Praying amisse, punished.
1 With Not-obtaining the request. Ye aske and have not; because yee aske amisse, that yee may consume it upon your lusts, James: 4. 3. which is a notable argument of the great∣nesse
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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- 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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- Oxford :: Printed by H. Hall for R. Davis,
- 1653.
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- Punishment.
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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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28553.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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of Gods love, and that which wee have experience of, oftner then we take notice. It is more love to deny us a Scorpion, when we aske for a Scorpion; then not to give us a Scorpion, when wee aske for a fish. as it is a greater signe of love to doe good, when there is greater excuse for doing hurt; then where there is lesse.
2 Obtaining with Anger. God tells Is∣rael, I gave thee a King in mine anger; and tooke him away in my wrath, Hos: 13. 11.
3 Obtaining with a vengeance, (as we say.) He gave them their request; but sent leannesse into their soule, Psalm. 106. 15. the Septuagint translate for, leannesse, fulnesse, (or saciety, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉). Whether they by fulnes, meant fulnesse to loathing (spoken of Num: 11. 20.) and so made it a cause of leannesse. And so whether we, by leannes, be to be understood of an atrophy, usually occasioned by too full feeding. Againe, whether they read the He∣brew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 insteed of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: or whether they read 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (the same word that is in Num∣bers:) and whether this place, and that in Numbers (in ch: 11. 20) be to be understood of a different punishment, at a different time; I cannot determine. But only thus much I can determine from these words, viz: that the Israelites lusting sinfully after flesh, when they should have been contented with what
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God had else provided for them, had their desire in that indeed, but were met with an∣other way. And perhaps all that the Prophet meant by calling it leannes, was onely to al∣lude to their fulnesse with flesh, which they so eagerly desired, and obtained: and to shew, that for a litle good, they had a great deale of bad, (of what kinde soever the pu∣nishment were.)
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The Sep. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and they had him in my wrath. as if this punish∣ment were repeated, that wee might take the more notice of it.