Delight in sinne See Sinne. Desertion Despising Discord Threats of Discord among all sorts Discord among the wicked as a punishment and for the good of the godly Threats to Discord or to those that cause and maintaine it Discouraging of men in holy exercises Distrust Divination Not Doing what we heare Doubting in prayer Drunkennesse Duties of Religion Such as performe them with resolution to retaine their sinnes E Enemies of God's children Envy Escape of Malefactours suffered Evill Calling it good Rendring it for good Extortion F False Prophets Threats to false Prophets Threats of false Prophets Threats or Prophecies of being seduced by false Prophets or false teachers Feare threatened and inflicted upon the wicked Feare of men and fearefullnesse out of distrust of God's goodnesse Flatterers with God with themselves with other men Forgiving one another Frowardnesse G Giving to the rich Glory given or taken to a man's selfe Gluttony God speaking ungodly for him Gospell opposed Governours Such as reject them Such as doe contrary to their sentence Such as did not serve them although heathen Such as perswade men to revolt from them Such as doe not endevour to preserve their lives Threatning punishing with unfit Governours With wicked Governours Threatening and punishing of wicked Governours Grace refused H Hardning of the Heart Hardnesse of heart Hastinesse See Rashnesse Hatred Hearing the word See Word Not helping the godly Helping the wicked Heresy See False teachers Hinderers of the good workes of others Hinderers of the conversion of others Hire detain'd Holynesse Not being humbled under judge ments I Idlenesse Idolatry Ignorance or Blindnesse threatened and inflicted Ignorance threatned punished Impatience and murmuring Impenitence Impudence threatened and punished Incorrigiblenesse under punishments I Incest Injurious dealing Injustice Insensiblenesse under punishments Instruments of punishing punished Intemperance Iudging of others Iudgement day putting it farre away K. Kings and governers threatned and punished L Law-Righteousnesse Leaving of men by God Libertinisme Love of life more then Christ Lovers of the World Lukewarmnesse Lying M Marriage with Idolatars Meanes of grace continued in Anger Means of grace not profited by Men pleasers Mercies Not bettered by See Unthankfulnesse Security and Prosperity Ministers their Duty Such as are scandalous such as teach false doctrin Such as are covetous daubers and menpleasers Such as are idle and neglect their duty Such as ordaine them Ministers their due Persecuters of them Such as Mock them Such as Despise or slight them Such as Believe them not Such as will not suffer them to reap their carnall things Such as doe not stand by them in persecution Ministery Such as intrude upon the worke thereof Bad Ministers threatned for a punishment Mirth i. e. worldly mirth Mockers of the godly Mockers at those that denounce Gods judgements Mockers at those that suffer them O Oaths not kept or taken falsely Old men their Duty Their Due Opportunities of grace neglected Oppressours of the poore of the fatherlesse widowes strangers and servants P Parents their Duty Their Due Such as curse them Such as mock them Such as slight them Such as are disobedient to them and incorrigible Such as doe not honour them Peace-breaking See Discord Persecution threatned and punished Pity not shewed Pledges kept Polititians see also VVisedome Prayer not heard Praying amisse Not-praying Preaching of the word threatned to be removed Such as hinder it Preparation neglected Presumptuous sinnes See in Sin Presumption of perseverance Pride see Proud men Professours in hypocrisie see also Hypocrites and Religion onely in shew Prosperity abused see also Vnthankfull sinning Punishments Such as are 〈◊〉 bettered by them see also Incorrigiblenesse R Rashnesse Reconciliation Regeneration Rejoycing at other mens miseries Relapsing see also Apostacy Religion and Religious Actions used for a cloak Religion only in shew Repenting late Reported well of by all Reproaching Reproof not given Not taken Revenging Riches wrongfully gotten Trusted in Loved too much Rich and wicked S. Sabbath breaking Sacriledge Scandalizing and Being Scandalized Scorning Scriptures not knowne VVrested Scrupling at Gnats and swallowing Camels Security as to Enemies as to Evill Seducers and Seduced Selfe conceited men Selfe-destruction â—elfe-Feare â—elling deceitfullly â—in in generall as sin threatned â—inning deliberatly and with delight With a high hand Against knowledge Enticing or causing others to sinne Gods leaving of men to sin Slanderers or False aecusers T Talebearers Talkativenesse Temple of God Tempting of God Thieves Thoughts of wickednesse Treacherous dealings Trusting in the arme of flesh Not-trusting in and distrusting of God V Unbeliefe as to promises As to the Gospell Uncharitablehesse to men in want Unfruitfulnesse Unthankfull sinning Voluptuousnesse W Warre VVatchfull VVeary in well doing VVhoremongers VVickednesse in Generall more notable texts against it VVill worship VVisedome neglected VVisedome i.e. carnall wisedome punished see also in Polititians VVord of God not obeyed Not believed Not heard VVords idly spoken Works of our own neglected VVorks of God not regarded VVorld loved VVorship of God neglected FINIS SEVERALL THREATS AND PUNISMENTS for severall Sinnes Adultery WHen the Punishments and Threats for this sinne are mentioned the Scriptures speake either in generall and then the punishment is aggravated first with certainty Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent Prov. 6. 