And this is the wisdom of God concerning her, that she should not be
the first that should die, but that she should live to see the
destruction of her daughters, and pine away under the fright and
sense of that, even until judgment also shall overtake herself.
Thus Pharaoh and his chief ones did live to see the greatest part of
Egypt destroyed, before judgment overtook them; but at last it came
to their doors also. Zedekiah lived to see his children slain before
his face, before judgment overtook him to his own personal
destruction.
Babylon also, when God sent the cup of his fury unto her, yet was to
live to see the nations drink before her.
From all which I conclude that the mother, the metropolitan, the
lady of kingdoms, shall live to see her daughters executed before
her face; after which, she shall come into consideration herself,
for she must assuredly drink of the cup.
This destruction must be last for this reason also, because she most
deserves the bottom of the cup. The bottom is the dregs, the most
bitter part, and that where the most heat and fiercest wrath of God
do lie. And great Babylon came into remembrance before God: "To give
unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath."
Now then is the time of iniquity, when it will be come to the full;
and now also is the time of God's anger, when it will be come to the
full.
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