Quest. 20. vers. 14.
Cain sayes, From thy face I shall be hid, and yet the Psalmist saith, Psal. 139.7.
Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. Delivered by way of exposition in several lords-dayes exercises.: By Benjamin Needler, minister of the gospel at Margaret Moses Friday-Street, London.
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Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or whi∣ther shall I flee from thy presence?
God is present every where in regard of [Resp] his essence, and therefore the Psalmist saith, Whither shall I flee from thy presence? We may run from God as our friend, but we cannot escape him, as an enemy: A man pursued in an Island, when he runnes from one end to the other, runs from sea to sea: if you should flee from one end of the earth unto the other, you would run from God unto God,
The meaning then of this phrase, I shall be hid from thy face, is this, I shall be deprived of communion with God in his Ordinances.
Though Cain was a wicked man, yet he was taught by his parents, that there was no way of enjoying God in this world, but in and by his Ordinances; And he speakes this, not from a principle of love to God, or his Ordinances, but upon the ac∣count of education.
Learne from hence, The condition of a person excommunicated, is very sad; Christ tells us, we cannot serve God, and Mammon; and therefore when we are cast outof Gods service, we are said to be deliver∣ed into the hands of Satan: Hymeneus, and
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Alexander, excommunicated persons, are * 1.1 said to be delivered up unto Satan.
Learne also, If the casting out of the Church a particular member, though it be in order to cure and repentance, be so dread∣full, what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ!
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* 1.1
1 Tim. 1. 20.