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rings unto her, as we have done y,we andour fathers,our kings 'andour princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the ſtreets of Jeruſalem z : for. :h:» had we plenty of vicuals, and were well, and ſaw noevils. - . __
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made the firſt Law or Condition of his Diſciples. . x By the Queen of Heaven ſome here underſtand the Sun, which notion is favoured. from the words beiag of the Feminine;Gender, which fignifieth the
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| . . to the queen or ſo Name ſigniheth here. ere not any be left ofthe : 18 But _ we left off wes poo er y : "LT "ve Jews that are in Egypt, to ſwear The Lord God liverh,( for it ſhould ſeem, of heaven, and to pour © oy 4 » | that the Jews yer retained ſomething of the Religion of their Coun.
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the ſword, and by the ine b. Precept, Deus. 6. 13. and 10. 20. ) God threatneth there fhould be | ! po | : the aueen of | 2one of them left alive to do it ; he would not have his holy Name Chap. , 19 * And when we burnt incenſe to q polluted by thoſe Mouths that had been uſed to bleſs Idols.”
. 18. heaven, and poured out drink-offerings unto her, did 25 Behold, * I will watch over them for evil | - - "= and * : JOr, Hur- we make her cakes to worſhip her, and pour out drink- not for goods, and ail the men of Judah that arein the TR -
offerings unto her without our || men ? b Thi laſt Argument is drawn url] the evils that had befallen land of Egypt, ſhall be conſumed by the ſword, and
124 left. worſhipping the Sun, Moon and Stars ; by the famine, until there be an end of them k. yn + bregth aber of that, the cauſe of their ſuf- ; God here either ſets out himſelf as one who would be induftri« ferings, their former doing of which was indeed the true cauſe , | 915 and ſolicitous to bring evil upon them, as Men who are-ſo in they had loſt their Husbands in the Siege, and in Battels; and had | 22 y buſineſs, watch opportunitiestodo it ; or elſe he derides their ſuffered famine and Hunger, and all becauſe they had burnt Incenſe | vain confidence as to his proteCtion of them, and eare for them ro other Gods, they interpret theſe Providences: as a puniſhmenr ( faith God ) I will watch over them, but not to buildand to plant, of them for not doing it as they bad formerly uſed to do. So bad | a5 Chap, 31. 28. butasit is in the former partof that Yerſe, to pluck Interpreters are thoſe of God's Providences, who indulge their Luſts | #?, and to throw down,and to deffroy, and tv affii. k For fo it follows, in oppoſition to God's Law. chey ſhall be anſuncd by the ſword and by the famine. 20 © ThenJeremiah ſaid unto all the people, to the] 28 Yet * a ſmall number that eſcape the ſword, ſhall *ye.. , 4; men, and to the women, and to all the people which | return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah had given him hat anſwer, ſaying, 7; and all the remnant of Judah that are gone into the 21 The incenſe that ye burnt in the cities of Judah, | land of Egypt to ſojourn there,ſhall know whoſe word « 11,s, and in the ſtreets of Jeruſalem, ye and your fathers, | ſball ſtand, + mine or theirs w. Sow ms your kingsand your princes, and the people of the land, by d Tu _ —_— _ _— _— the remnant, or from j : . er.. 14. ior here it 1s plainly ſaid, that ſeme ſhould eſcape and re- them. did not the LORD remember them, and came irc ##},, ,, p- or ths reſt {As "Bas 3 oth _—_—— them into his mind ? would appear whether God's Word or theirs ſhould ſtand, and have 22 So that the LORD could no longer bear becauſe | its accompliſhment; they promiſing themſelves ſecurity, God of the evil of your doings, and becauſe of the abomi- HE o _ = om? ruine and deftruQion. : nations which ye have committed : therefore is your | , I? nd this ſhall be a ſign » unto you, faith the
je . LORD, thac I will iſh you in this pl h | | ſtonilbment, and le p puniſh you in this place, that ye INES, end _—_ 149" wag ane 4 CE | may know that my wordsſhall ſurely ſtand againſt you
. for evil. 2 Becauſe you have burnt incenſe, and becauſe ye|, < R . have ſinned againſt the LORD, and have not obeyed ' word is raken _ ST __ wm the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, Nor | attend the thing ſignified by it, as Exed. 3. 12. beſides though their ] in his ſtacures, nor in his teſtimomes, therefore this e- | deſtru&Qion, and the deſtrution of Pharach Hophra were things ime
vil is happened unto you, as at this day -Þ | pommy following one another, yet the latter was in order before c There is in theſe Verſes nothing of difficulty, nor any new |
Phraſes to be opened. That which is obſervable is, that though the - 30 Thus faith the LORD, Behold, I will give Pha- Prophet was but one againſt many, yet he feareth not their Faces: T aoh-hophr a king of Egypt into the hand of his ene- "The ſubſtance of what he ſaith is this ; That they interpreted God's mies,and into the hand of them that ſeek his life, as E