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Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2
Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 · 2,402,827 words · 2087 reading sections
Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1
| WHEREIN THE - SACRED TEXT _ b- -- Is FnsenrrT Eo, 3 | | AND | "T VARIOUS READINGS ANNE X' D, - "Eoponer with.the Parallel Scriptures. The more Difficult Tex ms in each VERSE are Explained. | Seeming ConTraDicTiONs Reconciled. QUESTIONS and DOU B T'S Reſolyed. And the Wrote Tx x Tr Opened. F OL I hs {Bei…
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was the continual AttraCtive of his Thoughts, as the needle touch dby the Loadſtone always points to its be- /oved Star. And what a ſmall Portion of the Divine Word did he enjoy, to what is richly communicated to us? Ve have the bleſſed Goſpel brought down from Heaven by the Son of God, wherein hu Eternal Counlels a…
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Tdolaters , God's Probibition of bis People to marry with them, Gen. 24 3, e- Magiſtrates obliged 10 puniſh them, Job 31. 28: e. Tephthah, whether he ſacrificed his Daughter, Judg.1x. 9. Image of God in Man, wherein it confifts, Gen. 1. 26. 4. Infidels , their Cavils anſwer d, Gen. 3.1. & 6.15. & 36. 31. rt. Numb…
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Joſh. 21. 18. OF an ordinary Teacher he was made a Propher, | hath been formerly noted. /7iz. Not with taving Grace tho (that not ſo of the reſt. c, i. e. That part of Canaan that fell to Benja- need not to be excluded) bur accordingly prepared and ordein- min's Share. . ed thee for this publick Service, and thus it …
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from 2 1c:il2 of his own Infuthciency, 4.4 thee cloguent 2nd couragions, Cc This retares etc Things. To al, 4. c.to ail Perions to whom I thall fend ſh2jt balk none. Sc2 . Or p37 Fre | Tal toOU fait (203 lag.cs ei1ac ] See 1{1. 55. not afraid of their faces e: fo eliver thee g, ſaith the LOR 2 Looks, Ez-k. 3.9.…
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face of the pot for the Pot it ſelf ; as the face of the cold, - the face of his anger for Cold and Anger it ſelf, 9.4. I ſce a Por coming, meaning the B1vylozian Army flowing in upon them, like boiling or fcalding Water, as ſome interpret it: But this feeins not to be fo congruous tothe Viſion ; bur rather thus, T…
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Heb. For 1, 1o, 9. d. for my part, I will not fail to do what I have promiſed, to ſtand by rhee. x Heb. City of defence; im- pregnable, which the rwo following Exprefſions do 1mporr. It thould be ſupported with y Pillars, not of Wood, bur of Iron, z And encompalled with Walls, not of Stone but of Brais, noting her…
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3 God having, as it were, on his own behalf, ſhewn how kind he had been, calls upon them to fpcak now, if they knew any thing of Injury, either in breach of Covenanr, or SCVELITY, that they can charge him with, tharthey have thus apoltatized. See on {/z. r. 18. and 5. 3. Compare Mc. 6. 2, 3, 4 By this nan- ner of …
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« A Synecdockical Exprefſion extending to: all Ifles in tie AY terrancan Sea, or any other the neighbouring Coats; for rae 1e- brers Call ali People thar are ſeparared from them by the Modir err o- an Sea, Iſlanders, becauſe rhey come to rhem by Shipping : »ec of Ch::tim, Iſa. 23.1. x Underſtand 4-254, that Jay Eaſ…
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where, becauſe they never ceate, or intermit, ſuch had God's! Care and Kindneſs been over, and ro them. See on 1{2. 58, 11+ His Spirit contiaually proceeding from the Father and the Sonto | refreſr their Conſciences, Compare John 4. 10. and 7. 38, 39. þ It is doubled, to ſh=w the multitude of their Shifts ; and bro…
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20pear, when xpon every hill, Cc. ; v0.8 quran, who owed themſelves to their Redeemer. Bur this dorh not ſo well agree with their Engagement, Ex. 19. 8. j Or notwithſtanding all thy Promiſes. & Idolaters were wont ro ſacrifice upon the rops of high Hills, beczule there rhey thought themfelves nearer Heaven : nay,ſ…
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c Or, O »w:'! dr, Another Similicude for the more lively De-,, Or »5- ſcriprion of the fame thing. Neither need we be tollicirous abour Y the variety or extravagancies of ConjeCtures about this Beaſt. You may emſu!t as before. It is faid ro be wild and untamed, as being uſed ro the Wilderneſs doth alto imply ; and …
