Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.

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We find the reason why God brought va∣riety of judgements upon the Jews, till he had removed them out of his sight, and destroyed their City by Nebuchadnezzar, to be the sins of Manasseh, and the innocent bloud which he shed, which the Lord would not pardon 2 Kings 24.3, 4. yet we read those sins were pardoned to Manesseh, upon his faith and re∣pentance; and the present judgement under which he suffered, removed; yea Manasseh departed this life long before the destruction of Jerusalem, so that the calamities then suffe∣red, little pertained unto him, whom the grave had secured against such after-claps; but though Manasseh were dead, and his iniqui∣ties forgiven to him, yet his posterity did ap∣prove his doings: That reformation begun by himself, and carried on to much perfection

by his son Josiah, was quickly interrupted by the wicked posterity that followed, they by their assent subscribed to the long Bed-roll of those sins which the Father had disclaimed, and added a new score of their own iniqui∣ties; therefore it was just with God to reckon to them, and make them pay that account which they themselves had approved; and this is the way whereby a wicked generation may entail themselves heirs to the iniquities, and consequently to the plagues of all prece∣dent ages; thus all the bloud from that of righteous Abel, to that of Zacharias the son of Barachias, is reckoned to the unbeleeving Jews, and therefore wrath brought upon them to the uttermost: Wherefore no wonder if we see estates gotten by bribery, or oppres∣sion, melting away like the untimely fruit of a woman, while the succeeding heirs instead of making due restitution, justifie the rapines of their progenitors, and spend that by riot and prodigality which they got by extortion and cruelty.