If God consented at all to renew His covenant with the people, after they had so flagrantly broken it, the terms on which He would renew it were, i…

And when the people heard these evil tidings—from this it more clearly appears that, as I have said, it was like a thunderbolt to them whe…

And when the people heard these evil tidings
That God would withdraw his gracious presence, and go not up with them …

Those whom God pardons, must be made to know what their sin deserved. “Let them go forward as they are”; this was very expre ive of God's displeasu…