Israel's Lamentation After the Lord - 1682

This lamenting after the Lord and his ark hath been the practice, and is the true character of God's children. Eli's heart trembled for the ark of God. Phinehas's wife thought it not worth while to live when the ark M-as gone, 1 Sam. iv. 13, 21. The language of the prophet Isaiah is, " I will wait on the Lord that hideth his face, from the house of Jacob, and will look for him," Isa. viii. 17- This was when it was said, " bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples," V. 16. If you would seek and find God, seek not to familiar spirits, " but to the law, and to the testimony, 5:19, 20.