gave Jacob for a spoil and Israel to the Robbers did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned c and the Lord still observes what he does in such a way and sets down and keeps as it were a Catalogue of his Judgments as well as of his Mercies and of peoples deportment under them how they carry it as here in this Chapter The Lord declares all he had done and all their incorrigibleness notwithstanding Yet have ye not returned unto me saith the Lord and Jer. 8. 6 I hearkned and heard but they spake not aright no man repented him of his wickedness saying what have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rushes into the battel Vse 1. Let us then in all that is done see own and acknowledg the Lords hand and humble our selves under the same thus it is said The man of wisdom shall do Mic. 6. 9 The Lords voice crieth unto the City And the man of wisdom shall see thy Name i. e. he shall see thee and own thy hand in what is done the not doing of which the Lord complains of and threatens Isa 26. 11 Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see c. 2. Let us turn to him that smites and seek the Lord of Hosts as he often invites Hosea 14. 1 O Israel return unto the Lord thy God Take with you words and turn to the Lord say unto him Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously c. So Joel 2. 12 Therefore also now saith the Lord Turn ye even to me with all your heart c. and seek ye me and ye shall live Amos 5. 4 6. And this the Lord expects Hosea 15 In their affliction they will seek me early Lord in trouble have they visitod thee Isa 26. 16. And peoples not doing of this is the great matter and ground of his complaint and it rolls so in his thoughts that he knows not how as it were to digest it As here in this Chapter it is five times together the matter of the Lords complaint Yet have ye not return'd to me saith the Lord ver 6. So ver 8 9 10 11. So elsewhere Hosea 11. 7 Though they called them to the most High none at all would exalt him They looked after and minded other ways and means of help Isa 22. 8 Thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the Forest c. ver 9 10 11. And they thought in this they were very wise and politick but they neglected the main To look to the Lord and to seek and turn to him ver 11 12 23. And for this the Lord threatned to bring upon them final ruin For all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still For the people turneth not to him that smites them neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail branch and rush in one day Isa 9. 12 13 14. And therefore as ever we would prevent our own and the Nations ruin let us speedly set upon this yea and encourage one another to this as the best course we can take as the best way we can go as those Hosea 6. 1 2 3 Come say they let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up c. And why gaddest thou about saith the Lord so much to change thy way i. e. the way which I have prescribed thee and that which should be thy way but thou triest other ways and conclusions but in vain and to no purpose they shall avail thee nothing Jer. 2. 36 37 Thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wast ashamed of Assyria Yea thou shalt go forth from him and thine hands upon thine head a sign of shame and sorrow for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences those ways and refuges thou confidest in and thou shalt not prosper in them Observ 2. Whatever the Lord does or threatens to do to a people in a way of Judgment it is not without cause there is a therefore for it Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel and therefore hath he poured upon him the fury of his anger Isa 42. 25. Therefore the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you Mat. 21. 43. And so I might give you hundreds more of such therefores and wherefores but they are every where obvious and therefore I shall not stand to mention them and all declare that whatever the Lord does in à way of Judgment it is not without cause But does not the Lord tell Satan that he moved him against Job to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3 It was indeed without cause as to what Satan did alledg and pretend as to Job which was gross Hypocrisie so without cause but not absolutely for if God narrowly search the best there 's ever cause so as to justifie God as to what he does God indeed sometimes afflicts without respect to sin but still there is cause enough from sin in the best to merit it though not always the moving cause c. Vse 1. This then lets us see the vast difference between Gods acting in a way of Judgment and the sinners in a way of sin For the one is not without cause there is a therefore for it but none for the other There 's no therefore for that we do not indeed suffer without cause but we sin without cause Gods Judgments are not without cause but mans transgressions are and hence is it that the Lord does so Expostulate with his people as concerning their sinful carriages towards him as being without cause nay as having given them great cause to the contrary as Jer. 2. 