Any one think "externally" is right and it should not be "eternally." I'm not 100 percent sure it is wrong but close and want to be sure. So far no votes for externally from my co worker on this project. Done with my last reading of David Dickson's sermons on Lamentations and this was at the end.
Use. Mourne before God as you like. His decree about a temporal stroke will go on, as this people needed not to think that God would restore them to their former state in that age, because He had a special anger at them. As before He said, “pray not thou for this people,” for though Noah, Job and Daniel would stand before me, they shall not save a soul but their own. But these to the sword that are for the sword, and these to the captivity that are for the captivity. For He resolved not to take home the body of this people to Jerusalem again. Albeit some few of them returned, yet the great [number] of this people were cut off. Possibly the great body of this people was externally rejected, albeit not one of the elect was rejected. Then it is clear albeit God’s people would request Him for the {taking away} of temporal judgments which they have drawn on by heavy provocations, He will not |485| grant that request, but will let them lie under that trouble all their days. For albeit they get the kingdom of heaven at the hinder end, yet they may get hell between and there.
Use. Mourne before God as you like. His decree about a temporal stroke will go on, as this people needed not to think that God would restore them to their former state in that age, because He had a special anger at them. As before He said, “pray not thou for this people,” for though Noah, Job and Daniel would stand before me, they shall not save a soul but their own. But these to the sword that are for the sword, and these to the captivity that are for the captivity. For He resolved not to take home the body of this people to Jerusalem again. Albeit some few of them returned, yet the great [number] of this people were cut off. Possibly the great body of this people was externally rejected, albeit not one of the elect was rejected. Then it is clear albeit God’s people would request Him for the {taking away} of temporal judgments which they have drawn on by heavy provocations, He will not |485| grant that request, but will let them lie under that trouble all their days. For albeit they get the kingdom of heaven at the hinder end, yet they may get hell between and there.