29. or rather unpunished according to the use of the Hebrew word Jer. 25. 29. and elsewhere for he is not innocent already secondly with severity for God telling the Jewes how severely he would deale with them sayes I will judge thee as women that breake wedlocke and shed blood are judged Ezek. 38. 16. Or else speaks in particular and then the punishments mentioned are first death both of the adulterer and of the adulteresse by the law of God This Law was expressed in generall termes against married women If a man be found lying by a woman married to an husband then they shall both of them die Deu. 22. 22. the Rabbines indeed say it is to be interpreted of strangling and so they say of every other law for putting the offender to death where no mention is made by what kind of death that it is to be meant of strangling which was the easiest kind of death in use among them because say they where the law for punishments doth not determine we ought to give the most favourable exposition which however is not so if the verse of Ezekiel but now quoted be to be interpreted by the next save one for then it might be as well stoning and running through with swords oâ— javelins which manner of punishment iâ— there expressed viz. vers 40. and with the latter whereof Zimri and Cozhi werâ— punished by Phineas Num. 25. 6. But againsâ— women who were but betrothd it was specified by stoning If a Damosell that is virgin be betrothed unto an husband and a man find her in the city and lie with her Then yee shall bring them both out unto the gate of the city and yee shall stone them with
obey Our Saviour told the Pharisees If ye were blind ye should have no sinne you were in such a condition as that if you sinned perhaps through Godâ—s mercy you might have had noe sinne but it might have been taken away but now ye say we see therefore your sinne remaineth John 9. 41. Now certainely it remaineth and will remaine still at your doore and will not be taken away Seeing Jesusâ— Christ lived amonst them and did such miracles before their eyes if yet they would deny him to be the Christ I doe not see how they could be excused such willfull lying for Jesus his being the Christ is so plain a truth that I may say Who is a Lyar if he be not that denieth that Jesus is the Christ John 2. 22. For such a translation the Greeke will beare as well as BUT he especially if we render A Lyar and not The Lyar. 4 Temporall Destruction by enemies As it did in the Jewes perhaps the Scribes and Pharisees such as I mentioned but now I will get me unto the great men and will speak unto them for they have knowne the way of the Lord and the Judgment of their God But these have altogether broken the yoake and burst the bonds wherefore a Lyon out of the forrest shall slay them c. Jer 5. 5. 6. See v. 4. 5 Damnation Especially if it be against the knowledge of the truth that is the true religion by Apostacy the men are also adversaries to the truth For if we sinne wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth noe more sacrifice for sinne but a certaine looking for of Judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the Adversaries Heb 10. 26 27. 6 Greater damnation then others That Servant who knew his Lord's will and prepared not himselfe neither did according to his will shall be beaten with many stripes Luk 12. 47. Those six men which Ezekiel saw in his vision who had a commission from God to goe thorow Jerusalem and to kill both old and young had this order from him viz to begin at the Sanctuary Ezek. 9. 6. Where it is also said that they began at the ancient men which were before the house See James 4. 17. Enticing or causing others to sinne Doubtlesse it shall be severely punished Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink that putteth thy bottle to him the Prophet changes the person for anger and makest him drunken also that thou maist look on his nakednesse Hab. 2 15 That putteth thy bottle to him or offerest the cup to him to tempt him How often is this sinne committed by us I meane our importunit with our freinds to eate and drink which we take no notice of as a sinne but practise it our selves and expect it from others as an act of civility and complement Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for ye compasse sea and land to make one Proselyte and when he is made you make him twofold more the child of hell then your selves Matt. 23. 15. The Lord in the prophecy of Amos being about to threaten the Israelites with most severe punishments and beginning to reckon up the mercies which he shewed them seemes to have had an intent after that of complaining of more sinnes then one as may be gathered by the expression afterward used of a cart load of sheaves But yet as soone as ever he had mentioned this ye gave the Nazarites wine to drinke and commanded the Prophets saying prophecy not as if the weight of it had forced him to speake he goes no further but presently breakes out Behold I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift c. Am 2. 