7 Which will be the evidence of thyRepentance,without which thou canſt nor lay claim to any pardon, Prov. 28.13. Iſa. 55. 7. This 1s ſpoken by way of limitation, Jelt the Iſraelites ſhould fantie : tO eatte a Pardon from God's merciful Nature. Exhortations to Repentance ſhould always accompany the exhibition of Promutes. þ F772, To other Nations, or rather to other God's, or to Idols,run- ning here and there up and down like a light inpudenr Harlor, fomerimes7to one, ſomerimes ro another, thus ſucking in divers Superſtitions, called ſcattering thy ways, wer.6. 2 Kings 17. 4,9,10. nd Chzp. 2, 23; 25. Feet whereby we go on in ways ; a metapho- "ical Meronymy, 1 $o that your Sin 1s not a Sin of ignorance. but of obſtinacy, thutting your Ears againit my Counſels, which I ſent you by my Prophets tor your reciaiming, 2 Kings 17.13, &Cc.
14 Turn, O backſliding children, # faith the
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7; Tam in Covenant with you, Dert., 29, r. 10,11, T2,&c. and this Covenant notwithſtanding all your unfairhfulneſs, Iam ready ro renew with you, Hof 2.19,20. # This word Family is not always ts be raken ſtrictly for an Houthold ; for then rhe expreſſion would ſeem to imply more ina Family than in a City : bur frequently for a Country or Nation-Comp.Gen. 1243. with 22.18, Ezek.14417,18, 19. See Ch. 1.15. or for a Tribe,and this may partly refpett the few- neis of thoſe that will be found Penicencs and return, God will have a ſprinkling in every City, and in every Family, or Tribe, or. Country ; but chiefly it reſpe&s God's exact care of them, that being now married to rhem, there ſhall not be one in a Ciry, or two in a Country or Tribe, but he will find them ovrt : If there be but one or two, he will not overlook them, this ſeems to be intimated, 1ſa. 27+ 12. a Texr that points at the ſame thing. o, 7.e. To Jeruſalem a Type of the Church. A double Meronymy of the Subgef. Iris the manner of the Prophets, when . they are treating
of remporal Deliverances, eſpecially from Baby/on, frequently to break out abruptly into the ſpiritual Deliverance by Chriit, and ſo probably he dorh here ; and therefore bringing rhem to Zion muſt be underſtood either of joyning them ro: his Church, under the Miah, or bringing them again ro worthip with Judah at Jeruſa- [alem; as may ſeem to be intimated Chap. 31. 6. But the ten Tribes did never return into their own Land, and therefore that Texr mult be underſtood of a ſpiritual going up to Zzor, viz. when all Iſracl ſhall be ſaved, Rom. 11, 26. See 1/a. 56. 7, $. and 66. 20, and wer. 18. Thus we may Jook upon this part of the Prophecy ro have reſpett partly to whet God was at that time about todo, in this 7*re, and partly whzr he would heresfter do, when they 1hould be again ſfetled in their own Land, vnder the Meſſial, ver. 16, 17, 18, 19.
I5 And I will give you * paſtors p according to *Ezek.34. mine heart q, which ſhall feed you with knowledgeand underſtanding r.
þ Either Civil Magiſtrates, which are ſometi-nes ſo call-d, Mzc. 5. 5. Or rather, Eccleliaſtical, as appears both from the reaſon of God's Judgments upon 1/ael, viz. Their Paſtors being generally either Thieves, or dumb Dogs ; and alſo from the n:ture of their Office in the cloſe ofthe Verſe, and thus they are called,Zph.4.1 1. Such as | will both chuſe for you, and approve of, and that thall faithbully and skilfully declare unto you my Mind, which in- timares nor only a ſingle a& of deliverance, bur his conſtant pre= {ſervation of them. r This notes, either the nature of their Food, Sze Nez. 8. 8. Mal. 2. 95, Or rather, the manner of their Feeding. See Pſal. 78. 72. See 1 Pet. 5. 2. See more of this Promite chap. 23.
16 Andit ſhall come to paſs when ye be mulcipli- ed /, and increaſed in the land, in thole days r, ſaith the LORD, they ſhall ſay no more, The ark « of the covenant x of the LORD : neither ſhall ic come + tot] mine, neither ſhall they remember it, neither ſhail cl vitit 27, neither ſhalli| ;har be done any more 5
t After the growr!; of the Churci ur.der the at the great Work of Converlion that thould be among thern. e- mag: fied ſpecially in the days of the Meſſias, and how great! y the- Church ſhould be encreaſed by the acceſſion of the Gertler 2 beginning whereof we read As 2. 41. and 4. 4. #u A Stnecdechica! exprete t10n tor all the legal Ceremonies, whereof the Ark wi$ 2 chiefyzrr.
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