Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

2. When God had left them, all miseries followed, […] &c. their crown was taken from their head, and their enemies which formerly were tributary to them, now lord it over them, yea, an universal d•••ge of miseries came upon them, as you may there read. Thus you […], once chosen by God, where he set up his Ordinances, made his […] to dwell, and shone forth in his wonderful glory: forsaken by God, and buried in its own ruins, altogether disowned and refused as a place of abhorrence and contempt.

2. When God had left them, all miseries followed, 〈…〉 &c. their crown was taken from their head, and their enemies which formerly were tributary to them, now lord it over them, yea, an universal d•••ge of miseries came upon them, as you may there read. Thus you 〈…〉, once chosen by God, where he set up his Ordinances, made his 〈…〉 to dwell, and shone forth in his wonderful glory: forsaken by God, and buryed in its own ruines, altogether disowned and refused as a place of abhorrence and contempt.

3. Let us consider what we may learn at Shiloh, observe here even from the consideration of this example.

1. That God hath no where on earth so engaged himself and his presence, but that sin may drive him away: where was his name greater then at Shiloh; there was the Tabernacle, there was the Priests and Levites serving, there were daily morning and evening sacrifices, thither came the tribes yearly to appear before God, there were the seals of Gods Covenant, yet is Shiloh deserted and destroyed; Jerusalem may also witness this truth, the once dwelling place of God, where the Temple was, the place whereof God had said, this is my rest for ever, here will I dwell, for I have desired it.