12 13 14. Such as are guilty of this Sin their condition is wofull their persons are cursed They are exceedingly detested by God as those are by men who endevour to set others against them Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way Deut 27. 18. They shall be called the least methinkes there is much detestation anger in this expression in the Kingdome of Heaven though it be but in the breach of the least Commandement Mat. 5. 19. Leaving of men in Sinne Threatened 1 For Not-seeking to God in difficulties And therefore Elisha said to Jehoram King of Israel What have I to do with thee Get thee to the Prophets of thy father and to the Prophets of thy mother 2 Kings 3. 13. But especially 2 For leaving God to serve Idols For for this are they left to serve idols longer 10 Judges 13. 14. Yet yee have forsaken me and served other Gods wherefore I will deliver you no more Goe and cry unto the Gods which yee have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation And so Hosea 8. 11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin altars shall be unto him to sin See Amos 4. 4. Jer 16 13. 2 After serving one or some Idols to serving of others As the Israelites for making worshipping the golden calfe were left to worship the hoast of heaven Act. 7. 42. God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven Nay 3 They are left and giuen up to other sinnes Rom 1. 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleannesse The Apostle hed mentioned the committing of Idolatry v. â— 3. and so he doth again in verse 25. and brings in this as by a parenthesis As if he were in hast to shew how this leaving them to those sinnes was the certaine effect of their Idolatry and as if that cause and this effect were inseparable See such another Parenthesis Ezek. 16. 23. Amaziah King of Judah for bringing home and worshipping the Gods of the Edomites after he had conquered them was left to pride uncharitablenesse and obstinacy so that he would not be diswaded by Joash King of Israel from the challenge which he made to fight with him But Amaziah would not heare it for it came of God that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies because they sought after the Gods of Edom. c. 2 Chr. 25. 20. So it is said of Zedekiah King of Judah for Idolatry especially among other sinnes Through the anger of the Lord it came to passe in Jerusalem and Judah untill hee had cast them out from his presence that Zedekiah rebelled against the King of Babylon 2 Kings 24. 20. 3 For despising his word Because they had not executed my judgements but had despised my statutes and had polluted my Sabbath and their eyes were after their idols Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good and judgements whereby they should not live Ezek. 20. 24 25. Hierom and Maldonate expound it in my sense And so doth the Chaldee Paraphrast But they expound Statutes of the Idolatrous lawes and rites of the Assyrians among whom the Jewes lived captive
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe thy first works or else I will come unto thee quickly will remove thy candlestick out of his place except thou repent Rev. 2. 5. 4 God forsaking of them which is but retaliation for their forsaking of him God said to Moses concerning the Israelites When thou art dead this people will forsake me break the covenant which I have made with them Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured c. Deut. 31. 16 17. The spirit of God in Azariah thus spake to King Asa The Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him hee will be found of you but if you forsake him he will forsake you 2. Chron. 15. 2. See chap. 12. 5. 5 Conquest and Captivitie In the book of Judges in most places where there is mention made of any Conquest had over the Israelites you shall find this mentioned for a reason viz. that the people forsooke or forgat the Lord their God See chap. 3. 7. and chap. 10. 6 7. 9 10. 11. c. When Rehoboam had establishd the kingdome and had strengthned himselfe he forsook the Law of the Lord and all Israel with him it came to passe that in the fift yeare of Rehoboam Shishak King of Egypt came up against Jerusalem because they had transgressed against the Lord. 2. Chr. 12. 1. 2. See vers 5. So the spirit of God in Zachariah told King Ioash and his Princes Because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath also forsaken you 2. Chron. 24. 20. and according to his word the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men the Lord delivered a very great host into their hand because they had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers So they executed judgement against Israel vers 24. 6 Destruction Thou hast forsaken mee saith the Lord thou art gone backward therfore will I stretch out my hand against thee and destroy thee I am weary with repenting Jeremiah 15. 6. T is spoken to the Jews so chap. 16. 