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

Yea, It might make any that have but any Civility, or Morality in them, to think that they shall do God ¹good service in yoking these men in another way than ever they were yoked, (I say) it might make them to think that they do God good service when they see the Name of God dishonoured, and Religion so abused; I say, by this means they may come to think it would be a good service to God to lay yokes upon such kind of men as these are. If ever, instead of the great strings that have tide yokes upon you, you should have lesser strings, if you should have them multiplied to tie yokes upon you, yet thank your selves, you are the cause of it, in Lament. 1. 14. The yoke of my transgression is bound by ²his hand: The Lord may justly bind the yoke of your transgressions upon you; Oh! that God would humble us for the abuse of our liberty of the freedom from our yokes, Oh let us take heed of this, and say with our selves, Surely this is not the use that we should make of ³our deliverance from our yokes; no, but rather this use, we will rather so much the more willingly take the yoke of Jesus Christ upon us: In Exod. 12. 25. after the ⁴people of Israel were delivered from the yoke of Egyptian ⟨p. 97⟩bondage, presently upon it, Thou shalt keep this service (speaking of the passover that was to be kept upon their deliverance from Egypt) Thou shalt keep this service. The word that is there, Service, it is the same that is used sometimes ⁵for their Service and Bondage under the Egyptians; as if the Lord should say, You were once in Service indeed, there was a Service that the Egyptians required of you, a servile Service it was, and your necks were under ⁶