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

Obs. 2 Secondly, which is the chief, It is the most woeful judgment of God upon any people, upon any person, when God shall say in his wrath, Let him alone, go on. The word is [Greek or Hebrew] and it is as much as to say, Let him be quiet, and Tranquillus; that quiet will prove a dreadful storm. You know what the wise man saith, Woe to him that is alone, Oh woe to him that God saith, Let him alone, that is thus alone. Many men bless themselves when they are let alone, and desire it, Let us alone say they: Oh but when God shall say, Let them alone, this is a most dreadful ⟨p. 207⟩thing indeed. It was a fearful evil, it proved at least to be a fearful evil to Adam in Paradise when God let him alone, when God left Adam to himself what became of him? he undid himself what in him lay and all his posterity, when he was but left to those natural abilities he had it proved in the conclusion dreadful enough. Yea and when God shall but leave his own Saints, that have grace in them, shall but leave them for a little while unto themselves, Oh what mischief comes of it! As in 2 Chron. 32.31. Hezekiah was left to himself but a while and what a deal of misery did he bring upon himself, when God did but leave him to himself to try what was in his heart? What, are there such evil consequences upon Adam in Paradise left alone, and the Saints left alone here, Oh what a dreadful thing is it then when God shall leave a sinner alone, I mean one that hath nothing else but sin in him, a wicked wretch that hath no grace at all in him?

Obs. 2 Secondly, which is the chief, It is the most wofull judgment of God upon any people, upon any person, when God shall say in his wrath, Let him alone, go on. The word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 and it is as much as to say, Let him be quiet, and Tranquillus; that quiet will prove a dreadful storm. You know what the wise man saith, Wo to him that is alone, Oh wo to him that God saith, Let him alone, that is thus alone. Many men bless themselves when they are let alone, and desire it, Let us alone say they: Oh but when God shal say, Let them alone, this is a most dreadful ⟨p. 207⟩thing indeed. It was a fearful evil, it proved at least to be a fearful evil to Adam in Paradise when God let him alone, when God left Adam to himself what became of him? he undid himself what in him lay and all his posterity, when he was but left to those natural abilities he had it proved in the conclusion dreadful enough. Yea and when God shall but leave his own Saints, that have grace in them, shall but leave them for a little while unto themselves, Oh what mischief comes of it! As in