A 33 Andthey have turned unto me the Þ * back, & + ©. 30d notthe face, f though I taught them, riſing up 7. and <2T1y, and teaching them, yet they have not heark-
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_ f They have behaved themſelves againſt me contemptuouſly, like Mer, who when they are ſpoken to, admoniſhed or inſtruc- ed, inſtead of looking roward thoſe who inſtru&t or admon]ſh 7 them, turn their back upon them. g Yet there fin had not been ſo
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and therefore he calleth them ab3minztion in the abſtract for abo- ' minable thing, D2ut. 32. 16, 7 That is, in the Temple, which was ordinarily called the Houlz of the Lord, and the Temple of the Lord.
are 11 the valley of the ſon of Hinnom, to * canſe + o their ſons and their daughters to paſs throughthe fire 31.19.47. unto * Molech,which I commanded them nort.neither * Lev. 22. came Itinto my mind that they ſhould do this abo- 27- mination to cauſe Judah to {in k.
k See the notes on Chap. 19. 5, 6. where all paſſages we mee: with here are fully opened.
36 Þ And now therefore thus ſaith the LORD the God of Iſrael, concerning this city; whereof ye ſay, Ir ſhall be delivered into the hand ofthe King of : Babylon, by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the peſtilence 7: | n The Fews now began to ſee that the Chaldezrns would take
tne City, and to be as dead hearted, as before they were fall of courage, and to give over themſelves for ever as loſt.
37 Behold, I will * gather them ont of all coun- «pe; treys, whither I havedriven them in mine anger,and 3. Cy inmy fury, and in great wrath , and ] will bring 23- 3- £3 them again unto this Place, and will cauſe them to **: . dwell ſafely o. mn
o Though the city ſhall be taken, ard you ſhall go into Cap- tivity, yet you ſhall not be utterly loſt I will gather you again, and you ſhall have as quiet an habitation as ever.
38 And they ſhall be* my People, and I will be * chav their God P- : 2.3. 7. and p I will renew my covenant with them,and keep my covenant 3». 22. and towards them. They ſhall ſerve me more faithfully, and 1 will 31. 33. own them, and take care of chem and bleſs them. .
39 And [will give them * one heart 9, and one * Fze;.. way r, that they may fear me for | ever /, for the 11. :- good of them, and of their children after themr. * Heb, q I will give them union and concord, or an onenets of mind ** #7” and judgment; as tote things of God, they ſhallinot be ſome for ſuperſtitious and Hola:ro2us worthip, and ſome for my true Wor- ſhip. r They ſhall all Worſhip me according to the rule 1 have given them. { Thar they may worſhip me in Truth, as a Peop!e that have a dread of me upon their hearts. #£ This will be for the profit both of them, and their Poſterjty, many days, even to long as they ſhall continue foto do. :
40 And * I will make an everlaſting covenant » g1,,., with them, that will not turn away þ trom them ; 1, ;:. to do them good x, but I will put my fear into their + Heb. hearts that they ſhall not depart from mew. Jrom aſ5zy u This Promiſe manifeſtly relateth to thoſe Fews that,hhould ?*** receive the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, oc that were Tſraelires indeed , for
as to others, God Cid turn away from doing them good, when
their city was taken by Titus. Ualeſs it be to be underſtood of a national Converſion of the Fews, not yet affeGed. w My ſpiric which ſhall beget in them a dread of me, ſoas they ſhall not de-
part from me: Hence ſome conclude well,that when once thebody
of the Fews ſhall be converted, they ſha]l never again apoſtatize
from God. Ic may well from hence be concluded, that both Converſion unto God, and perſeverance in the ways of God are
the gifts of God ; we are kept by the power of God, through faith
unto Salvation. |
41 Yea, * I will rejoice over them, to do them - >. good x, and * [will plant them in this land + aſſt- 3. :-. redly with my whole heart and with my whole * Cap, ſoul py. pre x [ will not only do them good, but I will take pleaſure, and **** delight indoing them good, and I will y certainly bring them to IS Ox: this Land, and conſtantly and freely do them good when they * AE
ſhall be there. WIN : | ; fravi!i?, 42 For thus ſaith the LORD, like as I have brought all this great evil upon this People, fo will I bring upon them all the good that I have promiſed them z. 2 Youſhall find me astrue to my Promiſes,as you have found me to my Threatnings. 43 And fields ſhall be bought in this land, where- of ye ſay, 1t is deſolate without man and beaſt.
44 Men ſhall buy fields for money, and ſubſcribe evidences and ſeal thc, and take witniſſes * in the, land of Benjamin, and in the places abour Jeruſalem, , and in the cities of Judah, and in the citics of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the ſouth, for * I will cauſe their CaptViIty tO + cy, return, faith the LORD 4. 23s 7+ 11, 4 Now, Jeremiah,thou under ſtandeft wherefore I commanded 26,
thee to buy the Field offered thee by Hanamee! 1n Anaihath 13 the
Lot of Benjamin ; it was to aſſure thee, that though at preſent
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me 72. m Here is but one thing expreſſed by two phraſes; the word
by us tranſlated cleanſe ſignifies to expiare or purifie, with alluſion [to the legal purifications ; ſo ascleanſing muſt not be underſtood 'of Regeneration, but. of that pardon which is mentioned 1n the