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* thein, as before ver/? 5+ Flave Tbzen like the Wilderncts of Arabia, # Idol : a Metonymy of the Matter ; becauſe Idols are made of uled, Gen. 4. 18- This nores the fottith Stupidity of this People, the Honour of God unto them, 1/2. 44. 17. They that niake them are like unto them, as ſenſeleſs as they, P/al. 115+ …
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p How ſeldom is it, and how unlikely, that a Maid ſhould for- ger her Ornaments. q Whether ir belongs to rhe Head, or the Breaſt, or Arms, whether Bracelets or Jewels where-ever worn, 15 not worth the diſputing ; but underſtand, thoſe rich Jewels, Fi which the Bridegroom was wont to preſent his Bride with, partly J…
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thy confidences /, and thou ſhalt not proſper in them 2. ; Some apply it to the ſad and ineffeual Return of the Am- baſſadors, being diſappointed in their ExpeCtations from the King of Egypt ; but rather, all the help rhou can{t procure from a= broad ſhall not prevent thy Captivity, but from hence thou 1halt go. …
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yer fanlieſt thy ſelf faichfal ro mic. 3. To the time pait, -. e. ; Haſt rhou nor all along pretended Kindnei5 to ine, and as if thuu | hadft walked cloſe with me? 2 Kings 17, 324 33. Exel. 23, 349. je Wilt thou not as a Child call upon me, whom thou hatt thus | greatly provoked, and own me as a Farther ? verſe 19.…
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heros, becaiſe the retained the worthty of God 6 4 , , 6 WY. RO Is RT 1 3 though the did often privately and Clotely enmurace laols, and ſometimes ublickly under A7:vaſb and Anat, ani Other v; Kings. [ Or, notwithſtanding all the ground and rexion I had ro dei! fo with 1jracl 10 regard of ber Aduiteries, as ro put…
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7 Which will be the evidence of thyRepentance,without which thou canſt nor lay claim to any pardon, Prov. 28.13. Iſa. 55. 7. This 1s ſpoken by way of limitation, Jelt the Iſraelites ſhould fantie : tO eatte a Pardon from God's merciful Nature. Exhortations to Repentance ſhould always accompany the exhibition of Pro…
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0. 26. and 31. 7. and the reaſon ts, becauſe the two Tables or the | Law,which were th Teſtimony,or W:rnets of rhe Covenant were | cloſed upin it, Exod. 25. 16, 21.and 49. 20, ), Le. Ir ihall be; No more in uſe, neither ſhall there be any miſs of it, or any ring | like it, there {hall be no ſuch thing 3 Men ſhall n…
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way of promiſe, whic! they performed under Folia, 2 Kine, 22. and 23, whici with their confeſſion, reacherth ro the end of the Chapter, #> Words expretling the fronveſt inducements to ic in4s gtnadle, becauſe God huh right to them, is willing to acceptthem, au avle to fave them, 1/z. 55. 7. Chap. 14. 22, - POA7v …
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f We are perplexed, and confounded witht! 1 our ſelves. Ve : ſeck a 46 TR, both to God and Nan, that ve CANNOT bur 11it U;- our hands for thame, even we, th:t had once an whores forehe.: (7ſe 1) bur muttlie down in our thame : An expretion to fe forth the gremnels of their Repenranc?, and Sorrow z as ON 11} oreat …
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; Come fort like _ anda hun tac noeaccan quench 7; '6, becaule of the evil of your doings | 3 oy Os ii {2} 1\s/ tls 0 a=! | | do quict!y 2 Fob rt and ſha'tnof wind: r into C: wrivity |, / Put away your i Cornnmptions; which was ſignified by. And ty may 2 Kith the lati exprefiion in that TIC, 7403 y2 Hot JUCTANL2 …
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"I "A ., 100 2401 I. | 9 1157241 a - _ E-= lf __ — | y T? Me MOUNT, and 1! "us [road in the furvre Tentle, then it; and {ay, Blow ye the Iiumpert c In the land: cry 4 , #ITCES WH Fafn ; trot Forgot v0 it of th it own Lang jon | ap , = = in Va. 4 it , 3 © Oy - ARS & [43:24 w \V Aa! 1507 fo '3 tA tA { - * "wh 123% al …
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k i.e. Nebuchadnezzar ( called here a Lioz, from his herceneſs, and itrengrh, Prov, 39. 39. A Metaphor ; eſpecially 1n this ex- pedirion, See 1/a. 5. 27, 28, 29. ) thall come. up from Babyloz where his chief ſeat is, Dan. 4-30. As Lions are principally among the thickets of the Foreſt, in Coverts ; this place being…
