An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

He can make any thing a Rod; he can make nearest Relations a Rod. A Son is sometimes a Rod to his Father; how often have miscarrying and undutiful children been made a Rod of correction to their Parents? and they are usually so, when Parents have not duly corrected their children for their undutifulness and miscarriages. What are cruel men but Rods to other men? Some men have been the scourges of Mankind. Attila, once a great Commander in War, and King of the Huns, was called The Rod or the Scourge of God. ¹And so God himself called the Assyrian the ⟨p. 516⟩Rod of his anger (Isa. 10.5.) David called all wicked men in g••• the Sword of God, in his prayer for deliverance from them (Psal. 17.1•, ••) Deliver my soul from the wicked, thy sword, from men which are thy hand, O Lord (thy correcting hand, men ordained for Judgment, and established for Cor•••tion, as the Prophet spake of the Chaldeans, Hab. 1.12.) Who have their portion in this life. And as the Lord makes men, so the Beasts of the earth, a Rod for the correction of Man. Thus the Lord threatened by his Prophet, I will send among them, Sword, and Pestilence, and noisome Beasts.

He can make any thing a Rod; he can make nearest Relations a Rod. A Son is somtimes a Rod to his Father; how often have miscarrying and undutiful children been made a Rod of correction to their Parents? and they are usually so, when Parents have not duly corrected their children for their undutifulness and miscarriges. What are cruel men but Rods to other men? Some men have been the scourges of Mankind. Attila, once a great Commander in War, and King of the Hunnes, was called The Rod or the Scourge of God. ¹And so God himself called the Assyrian the ⟨p. 516⟩