5 Thus saith the Lord What iniquity have your Fathers found in me that they are gone from me and Verse 31 Have I been a wilderness unto Israel a land of darkness say my people We are lords we will come no more to thee So Mic. 6. 3 4 5 O my people What have I done unto thee and wherein have I wearred thee Testifie against me For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt c. As if the Lord had said I have done indeed much good for thee shewn a great deal of kindness towards thee But what evil or hurt did I ever do to thee So that if it be ask't here Who hath wounds who hath grief who has offence without cause It must be answered God haes O the disingenuity Ingratitude and unreasonableness of sin and sinners Gods Service is indeed most reasonable as that we should love him and live and devote our selves to him Which is yur reasonable service Rom. 12. 1. But sin is unreasonable and sinners That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men 2 Thes 3. 2. Solomon advises Prov. 3. 30 Strive not with a man without cause if he have done the no harm
of mercies comes there will be healing and binding up and verse 2 3 reviving raising up and living in his sight and then his going forth shall be as the morning and he shall come to us as the rain as the latter and former rain unto the earth But without this we must expect inevitable ruin as the Lord threatens again and again see Isa 9. 13 14. Jer. 15. 7 Ezek. 24. 12 13 14. You know what Christ said to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus Rev. 2. 5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of his plaee except thou repent And wo to us if he and his Gospel go from us Psal 22. 27 It is there said All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord. And O that at length we might remember and do so remember our selves and how much it is our own and the Nations concern and turn unto the Lord. Shall we always forget God and our selves too How long shall our sins be a snare to us Know we not yet that England is in danger to be destroy'd And do we not see his anger is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend any more That which I see not teach thou me if I have done iniquity I will do no more Job 34. 31 32. And till we do this we do not only forget our selves but we are not our selves we are not only out of our way but out of our wits Sin being so great an evil yea the greatest and chieâ—est and indeed only true evil the cause of all other and it self the worst punishment the work of the Devil yea worse than the Devil and Hell and which nothing can expiate but Christs blood c. And then to repent and turn to the Lord is every way so much our concern and that which makes so infinitely for our own and the Nations weal that were we but our selves or in our right minds we could not but resolve on it as it is said of the Prodigal Son that as soon as ever he came to himself He said I will arise and go to my Father c. So that before he was not himself no more are we till we repent and turn to God then and not till then is it that we are our selves and do indeed remember our selves and our own and the Nations great concern and O that the Lord therefore would be pleas'd so to remember us that we might at length thus remember our selves and him too so as to turn to him by conversion without which will follow inevitahle destruction IV. In and with a Mediator even that One and only Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 1. 5. For so great is the distance between God and us and such is our sinfulness and great unrighteousness by reason thereof that there can be no meeting God with acceptance without a Mediator and this Mediator is Jesus Christ alone and hence we are said to come unto God by him Heb. 7. 25. And in him to have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him Eph. 3. 12. And but in and with him there is no coming to God with acceptance In him i. e. bâ—ing in him by faith united to him as Paul speaks oft of the Saints as being in Christ Col. 1. 2. Rom. 16. 7 11 c. and of himself he says I knew a man in Christ 2 Cor. 12. 2. And how happy is it to be indeed in him especially in such evil days and perilous times as these are for can we be better he being the hiding-place from the wind and the covert from the tempest As rivers of water in a dry plece as the shad w of a great rock in a weary land Isa 3â— 2. and The peace when the Assyrian comes into the land Mic. 5. 5. And being in him are we safe whatever dangers come happy whatever miseries come and shall be found in peace whatever troubles come And what then can we know more or better than this or what avails all else we know unless we know this That we are in Christ and when we are in him then are we fit to meet God indeed and not till then for without him or sever'd from him we can do nothing and to such as are out of him God is as a consuming fire and what then will such do in the day of visitation that have not as yet fled to Christ for refuge and gotten into him If a man abide not in me he 's cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned Joh. 15. 6. 