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

Now then by way of Corollary, by all that hath ¹been said.

Now then by way of Corallary, by all that hath ¹been said.

1. 1Corallaries from the former Notes.Corallaries frō the former Notes.

First, Learn we then from hence, To take-heed that we quiet ¹our selves in our desires; be not too earnest in your desires; remember that Scripture, 1 Cor. 10. 6. Now these things were our ensamples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. It hath reference even to their lusting for their Quails, it was called lusting after evil things; though the things themselves were good, yet because of the way of their lusting, it made them evil to them: these are for our ensample, because we should not lust so as they lusted. Oh! when you read but that 11. of Numb. and the 78. Psal. and there find how they lusted after evil things, and how the wrath of God came upon them when they had their desires satisfied, let these be ensamples for us that we take heed of lusting so. And so when we read of their desires so after a King, and what they met withal when they had him, (I say) it should teach us so far to moderate our desires, as to labour to regulate them by the Word of God, and not be heady in them, but to order them according to the mind of God.

First, Learn we then from hence, To take-heed that we quiet ¹our selves in our desires; be not too earnest in your desires; remember that Scripture,