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y The Heb. aha, is a word both of Admiration and Lamentation together. They are Jeremiah's words, and complaint breached out in the great ſorrow and ſighing of Soul, which he exnreſ- ſ-rh more emphatically, chap. 23. 9. z Either, haſt ſuffered them ro be thus deluded by theſe falſe Prophets. 1's. 63. 17. Ex:k.14.9.…
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want of vent, thereby expreiſing the excels of his torrow, whicth in words was inexpreiiible- The like 2 Sam. 18. 33. which ſorrow of his he expreſſerh, Chop. 9.1, 19. & Heb. The walls of my heart, or my heart ſtrings. are ready. to break he may poſlibly ailude to their encompaliing the Walls of Jer/atom : Or, the …
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s Though God ſhew them here, that the cauſe of all theſe Cala- mities is their folly, C/'2p. 2. 17, 19. Pſal. 38. 3,5. yet he owns them-for his People, Chap. 2.11, 31, 32. t Which is indeed rhe only true wifdom. They have not ſtudied my diſpotition, or mild- neſs towards them ; they are ſo ſortiſh, thar they have n…
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7, Chop. +- 2. 0x ky tie 5 104 2008 (75, ; fy ; : p : 71:6 1” Tx) : wy 2 Synecavcne ; Swearing being a part of God's V/orſhin © T4, o: 7 mm wh > 6 4 ; Y $210 rnerefore they ſwear fallly ; either. they Carcar ro this which 5: ». falſe 3 or, if to rhat which is rue, they are fo pe: {dine ro me, that they do it dec…
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7 The Prophet, obſerving rhe Obſtinzcy of this Peopli2 , al- ruptly turns hinſelf ro God, yer einpharncally infinuares their Incorrigibleneſs. This may refer either ro God's difcernins and knowing Truth from Falſhood, as being impollible rhar any thing ſhould be hid from him, eſzlm 11. 4. or rather ( more 2grecable…
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z Hew can{ thon expe& that I ſhall bearſuch Affeonts* I thall exvoſe my ſelf, and ſeem to lay aſide my power, I ſhall be look'd upon 25 ons, that either regard not ſuch Injuries, or cannot avenge them, as /7rſeg. o Thy Inhabitants both in City and Country. b But by Idols. Swearing is here put, not for any part of Wo…
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u A proverbial Speech, very frequent, not in common 'Lan- guage only, but Scripture allo, Job 6. 26. Eccleſ. 5. 16. and elſe- where, z.e. all the Prophet's Threats thall come to nothing : and thus they, ſcoffed at them, Tuſh, what do they lignihe ? they are but bruta fulmina : See 2 Chron, 36.15, 16. » This, poflib…
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13 will nor make a full | end with you. ſ Yee this Lerje explaines, Cp. 4 37: {ive only, that I chin, Hers ic i5 taken in the firſt ſenſe there menrioned; for :t IS not jard only, of in ther Vert, / will at make a fil end, or a tull ena vj ou, bur 2 full end 1:1 you; 9.4. I have nor dons witil you et, See Lev, 26…
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e They are 16 carelefs, thar thev nv) er roublerhemicives about It: or lo obdurate, and {itf, that they n2ver lay ic co heart, or conſider that it 15 God rhar difpolerh of all clings according to his own pleajure, both in rhe Earth and 11 the vreat deer, | Or j-rve and obey ; all terviczro Uod bury boch performed i…
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»:ſhmart ted in the 7 land, and filthi® «© $9 prodigious, or {tupendious a Crime, that it 1s beyond the i? LIED thought or apprehenſion of Man to conceive, much more to ex- Lc :nd fo abominable, that a Man would even loath the 2: The prophets propheſie » * falſly , and the c thereof ? 2 Fither ſpreading and diſ…
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f This Supplement 15 not in the Text, they that approve it ren- der the Epithete comely varioutly, for one dwcling a: home as the Hebrew Nava doth alſo lignifie, Hab. 2.5. and fo the word 4e.:- cate ſerves to explain it, as ſhewing the reaſon of ber tarrying zt home, not as a good Houſwite, difcreerly guiding aud g…
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trary tothe Law tor gathering. the Vintage, rough tt may leem toallude to it, Lev. 19. io. Fudah: thall be gleaned over and over, ti] there bea full End, none left; as the ifraelitts gleaned the B:njamites,Fudg.20.45.tor thus they picked them t39 ar leve- ral times both before, 2 Kings 24. 2. and alſo at the cime o…
