Of an imperious Whore, noting insolency and an high pitch of contempt.Īnd of these, briefly and plainly not to encrease your knowledge, but to enliven and enflame the practical part of your souls not to enrich your brains with new store, but to sink that which you have already down into your hearts. Of a Whore, noting unfaithfulness and falseness to the Husband. Of a Woman noting a great deal of weakness and that not simple natural weakness, through a privation of all B strength, but an acquired, sluggish weakness, by effeminate neglecting to make use of it. That what is literally spoken in aggravation of the Jews sin, is as fully applicable to any other sinful people, with whom God hath entred Covenant, as he did with the Jews.Īnd then the subject of my present discourse, shall be this, That Indulgence to sin, in a Christian, is the Work of an imperious Whorish Woman. That the elect chosen people of God, the Jews, were degenerate A into heathen, desperate, devillish sinners. The calling of them in this condition, in their pollutions, in their blood, and bestowing all manner of spiritual ornaments upon them, following in the next ten Verses the remainder is most what spent in the upbraiding and aggravating their sins to them in a most elevated strain of reproof and E the or highest pitch of it, is in the words of my Text, The work of an imperious Whorish Woman.įor the handling of which words, I first beg two postulata to be granted and supposed, before my discourse, because I would not trouble you to hear them proved. That the natural sinful estate of the Jews, being premised in the five first Verses: 2. For our present purpose it will suffice to have observ'd, 1. 'Twere a work for the solidst Artist to observe distinctly every part of Logick and Rhetorick that lies concealed in this one Chapter, and yet there E is enough in the surface and outward dress of it, to affect the meanest understanding that will but read it. From the first time I could think I understood any part of it I have been confident, that never any thing was set down more rhetorically, never more and, more affection and sublimity of speech, ever concurred in any one writing of this quantity, either sacred or prophane. The elect of God, and the powerfullest exprobration D of their sins, that all the Writings under Heaven can present to our eyes. NOt to chill your ears by keeping you long at the doors not to detain you one minute with a cold unprofitable Preface: This Chapter is the exactest History of the Spiritual estate of the Jews, i. ‘The Work of an imperious Whorish Woman.’ For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections. And the times of this ignorance God winked at, &c. It shall be more tolerable for the Land of Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. Have any of the Pharisees believed on him? p. God I thank thee, that I am not as other men, &c. Though they say, The Lord liveth, surely they swear falsly. Yo know not what manner of spirit ye are of. Emmanuel, which is by Interpretation, God with us, p. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? p. I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.
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