or made, ſignifies to magnifie, as it ſeems to be uled, Deut. 32. 6, and r Sam. 12. 6, The whole Church ſhall now be the Throne of. God, Yr: 17. to which purpoſe the Ark formerly ferved, now God; foreſceing partly how hard a thing it would be to be believed,and partly the Pleas that the corrupt Wir,and Invention of Man would- tind out for the fetaining of theſe Rites,and by conſequence their loathneſs to forgo them, he uſed ſuch an heap, and variety of ex- Preſſions to the lame thing, that he may leave no room for doubr- ing in a thing ſo plainly, and fully prohibired in Goſpel-times. i7 Atrtaat time they ſhal call Jeruſalem the throne: z of the LORD *: and all the nations ſhal be gathered 2 unto it, co the name of the LORD, to Jerufalem b :
neither ſhal they*walk any more afcer the fimmaginati-
z Inſtead of the Ark, whereon was the Mercy-ſeat, now the Church typified by Jeruſalem, Gal. 4. 26. and Rev. 21: 2. ſhall be the place of God's Reſidence, where by his Spirit he will rule and a& in his Word and Ordinances, and in ſpecial the Mzſias. See Ch. 14: 21. and Yer. 16. a Intimating both their readineſs to come in, and their numberzaccording to that prophecy of Jacob, Gen. 49: ro. Iſa. 2. 2. By Nations here underſtand, either the Fen Tribes who are called many people, both Iſrael and Judah united, their diſtance being taken away, ſce Yer: 18. or rather ſome of all Nations, that ſhall flock into the Goſpel Church ; for when the Prophets foretel this ſtate, they generally uſher it in with the return of this People, at which time the Church ſhall be greatly enlarged, 6 7. e. Dwel- ling in Jeruſalem, or where the Lord placed his Name, viz. of old in Jeruſalem, Pſal. 122: 2, 3, &c. but now in the Church, Rev: 21: 2, 3. without Ark or Temple, Rev. 21: 22+ where he will be known AS 1t were. by his proper Name, 1/s. 60: 9: or as manifeſt in the fleſh. c Both Few and Gentile ſhall now conform themſelves to the Will of God, Iſa. 2.3. The word Imagination here comes from a
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hoſts and multitudes of Nations, or Gentiles,that ſhould be joyn« ed to them in the Goſpel Church, viz. Of Gods Ele&, and ſo an heritage of the greateſt delights, or the deſire of Nations ; a Peo= ple to whom all the Nations would 'defire ro flock. See Exzek. 20: 6, and may be' ſpoken alſo of the heavenly Cansan; 'the LXX render it, the Heritaze of God the Ommnipotent Govermur of the Nations. m God comes now to a reſolution how he would go it. Either it is a direCtion, 9. d. on this condition, that thou wilt ovn'me,and not return any more to Idols,this ſhall be done ;or a promiſe,I\ ill cauſe thee to own me, and give thee perſeveraiice, that thou ſhalt not dpart from me: and this is very applicable to the work of Chriſt, tee Joh: 1: 12+ See alſo 2 Cor: 6: 17, 18. and the condition is indeed no more, than God promicth to effett in them.
20 © Surely, as a wife treacherouſly departeth from |
me, .O houſe of Iſrael, faith the LORD. |
her former unfaithfulneſs in time for the furure.. See 1 Pet: 4: 3.
2T A. voice was, heard 0 upon the high places p, weeping aud ſupplications q of tlic children of Iſrael » : for they have perverted their way, and they have for- gotten the LORD their God /.
0 Here the Propher ſeems to expreſs I/-4el; Repentance,and turn- ing to God ; and that, which Ne wore at reli CG thn ſelves in, (the word being participial,and in the preſent Tenſe) de- livered in a Prophetical tile, as that in Chap: 31: 15. and that not only out of a ſenſe of their judgments, that they were tnder, but chiefly of their fins they were guilty of, and the pardon of which they were now begging, which is/intimated by weeping, and ſup- phcation. p Fiz. 'That their cry mighr be the more publick, borh open and loud, Chop: 22: 20: and Matth: 10: 27: poſſibly alluding ro the uſual praQtice, of praying on the tops of houſes in great cala- mities, 1/s: IS: 3: and 22. 1. Jer. 7. 29. q Or rather weeping ſup plications ſhewing the intenſeneſs of it, praying in weeping, and weep« ing int prayer, Zech; 12:10. like Peters weeping, Matth. 26. 75, r The end of which might be to provoke Tedek alſo to Repenrance, or otherwiſe to charge them upon their ſtupidity, and threaten them with the like judgments, if they would not return upon [;jrael's example. 5 This expreſſeth, tather the matter of their prayer, than the cauſe of it, Law. 5: 16. drawn chiefly from their fins, as alſo from their calamities. =
22 Return ft, ye backſliding children, and IT will heal your backſlidings « : Behold, we come unto thee. for thou art the LORD our x God. | p
t Viz. Repent for Sin and from Sin; here God calls upon them, and invites them to conſider whether they are going, Na ey a ken unto the voice of his Miniſters; Hel: 14: 1. 4s 3:19. See Verſe 12. God doth as it were bid them hearken to his Meſſengers, and then he will heal their backſliding. « 5. e. 1delatries, whereby turned from me, and rebelled againſt nie, I will take you into that ſtate, as if you had never turned from me, I will make all whole again among you, and reconcile you to my ſelf, 1/s. 57: 18. Chep.32. 40- See Zech. 1.6. and 13.9. I will not only remove your judge ments, but your fins ſhall alſo be forgiven ? This is either God's framing their anſwer for them, preſcribing the matiner and form of their Repentance by a fignre called Mimeſ, Ho, 14. 2, 3. or it is their reply to God by way of promiſe, which they ' performed
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root, that ligniftes ro ſee, and thus it is ſomerimes applyed to the judgment, P/al: 17. 2. and ſometimes to the affeQion, Pſal. 66: 18. bh it may comprehend both, they will follow neither their own judgment, or afte&ion, but wholly the word of God. The word is thus phraſed, N«mb. 15- 39. and Fecl. 11: g: ſome read it after the
hardneſs, Deut. 29.19. | 18 In thoſe days the houſe of Judah ſhall walk |] 4
with the houſe of Iſrael, and they ſhal come together out of the land of the north e, to the land f that I have || given for an inheritance unto your fathers. :