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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1855

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1 — Section 1855

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 1

ſince whoſe time there were hardly forty years yet elapſed. in him for the obtaining favour from. him in an evil day. 6 And 12 And ye e have done * worſe than your fathers porn manga mags wo _ Cn _ good rs hr _ (Th RT WEBS: » When not only the Jews ſhould be again refored to their = Lara, for behold ye walk every one after the {| imagination Country, but the.Gentiles alſo from all parts of the World (whom ends of his evil ia ongy _ _ _ gy _ m_ _ —_— the you ſhould accompany ) ſhould apply them- X q o Ye in latter Ages, in the time of Manaſſes, have done worle | lelves to God, confeſſing that both they and their fathers,in thei than your Enders did; and now in the time of Jehs:akim, you run | worſhipping dumb arg had but Inbalnd Lyes and Vakieyand on much in the ſame courſe of Idolatry and Superſtition, which | things that were unprofitable, - | _— wr in this is worſe in you, becauſe for thirty Years together you had 20 Shall a man make gods unto himſelf, and * they * Chap. | the better Example of good Joſh the Father of your preſent Kang, I are 16 Go FR: x | I, together with what his Authority could do to reduce you ; he . It is dot - : E ABPOM aver, hath not been gone now above five years, and you are returned to | | (- .* 1Ou9T 1 whether theſe be to be underſtood as the words DS , | 11- | OX God, ſhewing the unreaſonableneſs of the Sin of Idolatry, or your old Vomit, and are all of you wars a wy, Gon your | ®5 others who make them,the continued Speech of the Gentiles,who wy RO. ſo ſtubborn are you, and relolved againſt obedience ae ro Co ; hould ſee the IS of wor- * ; . 8&5 - . | Mpping the Warks oftheir own hands. Whoſo owneth a God, w_ 9 3 D Ther efore will I caſt 4 o_ our | of his land, INTO | gwneth an 7nfinite Being,a firſt Cauſe and mover,aCreator of all things. 266466 ? land that ye know not,zeither ye, NOT your fachers P, | Now can any be ſo ſottiſhly ſtupid as to think that a finite Being,

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my Land ; you thall ſerveother gods in a ſtrange Land, you ſhall | might 4,& they ſhall know that my*name is the Lord. ** if there have no ſuch opportunities as you have here at Hicruſalem, 4 Becauſe al) the goodneſs and mercy that I have ſhewed them, ſi, | go worſhip me the truc God according to the preſcription and dire- | will nor learn them to know me my power and mighr, Iwill once 1/* Qion of my Word, ye ſhall there have no Gods elſe bur Idols to | for all make them to underſtand it, by the dreadtul ſtrokes of my HV worthip, and what is now matter of choice ro Youy ſhall then be Vengeance. - They ſhall know, tharmy Name 1s Jehovah; this Ris 1111 forced upon you, the Governours of ti.oſe Countries into which I am not ſuch a one as their Idols, but one who have my becing 1 you ſha]] be carried, ſhall force you to fall down, and to worſhip | from my ſelf, and give Life and Being to all other things.and have | thcir Idols, which was verified afterward i Nebuchaanezzar;Dan.z.&C. all might and power in my hans, and can do whatſoever I pleaſe ; ®* Ifa. 43. 14 J Therefore r behoid tie days come, faith the | and one that will make good whatſoever I have ſpoken whether in 18. Chap. LORD, that it ſhall no more be ſaid, The L OR D| a way of promilt or threatning. | 3-78: liveth that brought upthe children of Iſrael out of the FI ES EF... AVTIK:;. land of Egypt. | The Captivity of Judah for ber ſin, 1 4. Truff in Man Curſed: In phe were Gar reonlated NemibNondng, for that is maniftty | God Bed, 58. The Dcifl Here and mi ſs Poie ar the ſenſe, God ſweetnerh the dreadful Threatnings precteding, Prophet i of the Mockers of his Pro becres, 1 — Of with a comfortable promiſe of _ Cr ns he child keeping the Sabbath, 1g—27 Tn on or of > Cory anger ye rare _ "uk the "He fin of Judah js written with * a pen of iron,and * Job 193 I 4 ERS with the F point of a diamond # ; it is graven u- 24;, | - | lands whither he had driven them 53 and I will bring| 1 able ron heart b, and upon the horns off; them again into their land that I gave unto their fa- your altars c. = Me Te ' 1, Not thers z, | £ Tn There is much arguing amongſt thoſe that are critical about the of Which a jp urn me . premp.0 ora got mee oo - true ſignification of rh is | i ſignified by TDW which we | ther in regard of the newnels of this Deliverance, Or 1n regard 0 . ; : TI SRATEE. te gre Mr they hou bein during the Cope of Bad, | Fog i or core Rr wancen ey 1nOU e | | , L . : 8 W-"1 : remember their Deliverance from the Houſe of qe in Egypt, _ ro A - wR y_ = _— wean gm fo vans bs hm ungs ag _ _— — So : pion devs I ſembling the Claw of a Bird, asthe word ſeemeth to import. blIr is : we _ _— Br + pap », a Land which he had given unto | $72Y<n. in their hearts they are ſo accuſtomed to ſin, ſo inured t6 pt ky , —— rum there is no hope of any —— —_ how - , *b +. | can they that are accuſtomed to do evi), do well? ecNor is it a 16 q Behold I will ſend for many _— —_— thing done in ſecret, bur it is written or painted, or ingraven up- LORD, and they ſhall fiſh them ; and atcer 1 will ſend | gn the Horns of their Altars, Gods Altar was fourſquare, and at

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