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comprehended. c By talie-{wearing.or by idle and protane lwear- || ing, the Land is brought to ruine, The word fignities allo a Curte ! or curſing, Many good Interpreters judge, thar the more genniac lence and trueTranflation of this Text were, for becauſe of the.C:ir(-, ( that is, the Curſe of God ) the Land is brought to that Milery which is coming upon ic. 4 The Paſtures of the Wilderneſs, or cf the Plain; tor lo the word is rendred, I{4.63.13. Lam. 4.15. The Wrath of God was extended to ali places whether more or lel's i1- habited. e The Prophets did not only err in fingle Acts, but th
Power, Rule and Governmere was not right. It any fay what were the Prophets concerned in the Peoples wickednefs 2 Any. They were profane as wei; as the people, as we ſhall find, Ver.1 :, but beſides this, the people were thus vile through their conn'i- vance ; they did not warn the people of their fins, but ſoothed them up 1n their Wicked courijes, and fo were the caute of the
thdkenus dom jsan everlaſting Kingdom) the people of God typified by | peoples wickednets, who had not been to vile but tor them.
hen! proot ofthe Godhead of Chriſt. He is here called Jebovah,and
Fudah and Ifrael, the true Iſrael of God, tnoſe that are Jews in-| deed,ſhall be ſaved with a ſpiritual Salvation; for he was therefore | called Feſzs, becauſe he was to [ave bis people from their fins, Mar. I. 2I. and God w1ll be a ſpecial proteion to them. w The Name wherewith this branch ſhall be called, ſhall be, The Lord 0% Righteouſneſs. Some have applied this to the people, as if the people ſhould be lo called, or ſhould ſay, The Lord hath dealc gra- Clouſly with us; or, in the Lord we have Righteouſneſs. But this will appear but the new invention of ſome who either cannot, or will not underſtand, how Chriſt ſhould be his peoples Righteoul- neſs. Thoſe who conſider not, that it is the branch which was be- fore ſpoken of, and that the word people is not to be found going before, there is indeed a mention of Judah and Ijraet, but turely they were' not to be other Mens Righteouſneſs, and it that had been the Prophet's meaning, he would not have ſaid the Lord Our, but the Lord Tyeir Righteouſneſs, Nor is this the only place where Chriſt is called Our Righteouſneſs, 1 Cor.1-30. This place is an emi-
What is proper to God alone, viz. to juſtifie is here applied to Chriſt, The Prophet faith, Chriſt, ſhall be fo called ; that is, by his people, who ſhould believe in him and truſt in him alone for
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ftaſtical Ocder, all their Miniilry were profanz, not meerly hypo- . crita], but leud, immoral and debauched. grown to that impudence that they made the Temple, which was the Lord's Houle, a Den of Thieves ; a place where they commitce ted wickedneſs. Thus it was 1n the time of Ely, 1 Sm. 2. 2 and more generally atterwards, 2 Chror, 35. 14+ See Cha; >. 1 I1. and Ver. 14. of this Chaprer. There is ao more certain {1191
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tranſlated '0!ly fignifies un. 2504 3, of an avſurd thing. Our Sav- cur compareih wicked NM:mifters to un{amowy Salt, Maith. 5. 13. Salt that 15 rurned foolth as the G+e:6 word figmfies.) The M1- niftcrs of Goa's word are, or ought ro be, the Salt or the Eaith ro {eafon People with tound Doctrine, and by the good Example of an Holy Lite. If they be corrupt in Doctrine, or Manners,they become 45200479, and rhe very worſt of Men. Sach God lays tne Pi ophets of the Ten Tries were, before they were carried away Captive, 7 They propheſied, pretending they had their Inttiruzons and Kevela:tons from Baa!, and fo cauſed the Ten Tribes to crc, which atrer rhe Diviſion of the Kingdom 1n Jerobs- 2n's time were calied Trae! 1n contra-diſtin&on to re rwo Tribes, a: half cleaving ro the Houle of Datid which were Called Judah after rhe Name of their principal Tribe,
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walk in lyes »: they ſtrengthen alſo the hands of evil docrs, that none doth return from his wicked