11. the Prophet is bid to answer the people if they asked him the reason of Gods judgements upon them thus Because your Fathers have forsaken me saith the Lord and have walked after other Gods and have served them and have worshipped them and have forsaken me and have not kept my law Forsaken me is repeated as if it went very neere Gods heart to be forsaken by a people whom he had chosen or as if going to other Gods did not anger him so much as going from him or forsaking him Under the old Testament when God made the Law that if any one enticed another to worship Idols he should be stoned to death hee added this for a reason of the punishment or at least for an aggravation of the sin viz because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage Deut. 13. 10. See the words of Hezekiah 2. Chron. 29. 6 7 8. Psal 13. 27. Particular persons as Kings and others have been punished or threatned 1 With being murdered And he forsook the Lord God of his Fathers and walked not in the way of the Lord. And the servants of Amon conspired against him and slew the King in his own house 2. King 21 22 23. Speaking of Amon King of Israel After the time that Amaziah did turne away from following the Lord they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but tbey sent to Lachisb after him and slew him there 2 Chron 25 27. 2 Being left to ruine themselves in their owne wayes The backe slider in heart shall be filled with his owne wayes Proverbs 14 14. 3 Impenitency and incurablenes It is impossible for those who were once enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and and were made pertakers of the holy ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come who have gon so farre and received so many good things If they shall fall to renew thē unto repentance Hebr 6 4 5 6. If they shall fall c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not fall forward viz remaining still in the right way but fall aside into another way fall off or fall away viz by a totall defection and revolting from the Faith for otherwise if it should be ment of only sinning againe as the Syriack translation renders unlesse it mean that great sin whereof we speake called in Hebrew Maal a Sin and usually renderd by the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Apostacy it were a very hard saying and who could heare it 4 Rejection if thou continue in his goodnesse otherwise thou shalt bee cut of Rom. 11 22. 5 Noe pardon if they sin wilfully and against knowledge For if wee sin wilfully after wee have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin Heb 10. 26. and so verse 38 If any man draw back my Soule shall have no pleasure in him David in his charge to his Sonne Solomon told him If thou seek him hee will be found of thee But if thou forsake him hee will cast thee of for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. 6 Distruction temporall and eternall Consider this yee that forget God least I tea◠you in peices and there be none to deliver Ps 50 22. Wee are not of them that draw back to perdition Heb 10. 39. Those wandring starres to whom is reserved the blacknesse◠of darknesse for ever Jude 13. are by the glosse interpreted Apostates and it 〈◊〉 thought to be meant of the Corpocratian◠who denie the Divinity of Christ No◠only if a man doe returne back but if h◠doe but looke back it may bee as much a◠his life is worth as it was with Lots wife Remember Lot's wife Luke 17. 32. Noe man having put his hand to the Plow and looking back if fit for the Kingdome of God Luke the 9. 62. How grevious a thing Apostatizing or back sliding is in the sight of God may be gathered by his angry expressions concerning it especially such as we find in the Prophets directed to the Jewes calling them grievous revolters Jerem 6 28 Trecherous Judah four times in one chapter viz chap 3. v. 7. 8. 10. 11. verse 20. He compares them to a wife that leaves her husband And therefore his anger against this sin being exceeding great is usually called by the name of Jealousy which is the greatest anger that can be and the hardest to be appeased as you may see in an hundred places Deut. 32. 16. c. The very heathen their constancy to their Idols will rise up in judgement against them that forsake God Hath a Nation changed their Gods which
opposition only to the evill of Sinne yet according to the use of the Hebrew word Tob it may be meant in opposition to both evills as if we said after our usuall phrase The soule without knowledge cannot doe well which will expresse both The Evills Punishmēts of ignorance more particularly expressed in the Scriptures are 1 Errour in opinion for hence proceeded the opinion of the Sadduces that there was no resurrection as our Saviour told them Ye erre not knowing the Scriptures and the power of God Mat 22. 29 see c. 12. 7. Osea 4. 1. 2. The power of God viz either to raise the bodies againe or to preserve the soules without them even as the heathen most of their errours both in judgment and practise proceeded frō their Ignorance of the nature of God if I may so speak Hinc primae scelerū causae mortalibus aegris naturam nesciredeum 2 Rejection Spirituall for not knowing God not being known of him 1 Cor 14. 