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* Lev. 26. 29. Deur. 28. 53- 2 Kings6.
* Chap. 7. ſpare, neither will I have pity 5. 4,9. & 8. m A Formofan Oath becoming none but the living God, uſed often 18, in Scripture and in this Prophet. #» Violated and prophaned. o My
but either becauſe they never heeded how they were polluted, but with legal Pollutions on them came to the 'Temple :- or, rather brought in their Idols, all their deteſtable counterfeit Gods, as Jer. 7. 3o. and in
naſſeb. All their Idolatry and Wickedneſles exprefled by two words of like Emphatis. q Leffen, break to pieces, cut up by the Roots ſuch ſtinking Weeds. 7 There ſhall net be the leaſt ſign of Pity in my Eye, though Iſee all their Miſery. 5 Nor yet will I retain any Affe&i- on of Kindneſs for them ; my Heart, as my Eye, ſhall be far from all Pity and Commilſeration towards them.
"Sev. ©, : & Jer. 15. t and with famine # ſhall they be conſumed in the midſt of
thee, and a third part ſhall fall by the ſword x round about thee, and I will ſcatter a third part into all winds, and I will} draw y out a ſword after them.
expreſs Declaration, how God would execute theſe ſevere Judgments upon this People. t No doubt, though 'twere not mentioned or threat- ned, as Jer. 34. 17. we might conclude it could not bur be in ſuch a beſieged City, where Blood putrifying Carcaſſes, &s. anngy. « Sig- nified by Fire, for it parcheth and withereth Men. their aſlailing the Beliegers round about the Walls, and as they did {all under the Aſſault when the Enemy attempted to take the Giry, &«.
' another, and ſome report ( as I take it) that Children among them un-
whenthe very ſmall Remnant with 7ohanan fled into Zgypr.
and Impiety and fr:eligion againſt God bimfclf. p There ismore Ho- neſty, Truth and Righteouſneſs among the Nations than among the
Jews. þp The Precepts and Rules of Religious Obſervances which I gave them, they have leſs valued, been lefs conſtant to, than the Nati-
ons have been to theirs, received from Men, and invented by Man. So Fer. 2. 9. 109. 11, r The Jews. s With Scozn and Abhorrence, as what their Mind abominated. So vile were they grown, that they foathed the excellent Law of God, and were weary of it, as Heb, im- plieth. r As for my Statutes in Matters of Religion, they have refuſed to walk in them, and have modelled Religion to their own fancy, built Altars, adopted new Gods, and appointed new Worſhip more gay or eaſy, as their Humour was.
7 Therefore thus ſaith the Lord GOD, becauſe ye « multiplied more then the nations that are round about you, and have x not walked in my ſtatutes, neither have kept y my judements, neither 2 have done according to the judgmen:;> of the nations that are round about
YOU,
with rhe Tex, the reſt may not be excluded. x See. w. 6. y See v.6. z
Whi!e vou have excecded the Nations in Superſtition and [dolarry, you have fallen ſho: tof th:m n the Morahitics of their Life, and done leſs
good than they taught by a far more 1imperfe&t Law than you, Rom. 2, 21,23, 24.
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Chap See triore wer. 2. of this Chapter, y When the Babylonian; Sword hath cut off all about Jeruſalem, I will draw out my Sword, and purſue the reſt which Nebuchadnezzar could not reach.
13 4 Thus ſhall mine 6 anger be accompliſhed, anq I will cauſe my c fury to 4 reſt upon them, and * I will: e be comforted: and f they ſhall know that I the LORD have ſpoken is in g my zeal, when I have accompliſhed
my fury in them.
# In this terrible and relentleſs thanner already declared. 4M provoked Juſtice, not Paſhon, ſhall be executed to the full of thatI in. tend and have ſpokes c After the manner of Man is this ſpoken, an 1mplies the great and hot Diſpleaſure of the Lord d My Bowels were troubled how to ſpare,and yet to puniſh ; bur now I will reſt from ſuch Struglings berween my Mercy and my Juſtice; this ſhall be glorified, and I will be at eaſe. e Idid what in reaſon they could expeR, and more than I was bound to, for their Preſervation; bur nothing would prevail. O Jſ/rae! thou art deſtroyed ; but *tis my SatisfaCtion thou haſt deſtroyed thy ſelf, and canſt not charge it on me. f Theſe ruined
u There is ſome Difficulty in aſſigning what tis tliey multiplied 1n, either Numbers of People, Benefi:s received from God, Luxury, Pride, Tumultuouſneſs, with Increaſe of your Riches: or, in Idols, Superſti- rious, and appendant Wickedneſſes: This Iaſt ſeems moſt agreeable
ones by ſad Experience ſhall know. g In that Indignation againſt your
Sins, which the love of my own Glory ſtirred up within me. In my
provoked Jealouſy I ſpake, and will a& againſt a perſiſting, perfidious
_ adulterous Wife, and it ſhall be known when I have finiſh'd my ork.
14 Moreover, I will make thee 5 waſte, and a 7 re-
|proach among the nations that «re round about thee, in
the ſight of all that paſs by. | | h Judgments ſhould empty the Land of Men that ſhould till and mz.
8 a Therefore thus ſaith the Lord GOD, 5 Behold, | urs it, and ſo your fruitful Land ſhaJlbe turned and continued a waſte
I even | az againſt thee, and c will execute judgments in the midit of thze, in the ſight 4 of the nations.
a Ir is very juſt what God doth, he hath cauſe more than enough given him to do ſo, 6 Take notice and conſider me, not as now for
you but againſt you; you look to the inſtruments, to the Rod, but be-
hoid, I am, even I am againſt you; againſt thee O Jeruſalem. cI will att in Severiries that ſhall convince you 'tis my Hand that weilds the Swo:d; you deſpiſed my Holy Law, my Judgments, Rule of Life, but you ſhall now fee] my Judgments that you ſhall die under. The Chal- d: ans will kill you, but I condemn you ; they'i be cruel, bur I'll be juſt in the execution, znd whocan be for thee when I will be againſt thee in this dreadtul manner ? a As notorious as thy Sins, ſo ſhall thy Puniſhment be. The very Heathen ſhall ſee my hand in it, and own iy Juffice. :
9 And I will do in thee that which T have e not done, and whereunto I f will not do any more the like, becauſe
of all thine abominarions g.