The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…

First, That the discerning servants of God in Scripture, such as have been acquainted with God, and have seen into the nature of sin, have bewailed this sin with their most brinish tears, and deepest groans, and agonies of spirit. It is enough to break ones heart, to read with what heart-breaking-sighs, those holy men of God, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel, have bewailed this sin, lying in the dust at Gods feet. Ezra 9.6. O my God, I am ashamed, and •lush to list up my face to thee wy God, &c. So cries Ezra, &c. And again, Vers. 13. After all this is come upon us, for our evil deeds, for our great trespass; seeing that thou our God hath punished […] less, then our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy Commandments, Vers. 15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain, yet escaped as it is this day: Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee, because of this. Nehemiah is very Pathetical in the confession of this sin, all along the ninth Chapter of that Book, weeping out this godly sorrow, as it were with tears of blood. Daniel is covered with confusion of face, when he bewailed this sin of Covenant-Violation in the ninth Chapter of his Prophecy. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, Ver. 7. And again, O Lord, to me belongs confusion of face, to our Kings, to our Princes, &c. Vers. 8. It is breach of Covenant he bewails ⟨p. 5⟩with so much confusion of face and brokenness of heart in that Chapter.

First, That the discerning servants of God in Scripture, such as have been acquainted with God, and have seen into the nature of sin, have bewailed this sin with their most brinish tears, and deepest groans, and agonies of spirit. It is enough to break ones heart, to read with what heart-breaking-sighes, those holy men of God, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Daniel, have bewailed this sin, lying in the dust at Gods feet. Ezra 9.6. O my God, I am ashamed, and •lush to list up my sace to thee wy God, &c. So cryes Ezra, &c. And again, Vers. 13. After all this is come upon us, for our evill deads, for our great trespasse; seeing that thou our God hath punished 〈…〉 lesse, then our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; should we again break thy Commandments, Vers. 15. O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous, for we remain, yet escaped as it is this day: Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee, because of this. Nehemiah is very Patheticall in the confession of this sin, all along the ninth Chapter of that Book, weeping out this godly sorrow, as it were with tears of blood. Daniel is covered with confusion of face, when he bewailed this sin of Covenant-Violation in the ninth Chapter of his Prophesie. O Lord, righteousnesse belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, Ver. 7. And again, O Lord, to me belongs confusion of face, to our Kings, to our Princes, &c. Vers. 8. It is breach of Covenant he bewails