I answer, 'tis true, their rebellion may also be said to be from the Lord;1 but how? Non voluntate Deiefficiente, sed permittente; not that this was wrought or approved by the Lord, but because this as all other sins are, was permitted and suffered by the Lord, who gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own flesh, Rom. 1. 24. And mark what followed, They left all the Commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two Calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of Heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; there was none left but the Tribe of Judah only. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. The prime cause and reason of all which, is here given, For He re•t Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat King, and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did, they departed not from them, until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight. So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria unto this day, 2 K. 17.
I answer, 'tis true, their rebellion may also be said to be from the Lord;1 but how? Non voluntate Deiefficiente, sed permittente; not that this was wrought or approved by the Lord, but because this as all other sins are, was permitted and suffered by the Lord, who gave them up to uncleannesse through the lusts of their own flesh, Rom. 1. 24. And marke what followed, They left all the Commandements of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two Calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of Heaven, and served Baal. And they caused their sons and their daughters to passe through the fire, and used divination and inchantments, and sold themselves to do evill in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight; there was none left but the T•ibe of Judah onely. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hands of spoilers, untill he had cast them out of his sight. The prime cause and reason of all which, is here given, For He re•t Israel from the house of David, and they made J•roboam the son of Nebat King, and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin. For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did, they departed not from them, untill the Lord removed Israel out of his sight. So was Israel carried away out of their own Land to Assyria unto this day, 2 K. 17.
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