The application of redemption

Set the evil of sin before thine Eyes in the execution §1of it upon others. This was the advice the Lord gives to the rebellious and unbelieving Jews […] he would have them sensible of the danger of their own […], he sends them to see the ruin that sin hath […], the havoc it hath wrought in the places of greatest renown, persons of greatest respect for their […] and account before God and men, Jer. 7. 12. Go now unto my place, which was in Shiloh, where I set my Name at the first, and see what I have done to it, for the wickedness of my people Israel. Though that was the place of my Worship, where in my Name and Honour was great, and therefore might in reason be preserved; they the people of my choice and […] ones, and therefore might expect pity and commiseration, yet were destroyed and laid wast without remedy, and recovery. So will I do to this house which is called by my Name, in which you trust, and unto the place which I gave unto you and your Fathers, as I have done unto Shiloh. So also when he would make them see the loathsomeness of their unnatural departing away from him to other gods, he sends them to other Nations, that they may convince and condemn them for their course, so contrary to reason, and the very carriage of the Heathen, Jer. 2. 10. Pass over to the […] of Kittim, and send unto Kedar, &c. Not that they should make a Journey thither by their bodily presence, but send their thoughts afar off, and in serious consideration present those evils really to their own view, see what sin hath done to others, and be persuaded it will bring the like evil upon their own souls. Let me so speak to thee, and do thou so practice. Go thou hard-hearted sinner to the red Sea, and hear there ⟨p. 188⟩Pharaoh belching out his blasphemy against the Lord, Who is Jehovah? I know not Jehovah, nor will I let […] go: See there the Wheels of his Chariots taken off, and he and his Egyptians crying and flying, Let us fly from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them. See them drowning and dying, and their dead Carcasses cast upon the shore. This is the hideous and direful destruction that hardness of heart hath wrought. Go thou rebellious sinner into the Wilderness into the Tents of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram: