An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Hence observe,

First, That some afflictions of the Saints are wonderful afflictions.

First, That some afflictions of the Saints are wonderfull afflictions.

As God doth not often send his people strange deliverances, and works wonders to preserve them; so he sends them many strange afflictions, and works wonders to trouble them. And as many punishments of sin upon wicked men, so some trials of grace upon godly men are very wonderful. The Lord threateneth the Jews (Deut. 28.59.) that he would make their plagues wonderful▪ he would make strange work among them. And he saith of Jerusalem, I will wipe it, as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it up-side down, or wiping it and turning it upon the face thereof, (2 King. 21.13.) To see a great City handled like a little dish, or a strong Nation turned topsy turvy (as we say) or the bottom upwards, is a strange thing. It is an ordinary thing to see cups & platters turned up-side down, but it is not ordinary to see Kingdoms and Nations turned up-side down. To wipe Jerusalem as a dish, was to do that which was never done before. Some expound that place of the frequency of affliction, that God would smite them again and again; as they that make clean a dish, wipe it over and over, that no filth may stay in it. The Seventy and the ⟨p. 560⟩Vulgar translate,¹