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A sermon preached upon Ezek. 22. 30, 31. Occasioned by the death of the…
A sermon preached upon Ezek. 22. 30, 31. Occasioned by the death of the much honoured John Leveret Esq; governor of the colony of the Massachusetts. N-E. 63. / By S.W. Teacher of the South Church in Boston.A sermon preached upon Ezek. 22. 30, 31. Occasioned by the death of the much honoured John Leveret Esq; governour of the colony of the Massachusets. N-E. 63. / By S.W. Teacher of the South Church in Boston.
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1679
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II. The Judgement it self, which is declared as an Effect from these […], and by them vindicated to be just and equal, ver. 31. our Translation reads it in the preter Tense' as of a thing which was past, and God here clears up to be righteous: and then it must bear respect to Jehoiakin's Captivity: Jun. Trem. and Pisc. read it in the future, and then it must refer to the desolation under Zedekiah, which soon after fell out. In the Hebr. the first Verb is in the future, the other two in the preter; but the one is used frequently for the other in Prophetical Scriptures, God often speaks of what he will do, as if it were already done, because of the certainty of it.
II. The Judgement it self, which is declared as an Effect from these 〈…〉, and by them vindicated to be just and equal, ver. 31. our Translation reads it in the preter Tense' as of a thing which was past, and God here clears up to be righteous: and then it must bear respect to Jehoiakins Captivity: Iun. Trem. and Pisc. read it in the future, and then it must referre to the desolation under Zedekiah, which soon after fell out. In the Hebr. the first Verb is in the future, the other two in the preter; but the one is used frequently for the other in Prophetical Scriptures, God often speaks of what he will do, as if it were already done, because of the certainty of it.
The words of our Text render us the next and immediate Reason of Judahs destruction, viz. there were none found in it to turn away the wrath of God from it, no not one: the words clearly hold out unto us these three things.
1. Gods great lenity towards a people guilty of deepest Apostasy, […] man might have held his hand, he looked but for one.