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

Note, As God utterly disowneth, so he will at last utterly ruin all wicked men.

Note, As God utterly disowneth, so he will at last utterly ruine all wicked men.

He not only doth not favour them, but pours out fury upon them, (Jer. 10.25.) Pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the Families that call not on thy Name. The Prophecy of Isaiah speaks no better concerning them than that prayer of Jeremiah. (Isa. 3.11.) Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hand shall be given him. And what can the hand of a wicked man earn? the wages of sin is death; he can get nothing but wrath, and death, nothing but tribulation and anguish here, and eternal misery hereafter, by the work of his hands. Woe to the wicked, for the reward of his hands shall be given him, that is, eternal destruction and sorrow shall be given him, according to the iniquity of his hand. A godly man is rewarded according to the cleanness of his hands (Psal. 18.20, 24.) He labours to keep his hands, (much more his heart clean, whatever the World judge of him) But woe to the wicked when God giveth them the reward of their hands, of their unclean, soul and filthy hands; for what can such hands get or procure by all their ⟨p. 194⟩labour but their own mischief and sorrow? There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, (Isa. 57.21.) No peace is to them, because no good is done by them: their portion lies in promises, who keep Commandments, so theirs must needs lye in threatenings, who do nothing but break them, or break them in all they do. My meditation of him shall be sweet, I will be glad in the Lord, (said David, P•al. 104.34.) As if he had said, I know that I and evey Godly man, shall receive so much good from the Lord, that it doth me good at the heart to think of it: But as for the wicked, I can fore-see (as we say) with half an eye, how ill it will be with them, and so let it be; I must subscribe to, and vote with the righteous judgement of the Lord against them (ver. 35.) Let the sinners be consumed out of the Earth, and let the wicked be no more.