23 Cauſe to the firſt Cauſe > (things which are all contradictions | *! * ; "Y ie _—_ to the common ſenſe of Men:) A Man is no God himlelt, how| # le was the great f11 of this People, for which they are often £ ! : tick tumlf hart taxed in Holy Writ, 2 Chron. 16.7. and 28. 26, 20. I. JO. 1, ts C21 he communicate a Divine Nature, wich himleit natn not, 5 ) OE INS. Sy > herher > ; and 31. i, 2. when any danger threatned them for their Sins, to cTLIW 5
make Leaf u2s with, and flee to forreign idolatrous Nations to kelp
Cr STLIETT
21 Therefore behold, I will this once cauſe them
to know, T will cauſe them to know mine hand, and
"£3 33: mv might &, and they ſhall know.that my * name 1s the LORDe.
and fuccour them, and torepole a confidence in them, and ſo bou]- {ter up themſelves in their wicked and finful courſes promiſing themielves deliverance from the dangers that threatned them, by (the power of their Confederates and Allies. This ſin the Propher
1 Pecauſe atl the goodneſs and mercy that Thave ſhewed them, | here reflecterh upon. That while their heart departed from God, will nor learn them to know me, my power and might, I will | (hey would yet encourage themſelves, trom the hoped for help of once for all make them to underſtand it, by the dreadtul trokes of | Men: The Prophet from God declares that ſuch are and ſhall be my Vengeance. e They ſhall know.that my Name 1s Jehovsh ; that curſed, and mentioned Man, under the Notion of Flef, to ſhew Fam not ſuch a one as their Idols, bur one who have my being his frailty and impotency, to help againſt the mighty Power and trom my ſelf;andgive Life and Being toall other things,and have | Wrath of God; withal ſhewing us, That God alone Is the true ob- all mizht and power in my hand, and can do whatfoever I pleaſe ; ject of our Faith and Confidence, as well as for the things of tris and oge that will mike good whatioever I have ſpoken, whether | Life, -as thoſe of another Life, and that none whoſe heart departerb
13 a way of promile or threatniog,
CHAP}. XVII.
The Captivizz ef Judah for her fin, 1, ——= 4. Truſt in May Curi-d: In God Bl:ſſel, 5, —— 8. The deceirfui Heart and met fecrer Prafices are hnown to God, 9, —— 11. The Salvua- ron of God, 12, —= 14. Tye Prophet compleineth of the Mocker.
' his Prophscies, 15, — 18+» Of keeping the Sabbath, 19, — 27.
J2D 19. 1 HE 41in of Judah z written with * a pen of _ L iron, 44 withthe + nojnt of a diamond 2 ; x = /t 75 graven upon the table cf cheir heart b, and upon ____ the horns of your altarsc : #7
aThere is much arguing amongft thoſe that are critica] about the
true fignification of worcs,what is here ignited by TOW Shamir,
which we tranſlate a Diamond ; moſt agree that it doth not ſtgnthe
2 Diamond (not uſed in ingraving) but that by the Pen of Tron, and
©1129 point of 2 Diamord, are mcant lome Tools with which they were
wont to ergrave things upon hard tubſtances, it may be mace in a
ftevre relombling the Claw of a Bird, as the word feemeth to 1m:
port. b It is graven in their hearts they are ſo accuſtomed to ftn,
'o inured to T:iolatry, that there is no hope of any reclaiming
them. For how can they that are accuſtomed to do evil,do well ?
c Nor is it thing done in ſecret, bur it is written or painted, or
e2graven upon the Horns of their Altars, God's Altar was four-
{quare, and at each corner there was a riſing part made of Braſs
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joinething high, theſe were called the Herns of the Altar, S-e Exod. 27.2, Exrk. 43.15, 16. Now their (tn iseither ſaid to be enzraved, or publiſhed, upon the Horns of the Altar, becaule the Blood of the Sacrifices which they offered to I6do's was Iprinkled there, or becaute their Altars had fame lnicription upon them, declaring to w hat Idol that Altar was contecrated, as the Altar at Athers had. 2 Whilft their children rememder their altars, {:1.3.7. and their * groves, by the green trees upon the high I .'2.96 hills Ale Fon 4 Tais ſhewed how inveterate they were in this ſin of Idolatry, & P2420 thor they taught ir their Children, andtheir Children remembred their Idolatrous Altars, and the Groves, where they were wont to worſhip Idols by the green Trees, as they did allo upon the high Hills, to their ſta was derived trom ore Age to another. O:hers think, that the phrafe rather exprefſeth their fondneſs of their Idols, and think it ſhould be read, as therr Children, they re- member, &c. that is, they loved their Idols, and their Idolatrous Services, a5 they Joved their Children, which alſo was true, yea. thev that made their Childien paſs through the fire to Molech, loved them better than their Children. * C hape 3 Omy mountain in the field e, I * will give i5-13- thy ſubſtance, zd all thy treaſures to the ſpoil, id thy; high places for fin, thronghout all thy bor- ders f.
e O Mount 29, for though Feruſalem ſtood in a Plain, yet it was at the foot of an Hill, and part of it was built upon the fide of the HJ], upon the top of which Hills, were many pleaſant Fields. Gr, O Fudah, which was a Country full of Mountains, God calls it his Mounrain, becauſe of the particular favour he had to this Country. f He threatneth to pive all the Riches of the Inhabitants of Fudah and Feruſ2/em as a ſpoil, and all the High
laces where they had commirted Idolatry throughout all their 1 . Countrey into the Enemies hands. | : : « He: , And thou,even Þ thy ſelf ſhalt diſcontinue from J F4 thine heritage which ] gave thees, and I will cauſc
thee to ſorve thine enemies, in the land which thou
from God, can With any ſecurity look for any help from the Crea-
tUre,
| 6 For he ſhall be * like the heath in the deſart, and * Clap, !hall not ſee when good cometh, but ſhall inhabit the 4+: <-
parched places in the wilderneſs, zz a falt land and
not inhabited þ.