commands, as Ahab who had sold himself to work wickedness, had yet a temporal reward for humbling himself publicly, when rebuked by God for his sin, and so honoring God, amid an apostate people. But Jehu, by cleaving, against the Will of God, to Jeroboam’s sin, which served his own political ends, shewed that, in the slaughter of his master, he acted not, as he pretended, out of zeal1 for the Will of God, but served his own will and his own ambition only. By his disobedience to the one command of