A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...

Reproaching Threatned,* 1.1

1 With certaine punishment: because God takes speciall notice of it. Thou hast heard their reproach O Lord, and all their imaginati∣ons against me, Lam: 3. 61. Ps. 69. 19. Whoso∣ever shall say to his brother Raka, shall be in* 1.2 danger of the councell, but whosoever shall say thou foole, shall be in danger of hell fire, Mat. 5. 22.

2 With sad and heavy judgments, denoun∣ced in very angry expressions. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon; whereby they have reproa∣ched my people, and magnified themselves a∣gainst their border. Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, surely Mo∣ab shall be as Sodom, & the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation. The resi∣due of my people shall spoile thē, & the remnant of my people shall possesse them, Zeph: 2. 8, 9. See Eze: 21. 28. concerning the same people.

3 Exclusion out of heaven. Nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdome of God, 1. Cor: 6. 10. Certainly a reviler is as much out of charity in his heart, as a man can be. and God lookes not so much to un∣charitablenesse, what it is either in our

speech or our actions (for that is according to our power) as what it is in our hearts.

There is an example or two of reproachers severely punished. 1 Nahash the Ammonite, when he besieged Jabash Gilead; would not yeeld to the desire of the inhabitants, to en∣ter into covenant with them, although they profered to serve him; but with this conditi∣on, viz: that he might thrust out all their right eyes* 1.3, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel, 1 Sam: 11. 2. But the inhabitants sent imme∣diatly to Saul: who came with his army upon the Ammonites in the morning watch, & slew them untill the heat of the day. And it camea 1.4 to passe, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left toge∣ther, vers. 11. 2 Nabal the Carmelite, when David sent his servants to him for victualls for his men, gave them this reproachfull an∣swer. Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There be many servants now adaies, that break away every man from his masterb 1.5. 1 Sam: 25. 10. Now which sin it was, that was punished: whether his not giving David provision; or his giving this reproachfull answer; I knowe

not. But it is said in the same Chapter, v 38. And it came to passe about ten daies after, that the Lord smote Nabal that he died. Had not his wife Abigail pacified David with a pre∣sent, he had been kil'd by him before, ver. 33. but the punishment was more notorious this way, viz: by the hand of God.

Notes

• * 1.1

  * See Mocking.
• * 1.2

  Vaine fellow. such as those 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Jud. 11. 3.
• * 1.3

  Josephus says, he did thus to all the Israe∣lites, that he could take. that so be∣ing not well able to use their shield (which they held in their left hand) unlesse they hindered their sight; they might be made unfit for warre.
• a 1.4

  Aristotle in his Politicks l. 5. c. 10. among other occasions of the ruine of States, brings this for one, and instances in the conspiracy of Decamnichus against Arche∣laus for giving him to Euripides to be whipt, whom he had formerly jeer'd for his stinking breath.
• b 1.5

  As they usually doe in a Ci∣vill warre.