2. As we are to meet God in him united to him by faith so with him i. e. God being incens'd by our sins we are when we go to meet God to take him along with us and present him and make use of him who is so dearly beloved and with whom the Father is so well pleased and in and through whom alone he comes to be well pleas'd with us and therefore in our addresses to God we must be sure not to pass him by God having made him to be for us in things pertaining to him as the Scripture declares For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God c. Heb. 5. 1. And that he might be a merciful and faithful high-priest in things pertaining to God or to be done with God chap. 2. 17. And we have many things to be done with God and things of very great concern and O! what a mercy is it that we have such a one made ordained and appointed for us as to whatever appertains and is to be done with God and among other this is one main thing The rendring us in our addresses to him acceptable And being incens'd by our sins to get him appeas'd and pacified and now Christ as to this is made and ordained by God for us and therefore in our addresses to him as ever we would find acceptance and have him meet us in mercy so as to find grace in his sight we must be sure as I said not to pass him by but take him along with us and present him tender him and make use of him and to beg os God to look upon us in and thorow him As David Ps 14. 9 Look upon the face of thine annointed i. e. of thy Christ of thy Messiah and let me for his sake find acceptance So Dan. 9. 17 Cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate for the Lords sake Thus if we would meet God so as to pacifie him we must carry Christ as it were in our Arms in the arms of our Faith as old Simeon got him once
But how do sinners strive with God without cause when he has done them no harm but much good And how sad is this for shall evil be recompensed for good Sinners it is said love those that love them and do good to those that do good to them Luke 6. 32 33. It is thus indeed as to Men but not to God Sinners as one expresses it carry themselves as Men towards Men but as Devils towards God acting below the very principles of common humanity and their own nature as Men as if they had not the hearts of Men no principle being more deeply engraven in the hearts of Men than this to do good to those who do good to them but sinners do evil to that God who does good to them and never did them hurt They load and weary him with their iniquities and make him to serve with their sins who dayly loads them with his benefits and sin against a Thousand mercies So that God may say to sinners what Christ sometime said to the Jews For which of my good works is it that you stone me John 10. 32. That you go on to sin against me is it because I made you or because I have ever since preserved you For we could as soon make our selves as preserve our selves or is it because I daily still sustain you feed you cloath you and every way take care of you and provide for you O the reflection upon this another day that there was no Cause no Therefore for sinners carrying it so towards God as they did will be a great part of that worm of Conscience in Hell which shall never dye And this made those in Judges 2 when the Angel of the Lord had convinc'd them of the unreasonableness of their actings Why says the Angel have ye done this This made them lift up their voice and weep and make the place where they were a very Bochim vers 1 2 3 4 5. Vse 2. Then let us justifie the Lord in all he does and acknowledg that he is righteous not doing what he does without cause but there being a Therefore for it Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel Has the Lord sent among us the Sword and after that the Plague Yea and after that Fire and several other judgments as Gripes strange sicknesses Seasons Storms Tempests Breaking us at Sea and causing strange Inundations at Land And is not his anger yet turned away but is his hand stretched out still As we have seen a late in that dreadful Fire in Southwark and again a late at Northampton to the great consternation of that people None of these are without cause but there 's a Therefore for them all and therefore let us say as the Church Lam. 1. 18 The Lord is righteous for we have rebelled c. And as Daniel â— 7 O Lord righteousness belongeth unto thee but unto us confusion of faces c. Vse 3. Let this then quiet us and cause us patiently to bear what ever the Lord hath or may further inflict upon us as the Prophet Micah resolves chap. 7. 9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him That is very observable to this purpose which we read Ezek. 13. 