Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

3. The Wisdom of God gloriously displays it self in causing the designs of the wicked, like a surcharged gun to recoil upon and destroy themselves: It often falls out with the undermining enemies of the Church, as it sometimes doth with them that dig deep Mines in the Earth, who are destroyed and buried in their own work; Psal. 9. 15, 16. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made, in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgments which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgajon, Selah. There is a double •ercy in this providence, one in delivering the Saints from the danger, the other in causing it to fall upon the contrivers, and is therefore celebrated with a double note of attention; in these observable strokes, the righteousness of God ⟨p. 298⟩shines forth, in repaying his peoples enemies in their own coin. —nec lex est justior ulla, quam necis Artifices art perire su•. Thus Haman did eat the first-fruits of that tree which his own hands planted, and thus Jerusalem becomes a burdensome stone to all that burden themselves with it, Zech. 12. 3.

3. The Wisdom of God gloriously displays it self in causing the designs of the wicked, like a surcharged gun to recoil upon and destroy themselves: It often falls out with the undermining enemies of the Church, as it sometimes doth with them that dig deep Mines in the Earth, who are destroyed and buried in their own work; Psal. 9. 15, 16. The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made, in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgments which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgajon, Selah. There is a double •ercy in this providence, one in delivering the Saints from the danger, the other in causing it to fall upon the contrivers, and is therefore celebrated with a double note of attention; in these observable strokes, the righteousness of God ⟨p. 298⟩