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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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at the siege of Samaria when he was told that some of the Israelites were coming forth of the city in a carelesse scornfull manner gave order whether they came for peace or warre to take them alive now those that came forth were in number but 232 and they were young men of the Princes of the Provinces chosen out of purpose by the advice of a Prophet but as few as they were and though the King of Syria made so little reckoning of them they fell upon the Syrian army and slew every man his man and put the King and his whole army to flight 1 King 20 14 15 18 20. Discord Threats OF Discord among all sorts By the prophet Jeremy I will dash them one against another even the Fathers and the Sonnes together Jer 13 14. concerning the Jews By our Saviour Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth no my busines is to give peace in heaven and reconciliation with God I tell you nay but rather division Luk. 12 51. You may see those words in part fulfilled at Iconium upon Pauls preaching there Act 14 4. of Discord among the wicked as a punishment and for the good of the godly Every mans sword shall be against his brother concerning Gog Ezek 38 21. A great tumult from the Lord shall be among them and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour Zac 14 13. Concerning those that had fought against Jerusalem With this punishment God punished the Midianites when they fought with Gideon Judg. 7 22 where it is said THE LORD set every mans sword against his brother as it was above a great tumult from THE LORD and indeed the Lord's hand is especially seene in this punishment because there is a worke to be wrought upon the heart which the power of man cannot so well reach In this manner the Philistins likewise were panished when they fought with Saul 1 Sam. 14 20. and the Ammonites and the Moabites when they fought with Jehoshaphat 2 Chr. 20 24. See more in the chapter of The Enemies of the Church THREATS TO Discord or to those that Cause and maintaine it 1 Of Confusion and every evill worke So S. James sayes Where envying and strife is there is confusion or an unquiet life and every evill worke Jam. 3 16. The Greeke is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but I thinke it may not be meant so much every evill or sinfull worke or action which is best exprest by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as every evill or hurtfull thing not so much the evill Sinne as the evill of it neither is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here a sinne as it is in 2 Corinth 12 20. for then there might have seemed to have beene a Tautologie but a punishment as it is in 2 Cor. 6 5. The evill actions which are the fruits of strife are many but I believe the evill things which are the punishments and ill consequents of it are a great many more for commonly when men agree worst they live best enemies being as they are called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 observers do make men forbeare many sinnes either for fear or shame or even for spite it selfe and the want of an enemy makes them loose and carelesse The fruits of strife both miseries and sinnes must needs be many for these two reasons 1 Because men at variance will not onel y not help one another but will do all that they can to hurt one another 2 Because men at variance are for the most part in passion now passion usually considers not what is profitable and cares not what is lawfull which way soever you interpret the words of the Apostle they may very well be attended with those words of Solomon The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water therefore leave off contention before it be modled with Prov. 17 14. This many seem to be better translated thus Leave off contention before thou hast intangled thy selfe for before it be medl'd with it cannot be left off In like manner chap 20 3 I should render it every foole will entangle himself instead of will be medling because what ever it be that is there meant it seems to be opposed to ceasing froÌ„ strife expressed in the former part of the verse which a man cannot so well be said to do unlesse he hath already medl'd or begun Strife is like a snare which at first when a man falls into if he goe gently to worke he may draw his foot out againe or iâ— it be tyed if he be not too hasty but go wisely to worke he may untye it againe but if once he fall to striving the more he strives the faster he is tyed So one word drawes another and the next is still worse then the former and each party more angry then before when men are farre in they resolve to goe on either because they thinke they cannot come off with credâ—t or because they will not come off without it 3 Destroying one another But if yee bite and devoure one another take heed that yee be not consumed one of another Gal 5 15. These evills are the naturall effects of the sinne it selfe but can it be threatend with nothing from without viz. from God or from men Yes it may be threatend 1 With Gods hatred for him that soweth discord among brethren Solomon hath put for one of his seven things which he sayes are an abomination to God Prov 6 16 19. 2 Excommunication or a worse matter I would they were cut off that trouble you Gal 5 12. Spoken of them that caused division among the Galatians by urging circuÌ„cision I would he does but wish it for his authority among the Galatians was not so great as it was among the Corinthians for if he were not an Apostle to others yet doubtlesse he was to them as he sayes 1 Cor. 9 2. but among the Corinthians I believe he meant to see it done indeed when he told them I feare lest when I come I shall not find you such as I would and that I shall be found unto you such as I would not lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whispering swellings tumults behold discord's numerous and viperous brood 1 Cor. 12 20. 3 Ruine of families cities and kingdomes our Saviour used it as an argument against he Pharisees to prove that he did not cast out one divell by an other as they said he did because sayes he Every kingdome divided against it selfe is brought to desolation and every city or house divided against it selfe shall not stand and if Satan cast out Satan he is divided against himselfe how shall then his kingdome stand Mat 12 25 26. Where Discord is sown for the seed the harvest must needs be destruction Pallas whom the Poets fain the goddesse of