22 23 where the Lord says of a Remnant there that should escape That as concerning all the evil he should bring upon Jerusalem when they should see what cause there was for what he did they should be comforted concerning it all a strange expression The Lord had done fore and heavy things against Jerusalem inflicted grievous judgments he mentions four viz. The Sword Famine noisom Beasts and Pestilence And not only gainst the Land and City but against the Temple Read the Book of Lamentations And yet when that Remnant should see the ways and doings of those against whom God had done it they should see such cause for what God had done that it is said as concerning all that God had done They should be comforted i. e. contented silenced well satisfied and not have a word tosay as concerning all that the Lord had brought upon them Pray peruse the place it is worthy your serious observation Vers 22 Yet behold therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth both sons and daughters Behold they shall come forth unto you and ye shall see their way and their doings Their manner and course of lise and conversation how evil it hath been and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem even concerning all that I have brought upon it And they shall comfort you when ye see their ways and their doings and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it says the Lord. And truly such have been and still are at this day the daring crying sins and abominable wickednesses of this Nation yea and of this City as to the generality of us Such is our pride every manner of way in our Gait Habit Hair Apparel yea in our very Nakedness such are our garish ranting flanting immodest Attires and Dresses so contrary to the fear of the Lord and the profession of Godliness Such our Luxury Sensuality Excesses Revellings Drunkenness desperate Security such our horrid and open profanations of Gods Name and Day such our Atheism Oaths Errors Heresies Blasphemies Perjuries Superstitions Idolatries Oppressions Cruelties Thefts Murders Whoredoms Adulteries Uncleannesses Hatred of God and his Ways and the power of Godliness By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery sinners breaking out and blood touching blood Hos 4. 2. In a word such are our prodigious and execrable impieties of all sorts and kinds whatsoever That what-ever evils the Lord hath or may yet further bring upon us or what ever he do with us we have cause to be comforted i. e. silenc'd satisfied and never open our mouths more Why criest thou saith God for thinc affliction Thy sorrows are incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity because thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 15. And wherefore says the Lord will you plead with me Jer. 2. 29. They were ready to plead against God as if he had been rigorous towards them but wherefore says the Lord will you plead with me ye have all transgressed against me and let that silence you and well it may For there 's more true real evil in one sin the least sin than in all other evils whatsoever the evil of punishment being little to the evil of sin the bitterness for sin to the bitterness in sin one strikes but at the creature the other at the Creator at God one at what is finite the other at what is infinite c. Vse 4. Let us labour then to find out the Cause and get it removed Let us not stand complaining but sall upon searching and trying for there is a Therefore for what the Lord doeâ— For what ever he has done or goes
on still farther to do As the Lord said to Joshua when Israel fled before the Men of Ai and were smitten and Joshua fell to the earth upon his face and was much troubled Get thee up saith the Lord wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face Israel hath sinned c. As if the Lord had said Is there not cause for what is done And let us therefore bespeak one another as they did Lam. 3. 39 40 41 42 Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins Let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the Heavens We have transgressed and we have rebelled c. Observ 3. Although the Lord hath inflicted several judgments already upon a people for their sins yet unless they return unto him he hath more and heavier still to inflict yea and will inflict them unless they return unto him How many judgments doth the Lord here reckon up that he had inflicted upon this people already Want of bread of rain blasting mildew pestilence sword c And yet he had more and heavier still to inflict Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel And how often does the Lord tell his people in Levit. 26 that if they yet walked contrary to him and would not hearken to him he would bring seven times more plagues upon them vers 21 24 28 c. The Lords quiver is full of Arrows We have Four mentioned together Ezek. 14. 21 The sword the famine the noisom beast and the pestilence And hath not England experienc'd this That the Lord hath variety of judgments to inflict For how many hath the Lord inflicted upon us one after another and sometimes several together The Lord he sent the Sword which did eat the flesh and drink the blood of many and when that would not do he sent the Pestilence That walked in darkness and wasted at noon-day Did execution continually laying waste whole Families and making desolate all their company sweeping away in and about this City in less than a years space near if not above A Hundred Thousand making burying-work till there was scarce room to bury in Thus the Lord first sent fire into our bones as the Church complains Lam. 1. