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p My purpoſe is to exterminate and make deſolate, therefore ſlay all that are deſign'd ro deſtru&tion. q Whoſe venerable Age, if inno- cent, might have awed you, whoſe Wiſdom might preſerve ſome and themſelves. r Who ſhould be a Seed-p!ot or Nurſery for Poſteriry, cur them off too. / Regard no Stateor Sex, neither the Lovelineſs of rhe Virgin, nor the Prettineſs of the Infant, nor the Comelineſs and Gra- vity of the Matron, ſpare none. z Yer in your Fervours of Revenge lock you come nor near to any ſealed Forehead; you may ſee them, thovgh they bluſh ſor their own Sins, and for the Sins of others, yet they look up to me, and waitfor me in the way of my Judgments; they will lift up their Heads, and look you in the Faces. # Both the Execution and the DiſtinCtion at the SanQuary : there are the great Sinners, and the ab:minable Sins which have brought this on them; and that all 7/-asl way know, nothing but Repentance can ſecure them. * The Seventy, or Sanhedrim, ch. 8. 10. 11. y Who were Governours
in the Temple and Houſe of God by Office, bur Idolaters by Prattice
d Principles. we And hs ſaid unto them, 2 Defile the houſe, and
a fall the b courts with the flain, c go ye forth: and d they
went forth, and e ſlew in the city. z Regard not the Holineſs of the Temple; Idolaters whom you are to ſlay, have defiled it with the Blood of Idols Sacrifices; do you defile it with the Blood of the Idolatrous Sactificers: Slay them where you find them, for there they ſinn'd againſt me. a make a great Slaugh- ter, let every Place be ſtained with their Blood. b{ There were the Prieſts, the Levites, and the Womens Courrs ) and there will be found Perſons of a different CharaQter, but unleſs my Mark be upon them, forbear none of them. c Make haſte, do not ye, for I do not delay, nor will I. 4 Here, as before, they ſhew thcir ready Obedience. e This Slaughter was viltonal in th2 eye of the Propher, anda a Pre- face to the {addeſt Butcheries Iſrael ever bled and groaned under. 8. &' And it came to paſs g while 5 they were z ſlay- ing & them, and 1 was left, that I fell upon my face, and x cried, and ſaid, o Ah, Lord GOD, wilt thou de- {troy all the p refidue of Iſrae], in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jeruſalem? f This is a moſt vſual Tranſition and Scripture-Phraſe. g There was ſomes Space of time raken up in the Execution. + Theſix Slaugh- ter-mecn. : Not bodil. and aQtually, but viſionally, and in propherick Repreſentation. k Thoſe about the SanCtuary, and in th- City. Ei- ther ſurvived the Slaughter, or left alone ; now both the Sealer, and the Slayers were gone, 0: left alone, ſealed of all the Prieſts, the reſt being expoſtd tro Deffuttion. In moſt humble and earneſt manner ad- dre iling ro God as cn= that-would intreat Mercy for a ruined State. » Importunately pray'd, and the Prayer follows. -o An Expreflion of th= greateſt compounded Affettion of Pity, Deſire and Zeal for the Affficted ; and what follows is a Complex of Arguments for Piry and ſparing mercy, from God himſelf, from his . eculiar Hand in this, from his Peop'e, the Remnant of them, and from the ſad and mourn. ful State Jeruſalem was aiready in ; Muſt 211 1ſract drink thus of the Cup of thine Incignation? p So called, becauſe many were already in Cap- tivity with Feconzah, and had been ſo about ſix or ſeven Years ; or elſe in reſpe@ to the eleCting love of God, who ever reſerved a Remaant to himſelf. # 1 9 q Then ſaid he unto me, The iniquity of the houſe + Heb. ex- of 7 I{rael and s Judah « + * exceeding great, and the eeeding ex-Jand is | « full of blood. and the iwiry full of x [| perverſe. _ , neſs - for they y ſay, The * LORD hath z forſaken the led _ "earth, and the LORD a ſeeth not. ; bloods. || q God gives him a ſpecdy Anſwer. r Of thoſe who either joined Or, wrc/z- themſelves to the Houſe of David, when the ten Tribes fell off, or ing of thoſe that eſcaped when Sa/manzaſſer carried them Captive. sThetwo judgement, Tribes, though only one 1s exprels'd, the other is included. 7 Grown * Ch. s. beyond all meaſure that my Juſtice cannot, and my mercy muft not 12. longer forbear. « Very much innocent Blood is ſpilt, or there are many Bloodſhedders among them” x All Judgment is perverted; in Judges, ro Injuſtice; in Prieſts, to Idolatry ; 1n all, to Scepticiſm or Atheiſm. y They argue and diſpute againſt my concerning my ſelf in the Government of the World, and the Church. z Caft off the Care of his People, and fo they ſpoil him of his Dominion. a Deny his | Omaiſcience, and make him as Idols for Ignorance, juſt as Pſa. 16, 11. and 94. 7. *"Ch.5. 1, 10 And = as for me alſo, mine « eye ſhall not *fpare, & 7. 4. & neither will Þ have pity, b«t I will 5 recompenſe their way
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e heard ever to the f utter court, as the voice of the al- mighty God when he þ ſpeaketh. :
Mouths of Sinners: whether this was an Applauſe of Chiſts righte- ous Procedure, or any ſound of Alarum, or both, let your own Judgment determine. See chap. 1. wer. 24. e Such as might well be heard, and as the Viſion repreſented ſuch a great Sound to the Pro- pher, he reports it to the Fews ; not- that the Elders now with Ex:kiz! did hear this, or that ſuch an audible Sound was heard in Jeruſalem, but