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wounds. | u In this Verſe God aggravates their Sin of Oppreſlion, men- tion'd in the former. A Metaphor to expreſs how natural all manner of Wickednels isto her , how full ſhe is of it, and how unceſfant in it, noting her Impudence ; a Fountain being notable ro retain its Water. And the Expreſſion of Caſting it ou…
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x Not reipecting lo much their Age, as Degree and Qua'1ty, Pour and Rich. The P:o0p' et notes the generality of tIew Cor- ruption as the Reaton of God's Severity againſt them, as Fer. 6. obierving al'o, that it was even a-nong the greateſt, who ought to have given better Examples. No Scudnels from Head to Foot. » …
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b Having told the Falſe Prophets their doom, he now turns His Speech ro the People, and gives them Counſel ( for he rather propounds than commands ) by a Metaphor taken from Travellers ; ra! being in doubt of their way, do {tand ſt1il, pauſe, and con- fitcr, whether the Direction they have received from ſome igno- …
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42, not beentreated, or have any pity to Sex or Age, Poor or Rich, Chap. 21. 7. See the like I/e. 13. 17, 18. And this was as duly eXecuted as here propheſied, 2 Chron. 36.17. p Which as it is vei y violent, ſo it cauleth great Conſternation by its noiſe, compared co the roaring of the Devils, Fames 2. 19. Poſſibly…
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Tier Drcofs 4:4 Corruption, thew Wicked:rets and Filrhinels, 15 not removed, I{a. 32. 6. tor Wicked may be read Wickwinels, { 30 *||z Reprohate filyer ſhall me» o call th , becauſe the LORD Hhath p rejected them. i # Or. Keful? Siiver ; ſuch as will be rejected 11 Vayments,they ; are not tov be purged or role med…
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God will have them know.that he doth not chule a Nation for the aces ſake, but the place for the Nations fake,the Ike caution the, Apoſtle gives them, I Cor: 10. 2, &c. The Emphaſis that may be | [ pl in this threefold Repeticion, ſeems rather to relate to the confi- ! | with their Sacrifices, either they though…
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the Token and Pledges of my Preſence among you, when you firſt entred into the pleaſant Land, noting the antiquity of Shiloh be- fore the Temple. 7 z.e. He utterly forſook it, he did not only deliver up h15 People into the Phzliſtines hands, but the Ark alſo, the token of his preſence, which never returned to Sbilþ…
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21 Thus ſaith the LORD of hoſts the God of Iſ-* xa. 14; rael; *z Put your burn-offerings unto your o iacri- Chaps. fices, and eat fleſh. 2.0. AmCcs 8. rake thoſe thar are pecoliar, and to be al! burnt to rae, Lev. 1,9. ** aud pur them tro your own of what kind ſoever, eac chem, and do whar you will with them, I w…
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G C my h anger and ny # fury ſhall be k poured out UPp-| x7 Their Farhers had done bad enough, bur they were fo far ;-, 26. O11 This place, up2u man and upon bealt, and upon |from reforming, chat they did worſe than che Farhers, Jude 2.19. Chap. 16. the trees ot the field, and upoa the fruit of the / = - wenn he eth…
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x They were called ſo after this, and, are known, by thoſe Names to this day ; but the Meaning is, they ſhall acquire a Name from another Occaſion, that ſha) ſuit them as well, vx. tor the great Slaughter that ſhall be made there, or rather thereabouts, in and about Feruſzlem, and therefore called the Yalley of Sla…
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ing them to have bre ordered by them. care taken of them, On the ſuperficies of it, there ſhall be no| 1 | 'bur they ſhall lie 1n the open Country in the |King their peace with God, compared aiſo onthe ſame account, M14 H Chap. V11. ſerve the fit time by the temperature of the Air. / 7, e. Oblor- iaſtin&t, and t…
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you lee the very Fow1s of the Air are not fo ſtupid as you ate, om he ſpeaks eicher to Princes and Prieſts, or to the whole Body of c 4:1hos | he People. 24 This may be underſtood either more gereral off 100 all, or may have a more ſpecial Eye to the Priefts, with who: it was intruſted, Deut. 33, 10. Mal. 2. 7, The…
