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Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1

Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 · 2,318,168 words · 1997 reading sections

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Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 1981

; The ways that lead to the Temple, have as unlovely a Com- plexion as Mourners, being overgrown by reaſon that none goeth up-as uſually to che Feaſts of che Paſſover, of Tabernacles, &c. Ei. cher all the Gates of Jers/alem, gr rhe Temple, or all her Cities ars taken from her, |' x departed p: her princes are beco…

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it prevaileth againſt chem f ; he hath ſpread a ner for my feet g, he hath turned me back : he hath made me deſolare, and faint all the day, w 2 _, F Fy Fire he means aJudgment as conſuming, andas afflictive as E fire in the Bones, which had conſumed the ſtrength of the Jews. £g That: is, God had brought them into…

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@ The Petition is of the ſame nature as before a petition for mer- ,, g cy as the produ&tt of that piry and compaſſion which extream miſery * DR ; begets in good Souls ( and is aſcribed unto God though found in : him in a much more perfe& degree, Pſal. 78. 38. ar.d 86 35. and feek.o.ce: 111.4. ) through the eyes af…

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bath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof f. . d As he hath had no reſpe@ tohis own Houſe, ſo he hath had much leſs reſpe& to the common Habitations of the Jews, e Their military Fortifications have been of no uſe to them, he hath made them to touch the ground, 7. e, ſuffered the Enemies to batter them to …

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prophetsajſo find no viſioh from the LORD 8. 2:5. 6,7. with Rubbiſh. s The Bolts of the Gates are broken. and the Nobles of Judah that were not ſlain were in miſerable Cap. 26 tivity. c The Law was no more read and opened, nor was there *' any more Sacrifices offered according ro the preſcript of ir, nor any ſolem…

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| thou haſt done this x ; * Shall the women ear their fruit * Lev. 26: and children || of a ſpan long y ? ſhall the prieſt and the _ Deur. prophet be f!4in in the Sanctuary of the LORD =z ? Jer. go py * That is, not to Heathen who never owned thee, nor were Chap.4.1o, called by thy Naine, bur to thine own People ca…

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4 My fleſh and my skin hath he made old, he hath broken my bones e, eI was a Yirgine, young and fair, but T am quite altered, and am now asan old Woman whoſe Fleſh is decayed, & my Skin wrin- kled ; all my Beauty is gone, and all my Strength is gone, my "1 Bones, thoſe in whom my ſtrength conſiſted, are flain and …

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s Thar is, he hath made his Judgments to pierce the moſt inward parts of the Nation ; or he hath mortally wounded me. In the Heb. it is the daughters of his quiver, a way of ſpeaking very uſual in He- brew, to expreſs any thing thar comes from another as the effe& either of a natural or moral cauſe, fo Sparks areca…

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under ſad Providences is oppoſed to waiting. The Salvation of the Lord refers to the outward Man, in preſerving or delivering us fromdangers. Or tothe Soul and inward Man, in preſerving us from, anddelivering our Souls out of dangers they fear, or evils they are preſſed with. Now fora Man in the midſt of all evils …

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or will to them, yet hath an hand in. the perm:ſſion of the meſt crue) ard unjuſt ations, which he couideaſily hinder. ] ſhou}d rather incline to interpret them as an Argument brought by the Prophet in the Name of the people of G: d, arguing themſelves in- to a quiet ſubmiſſion to the affliftive Providences under w…

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before it came, Jer, 9. I. and was now much more affe&ed when he ſaw the Judgment was come, he wept plentifully and conſtantly, as forcheir fins which had brought theſe Judgments upon them, ſo for rhe Judgments themſelves, as Indications of Gods Diſplealure and wrath againſt them for their Tranſgreſſions. 5o Till …

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e Theſe three laſt verſes are all but the ſame general Petition, though expreſſed in various Phraſes, the Prophet tad prayed, werſe 59. that God would judge his peoples cauſe, here he praycth that he would alſo judge his Enemies, he only defireth juſtice againſt them, a recompence of the work of their hands. | 65 …

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Z Bring them to a temporal Ruine and Deſtrution. How far ſuch Petitions are lawful we have before ſh:wed; in our Notes on and gradual, whereas Sodom was overthrown in a mqment, and. that by no humane hands that abode upon her, cauſing her x continued Torment, as there did upon the Jews. David faid, It is berter to…

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ut. x - A variety of Interpreters hath made this Text much more dif- A $owehs./ © , ficulr than it 3s. Certainly nothing can appear more reaſonablethan — — .. @.. "ro interpret the Pronoun in the front of the Verſe relatively, and to ferch the antecedent from the former Verſe. They, that is, the Pro- phers and the …

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22 C*|| The puniſhment of thine iniquity is accom- pliſhed, O daughter of Zion &, he will no more [| carry*16.40.2] thee into captivity /: he will viſit thine iniquity, O || Or, :hins daughter of Edom, he will diſcover thy ſins g. 7 gt | k O Judes thy puniſhment is paſt, but the puniſhment of Zdom is , 0's —_— yet…

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13 They took the young men to grind, and the chil- dren fell under the wood x, - | z Their baſe ſervile condition is exprefſ:d by the labour they were put to, which was either grinding in the Mill ( an o:dinary employment of Sl-ves in thoſe Countries ) or carrying Mill-ſtones; and the younger Children, 1n c2rrying…

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SECTION 1997

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 1997

If 22e Whether he did well in the Charge he gave Solomon con- rerning Shimei; 1 Kings 2.3. 4. | lb ' Dreams may be. either Praiſe-worthy or Blame-worthy ; = TRIES 3-5, 6 OO | "— How they differ from Viſions; Job 3.13. $$ \ Duty,the grace of God does not free us from it ; Deur. 30.10, 3. ' Fat, why forbidden to b…

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