God means che perſonal fins of Manaſih and his Miniſters, or only the fins of the ſame kind that the Jews ſtill continued. Manaſſch lived 55 years, hisSor. Joſiah 31 Years, it wasnow the time of Jehoiakim, the: Son of Joſiah, who reigned but eleven years, and it is probable this was his fifth year, for in that year he proclaimed the Faſt for the Drought ( as is ſuppoſed ) chap. 36: 9g, Though the peo- pie were bad enough ſtill, yer it is no way probable, that they were lo bad as in the time of Manaſeh. We know all Jefiahs time, the Fa« ther of this Prince, was a time of Reformation, though it be cer- tain, much of their old Leaven of Idolat:y and Superſtition was yet in them. Whatever therefore ſome think, God undoubtedly meaneth the guilt that Manaſeh and his SubjeAs contraKed, forty years before this time : Nor dolI ſee any Reaſon why any ſhould queſtion, whether it be conſiſtent with the Juſtice of God, to pu- nith the ſins of Parents upon their poſterity, when it is no more than we ſee done every day in the puniſhments of Traitors and Fe- /on:, by ſeizing the Eitates of their Children and in Wars, upon the taking of Cities and fortified places; and itis no more than God hath threatned in the ſecond Commandment, Exod: 20. and de- Clared it as a piece of his name, Exo: 34. and done in a multitude
of Scriptural [nſtances Manaſſeh is here named as the Son of Hezekie ah for his thame, becauſe of his degeneracy from ſo good a parent ; it is expreſly ſaid, 2 Kings 23: 6. that notwithſtanding Joſiah's Re- formation, yet the Lord turned not from the fizrceneſs ofhis wrath kindled againſt Judah for the provocations of Mzmnaſſh.
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# The ſumm of this is, That this people ſhould be in a moſt miſe= rable pitileſs ſtate and condition ; none ſhould regard them in the day of their calamity, nor ſo much as once enquire after them, or how they fared, or what they did. \
6 Thou haſt forſaken me ſaith the LORD, chou art gone backward, therefore will F ftrerech out my hand againſt thee, and deſtroy ehee, I am weary with re- penting &.
k God here-by more phraſes of the ſame import with many that we have before met with, declareth his ſteady Reſolution to deſtroy them, for their Apoſtacy from him; and ſets outhimſelf to them : as angry Princes or Parents, that had been often provoked againſt a Subje& or a Child, and often reſolved to puniſh the Offender, but out of their own clemency, or upon the Meditation and Intercefli- on of others for them, had altered their Minds, and reſolved to ſpare them, but at laſt met with 1o many freſh Provocations, =>
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i 1 Not a Purging Fan by affliction, to ſeparat their Chaffand Drols ' thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of afi- Em | from them, but a ſcattering Fan; ſome tranſlate it into rhe Gares 0 Aon , allll- Kos Y | the earth: $0 it is the ſame that God had before ſaid, that he would | a _ | JED | 4 .
remove them into all Nations, { Gates being put for Cities ; but it - ? The latter words of the verſe expound the former ; for by Rem. is more probable, that this is added in puriuit of the Metaphor of 74% 15 here meant the Reſidue or Remnant of Days that Jeremiah- Fanning, Men uſually chuting Barn-aoors to fan at, that they may. had yer to live,not theRemant of thePeople who ſhould com: out of have the advantage of the Wind. m Of Chilaren is not in the Hee Babyleu, p Twill, by my providence, 1o order it, tha' how crue!= brew, and is needleſly ſupplyed ; it may as well be of any, or all; ly and ſeverely ſloever the Enemy deals with thy Countrymen, yet their comforts or good things. » Their Priviledge claimed of being | he ſhall uſe thee kindly when he ſhall take the City, See the fulfil- my People ſhall not prote& them, ſo long as they go on in their ling of this Prophecy, chap? 39: 11. and 49: 3, 4, kd lt cones. I2 Shall iron break the northern iron and the $ Their widows are increaſed to me above the ſand | ſteel q2 | 92 I08 | 9 There isa great variety among Interpreters as to this Verſe alu
1 Or, 4 of the ſeas o, I have brought FAR chem |] ap = ſo, ſome interpreting this as a Prophecy that none ſhould break th Or, 4- ay p : ; interpreting this as a Prophecy that none ſhould break the aint the mother of the young men, A 1pOl of Os. OO Prophet, whom God would make as the Northern Iron and Stee] 7 have cauſed him to fall upon it ſuddenly, and terrors which was the hardeſt of all Iron, the Chalyber ( from whom Steel City, - upon the city 9. had its Name Chalybs) being Northern People, and the moſt famous of any then known inthe World for tempering Iron to makeit hard
Young-man o The Prophet ſpeaking in the name of that God who calleth ſrilng,8&0 things that are not as if they were, {till continueth his Style, ſpea- and tough: Others interpreting it, as denying that there ſhould 8.