An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

VERS. XII. Obs. 1. Bodily and spiritual whoredom usually go together Page 133 Use, We are not to marvel that such as seem to be men of understanding are given to Idolatry. ibid Obs. 2. What poor ways Idolaters had to know the minds of their gods. Page 135 Use, Let us bless God that we have his word. ibid Obs. 3. There is an eagerness of spirit in men to things that are evil. ibid Use 1. Look to your spirits when you find an eagerness in them to a thing. Page 136 Use 2. Labour to be acted by the Spirit of God. Page 137 Use 3. Pray to God that he would satisfy us not only in body and in soul but in spirit. ibid ⟨image 6⟩Obs. 4. All false worship doth put a man from the protection of God. Page 138 Obs. 5. So far as we are from being under Gods command, so far we are from being under his protection. Page 129

VERS. XII. Obs. 1. Bodily and spiritual whoredom usually go together Page 133 Use, We are not to marvail that such as seem to be men of understanding are given to Idolatry. ibid Obs. 2. What poor waies Idolaters had to know the minds of their gods. Page 135 Use, Let us bless God that we have his word. ibid Obs. 3. There is an eagerness of spirit in men to things that are evil. ibid Use 1. Look to your spirits when you find an eagerness in them to a thing. Page 136 Use 2. Labor to be acted by the Spirit of God. Page 137 Use 3. Pray to God that he would satisfie us not only in body and in soul but in spirit. ibid ⟨image 6⟩Obs. 4. All false worship doth put a man from the protection of God. Page 138 Obs. 5. So far as we are from being under Gods command, so far we are from being under his protection. Page 129

VERS. XIII. Obs. 1. General accusations without particular specification, will not prevail with stubborn hearts. Page 140 Use. Godly Ministers must not leave things in general if they would convince. ibid Obs. 2. What seems most specious in our eyes if it be not according to the rule may be most abominable in the eyes of God. Page 141 Obs. 3. Ministers ought to present to the people the foulness of those things that they think have least evil in them. ib. Obs. 4. When God chooseth a place, he puts a stamp of holiness upon the place. Page 143 Obs. 5. Idolatry is brazen faced and loves to be public. Page 148 Use, Labour to make the worship of God as public ibid Obs. 6. When the Ordinances of the Gospel come to be public, then it is time for Babylon to fall. ibid Obs. 7. Idolaters seek to rise to the height of their way in false worship. ibid Use, Let us labour to do so in Gods worship. ibid Why they sacrificed under trees? 1. Because the Heathens dedicated the trees to their gods. Page 149 2. In imitation of the Patriarchs. ibid 3. The shadiness of the place struck some reverence in the hearts of men. ibid 4. They thought the spirits of their Worthies were there. Page 150 5. They were fit places for the committing of filthiness. ibid 6. They conceited God was the more honoured by it. ibid Obs. 8. Superstition thinks it hath a great deal of reason for what it doth. Page 151 Obs. 9. It is the pride of mens spirits to think Gods Ordinances are too plain ibid Obs. 10. God sometimes punisheth sin with sin. Page 152