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

But you my people are so sottish, that you change neither your minds nor manners, you mend neither your ways nor your works; what changes soever I bring upon you, or how much soever I vary my ways and workings towards you, you apply not your selves to my course and dealings with you, but still take your own course, ⟨p. 85⟩say I or do I what I will; you neither embrace seasons of grace and offers of mercy, nor do ye labour either to prevent or to avoid those storms of wrath and divine vengeance, with which you have been often threatened, and which hang in the clouds ready to drop down and overwhelm you. And will ye say after all this, we are wise, when the fowls of the air appear wiser than you? And will you say, the Law of the Lord is with us, when they guide themselves better by the Law of nature? And forasmuch as it is thus with you, have I not reason to conclude, that, Lo, certainly in vain made he it, the pen of the Scribe is in vain; that is, it was to little or no purpose that God at first enacted and published his Law, (Exod. 20.) or appointed Scribes to write it out, that Copies of it might be transferred to and read by his people, (Deut. 17.18. Chap. 31.9.) Is not both the making and writing of the Law vain, (as to you) seeing you are thus vain and foolish, even much more vain and foolish than the Stork in the Heaven, than the Turtle, Crane, and Swallow, notwithstanding the making and writing out of the Law for you?

But you my people are so sottish, that you change neither your minds nor manners, you mend neither your wayes nor your works; what changes soever I bring upon you, or how much soever I vary my wayes and workings towards you, you apply not your selves to my course and dealings with you, but still take your own course, ⟨p. 85⟩say I or do I what I will; you neither embrace seasons of grace and offers of mercy, nor do ye labour either to prevent or to avoyd those storms of wrath and divine vengeance, with which you have been often threatned, and which hang in the clouds ready to drop down and overwhelme you. And will ye say after all this, we are wise, when the fowls of the air appear wiser than you? And will you say, the Law of the Lord is with us, when they guide themselves better by the Law of nature? And forasmuch as it is thus with you, have I not reason to conclude, that, Lo, certainly in vaine made he it, the pen of the Scribe is in vaine; that is, it was to little or no purpose that God at first enacted and published his Law, (