An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Again, (Isa 47.13.) Thou hast wearied thy self, in the multitude of thy counsels. (Isa. 57.10.) Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way. Those counsels were sinful counsels, and these ways were sinful ways, both were a weariness, and tired their undertakers. The Lord challenges the Jews (Mic. 6.3.) To show wherein he had wearied them; O my people what have I done unto thee, and wherein have I wearied thee, testify against me. God is very tender in laying burdens upon us, but we are very cruel in overburdening our selves.

Againe, (Isa 47.13.) Thou hast wearyed thy selfe, in the multitude of thy counsells. (Isa. 57.10.) Thou art wearyed in the greatnesse of thy way. Those counsels were sinfull counsels, and these waies were sinfull waies, both were a wearinesse, and tyred their undertakers. The Lord challenges the Jews (Mic. 6.3.) To shew wherein he had wearyed them; O my people what have I done unto thee, and wherein have I wearyed thee, testifie against me. God is very tender in laying burdens upon us, but we are very cruell in overburdening our selves.

And whereas the pain of a wicked man is compared to the pain of a Woman in travail; it is not only like it, but exceeds it: For though when her pain comes upon her, she hath sorrow because her hour is come, yet when she is delivered, she remembereth her anguish no more, for joy that a Man is borne into the World (John 16.21.) The Woman's pains end in joy, but the pain of a wicked man is so far from ending in joy, that it hath no end at all, and therefore he is said to travel in pain all his days. A wicked man hath the pain, but not the deliverance of a travailing Woman; a Son shall not be borne to him. And though he sometimes seems to prosper, and attain his end, yet there is somewhat or other, that sticks still in the birth, and paineth him in the middest of all his prosperity. The Author of that useful History, The Travels of the old Patriarchs, Kings, and Prophets, when he comes to write the motions of Antiochus Epiphanes, who was a great King, but of a most malicious spirit, against the people of God, he observes that this Antiochus in pursuance of his bloody designs, had run more hazards, and taken more tedious journeys to satisfy his malice, and reach his ambitious ends, then any of the Saints had done, upon any command or service of God; upon which consideration, he makes this