Ifaac, and Jacob, and David, lived in the few that returned out of Babylon, and inthoſe few who under the Goſpel received Chriſt,and believed in him, though the generality of them rejeQed the counſel of God againſt themſelves. F God further promiſcth to bring out of Judah an inheritor of his Mountains, which rhe moſt, and beſt inter- preters do interpret of the Jews return out of the Captivity of Bavylon to Hieruſalem, and into their own Country, and particular'y to worſhip God in his Temple, upon Mount Sion g the Country of Ju= dea was a Mountainous Country, Exzek, 36. 1, 8. The Mountains were round about Hieruſalem, Pſa]. 125. 2. See alſo Ezek. 38. 8. God calls theſe Mountains his Monntains, becauſe he had- ckoien that Countrey before all others, and was once truly worſhipped there. h Mine Ele# ſignifieth here Gods choſen Ones, as in Pſal. :c6, 23. <. 48. 10. The term doth nor always fignify ſuch as belong to the Eleiom of Grace, but ſuch asare dignified with ſome ſpecial favour. The whole Nation of the Jews are called # choſen people, But poſs ſibly this promiſe is tobe interpreted, with relation to the fiticerer part of that people,after that the others ſhould be waſted by the Caps rivity. | 10 And Sharon ſhall be a fold of flocks i, and the * , riapacdl | OL. 251}
i Sharon wasa place of great fruitfulneſs for paſtures. Davids herds were kept there, 1 Chron. 27. 29. It ws become like a wilder- neſs, Iſaiah 33. g. God here promiſeth that it ſhould again be a place
had paſled Jordan ; hence Hoſ. 2. 14. God promiſed to make it a door of hope, and here the text ſaith, the flicks ſhould lie down. 1 But leſt the wicked idolatrous Jews ſhould apply this promiſe to themſelves; God limiteth it in the laſt words to the People that had ſought him, thar is, thar had truly worſhipped him, according to his own inſtiz rution, and that the words have the force of ſuch a limitation, aps peareth from what followeth,
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# Do not you that are Idolaters,think that theſe promiſes belong to you, ye are they that forſake the Lord, that is, the way of the Lord; it isa phraſe oppoſed to a walking with God, Our walking with God is in the way of his ſtatutes ; firſaking of him, ſignifieth a declining, or turning aſide from that way. » To forget Gods holy mountain,(ignifies not to regard the true Worſhip of Goa, or riotto mind it. God calleth Zim his holy Mountain,” Foel 3. 17. and Jeruſalem is called Gods holy Mountain, The hill of Zin is called rhe Mountain of God holineſs, Þſ.48. 1. as the Temple is called the beauty of holineſs, Pſ. 29. 2. Pl. 96. 9. their not regarding the worſhip of God there, but worſhiping God or 1dols in Gardens, amongſt the graves and monuments, is what is here called, a forgerting his holy Mduntain. Iſziah prophecied in the time of Ahaz, ch. 1. r. of whom it ſaid, 2 Chron. 28, 23, 24. that he ſa- crificed to the Gods of Damaſcus, that he cut in pieces the weſſels of the Lords houſe, ſhut up the doors of the houſe of the Lord, and made him altars inevery corner of Hieruſal:m, and in every ſevera! City of Judah he made high places to burn incer;ſe to other Gods. See alſs more of his praQtices, v. 2, 3, 4. of that chap. and 2 Kings 16. 3, 10, 11, 12: and there were certainly many of his people that joyned with him, in his worſhip, who are all here ſaid to forget Gods holy Mountain, . o And to prepare a table for that troop : The Idols of the ten Trides, 2 Kings 16: 3. and of the ſhrians, 2 Chron. 28. 23- which were a troop, whereas the God of Iſrael was one God. And as God had alratsr, which are ſometimes called a table, as in Exek. 41. 22. So they pres pared altars for the Iaebs, my be read in the INE
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haz : though by preparing a table, here ſeems rather te Refs they a Hr their ſacrifices in their feſtiva! days, which was in imitation of what the true God had commandec his people, Deut. 16. 14, 15. Idolaters alſo made in honour to thei, Idols; as appears fiom Jud. 9. 27. Ezek. 18. 6, 11. 405 2. 8. 1 Ger 8. 10. p Nor did they only f:aff in honour to the Idols, bur #-c; furniſbed drink offerings unto their N mber. God had appointed Drin eff:rings for his honour, and asa piece of homage tro him, Exod. 29. 40, 41. Levis. 23. 18, 37. theſe people had paid this homage to [- dols. See Jer. 7. 18. & 19. 13. & 32. 29. q Whar we rraaflare Number in the Heb. is La Meni to Meni, Avenarius tranflates it Mcrcu- ry, an Idol whom Merchants worſhipped for good i{ucce's in trading ; others underſtand it of the Heſt of Heaven , others of the nmIritud- © their ido's ; our rranſlation reads it their number. The word coming from an Hb, root, which ſignifiett to mwmb-r,is no where elite tounu in Scripture, which makes it hard too poſitively ro aſſert the truc meaning of it.
12 Therefore will I number you to the ſword r,and 1.24. You ſhall all bow down to che fla. ghter 5, becauſe * 66,4. when I called t you did not anſwer, when I ſpake,y ou 7-13- did not hear, but did evii before mins eyes, and did chuſe « that wherein I delighted not.