shall not be quenched Jer 17. 27. Even entring in Though the things were carried into the ciâ—y for which there might bee more use and necessitie pleaded Yea and though they were carried by strangers whom they ought to have hindered Ezekiel in ch 20. relating to the Jewes the story of their fathers carriage in the wildernesse how they walked not in God's statutes but despised his judgements for which they had severer judgements threatned them then those which were inflicted which were some of them very dreadfull ones mentions no sin but this as you may see vers 13 16 21. Only vers 24 Idolatry is mentioned along with it Nay in the Priests only negligence in seeing it strictly kept and conniving at the breach of it or hiding their eyes from the sabbaths as the expression is Ezek 22. 26. is reckoned for one of the causes of that severe punishment mentioned ver 31. Therefore have I powred out mine indignation upon them I have conâ—umed them with the fire of my wrath In the 23 Chap. of that prophecy where severall punishments are threatned and their causes declared Sabbath breaking is made an aggravation after adultery murder and idolatry for complaint being made of them ver 37. it is added ver 38. MOREOVER this they have done unto me they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths Sacriledge It is threatned with a Curse Will a man rob God Yet yee have robbed mee But yee say wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even this whole nation Mal. 3. 8 9. It hath been punished 1 With Shortnesse of life As in the family of Eli whose sonnes Hophni Phinehas used to take away the flesh which the people brought for offerings to rost it for themselves But what said Eli of this sinne 1 Sam 2. 25. If one man sinne against another the judge shall judge him But if a man sinne against the Lord who shall entreat for him notwithstanding they hearkned not unto the voice of their father because the Lord would slay theÌ„ See the punishment denounced from v. 31 to the end of the Chapter 2 The death of the party Achan who at the taking of Jericho stole some of the gold and silver which was before consecrated for the Lords treasury Josh 6. 19. was by God's speciall sentence condemned to bee burnt ch 7. 15. and accordingly the people stoned him first and burnt him afterwards vers 25. 3 The conquest of the people to which hee belonged Josh 7. 5. Hitherto may you reduce the example of Belshazzar King of Babylon who upon a time in his jollity commanded to be brought forth to drink in the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the Temple at Jerusalem But it is said that before one hour passed the hand came forth and wrote in the wall those words that told him his kingdome was divided and given to the Medes Persians Dan 5. 2 5 28. If I would follow others I might give you for examples Asa and Jehoash Kings of Judah Shishak King of Egypt and Ananias and Sapphira But because I take the sin of the two last to be no proper sacriledge that it was not so much the detaining of the mony that was punished And because I meet with no particular relation of Shishakâ—s punishment as inflicted for this sinne And lastly because of the two first it is not onely not mentioned that they were punished for this sin but said that they were punished for other causes Asa for relying on the King of Syria 2 Cor. 16 7 and Jehoash for the blood of the sonnes of Jehoida the Priest 2 Chron. 24 25 I think it is not best to make this use of them I might also present to you for your use examples out of the Maccabees As I Alcimus a Commander under Demetrius who as he began to pull downe the wall of the inner Court and the works of the Prophets Haggai and Zachary by whose perswasions the walls were built was stricken dumb and died suddenly 1 Mac. 9. 54. 2 Heliodorus who when hee came to the treasury of the temple to take it away saw a strange apparition and was stricken to the ground 2. Mac. 3. 25. and 27. 3 Menelaus one who had committed much sacriledge first last Against him it is said the King of Kings moved the mind of Antiochus who caused him to be put to death after the manner as sacrilegioâ—s persons were wont to be at Berea 2 Mac. 13. 4. But because the faith of these relations is suspected I doe but name them Whether these and other examples that might be brought bee truly related or not of this you may be confident that hee who takes a thing sacrilegiously is most taken himselfe For It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy Prov. 20. 25 Being Scandalized 1 At the waies of God Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent he shall know them for the wayes of the Lord are right and the just shall walke in them But the transgressours shall fall therein Hos 14. 9. 2 At the word of God Peter saies that our Saviour becomes a stone of stumbling to them which stumble at the word 1 Pet. 2. 8. 3 At God himselfe He shall be for a sanctuary but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel Isa 8 14. See the Chapter of Christ Scandalizing dangerous For 1 It makes God punish a sinne which otherwise he had not punished David said unto Nathan I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David The Lord hath also put away thy sinne thou shalt not dye Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is borne to thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12 13 14. 2 It makes him to resolve immutably to punish when perhaps otherwise hee would repent especially if it be in his ministers For thus he speaks of the Priests of Bethel in Jeroboam's time Because they ministred unto them before their Idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity therefore have I lift up my hand against them saith the Lord God and they shall beare their iniquitie Ezek 44 12. In Malachy mention is made how God punished such ministers in his time viz. with the contempt of the people Yee have caused many to stumhle at the law yee have corrupted the covenant of Levi saith the Lord of Hosts Therefore I also have made you contemptible as you have made my ordinances contemptible and base before all the people according as yee have not kept my waies but have been partiall in the law Malach. 2. 8 9. How justly the Ministers of England by their scandalous life and doctrine have suffered doe still suffer this punishment I wish