38 If that which we render let him be ignorant be to be rendred shall not be known according to the vulgar and Erasmus and according to the use of the expression of God's knowing or acknowledging us Luk. 13. 27. and our being knowne of God 1 Cor. 8 3. But at lest of temporall rejection you have a threat without question in Hosea ch 4. 6. Because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgoten the Law of thy God I also will forget thy children I might in the next place threaten them with more ignorance and produce my warrant those words of Paul in the place above quoted as we have rendered them If any man be ignorant for so I have seen them applyed as if the Ignorant were in those words threatned with the continuance of their Ignorance neither is it unusuall with God to punish sinne in this manner But I forbeare because with Beza I rather conceive it to be spoken either by way of slighting or else to exhort the ignorant person to acknowledge his ignorance and not to trouble the Church by speaking or teaching 3 Being Strangers to the life of God which they would count a very great unhapinesse did they know what a life that is Having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them Ephes 4. 18. 4 Being given up to sinne And even as they did not like to retaine God in their knowledge God gave them up to a reprobate mind to doe those things which were not convenient Rom 1. 25. 5 Captivity and misery Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have noe knowledge * and their honourable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst c. Isa 5. 13. 6 No mercy It is a people of no understanding therefore he that made them whom therefore for shame they should not have been ignorant of will not have mercy on them and he that formed them in whose favour alone his life will shew them no favour Isa 27. 11. 7 Destruction My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge Hos 4. 6. Though he had mentioned many other sinnes before v. 1. 2 and this along with them yet in regard this was the worst or because it was the fountaine of all the rest he sayes they are destroyed for lack of knowledge It was told the King of Assyria when he had sent Idolaters to inhabit the Land of Israel instead of the Israelites The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the Cities of Samaria know not the manner of the God of the Land therefore he hath sent Lions among them and behold they slay them because they know not the manner of the God of the Land 2 Kings 17. 26. 8 Damnation When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God c. 2 Thes 1. 7 8. See severall punishments of him that knoweth not God related by Bildad Job 18. 5 to the 21. The danger of Ignorance may be gathered from many other places of Scriptures Our Saviour sayes He that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes Luk 12. 48. and therefore he shall becertainly beaten As Paul obtained mercy because he did it ignorantly 1 Tim 1. 13 So he had not escaped the punishment but because he obtained mercy If our Saviour pray for his persecutors Father forgive them for they know not what they doe Luk 23. 34 then surely woe be to them who persecute him though they know not what they doe unlesse God pardon them And it is not improbable that in those words For they know not what they doe he meant not so much to extenuate their sinne as in a pitying manner to aggravate their sad and desperate condition in sinning so as they did through ignorance as if he had said They doe they know not what It was sayd under the Law If a Soule sinne c. though he wist it not yet he is guilty and shall beare his iniquity as well as others Lev. 5. 17 and without an offering it could not be forgiven him v. 18. See what God sayd to Abimelech Gen 20. 6. It may be aswell because they expected to be chid for their ignorance as for any other reason that the Disciples of Christ were so afraid to aske him the meaning of that which they understood not when he told them of his passion and resurrection Mark 9. 32. Luk 9. 45. Job speaking of the misery of mortall men concludes with this as the complement They die 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that with out wisedome or in Ignorance c. 4. 21 even like the beasts Ecclesiast 3. 19. Ignorant men the best sort of them are compared to blind men and to them that walke in the night or in darkenesse and therefore they cannot but be in danger of stumbling and falling But there is a worse sort viz. those that love darknesse rather then light Joh. 3. 9 and their condition is worse and there is a worse then this againe those who should be lights of the world and leaders of the blind the condition of these men is worst of all for other blind men will but fall into the ditch themselves but these will fall and pull others upon them Mat 15. 14. I speake of Ignorant Pastors and Teachers For if thou givest him not warnning nor speakest to warne the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require way at thine hand Ezek 3. 18. Impatience and Murmuring In the Old Testament you shall finde it Threatned 1 With The grant of what is desired in anger which is a very sad punishment Thus the Israelites were punished for murmuring for want of flesh Therefore the Lord will give you flesh and yee