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…

Evil deeds have their recompense, as well as good. To me (saith the Lord, Deut. 32.35.) belongeth vengeance and recompense; that is, the recompense of vengeance; as the Apostle expounds it (Heb. 10.30.) For we know him that said, Vengeance ⟨p. 181⟩belongeth unto me, I will recompense saith the Lord: God will not live long in any mans debt: As holy Gospel-confidence hath a great recompense of reward (Heb. 10.35.) So every disobedience of the Law received a just recompense of reward (Heb. 2.2.) And God is so exact in giving the recompenses of punishment, that he will not spare his own, when they are so foolish as to trust in vanity (Prov. 11.31.) Behold the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner: that is, A righteous man shall be corrected, though he sin of infirmity; how then shall the wicked be punished who sin with presumption and delight. As a wicked man hath all his recompenses of good on the earth (Matth. 6.2.) They have their reward; so a righteous man hath all his recompenses of evil or affliction in the earth; he hath none beyond. But, we may strongly argue, that the wicked, who trust in vanity shall be recompensed with sorrow for ever; seeing the righteous, if they do but a little turn aside to vanity, shall be recompensed with sorrow here: That's the Apostle Peters way of reasoning (1 Epist. 4.18.) If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? Surely, as the Prophet concludes (Isa. 59.18.) According to their deeds accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies, to the Islands he will repay recompense.

Evill deeds have their recompence, as well as good. To me (saith the Lord,