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A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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shall be an harlot in the city and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword and thy land shall be divided by line and thou shalt die in a polluted land c. ch 7. 16 17. Preparation before medling with God's Ordinances Such as neglect it may justly feare severe punishment For thus it was said under the Old Testament and doubtlesse there is as much need of preparation for Gospell services as there was for those of the Law Let the Priests also which come neere to the Lord sanctifie themselves lest the Lord breake footh upon them Exod 19 22. The Septuagint say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lest the Lord depart away from them as being a holy God and therefore not enduring any unholy thing to come neere him which I take to be a worse punishment then the former Especially after the commission of some fowle sinne whereby we are defiled For then we had need to wash our selves first with teares of humiliation and repentance The man that shall be uncleane and shall not purifie himselfe that soule shall be cut off from among the congregation c Num 19. 20. See the practise of Job ch 1. 5. The Priests before they went into the Tabernacle were to wash their hands their feet upon paine of death Exod 30. 20. What a charge did God give of preparing the people to hear him when he intended to speak upon mount Sinai even two daies before Exod 19. 10 11. See Gen 35. 2 concerning the practise of Jacob. And Job 11. 13 I wish we were as strict in preparing for all manner of duty as the Jewes were and yet are in externall preparations for the keeping of the Sabbath or that we were as punctuall to wash our hearts before we go to sit down at the Lords table as they were to wash their feet and the Pharisees their hands before they would sit downe at their own tables Presumptuous Sins See Sins Presumption of Perseverance punished Both with Sinne and Sorrow Peter told our Saviour Though all men shall be offended because of thee yet will I never be offended Mâ—tth 26. 33. but our Saviour presently threatned him Verily I say unto thee that this night before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice vers 34. Shalt not wi lt so that if it be a prophecie it is a threatning one Marke how these words of our Saviour answer to Peter's in every expression of his praefidence as were of purpose to make him see his exceeding great weaknesse Whereas he was so confident of the continuance of his fidelity that all should be offended in Christ rather then he he tells him none but him most peremptorily to the contrary VERILY I SAY unto thee c. Whereas he was confident that hee should not be so much as offended in Christ which notwithstanding Christ had said should be the lot of all of them vers 31. He tells him that he should not onely be offended in him but even quite deny him Whereas hee was confident that he should never deny Christ not once so much and not once for ever not only that night he tells him cleane contrary This night and BEFORE the Cok crow thou shalt deny me THRICE Now you may see this threat fulfilled vers 70. 72. 74. and in the next verse after Peters sin you may read his sorrow For there it is said that upon the crowing of the Cocke being put in mind of Christs words he went out and WEPT BITTERLY Professours in Hypocrisie punished 1 With Deceiving of themselves Non-acceptance of their religion Trust yee not in lying words saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Jer 7. 4. Lying words Because they call'd it the Temple of the Lord when it was not for the Lord would no longer dwel in it nor owne it So it seems to be interpreted if we translate with the Latin v. 7 Then I will dwell with you in this place But I rather take lying words for words that would deceive them vaine and unprofitable words as it is interpreted and as the Latine it selfe also translates ver 8. thus yee trust in lying words which will not profit you You will deceive your selves exceedingly if you think you are a jot the better for going to the house of God hearing the word of God living with the people of God and having the name of God upon you if your lives be not answerable 2 Being given over to death in Sin especially if they pretend to more then others and take the name of figtrees upon them which is the greatest fruit bearing tree of any our Saviour When he saw a figtree in the way hee came to it found nothing thereon but leaves onely and said unto it Let no fruit grow on thee hence forward for ever and presently the figtree withered away Mat 21 19. 3 Being given over to death in Hell Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophecied in thy name and in thy name have cast out Divells and in thy name done many wonderfull works And then I will professe unto them I never knew you depart from me yee that worke iniquity Matt 7. 22 23. Work iniquity What doe all these great things and yet work iniquity Yea prophecy cast out Divells preach well pray well even to admiration and yet work iniquity There is too often experience even of such hypocrisie Such as are not professours will rise up in judgement against such men and condemne them Shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfill the law judge thee who by or in the letter and circumcision doest transgresse the Law Rom 2. 27. Prosperity Such as abuse it to Sinne through wantonnesse confidence security Threatened 1 With Not-being pardoned How shall I pardon thee for this Thy children have forsaken mee and sworn by them that are no gods when I had fed them to the full they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troopes in harlots houses Jer. 5. 7. Froward children will be most froward when their parents are most loving But nothing will anger a parent more When I fed them to the full As full-feeding on meat disposes the body to corporall adultery so doth being full fed with prosperity dispose the soule to spirituall adultery But withall it is as certaine that as diseases are the fruits of the former so punishments are the reward of the latter 2 Removall of those things which they abused and wherein they put their confidence As they were encreased so they sinned against me or according to the Chald. par As I multiplyed their fruits so they multiplyed to sinne Therefore will I change their glory into shame Hos 4. 7. So in Jeremy The complaint is I spake unto thee in thy prosperity and thou saidest I will not heare c. 22. 2. even in Adversitie we doe not heare but in
