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And therefore Amaziah said to Amos, (Chap. 7. ver. 12.) O thou Seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: as if Amaziah should say, Judah is a fitter place for you then this, you are so precise, and strict, you had need be gone to Judah, we are Idolaters here, and no true Church but in Judah, such as you are, had better be gone to Judah: And so it is usual for those that are carnal and profane, to scorn at those that are godly. Yet though things were so hard in these times, that there were watches and spies set to watch over them, and they did contemn those that did look towards Judah, yet those that were godly would not be discouraged, but would go, and join with Gods people notwithstanding all this: and therefore you have it in 2 Chron. 11. 16. what was the way of Gods servants in that time, when it was such a difficult thing to join with Gods people: All such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel: there ⟨p. 245⟩were a company of them that would stay in Samaria, that might have good wishes, that times were better, and things were better, but would not suffer any thing, to go and join with Gods people, where they might have the Ordinances in a pure manner; but all such as set their hearts to seek the Lord, and resolved whatsoever came of it, they would have God in the purity of his Ordinances, they went up to Jerusalem: And

And therefore Amaziah said to Amos, (Chap. 7. ver. 12.) O thou Seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesie there: as if Amaziah should say, Judah is a fitter place for you then this, you are so precise, and strict, you had need be gone to Judah, we are Idolaters here, and no true Church but in Judah, such as you are, had better be gone to Judah: And so it is usual for those that are carnal and prophane, to scorn at those that are godly. Yet though things were so hard in these times, that there were watches and spies set to watch over them, and they did contemn those that did look towards Judah, yet those that were godly would not be discouraged, but would go, and joyn with Gods people notwithstanding all this: and therefore you have it in 2 Chron. 11. 16. what was the way of Gods servants in that time, when it was such a difficult thing to joyn with Gods people: All such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel: there