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o I reli you the way that you ſhould take, if ycu would ſave your lives; and rhe courſe, which if you rake, you will certainly loſe your lives.
o He that * abideth in this city, ſhall die by the ſivord, and by the famine, aud by the peltilence : but he that goeth ovt, and falleth to the Chalceans that betiege you, he ſhall live p, and * his lite {hall
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p Bur cerrainly, if ever any Man ſpake High Treaſon, this Pro- phet now <1d ir, when there was an Enemy beſicging them, telling them, thar if they weuld ſave their Lives, they mult re- voir from their king, and joyn with their Enemies. All chat can be ſ2id in excuſe for the Prophet is, that this was a Divine Re- velarion ro him, and a Mefiage ſenr to the king himſelf. q Hz: lije (ha!l be given him for a Prey, appearerh ro have been a proverbial Expretſion, either figniſying a Man's potlc{ſion of his life as a Prev, or Boory recovered from Deach, or the hand of the Enemy. 2. Or a Man's r5joycing in the ſaving of his Life, asif he had gor {ome nortavle Booty, ;
10 For | have ſet my face againſt this city, for evil, and nor for good r, faith the LORD ; it ſhall hegiven iato the hand of the king of Babylon, and he ſhall burn it with fire /. :
y Thar 1s, I will ſet my ſelt againſt 1t, I will be an Enemy to 1t. S-e the like Phraſe Lev. 17. 10. and 20. 5. Iris a Phraſe fignity- ing nor only God's Averſion from them, and the raking his Affe- &on off chem, but his determination to bring Ruin upon them, 2nd chuſing Methods of Providence tending and conducive there- unto : and (> it 1s opened inthe following Words, which are ra- ther ro be underttood of the Strucure of the City than of the In- h:biranrs, for that not the People were burnt with fire, though probably many of the People periſhed in ſo great Burnings.
it And tonching the houſe of the king of Ju- dah 7, /y, Hear ve the word of the LORD -:.
t By the houſe of the King of Fudah he means the Houſe of Z-debith, the Court, or thoſe ( as appearcrh by the nexr Verſe ) who were the Magiſtrates. # Theſe, how grear. ſoever, are nor excuſed from the common Obligation upon al} to liſten co, and ro obey the Revclations of the Divine W1ll |
12 O houſe of David w, thus ſaith the LORD, * -| Execute jindgment in the morning -v,and deliver him that 1s ſpoiled, out of the hand of the oppreſlor y, e# my fury go out like fre, and burn thar none can quench 77 <, becauſe of the evil of your doings 4.
w Hecal!s theſe the Hoſe of David, either checking them, who were indeed ſoin a lineal Deſcent, or minding them what the) cught to be in 1miration of cheir Farher David, x The only way they had to keep oli choſe Divine Judgments which now hang'd over ther Heads, was to execute Judgment, that 15, Fuſtice, with- eur partiality ; the Prophets Advice to them to exrcute Judgment it the Morning, either lets them know” they muſt do ir quick!y, er elſe ir hath reſpe# tothe rime when the Courts of Juſtice fare. y One Sp<cics of Juſtice, was the Deliverance of the oppreſſed from the hands, that js,from the power and malice of the Oppreſ- ſors, which it it were not done, q God threatneth certain Ruin and Deſtruction to them, which none ſhould be able to hinder or avoid. The cauſe of which was, rheir wicked Doings 3 for that God who doth People good, and fhewerh them favour, not for their ſake, hur for his own names ſake, yer never punitheth them, Euitjora caule found in them. :
13 Behold, I 22 againſt thee, -O inhabitant of the valiey &, and rock of the plain c, faiththe LORD; which fay, Who ſhall come down againſt us ? or who
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