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…

men of Ephraim, when God was not with them, all those are plainly disallowed and condemned. Moreover that reproof, Jer: 2. 18: And now, what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? the Chaldee hath thus; what have ye to do to associate with Pharaoh King of Egypt—And what have ye to do to make a Covenant with the Assyrian? Again after the captivity, Ezra: 9. the Jews mingling of themselves with the heathen is lamented. Fifthly, the great and precious promises of God, may encourage us so, as we shall never say to the wicked, a confederacy: for upon condition of our avoiding all such confederacies & conjunctions, God promiseth never to break his Covenant with us, Judg: 2: 1, 2. and to receive us as his Sons and Daughters, 2 Cor: 6. 14, 16, 17, 18. Sixthly, tis one of Gods great mercies which he hath Covenanted and promised, I will purge out from among you the Rebels, and them that transgress against me, Ezek. 20, 38. Why should we then forsake our own mercy, and despise the counsel of God against our own souls. Seventhly, as it was in Asa his experience, 2 Chron, 16, 7, 8, so it hath been in our own, God hath done his greatest works for us, when we were most unmixed with such men.

men of Ephraim, when God was not with them, all those are plainly disallowed and condemned. Moreover that reproofe, Ier: 2. 18: And now, what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? Or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River? the Chaldee hath thus; what have yee to do to associat with Pharaoh King of Egypt—And what have ye to do to make a Covenant with the Assyrian? Again after the captivity, Ezra: 9. the Jewes mingling of themselves with the heathen is lamented. Fifthly, the great and precious promises of God, may encourage us so, as we shall never say to the wicked, a confederacy: for upon condition of our avoiding all such confederacies & conjunctions, God promiseth never to break his Covenant with us, Iudg: 2: 1, 2. and to receive us as his Sons and Daughters, 2 Cor: 6. 14, 16, 17, 18. Sixthly, tis one of Gods great mercies which he hath Covenanted and promised, I will purge out from among you the Rebels, and them that transgresse against me, Ezek. 20, 38