A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

'Tis not likely that Jehoshaphat would desire the Prophets of Baal to be consulted, or that he would hearken to them more, then to the Prophet of the Lord Micajah, yet in this he failed extremely, that he had too far engaged himself to Ahab, before the enquiring at the word of the Lord. How ever it seems, he was by this enquiring, seeking a fair way to come off again. 6. Jehoshaphat's end was good, Martyr on 1 Kings 22. thinks Jehoshaphat entered into this confederacy with Ahab, for the peace and safety of his Kingdom, and to prevent a new War between Judah and Israel, such as had been between Asa his father, and Baasha King of Israel, for which end also Carthusian ibid. thinks that Jehoshaphat took Ahab's daughter to his son. Yet notwithstanding of all this, the Prophet Jehu saith to him, 2 Chron. 19. 2. Shouldest thou help the ungodly, or love them that hate the Lord. The LXX: read, hated of the Lord, which comes all to one thing. And least it should be thought a venial or light matter, headdeth, therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. So that from this example we learn; That let us keep our selves unspotted of the false Religion, or errors of those with whom we associate, let wicked men seem never so penitent, and our relations to them be never so near, let the common enemy be an Infidel, let the cause be never so good, let the manner of proceeding be never so pious, and the end also good; yet all this cannot excuse, nor justify confederacies and associations ⟨p. 181⟩with wicked and ungodly men. And if God was so angry at Jehoshaphat, when there were so many things concurring, as might seem to excuse or extenuate his fault, it being also in him a sin of infirmity only, and not without a reluctation of conscience, and a conflict of the spirit against the flesh (which Pareus upon 1 Kings 22. doth well collect from his desire of enquiring at the word of the Lord, that he might have occasion to come off) how much more will God be angry with such as go on with an high hand in this trespass, casting his word behind them, and hating to be reformed.

'Tis not likely that Iehosaphat would desire the Prophets of Baal to be consulted, or that hee would hearken to them more, then to the Prophet of the Lord Micajah, yet in this he failed extremly, that he had too far engaged himself to Ahab, before the enquiring at the word of the Lord. How ever it seemes, he was by this enquiring, seeking a faire way to come off againe. 6. Iehosaphats end was good, Martyr on