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them And when this would not do he sends a dreadful Fire into our Habitations which swallows up both them and our Estates so that before we were scarce got out of one Fire another devours us one our Houses another our selves one our Persons the other our Portions and Estates as the Lord threatned the Inhabitants of Jerusalem Ezek. 15. 7 And I will set my face against them they shall go out from one fire and another shall devour them c. And when these would not do how many more judgments has the Lord inflicted upon us since So many that it is hard to reckon them up strange Gripes and other grievous sicknesses strange Seasons grievous Storms Tempests breaking us at Sea and causing strange Innundations at Land such as have not been in our days no not in our Fathers days before us Thus that the Lord hath many and various judgments to inflict upon a people for their sins Gods dealing with us here in this Nation abundantly evidences Vse 1. Let us all then learn to fear this God who hath so many and so various judgments to inflict on a people for their sins who though he hath inflicted several already hath yet more to inflict and heavier whose quiver is so full of Arrows I will says the Lord heap mischiefs upon them I will spend my arrows upon them The sword without and terrour within c. Deut. 32. 23 25. There are many Plagues that are written in this Book and many that are not written Deut. 28. 61. And shall not all then fear him O let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in aw of him Psal 33. 8. Who would not fear thee O king of nations for to thee doth it appertain c. Jer. 10. 7. And you know what Christ says to his friends Be not afraid of them that can kill the body and after that have no more that they can do But fear him that hath more yet that he can do that after he hath killed can cast into Hell Luke 12. 4 5. And therefore Christs says again fear him Vse 2. Let us no longer then stand it out against him but speedily and forthwith come in and submit unto him for if we do not he hath still more judgments to inflict more mischiess to heap more arrows to spend his quiver is not emptied nor are his arrows all drawn out or exhausted but will therefore overcome when he judges subdue or destroy If devouring us as a Lyon will not do he can be as a Moth as he threatens Hos 5. 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a Moth c. secretly and insensibly consuming us If whips will not do he has scorpions if not footmen he has horses Jer. 12. 5. If not winds to fan and to cleanse he has winds utterly to lay waste He can bring over us the same judgments again as Sword Pestilence Fire Flames the last of which he hath eminently done a-late as not to mention other at Northampon which our mother City being before consum'd was next as being one of her principal daughters dreadfully consum'd also and where very lately the Fire hath broken out again and burnt a great part of the remainder thereof So lately in Southwark in a few hours how many hundreds of Houses were there suddenly consum'd And a dreadful and lamentable Fire was there alate in Warwick-lane So I call it because though there was but one House burnt yet Seven Persons were consum'd in ☞ that One House Dreadful indeed for we do not read of so many consum'd no not in that great desolating Fire in 66 when 87 Parishes were burn'd down to the ground within the Walls and several without and according to the computation of some above Thirteen thousand Houses and yet not so many Persons consum'd as in this one House O! it is lamentable and dreadful indeed when God by Fire shall consume not only our Houses and Estates but our selves not only our Portions but Persons not only dead Walls but living Wights Or God can inflict yet other and heavier as Famine a sore and heavy Arrow indeed one of the dreadfullest Arrows in the Lords Quiver which blessed be God we have not as yet experienc'd at least in late years though formerly in the year 700 History tells of a Famine here in England of three years continuance so violent that not only many daily died for hunger but great numbers joyning hand in hand 40 or 50 in a company threw themselves headlong into the Sea And this judgment star'd them a-late in
our great work and business is as I say with him more than with Men with creatures instruments And therefore it is our great duty and concern to have recourse to him to say as the people of God of old Come and let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up Hos 6. 1. And let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the Heavens Lam. 3. 41. Lord in trouble have they visited thee c. Isa 26. 16. Thus when Absoloms servants had set Joabs Barley on fire he goes not to the servants but to Absolom so Abigail hastens to David Benhadad's servants to the King of Israel they of Tire and Sidon to Herod and so should we to God Prepare to meet thy God O Israel as Eliphaz counsel'd Job 5. 8 I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause And indeed we cannot do better Whither should we go else Thus Moses when Israel by their sin had incens'd the Lord Now says he I will go up unto the Lord Exod. 32. 