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

The Fourth Note is this: Therefore doth God say, he ¹hath a Controversy against Judah here, to show them, how much more must the ten Tribes expect the displeasure of God; If Judah who retains the true Worship of God, yet for some other evils God hath a Controversy against them, then what will become of Israel, who have those evils, and reject the true Worship of God too? As if the Prophet should say, your condition is far worse, therefore doth the Lord say, he hath a Controversy against Judah, that he might aggravate the evils of Israel: like that of Peter, If Judgment begin at the House of God, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear? If so be that the Church which have the Ordinances in the purity of them, yet God is displeased with them for their sin, how much more will he be displeased with them who are corrupt in the Worship of God? Therefore men should not bless themselves with such discourse as this: Why, others have evils as well as we, yea, but if God will punish them for their evils that have sewer, and a great deal more good than thou, how much more will he punish thee? Oh! if those that are the dear Saints of God, that worship him in truth and sincerity, and they have evils among them, but yet they shall not escape scot-free, Oh! then, what will become of thee who art a wicked and vile wretch and hast no good at all? If a Moses that had done God so much service, yet for one sin of passion (for so it was) was shut out of the Land of Canaan, (it was but one time that he spake unadvisedly with his lips, that God shut him out, and bid him speak no more to him of that matter) what will become of thee that hast a passionate froward spirit, and thou that never hast, nor wilt do God ²the service that such a Servant of his hath done, what will become of t[…]? Oh! how •ayest thou look to be ⟨p. 216⟩shut out. This use you must make of the sins of others, and Gods dealings with them. And saith he, I will punish Jacob according to his ways &c.

The Fourth Note is this: Therefore doth God say, he ¹hath a Controversie against Judah here, to shew them, how much more must the ten Tribes expect the displeasure of God; If Judah who retains the true Worship of God, yet for some other evils God hath a Controversie against them, then what will become of Israel, who have those evils, and reject the true Worship of God too? As if the Prophet should say, your condition is far worse, therefore doth the Lord say, he hath a Controversie against Judah, that he might aggravate the evils of Israel: like that of Peter, If Judgment begin at the House of God, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear? If so be that the Church which have the Ordinances in the purity of them, yet God is displeased with them for their sin, how much more will he be displeased with them who are corrupt in the Worship of God? Therefore men should not bless themselves with such discourse as this: Why, others have evils as well as we, yea, but if God will punish them for their evils that have sewer, and a great deal more good than thou, how much more will he punish thee? Oh! if those that are the dear Saints of God, that worship him in truth and sincerity, and they have evils among them, but yet they shall not escape scot-free, Oh! then, what will become of thee who art a wicked and vile wretch and hast no good at all? If a Moses that had done God so much service, yet for one sin of passion (for so it was) was shut out of the Land of Cannan, (it was but one time that he spake unadvisedly with his lips, that God shut him out, and bid him speak no more to him of that matter) what will become of thee that hast a passionate froward spirit, and thou that never hast, nor wilt do God