to bee sufficient to keep any one from wondring at any punishment that should befall them in case they sinned against him And therefore in severall places where he shewes how severely he would punish them if they rebelled against him hee tells them withall how that when strangers should see how they were dealt with aud should aske the cause it should be answered that it was for forgetting the Lord their God who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt As you may see 2 Chron 7. 21 22. Deut 29. 24 25. 1 Kings 9. 8. c. 2 Captivity and by that meanes the enjoying of their labours by others which is a bitter punishment Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindfull of the rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shall set it with strange slips In the day shalt thou make the plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish But the harvest shall be a heap in the day of greife and desperate sorrow Isa 17. 10 11. As you have given those things which you had of me to Idols whereof see Ezek. 16. 16 17 18 19. so shall your land give those things which it had of you to your enemies It is a sad thing when God makes a man very happy or setts him upon hopes and endevours to be very happy and in the meane time resolves to make him miserable 3 The totall and unavoidable destruction of a Nation For thus said Ezra in his prayer And after all this that is come upon us for our evill deeds and for our great trespasses seeing thou our God hast punished us lesse then our iniquities deserve and hast given us such deliverance as this should we againe break thy commandement and joyne in affinity with the people of these abominations Wouldest thou not be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us so that there should be no remnant nor escaping Ezr 9. 13 14. The Prophet Amos chap. 2 complaining first of the wickednesse of the Jewes afterwards to aggravate it begins to mention some of God's mercies toward them Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them c. vers 9. but having mentioned two or three not able to hold any longer he breaks forth into these words Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift c. vers 14. None of them shall escape and nothing shall stand them in steed Nay the Scripture speakes of punishing Vnthankfull sinners not only in their persons but in their posterity also For so was Jeroboam punished Forasmuch as I exalted thee c. says God to him by the Prophet Ahijah 1 Kings 14. 7 and thou hast not been as my servant David vers 8. Therefore I will bring evill upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off him that pisseth against the wall vers 10. In the 16 chapter vers 2 and 3 you shall find him speaking after the same manner to Baasha King of Israel by the mouth of Jehu How many strict charges may you meet with in the Scriptures against this sinne of ingratitude towards God! especially in the book of Deuteronomy where to shew what danger there is in it they usually begin with a Cavete Take heed or beware viz Lest thou forget the Lord c. See Deut 6. 10 11 12. chap 8 10 11 and read at your leasure these texts of scriptures Deut. 32. 6. Isa 51. 13. Ps 78. 42. 1 Kings 14. 7. Jer 2. 5 6. chap. 5. 24. Hos 2. 8 9. ch 7 15. See likewise Samuels reproofe of Saul 1 Sam 15. 17. Voluptuousnesse punished With poverty He that loveth pleasure shall be a poore man and he that loveth wine and oyle shall not be rich Prov. 21. 17. VVarre Nation shall rise against nation and kingdome against kindome c. Mat. 24 7. VVatchfull Such who are not so 1 They are the more exposed to temptation and the sooner made a prey to the Divell Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Divell as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devoure 1 Pet. 5. 8. 2 Thy are most in danger of being surprized and most dangerously surprized by Judgment It was threatened the Church of Sardis If therefore thou shalt not watch I will come on thee as a thiefe and thou shalt not know what houre I will come upon thee Rev. 3. 3 and perhaps here is an Aposiopesis of some heavie judgment to be understood though it be not expressed VVearinesse in well doing It hazards the reward Let us not be weary of well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not Gal 6. 9. VVhoremongers threatened 1 With certaine judgment Whoremongers and Adulterers because many times men cannot or do not God will judge Heb. 13 4. 2 Exclusion out of Heaven They are the first in the Apostles blacke roule Neither fornicators nor Idolaters c. shall inherit the kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. See Rev. 22. 15. punished With Death For when the Israelites committed whoredome with the Moabites God by a disease or fire or some other extraordinary plague slew no lesse then foure and twenty thousand of them Num. 25. 1 9. The usuall evills wherewith they punish themselves are 1 Losse of honour long life wealth and health and gaine of nothing but repentance and griefe Remove thy way farre from her speaking of the strange woman and come not nigh the doore of her house lest thou give thine honour unto others and thy yeares unto the cruell lest strangers be filled with thy wealth and thy labours be in the house of a stranger and thou mourne at the last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed Prov 5. 8 â—o the 12. 2 Death For she hath cast down many wounded many strong men have been slaine by her Her house is the way to hell going downe to the chambers of Death Prov. 7. 26 27. Her house is the way and chap. 2. 18. Her house enclineth unto death and none that goe unto her returne againe c. v. 19 as if the wiseman intended to intimate which is often seen that such as once enter into the practise of that sinne usually continue in it till it work their destruction The danger of falling in this way must needs be great and the fall very desperate because those that go in it are usually made blind with passion so that like blind metalsome horses they wil run wheÌ„ they know not where they goe He goeth after her straight way as an oxe goeth to the slaughterâ— or a foole to the correction of the stockes Prov. 7. 22. Wicked men When I read the Bible for the collection of these particular threats and punishments sometimes I thought it not uselesse to collect those places also which concerne wickednesse in generall and accordingly such as are more notable I did set them down as I met with them But yet againe sometimes I must confesse