deſired to be witer than their Teachers.k Of God's Will and Word, and of their own and the Peoples duty,and of the true Meſſiah. They are alſo ilothful and negligent in inſtrufting the people, «nd do nor faithfully reprove them for their ſins, nor warn them of their dan= gers, nor keep them from Errours and Coriruptions in NoEtine, and Worthip, and Converſation, asthey ought 10 do. m Minding their own eale ard ſafety more than the Peoples benefir. 11 Yea, they are f greedy dogs which f * can never have enough », and they are ſhepherds that cannoc un- } Heb. derſt:nd ot they * all lookto their own way p, every "4 one for his gain from his quarter 9. yy Jeb. n Inſatiably covetous. o Heb. that know net to wnderfland, that do kuw ny te not care, or love, or deſire ( as knowing is frequently taken ) either þe ſatirfied to underſtand the Law, or Word of God themſclves,or to make the * Fxck. Pcoplc to underſtand it. p They regard neither God's Command 34. 2 X and Glory, nor the Peoples good, bur only the farisfaCtion of their *Ch.33.6 own baſe Luſts. See on 1ſai. 53. 6. 9 In their ſeveral places and g 57. 17. {tztions, as they have opportunity : Heb. from his or their end or extremity, i. e; univerſally, or all from one cnd of that Body or So= ciery of men unto the other : as the ſame word ſignifies Gen. 19.4. from one end of the City to the other, or,as we there render it, from every quarter ; and as the ſame word is by diverslearned Men ren= dred 1 Kings 12. 31: not of the meareſt of rhe people, bur our of all the people, or indifferently our of every Tribe : of which ſee my note there. Bur if rhar Phraſe be rightly rendred there, out ofthe me.neſt of the pecple, as divers alfo expound the ſame Phraſe,Gen. 47. 2. of thy »eaneſt of his Brethren ; why may it not as well be rendred here even from the meaneſt or Ava of his flock, which is a great aggrava« tion of their covetouſneſs and cruelty, to extort gainsfrom ſuch as needed their Charity. 12 Come ye, ſay they q, I will fetch wine, and we will fill our felves 7 wich ſtrong drink, and to morrow {hall be as this day, and much more abundant s. q Unto their Brethren, by Office, and in Iniquity : unto their Fellow-Prie!ts, or other jolly companions. +» We will drink nov only to Delight, bur even to Drunkennefs, as the word ſignifies, Mic. 1. 10. andeliewhere. s Which ſhewerh their dreadful fcuris ty and contempt of God, and of his Judgments, and their total and reſolved abandoning of all care of theirown or Peoples Souls.
CHAP. EVIL
| The Bl:ſſed death of the Righteour : mot duly lamented by the Fews : whe
alſo commit Idolatry : and truſted inman : they are threatned, 1t——12, Evangelical Promifes to the Penitent, 13, 19, no peace tothe wicked, 20, 21. | home righteous s periſheth, and:no mangs layeth it to heartc ; and f * mercifuld men are taken away, * none conſidering that the righteous is taken away || 1H: from the evil ts come e. of kindnf, . orgodlineſs.
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Pray:r, either to imply that Prayer to God, whereof | Thanſgiving is a part, is # more conſiderable part of God s Worſhip than Sacri- fice, which being conſidered in it {elf is little valued by hirh, as he frequently declarerh : or to ſignifie that in the New Teſtament, when the Genri'es ſhould be called, a'I other Sacrifices ſhould ecaſe, except rhat of Prayer, and fuch like Spiritual Services. Which alſo is confirmed from the nature of the thing. For ſeing ” Sacrifices were confined to the Temple at Jeruſalem, and it was im- poſlible that all Nations ſhould' reſort thither to offer up Levitical Sacrifices in ſuch time and manner as God' appointed, it was ne- ecffary upon ſuppoſition of rhe general convertlion of the Gentiles,
preſcribed as they were capable of praiſing;
8 The Lord GOD, which gathereth the outcaſts of Irael e, faith, Yet will I gather others to him, Þ beſides thoſe that are gathered unto him f.
e Which will gather to himſelf, and bring into their wn Land, thoſe poor I{raclites which are, or thall be, caſt our of their own Land, and from God's preſence, and diſperſed in divers parts of the World. f As there are fome few Gentiles whom I have made Pro- ſcl;res, and added to the Jewiſh Church, ſo I ſhall make another
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that that way of Worſhip ſhould be aboliſhed, and' ſuch a way {|
a Juſt and holy men, who arethe pillars of the place and ftate in »p 1,1: which they live, yea, as the Jews call them, the pillars of the xj. ». .. World. 6 Few or none of the People. So he ſheweth that the cor- ruption was general in the Pepole no leſs than in the Prieſts. « Is duly affe&ed with this ſevere ſtroke and ſad ſign of God's diſplea- ſure. d Or, godly; theſame whom he now called righreous, whoſe duty and pratice it is to exerciſe both Mercy or Kindneſs, and Ju- ſtice. e From thole dreadful Calamities which are coming upon the Nation. ' :
2 He (ball || enter into peace f :; they g ſhall reſt in | 0s
their beds b, each one walking 3 || i» his uprightneſs &. {$i f This juſt and merciful rfian ſhall enter into a ſtate of peace and fore him,
reſt, where he ſhall be our of the reach of the approaching miſe= 5
ries. Or. be ſha go ( to wir, to his Fathers, as it is fully expreſſed,
Gen, 15: 15. Or, be ſball die, going being put for dying, as 1 Chr. 17»
11. compared with 2 Sam. 7. 12. Jeb 12, 21. © 14. 20. Luke 22.22.
and elſewhere : ) in peace. g Juſt men. Here is a ſudden change
of the number, which is very frequenr in the Prophets. h Intheir
. Graves, which are not unfitly called their Beds, or ſleeping Houſes;
' as their death is commonly called: /eep ty Scripture. # Or that gy,
> keth' or did walk, i. e. live. k In a ſincere and faithful diſcharge of
| his duties to God and Men. Or, before him, 7. e. betore God, ac«
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and a far more comprenſive gathering of the Gentiles, whom I ſhall bring into the tame.Church with the Jews, making both Jews and Gentiles one fold under one Shepherd, as It is pronyſed; 5oh, M9. 16; _
' cording. to the uſual Phraſe of Scripture, as Gen. 17. 1. 1 Kings. 2,
4. & 8. 25. For God is ofr underſtood where he is not expreſſcd, but only deſigned by this or the likes progpun, as Gey, 52. 13. and elſewhere, ©
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