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enrich with the Gift of Tongues in Goſpel-days. & Deep Lip, &c. wid. wer. 5, e Words are articulate and ſignificant, and when under. Nood, they are Words to the Hearer, but whilſt not underſtood they are bur empty and barbarous Sounds, as the Apoſtle obſerves 1 Cor. 14, f Surely in the Heb. the Words occaſion difficulty and variety of Tran- flations, but all of no great Moment. Some would refer it to the Fews, and make this Senſe, Hadſt thou gone 1n any Name bur mine they would have heard, fo parallel it with Jo-n 5. 43. but 'tis better, and more agreeable with the Text, to refer it to many Nations men- tioned, who would have heard what the Houſe of 1ſ-ae! refuſed to hear, (of which Jonah's Ninivites are pregnant Proofs) and to them T would have ſent thee, (fay ſome) but that they did not-underſtand thee ; this 15 but a very ſlender Gueſs, and ill conſiſts with the Pow- er of God, which can give theTongue, if he would haveſenr the Meſ. ſage, as he intimared to Msſcs unwilling to go. Our Verſion hath well read and referred the Words; with that Aſſeveration, ſurely, they have expreſt whar ſome will have the Hcb. dv&5 DN to be, a form ofan Oath: God aſſures the Propker the Meſſage is ſuch that any Men in their Wits would hear, go therefore to thy People, try whether they will a& like Men and hear, eſpecially when their Condition is quite otherwiſerhan that I now ſuggeſt of the Nations, for the Jews are few, weak, reduced to this by negleEing to hear in reaſon ; they ſhould now hear, repeat, ſeek me, do my word, and live.
-7 But g the houſe of Iſrael b will not hearken unto thee,
of Iſrael are / + impudent and hard-hearted .
z And Heb. put adverſatively is righly rendred but. h Have no mind Or will; the Original is not here, as moſtly *tis elſewhere, content to expreſsit by the word in the Tenſe, which connoteth the Event : Bur the Original firſt points our their want of a Will and Inclination, they E:ve no propenſity to hear, they are obſtinate in their reſuſal ; next a&1s what twas their Wills were obſtinately averſe to, z. e. hearin 2:d obeying. 7 This Pallage confirms the PrediQion, and withal fore- 2-ms the Prophet that he ſtumble not at their ſcandalous refuſal and zbuſing of him, ſo they have uſed their God, and his; and no wonder if they conſent as little to him as they have to God. & z. e. The far r:eater part, notevery particular Perſon, there were of the Captives ſome few, Jike good Figs. &c, ! Have hardned their Faces, chey are not aſhamed, nor can they bluſh now, as Jer. 3. 3. Brazen-faced is no new Phraſeor Angliciſm, but.asold as !/2iah 48. 4. nay asold as habi- exal Sin. m This the Root whence the other ſprings, and what Hope trom ſuch whoſe Hearts are as far from relenting as their Faces from bluſhing? How can it be expeRted they will hear, whoſe Hearts are
the Command is repeated and doubled. c As before chap. 2, wer. 4. d Chap. 2.ver. 5. which ſee.
hind me a + voice of a great ruſhing, /aying, i Bleſſed be the glory of the LORD from his & place.
e The Spirit of God which governed the Wheels and the living Creatures, chap. 1.wer. 3. f Either raiſed him up to nearer Approaches to ſee and diſcern, to hear and learn; Or, carried him to his Countreymen to whom he was to ſpeak. g his Face roward the North while he ſaw the Viſion, now that he is carried South ro his People the Voice is behind him. h An Articulate Sound and Intelligible, but with great Commorion, for ic was the Voice of Angels, attended with the ruſhing noiſe of the Wheels added to the noiſe of thetr Wings, and a mighty Wind which might likely accompany all this. 7 Praiſed, and magnihed be the gloriouſly holy and juſt God, riding on the glorious Chariot of his Sovereignty, in preſcribing Laws, appointing Ordinan- ces, threatning Sin, and puniſhing Sinners. & Either coming down from Heaven, or departing from his Temple. In brief, the glorious Angels, and all the Saints of God bleſs, 7. e. praiſe, admire, and juſtify God in all the ways ofhis Judgments among the Sons of Men.
I3 I heard ] alſo the noiſe of the wings of the living creatures that 2 -þ touched one another, and the noiſe of the wheels » ovzr againſt them, and a noiſe of a great ruſhing.
'#| rh added to conne& the Verſes and to make the reading fu!!, hath I think ſomewhat perplext the Words, and occaſioned enquiry al- ter two different Sounds or Voices, whereas if we read them as in the Heb. and as the Lat. And the noiſe was of the Wings, &«. fo the 13th verſe will explain the 12th, and tell you what was thar great ruſhing which Ezekzel heard behind him. m1 See chap. 1. wer, g. n See chap. 1. Ver. 19. 20.
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