A62040:431
The works of George Swinnock, M.A
The works of George Swinnock, M.A. containing these several treatises ...
London: printed by J.B. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We read of such different metal, such a speckled rabble gathered together against Israel, that one would think the diversity of their Countries, Constitutions, Customs, Languages, Lusts, should have kept them from melting and running into one piece; Yet, Lo, they all unite against Gods people; They take crafty counsel against thy people; They consult against thy hidden ones; They have said, Come let us cut them off from being a Nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance; For they have consulted together with one consent, they are confederate against thee. The Tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarens, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines, and the Inhabitants of Tyre, Assur also is joined with them, and they have holpen the Children of Lot, Psalm 83. 3, to 9.
We read of such different mettal, such a speckled rabble gathered together against Israel, that one would think the diversity of their Countries, Constitutions, Customes, Languages, Lusts, should have kept them from melting and running into one piece; Yet, Lo, they all unite against Gods people; They take crafty counsel against thy people; They consult against thy hidden ones; They have said, Come let us cut them off from being a Nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance; For they have consulted together with one consent, they are confederate against thee. The Tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarens, Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines, and the Inhabitants of Tyre, Assur also is joyned with them, and they have holpen the Children of Lot, Psalm 83. 3, to 9.
Shall such a cursed crew agree together to pull down Zion, and not the blessed Company of Gods Children unite to build it up? O! how shameful is it, that Satan's black Regiment, should with one consent watch for us, as the Dragon for the Man-child, to devour us; And as Herod for the Babes of Bethlehem, to destroy us; And that we should not watch over one another for our safety and defence! It may well be our grief, that the Children of this World, are wiser in their Generation then the Children of Light.