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b-tpeak'each other. m 11 the lcattered Villages, there 15 n0 lafety {or us, let us retire into places of greater ſecurity, Matth.24-16, 17,3, poſſibly they thought they 1night be ſecured there,as they j-o:1 been beto;e in the time of Scnacherib. n Keep clole within ear walls,fay or do nothing to provoke the Enemy,b…
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w 0:d tor ſirong ones is applyed to any thing,that excels,as to Man, ! 3b 34. 20. to Argels, Pjal. 78. 25. Angels food, or the bread of, ihe wtzhty, And tor Horſes as here, and Fudg. 5. 22 Chape47+3- 2 Heb. he ſuineſs of it, the Trees, and Frutts, and wealth of the Land, they are entred upon their |poil, and will l…
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+15'5* for z lyes: but they are not valiant forthe 7 truth upon the earth : for they proceed from evil toc evil, and they know not me, faith the LORD. x Heb. Tread, becauſe Bows are uſually kneeled or trod upon when they are bent, Chap. 50. 14+ and 51. 3. 'y Their Tongue: are herecomparedtoa Bow, and Lyes to Arrow…
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Slaughter of the Peopie, he now re-afſumes it for the Deſolation **** b of the whole Land, every part of it being to be laid waſte : Sex F He " Chap. 4.23, 26. And it either ſets torth the greatnels of his Grief, —_ that ſhall reach to the very mountains, as the Words may be read ow! even or rather, the cauſe of hi…
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m Either in how ſad a Condition you are, what Circumſtances yeu are un'ler ; or iather, betl11k your felves wha: Courſe to take ; and theretore he puts them upon mourning and bewalling their Condi-ion, intimated by the following Expreſſions. n A ſort of Perſons, and p1 incipally Women, as more apt tor Paſſions in …
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4 Leſt they ſhuuld think thefe Things would never be, ceaſe not to tell them from me, that they ſhall certainly come to paſs, vig, what was ſaid before, and what is ſaid now in this Yerſe (theſe Words ſpeak, thus ſaith the Lord, being beſt read ina Parenthe+- ſis.) b Heb. A Carcaſs of a Man, noting here and there a…
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7 heaven, for the heathen are / diſmayed at them. | q The J:ws being to live anong the Chaldeans in theic Cap-| tivitr, where many of them were already, the prophet in this Sermon admonitheth them againſt the Superſtirions of the Chal- dean Idolatries, which he underſtands here by Heathen, who were alſo much addic…
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f He is called a great King, Mal. 1. 14. q. d. Thou, by whom all nations are governed, and all Afffairs in them di\poſed, and by none elle, who would worſhip any bur thee ; or be afraid of anv but thee, ſeeing it 1s fic for, and therefore can belong to none, beſides, as in the nexr words. It 1s thy right and Cue. Or…
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it ſelf, aud that, both in regard of his Eſſence, as is aſcribed to Chriſt, 1.Joh. 5.20. and alſo in regard of his Fazthſulneſs, Numb, 23.19. Pſal.31. 5. t Theſe are all but dead ſtocks and ſtones, Fe- hovah is the only Living God, having Life in himſelf, and giving Lite to all things elſe, Fohn 5. 21,26. Hence the…
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m Some limit it to the makers of theſe Idols, that can emplo their Artsand Wits to no better purpoſe, than to frame ſuch Stocks into Gods: this ſuits the next expreſſion ; Men are bewitched and beſotted by theſe things, ſoasto ſee no more into their Folly, than if they were Brutes: Ard the reaſon that it hath taken…
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c Here the Prophet doth not ſo much expreſs his own Sorrow, though that be great, as perlonate the Sorrow and Complaint that the Land, i.e. the People of the Land, manifeſt, or at leaſt oughe to do; which becauſe they do not; cauſeth no little grief In the Prophet himſelf, who cannot but be affeted with their condi…
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upon this People, but they rather grew worſe, he turns himſelf _ { q- d. Seeing thou wilt bring the Cha!4zzrs upon us to puniſh 7 us for our ſins, let it be a Correfion only, not a D:ſtrufion, and utter ruine, # Let it be in meaſure, zn judgment, i, e. in wiſdom, proportioning 1t as a Father towards his Children, C…
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