3. Though this promise was made, that others should not wrong them; yet it follows not, but that they might wrong themselves, by trespassing against God, and so expose themselves to affliction. Whilst they continued God's plantation, they were a noble Vine, a right Seed: but if Israel will destroy themselves, the fault is in themselves. And yet even in their Captivity, the good amongst them, God graciously provided for: The Basket of good Figs God sent into the land of Chaldea for their good, Jer. 24. 5. But if you rebel against God, the same God that planted you will also root you out again, for all the evil which you shall do against your selves: Jer. 1•. 17. When the Israelites liked not the soil grew weary ⟨p. 17⟩of the Ordinances, and forsook the Worship of God, and said, What part have we in David? after this, they never got so good a King, nor any settled rest in the good land wherein God had planted them. As they waxed weary of God, so He waxed weary of them, and cast them out of His sight.
3. Though this promise was made, that others should not wrong them; yet it follows not, but that they might wrong themselves, by trespassing against God, and so expose themselves to affliction. Whilst they continued God's plantation, they were a noble Vine, a right Seed: but if Israel will destroy themselves, the fault is in themselves. And yet even in their Captivity, the good amongst them, God graciously provided for: The Basket of good Figs God sent into the land of Caldea for their good, Jer. 24. 5. But if you rebel against God, the same God that planted you will also root you out again, for all the evil which you shall do against your selves: Jer. 1•. 17. When the Israelites liked not the soil grew weary ⟨p. 17⟩of the Ordinances, and forsook the Worship of God, and said, What part have we in David? after this, they never got so good a King, nor any settled rest in the good land wherein God had planted them. As they waxed weary of God, so He waxed weary of them, and cast them out of His sight.
