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Corruption, thew Wicked:rets and Filrhinels, 15 not removed,
I{a. 32. 6. tor Wicked may be read Wickwinels, { 30 *||z Reprohate filyer ſhall me» o call th , becauſe the LORD Hhath p rejected them. i # Or. Keful? Siiver ; ſuch as will be rejected 11 Vayments,they ; are not tov be purged or role med, © Ur, b- caed, 7. e, Vhey | ſhail be etteemec tuch, as will not pais for cu ranc betore God or good Men, Lam. 3.45. p The Proper gives re Realon of theic ; being fo accounted {uch refute Stutt, v3. beciule God who knew their Hypocritie in boaſting of themiclves, had ejected them, Lam. 5. 22. thetetore every one elle would.
CHAP. VILE
A Call to true Repentance, 1, —— 7. and gt living in Theſt, Mur- der, Alultery, Perjury, 8c. to truſt in the ouzward Worſhip and Temple of God, by the Example of Shiloh, $, — 15. the Prophet is forbid to pray for them, 16. Their Uolatry, and its Fuigment, 17, — 20. Their S :crifi;es rejeffed, and Obedience r-q url, 21, — 28. They are called to mourn far #h:ir abcminations in Tiphet, and their Fudgments, 29, 34-
HE word that came to ſergniah from the a LORD, faying, 4 See Chap. 1,2. This is the Title of a new Sermon much ofthe nature of the former, which reacheth to Chap. 10. 2 Stand in the b gate of the c LORD*s houſe, and d proclaim e there f this word, aud ſay, Hear the word of the s LORD, all ye of Judah, that eater in at theſe gates to worſhip the LORD. b Viz. The Eaſt Gate, which was chiefly frequented ; this be. ing the publick place of golng out and coming in, and where the People were wont to aſſemble, Feremiah 26. 2, 10. and he is faid to ſtand, becauſe he was to execute the Office of a Preacher,Chap. 26. 2.not of a Fudge, where the Poſture would rat her have been fitting. c The Temple, Ver. 4, 109. de The Place notes the Va- nity of their Confidence, who, notwithſtanding all their Prayo- cations, yet placed their Safety much in the Privileges of the Temple, glorying much in that; and the Manner, Proclaiming fgnifies both the Authority by which he ſpake, and the divuleing ef what he ſpake plainly and boldly, which, as it was in a publick place, v7. the Court of the People, not the Court of the Prieſts, (from which it is diſtinguifhed, 2 Chroy. 4. g. ) and therefore jaid at theſe Gates, the ſeveral Gates that were in the Wall of the Court, of which there were fix, three on the South-fhde and three on the North ; ſo poſſibly, ic might be at ſome publick time of the Peoples reſorting thither from all Quarters, P/a!. 122-4, 5. when all the Males wereto meet ; Ex9. 2 3. 17. See Fob. 7.37. and there- fore ſaid All ye of Fudah. f The Meffage that I tend thee with, g See Chap. 2. 4+ : 3 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts the God of Iſrael ;
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* Amend your ways, aud your h doings : and I will :
cauſe you to dwell in this z place.
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h i, e. Mend your Manners. Amending fignifies both to turn fron our evil Works, and make our good better. # You hal not go into Captivity, implying, that otherwile they ſhould ; he will continge their Habitations to them from Age, as Fer. 7.
ic: Lov. 26. Ls I will ſer my Tabernacle, i. ve. I will contt- nue 1t.
4 Truſt ye not in lying words, ſaying, The & tem- ple of the LORD; the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are theſe.
k Becauſe this was God's Houſe, wherein he had promiſed to dwell, and that for ever, Pſal. 132. 13, 14. they flattered them- {clves, that he could dwell no where elſe, and would got depart, and certainly would not luffer the Chaldeans to deſtroy this.,and theretore, that no evil could befal them, as they promiſed them- {elves, Afic. 3. 11. theretore the Prophet cautions them not to deceive themielves, in truſting to the Temple, and its Butldings,as
the two Courts and Houle,and Holy of Holies implied 1a the word , yered to do all theſe 4 aboininations ? theſe, which he doth as ic were point to with his Finger ; ( For |
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2 Here the Prophet mentions divers of thoſe fins, in which chey {| were notorious, they were Thieves, Murderers, Adulterers, perjured Idolaters, &c. q. d- Can you think, that this can be gratetul unts
me, or any Whit advantageous to your ſelves, to frequent my The d :ing ota thing in Scripture often implies the continuance of! Houle, and yet retain thele odions fins, as if I were a Companion : tor Thieves, Murderers, 8c. 4 Such as they had ſet upmew, and
never had any experience of, and therefore could have no reaſon
to ſerve them, therefore called new Gods, Deur. 32. 17. Fudg. ' 5. 8. but of his power, and goodneſs they had had ample proof, in their deliverance from Egypt, and the wonCerful Miracles, and
Signs that God had ſhewn them in the Wilderneſs, and his Vito- ' rious Arm for them in Canaay, of which things theſe F:ws could not be 1gnorant, therefore the more inexcuſable. Four of theſe ſins reſpect the ſecond Table, theſe two laſt the firſt. The Name of Baal 1s here put tor all Idols.
10 And come and ſtand before me in this b houſe + Heb.
+ which is called by my c name, and ſay, weare deli- #h:reupmt my name is
called.
b In the Temple, either as if they had done no ſuch thing, like
where the Prophets ſpeak diſtintly of the form of the Temple, the Whore, that wipes her Mouth, and ſaith ſhe hath done no
they reckon the | ly place, or Houſe whereinto the Prieſts only did enter, and the
Oracle, or Holy of Holies, wherein was the Ark ot the Covenant, and into which only the High- Prieſt entred, and that but once a Year) which theſe Hypocrites looked upon themſelves ſecured by,
Court,where the People did facrifice,and the ho-! wickedneſs, Prov. 30. 20, noting their deep Hypocrifie, or elte
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that barely this would expiate for all their abominations,as if they could make God amends for their fins by their Duties, and their
| poſture ot ſtanding notes their Service, 1 Kzngs 1o. 8. Prov. 22.
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29. c That is acknowJedged to be my Houle, and bears my Name,
as it were, by a treble Wall, For: or Bulwark, that they could! gegicated to me. d That is, after they had appeared before God
not miſcarry ;but he would have them to know that neither theſe, nor the ſervices belonging to them will be able to ſecure them, v. 8. Ch.a.14. andit is likely, their falſe Prophets did thus per- ſwade them, whole Propiecies he calls here thele lying words; but