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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 32

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 32

← Matthew Poole — Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2

13 will nor make a full | end with you.

ſ Yee this Lerje explaines, Cp. 4 37: {ive only, that I chin, Hers ic i5 taken in the firſt ſenſe there menrioned; for :t IS not jard only, of in ther Vert, / will at make a fil end, or a tull ena vj ou, bur 2 full end 1:1 you; 9.4. I have nor dons witil you

et, See Lev, 26. 14. ad 40. F 19 & And it ſhall come to pak when ye ſhall ſay *, » Wherefore do h the LORD our God all tliete

\ £9/mgs unto US? then {hal* thou anſwer them, Like as

ve have forſaken m2, and ſerved q ſtrange Gods in our Land, fo ſhall ye ſerve ſtrangers in a land, rbat 15 nOt 7 YOUrs.

p This ſpeaks, either rheir unparallePd infolency, in a manner chaliengins God, asf they had not deferved fuci dealing at. his hands ; they might have expeCted better uſage from tim ; the 7ew: were good at theſe kinds of challenging of God, 1. £8, 3. Or roſs ſtupidity, as being luch Sors as not ro be ſentible of what the) 112d done to provoke him; like to that Chap. 16. 10. q Heb. Goz's o/” the ftranzer ; he doth not ſay ſtrange God, but Gads of th. trauger , Which aggravated their crime, that while they lived in their own land, and the true God among them, they would preca- rioutly go ferch in Gods from the Heathens. » Here the Propher,

1. oppolerh range Lords to rule over them, to tnote ſtrange Gods, that they had ſerved, which God calls a forfiking of him. 2, He o poſes a land m9? theirs, to their own land; fo that by this the Prophet {hews what refenrmenrs God had of their fin ; for it in- ries that their fin was much greater, that they ferved ftrange dr the tyrzinical impolition of a ftranger, and therefore he would accordingly fur rhe punithment, raart they ſhould ferve 11 a frange land, winch thovld be worle, than to be fervants in tizir oven. This 15 a dreadta), bur a juit Reraliacion, 20 Declare this in the houſe of Jacob, and publiſh in / Judah, faying, { See of riis Chr. 4+ 5. By Judah and Jacob we are to under- fund the rwo Ti:bes only, as Vir. Lhe which lee.

21 ilear now this, * O foolith people, and without T t underſtanding ; which have eyes and ſee not ; ear NOAt

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of Inſtruction, or Reformation, but are ſtupid, and ſotriſh, regard-

is ſail to be the ſimbole, ana according to Galen, the ſear of Wiſ- dom; fo the Poer placeth it, Cor ſap/t, & pulmo loquitur, fe! commmuet iram, &c. u See Chap. G6. 10. they are wilfully bling, and 0:5!tinately deaf, will neither ſee, nor hear the Word, Will, or Works of God ; of which he giveth two inſtances in two fol- lowing Verſes, Ter. 22,24, vV?z. In governing the Sea, and appoint- ir; the ſeaſors of the Near, Tt may be he alludes herein to their Iicis, to which they were ſo much addifted.

22 Fear ye not x ne? faich the LORD : will ye not tremble at tay preſence, which have piaced the y iand fir the * bound of the Sea, by a & perpetual de- cree, that ir cannot paſs it; and though the waves thereof tofs « themiclves, yet can they not b prevail ; 6 i : - - n "RB chough they c roar, Yet can they not paſs over it 2

v* y . . ag - * Ether a convincing Argument to periſivade them to ſuhmit

TO 1M ; will ye norſubmir to me,thart can rule th2 Sea ? which

15 unruly a tning 25 It 1s, yt quietly yields ro my wilt; Or rather,

' Very angry Challenge, and ExpoſtuJation ; Do you think, that I, That can fame the boiſterous Sea, cannot tame you ? y Thar ſtand

1:7 in n221 to make Rocks for Walls and Bounds -unto ir, bur can give a ci1:ck to it by fo ſnall a matter, as the Sand, rhar of ir (elf :$ not only yielding and venerrable, but ſujet ro be blown away v'(every wind. 2 Fiche joking backward, that it never conid,

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ramely yie'd unto the Sand, and retire lik, þ Not or any ord

' BPON GY e2ainf Gods decics as! Jo 0 MMNCNT. c Kirnge! fine 5 - iy» "Mi "Sb, - - SY cree or the land, winch mn revars of their form. Kirauericgn vp © ? ls RS. "I, £ hy £ by lTinets, and huxibiiiry would overflow the whole earth woes

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Def. ERS es ooo " Nbpe ' ; * 2 B\ T1H;S NHLLIMTRCE, God inty fhew witithe contd 4) \w IT} IEECIEIRICE

Fe - - " > * iſ} 3 7Y f 3 6” 2 . } - ro thar enraged, and ravinzs Ariny, that is abuuc lo C21. Uh 3

them hke a torrent, if his people would repenr. Ur rate; hereby upLrtds the Jews with thei wir fowuble for iis et

they are myvre mad 1m their Reb oijtons ag Jing watzrs of the Sea, that as butlierous as they Yo viey his Wi. 23 Bur this people hath a revolting and 2 «© 1b0tlt- on> heart; ey are revolted, and / pore,

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{ _c They are nor only revoiccd from ime, and gone bac, bur racy continue obſtinate, and wili nor return, Pj. 78 5, ws the

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lie! HITTER. by eff of it, 4 Hz. From me; they pertii! tn ihe coiuntrs, wo ics clauning of them, for tlicy are nor only revuitid, bur they are g01e Quite away, and are ircclaimalle.

f-arcthe LORD our God, char giveth & rain, bortt cie * former and the + latrer in tiis featon: he reiwevech unto us tne appointed weeks of the 7 ttarveit.

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