30. And it is best for us all to do so And hither we call and invite you as the Prophets of old They called them to the most high Hos 11. 7. So do we And when we have but once overcome him appeas'd him and gotten him our friend our work is done When he is at peace all 's at peace When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble c. Job 34. 29. Then says Eliphaz shalt thou be in league with the stones of the field and the beast of the field shall be at peace with thee Job 5. 23. Tranquillus Deus tranquillat omnia If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8. 31. 5. Because when God is in such a way he is wroth and surely when he is so it is our great duty and concern to labour all we can to appease him as Moses still did And Moses besought the Lord his God and said Lord why does thy wrath wax hot against thy people c. Exod. 32. 11 12 13. And how earnest is he and how many arguments doth he make use of for the appeasing of it Shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the people not be afraid c The Lion hath roared who will not fear Amos 3. 6 8. i. e. God hath made known his anger and his anger is formidable and dreadful as the Scripture every where sets it forth For we are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we troubled And who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear so is thy wrath Psal 90. 7 11. How dreadfully does the Prophet Nahum set it forth Nahum 1. 6 Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him And when he hideth his face who then can behold him whether it be done against a nation or a man only Job 34. 29. And ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little Psal 2. 12. The kings wrath says Solomon is as the roaring of a Lyon and as messengers of death but a wise man will pacifie it Prov. 19. 12 16 14. What is the wrath then of the great God And will it not be our wisdom to pacifie it Scornful men bring a City into a snare but wise men turn away wrath Prov. 29. 8. We find Act. 12. 20 that Herod was highly displeas'd with them of Tire and Sidon or bore an Hostil mind towards them and intended War against them and what did they It is said but they came with one accord to him and having made Blastus the kings chamber lain their friend desired peace because their country was nourished by the kings country They could not abide his displeasure neither could they subsist without peace had with him And the great God being highly displeas'd with us shall not we much more with one accord having made Jesus our friend desire Peace For is not his displeasure far more dreadful and formidable than Herods And is not our Country nourished by his our Country here below by that better and heavenly Country above And can a man receive any thing unless it be given him from Heaven Joh. 3. 27. Are we not continually sustain'd by him And can we possibly subsist a moment without him And we by our sins having incens'd his wrath surely there 's all the reason we should seek to appease it Shall we not labour to quench the fire which our selves have kindled And to allay the storms which we our selves have rais'd c 6. Because unless we meet him he will certainly go on to do as he hath threatned As David told Abigail That unless she had hasted to come to meet him he had done as he had said 1 Sam. 25. 39. And so will God as he did to Jerusalem And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedg and stand in the gap before me for the land but I found none And what then It follows Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath c. I have executed what I threatned Ezek. 22. 30 31. And that is very observable to this purpose Zach. 1. 5 6 Your fathers says the Lord where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever No they were dead and gone but my words did they not take hold of them did they dye with them No not turning to the Lord they took hold of them And they returned and said like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us according to our ways and doings so hath he dealth with us So Lam. 2. 17. And it being thus the Lord wonders that there should be no intercessor As if some formidable enemy was coming against a Place whom there was no opposing by force but good probability of appeasing by an humble address would it not be matter of wonder if none should do this one would think all should do it when else inevitable ruine must ensue And did people but believe this and seriously weigh and consider this it would be a special means to put them upon this great duty As the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast c. Jonah 3. 5. But the not believing nor considering of this makes sinners careless and heedless and so to expose themselves and the Nation to inevitable ruine CHAP. V. The Application of the point and 1. By may of Reprehension WHen God is in the way of his judgments is it his peoples great duty and concern to meet him Then here 's matter of just reproof to Two sorts of People 1. To such who are so far from meeting God in the way of his Judgments that they scarce ever so much as mind or regard him but let him do