden; at first they are loth to be convinced that such a thing is a truth, but at length when the evidence of truth comes clear they in a desperate way turn ⁸