Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

3. Because Judgement is removed from them before they are purged from their sin. When the Plaster is taken off before the sore is healed, it will be worse: the course of physic is not continued, till the vicious humours are dispersed and purged away; but Gods people desire the cure may be wrought, before the Affliction be removed. But Pharaoh was for the removing of the Plagues, but not the hardness of his heart.

3. Because Judgement is removed from them before they are purged from their sin. When the Plaister is taken off before the sore is healed, it will be worse: the course of physick is not continued, till the vitious humours are dispersed and purged away; but Gods people desire the cure may be wrought, before the Affliction be removed. But Pharaoh was for the removing of the Plagues, but not the hardness of his heart.

4. Because they add Incorrigibleness unto all their former sins, and must answer for all those Judgements that were lost upon them. Wicked men shall not only answer for their Mercies, but for the Judgements God sent upon them to reclaim them; Sinner, God sent the Plague into thy house, and then he looked thou shouldest have hastened to have thrown sin out of thy heart; but thou hast not done it: God did cast thee upon a bed of sickness, but thy bed of sickness was not to thee a bed of sorrow for thy sin, thou howledst, and criedst our of thy loathsome running-sores, but not of thy filthy ⟨p. 44⟩heart, and more loathsome sins; thy body was pained, but thy heart not broken; thou hast been punished and delivered, but art not reformed: but know, the more thou hast sinned, and the more thou hast been punished here, and yet sin still, the more shalt thou be tormented in hell. For these thou shouldest look upon as means, which God doth use to bring thee to himself, and the more means thou hardenest thy self against, the more is thy sin, and the more shall be thy misery.

4. Because they adde Incorrigibleness unto all their former sins, and must answer for all those Judgements that were lost upon them. Wicked men shall not only answer for their Mercies, but for the Judgements God sent upon them to reclaim them; Sinner, God sent the Plague into thy house, and then he looked thou shouldest have hastened to have thrown sin out of thy heart; but thou hast not done it: God did cast thee upon a bed of sickness, but thy bed of sickness was not to thee a bed of sorrow for thy sin, thou howledst, and cryedst our of thy loathsom running-sores, but not of thy filthy