g Here being a D<fe of the Noun, the Jews ſupply it with ry Sin, Iſa 43+ 25- but the moſt and beſt, as we do, his anger. Compare ir with werſe12+Pſal 103. 9. Nahum 1, 2. in which Texts there is a de« fe&t of the ſame word. This may ſeem to be the words of the Pra- pher, and ſo the Connexion iscafie with the foregoing words, 9. d. If thou wouldeſt do ſo, try me now, &c, would hereferve his Anger? Would he not be reconciled? but ct.ou haſt taken quite another Courſe: Or, they may be the Words of God, as it were, teaching his people how they ſhould accoſt him: God is more forward and earneſt for Reconciliation, than Sinners themſelves. þ The ſame with the former for ever. # God's Challenge of the people, charge ing them, either with their reſolved Wickednels, that they had made good all their evil words by their evil A&tions, they hadeven done as they ſaid; or rather, with their Hypocriſie, 9. 4. Nots withſtanding all thy former Promiſes, yet thou perſiſteſt Nill in thy Lewdneſs and Obſtinacy, 1/a. 58. 2. Hof. 7. 14.
6 © The LORD faid alſo & unto me 1, inthe days of Joſiah the. king m7, haſt thou ſeen that which back- ſliding Iſrael hath done » ? ſhe is gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, ard theres hath played che harlot, |
k Or again, ſhewing that here begins a new Sermons in which the
6D 4 warning
| —_ nt.
th
Þ
2
d
| |Or, fame.
+ Heb.in falſehood.
warning. 3: TI tance, with a Þ the Meſſiah. 4+ KN with this Invitation- that 7/rael had done when th
Aſhria, 2 King
fore heſaith, ave her a Bill of Divorce. and, and reftored the pure Tribes who fell off from Judah,
expreſſed . ope ; inſomuch, that all cheir King poſſibly it may look as far bac 5, &C-
thou unto me 0. ereacherous ſiſter Judah p ſaw
and abominable, yet the
named, Feroboam ; called Iſ-aels Siſter, becau
the Patriarch Jacob, Ezek. 1 cherous, or the treacherous one,
quent renewed Covenants, the reſt of the Tribes, Deut. 5+ 2, 3, 23z and afterwards, 2 Chrov. 13. 9, 23. 16- and 29+ 10. 9 7: & it, as the word is Pal. 40. 3- dealt with [roel.
backſliding away and given rous ſiſter Judah feared not #,
harlot alſo . F Qs Both
withſtanding w have been her inſtruction; thus God ſpeaks of the notice he took of | both, Chap. 23. 13, 14. treacherous, becauſe ſhe retained the w
lickly under Manafſeb and Ahaz, and other wicked Kings. notwithſtanding all t rael in regard of he red her up into th 2 her theticle of being his Church, 2 King- 17. 5, * callshere a Bill of Divorce, not ſuch a one as the Jews were alJow- ed to give upon every that ever he gave them, and c TOs FL dultercſs againſt him of giving me offence, had ſeen the Judgment © which made it the more by her Siſters ſufferings, Prov. 28. 14. yet fhe went on ſtil!, Ezek. 23.
Its. 12, Oc.
whoredom y, that ſhe defiled the land z, and com- mitted adultery with ſtones and with ftocks 4.
rightapplying of it doth of the 4 Lightneſs, which co woice, and to it may refer, either to the noiſe or fame of it, chat would fly abroad, and thus it isappiyed to [ſrael, 7, e. Though 7- #acl's Whoredoms were never ſo. much blazed abroad, yet Judah re- garded it not.
crying voice, as of fame or notorious W horedoms , lightneſs of her Whoredim, noting her impudence init, as we uſe to term a common Harlot a light Woman; and thus it is applyed to Judah, both the foregoing-and following words ſeeming to be an ag- gravation of Judah's refraQtari the Imputation of filthineſs. # 7. e. With Idols made of Stone and
. Wood, a 2k
dah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but + feignedly, ſaith the LORD.
full Idolatry of 1/-ae!, and what ſhe had ſuffered, yet ſhe was nor warned. ſee verſe 8. but fel] to Idolatry under Manaſeh, who undid what Hezetk:ab had done, 2 Chron. 33. 3- though under fair preten-
neths afrer Joſiahs Death, 2 King. 23. 31, 32.
See Luke latry continued, yet in Judah it was more heinous. their unruly headſtrongneſs, that broke the Reins and reſtraint, which their external worthip ought to have had upon them: 2. Be- cauſe of their ſtupid ſecurity in not being warned by the Judgments that they had ſeen befal 7rel-for the very ſame things. of their intolerable Pride, boaſting that their ſtate was ken. 4 Becauſe of their groſs perfidiouſneſs in making Promiſes, and breaking them, which Jae! did not, becauſe ſhe brought nor her ſelf under ſuch ſolemn and frequent obligations, ſce verſe 5. Laſt- ly, Becauſe they were a great deal more zealous in their Idolatries
3 E R E
Maes forth an Invitation of them beth to Repen” romiſe of Acceprtation, and re-uniting them under Relates the Compliance of the Faithful among them 1 Viz. By Revelation; for he ſpeaks of things ey were carried away by the King of long before Jeremiah was born ; there- Conſidered wherefore God he would have purged the Worſhip of God, » Yiz. The ten and {ct up a diſtin& Kingdom of
eir own under Jeroboam : What they did, viz. in their Idolatries in the next Words, and Chap. 2. 20. ſee there, when they zed from God, and that with one common Conſent; s proved wicked and idolatrous, and k as Solomen;:DefeQion, 1 Kings 11. 4, in remembrance.
had done all theſe things, turn
returned not. And her it 9.
Af: 3. 19. Aithough ſhe had been ſovile Lord waited in expeQation of her Return. d, but.Judah being the chief is only her after the other ten Revolted to ſe they were all deſcended from 6. 46. Compare Exek 23. 2, <+ and :rea- becauſe of her frequent Revolts, 2 Chron. 18. and many other times, and after as fre- and Promiſes both in conjun&ion with &c- and 29. 1o, 11, 12,&c. 10, &c- and 2 Chron. 15.12, &c- and They were not ſtrangers to it but knew They could not but know how Ihad
h. 4
4 I7. Te ro I3e | ; Haſt thou nor ſeen, 5, e. » When
nly Apoftati
Which may now come fter ſhe
7 And1I ſaid, a But ſhe
o Viz. By Repentance,
Benjamin 1s alſo here comprize theſe two abiding toget
1.6, &c. and 24. 17,
8 Andifawr, when for all the cauſes / whereby Iſrael commited adultery, I had put her her a bill of divorce ?, yet her treache- but went and played the
d. Thar which others diſcern not, I ſaw well enough, viz. her Hypociſie and Diſſimulation, and her incorrigibleneſs not- kat had been befallen 1ſrae!, whoſe correEion ſhould