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

¹It is an excellent phrase, they think they have sufficient now to live of themselves, but in the fullness of their sufficiency they shall be in straits. and in vers. 23. When he is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him. And in Psal. 78. 29, 30. So they did eat and were filled, for he gave them their hearts desire, they were not estranged from their hosts, but while the meat was yet in their months, the wrath of God came upon them and slew the f••test ⟨p. 494⟩of them, saith the text. Oh there's no cause of lifting up thy heart because of thy fullness that thou; hast for when thou art fullest then is the time of Gods hottest wrath to be let out upon thee, it doth but prepare thee for slaughter: How much better is it for the Beast to feed upon the Common and live, then to be brought into fat Pasture and prepared for the Butcher? When thou wert ²feeding upon the Common, thou wert in a way of preservation, but now thou art come into the fat pasture it is to prepare thee for slaughter, be not exalted in thine own heart because of thy fullness. And it may be God ³hath respect to others in thy fullness, it's not in regard to thee. And hereafter thou mayest perhaps curse the time ⁴that ever such an estate befell thee, curse the time for thy fullness: Perhaps upon thy sick bed thou mayest lie and wish, Oh that I had kept my shop still, and been in my low condition still, I had gone out of the world with a great deal less guiltiness than now I am like to go out of the world withal, Oh be not exalted because thou art full. —Therefore have they forgotten me.⁵

¹It is an excellent phrase, they think they have sufficient now to live of themselves, but in the fulness of their sufficiency they shall be in straits. and in vers. 23. When he is about to fill his belly God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him. And in