LORD our God »: ? . 1 Or, all theſe things, When thou ſhall be obſerved by this peo- 'Ple to refuſe Marriage, and to go to the Houles of Mourners, ac- cording to the Cuſtom, to eat or to drink with Mourners, to make them to forget their ſorrows, or to go into the Houle of Feaſting for Jollity and Mirth, and they ſha!l ask che reaſon of thy ſingula-
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cording as I have inſtructed thee, and they m ſhall pretend to be at a lols, to known the realon why God is fo ſevere againſt them, for what fin or iniquity it i5,think perhaps that Manaſſes or Fehoz4- kim's commanding them to worſhip Ido]s would excuſe them, and only leave their Superiours guilty, for orherwile, while there
was {uch plain Idolatry amongſt them, they could not be ignorant | of caule ſufficient that God had, conſidering the multiplied chreats |
in the Law. 11 Then ſhalt thou ſay unto them, Becauſe your fathers » have forſaken me, and faith the LORD,
have walked after other Gods, and ſerved them, and |
have worſhipped them, and have forſaken me, and have not kept my law.
n The Idolatrous Rings of Fudah that were before Manaſſes his time, ſince whole time they were hardly forty years yet elaplied,.
12 And ye o have done * worſe than your fathers (for behold ye walk every one after the || imagination of his evil heart, that they might not hearken unto
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o Ye 11 latter Ages, in the time of Manaſſ-s, have done worſe | ſpeaking to him upon t! pp than your l-atiters did, and now in the ti.ne of Fehoiahim, you (for mercy tor himlelt, and tro confirm his Falt!, run on much in the ſame courſe of Idolatry and Superſtition, |Natnes ſuited co his hopes 11 VC whicirin L215 is Worle in you,vecaule for thirty years togecher you |n him for the vbrr-ming favour from BUn is 2c
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comforreth himſelf with the thoughts of thoſe good days that | knoweſt not : for * ye have kindled a fire in my anger, * Chap. vrore coming, ween not only the Jews ſhould De again __ - which ſhall burn for ever h. | IF, I4+ their County, but oy -onvay we rim cg »s #4 on! . 6 my | g In the word diſcontinue there is a ſecret promiſe, that they
(EO 200 ng Of THe Few | ou} accompany) me *PP? | ſhould again come and poſiets and inherit their Land, they ſhould themtelyes to God, confeſiing that both they and Frei wes 4g | not 1oſÞ their Inhericance,but only diſcontinue their poſſeſſion and
in their worſhipping dumb Ifo's, had but inherite LieSand Va-| occupation of it, Some learned Authors conſidering that the tame
nity, and things that were unprofitable. | word !$ here uled, which is uſed Exod. 23. 11. in the Law concern-
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