the « righteous fad, whom | have not x made fad ; an
not return from his wicked way, by || + promiiig ]
« Diametrically oppoſing what my Prophets told to my People in my Name. 7 The” Soul, which in weak ones received ſome fadning
” of Grief, to ſee ſo many contradict the Lord to their own Run.!
# Who keep my Law, and have r<1peCt ro all my Precepts, tho none|
Idols, and yet comes to the Prophet, as if *twere to know what were ; beſt ro be done,and wha: will be the ite of thete Times and Things. 0 I will anſwer him, bur lirtte to his SatisfaGtion or Safety ; ſuch Ant wer ſhall ſech receive, as in ſeeing they ſhall nor fee, Ge. þ 1 will declare the Greatneſs of their Sin and Punilhinent, they waltipited Tdols, this their Sin, T will multiply their Sorrows : the firft ran into Darknets cf Idojatry, I will leave them to the Darknef6 of Nt- fery. I wil! give Anſwer but in juſt Judgment, an4 with ſevere Re- proots and Menaces, and Commands.
Chap. XIV.
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the hone of Tirael in t all s eſtranged irom nm
) heart, r. becauſe they are enctr idols,
+ Convince and pierc2 their very Hearts, or lay op2n what 15 11 their Hearr, and diicover their Hypocriſy, and Enpiety. » LHlave ihnnetully fallowed Idols wiich now in their Diltreff, neicher knw remedy; and what Folly it is to chooſe
F That I may 74 take
s Minds thar 11:reafe
Lord. 6 © Therefore fay unto the e houſe of Ifracl, Thus faith the Lord G OD, « Repent and x turn || your ſelves trom
» . . .* * bl y 19 * q '. _ . A s V4... fn V *CN1730 Impreflions from your Lies ; in the ſtrongeſt and wilelt twas m tter} kay ido's, and turn away your 7 taces from all your
130mMInations.
* To theſe Men, the Elders, who e're they are, give Charge tf:ar |
can fulfil the Law ; cheuprighr and muſt, - avain'” whom you do thun | they repent, avd by them ſend word to the refdue of th e Hoaſe ot
der out your Woes, bur I know vetcer how to dittribute my Orders ;; 7
:.05 that they do fo roo. «u Be ſorry and teſtify your Sorrow tor
I never commiſſioned, nor ever will commiſuon, any Prophet to tad-jfuch yins, x Renounce them for the tuture, ceate to bz Idolaters. »
den the Heart of a juſt one, vino needs and 15 fit for Encouragment,' L-c your viltble Carriage in reforming all be ſeen coo.
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or to threaten where they ſhould promiſe. » Your Fjatteries per-' Heart and Ways, let nor your Heart be towards Idols ia point of {wade the worſt to think they are in a good way, need not repent and Religion nor your Prathice in point of outward Deportment bc recurn, and fo their Hearts harined in Wickedneſs, their Hands do ' vicious and immoral.
work ir. God would convince and tura the Wicked,but you confirm
them that they return not from Sin ; you affure them, but "tis with. lying words, that they ſhall nor dic by Peſtilence, nor Famine, nor |
Sword, but hve and proſper. 23 Therelore * ye ſhall ſee 2
and ye ſhall know that I az the LORD.
z See Chap 12. 24. Either theſe Prophetefſes, wich the Prophets of >
the ſame ſtainp ſhall periſh in the day of Calamity, and rhe Mileries
that they perſwaded others to ſlighr and contemn. Or elie, if ihey
live, they ſhall live to ſee all theic Predictions of Profperity vaniſh, to {ce the Righteous, whom they threatned, eſcape, and the Wicked, them, they ſhall ceaſe for ever, and pretend no more Vitions. Your more be able ro keep up any Power over, or Intereſt in my People. Not one juſt righteous Soul ſhall ever grieve, or apprehend cauſe of Fear from what you threaten, and the Unrighreovs ſhall no more joy in the ExpeCtation of theſe lying Promites. All ſhall know that I am the Lord, who fuifil Promiſes to the Juſt, and execute Threats on the Bad.
CRAP. AMV
fo repent ance for fear ef juagment, 6—11. Goas irrevocnoie 1:nrence of bringing faw/ine upon thm, 12—14. Of noijom beaſts, and a d.ſiroing ſword, 15—18. Of peſtilrnce, 19—21, A remnaus jhall be prejcied Ter the comfort of othcrs, 22-23,
-FlHcn * came + certain 6 of the elders of c Uraci unto me, and & fac before me.
a And Hb, That we need not enquire the preciſe time of rhis Pro- phecy. 6 Men of Note,that were in Office and Power among theJews, called here Elders, ©&s. c Who were yet in 7eruſalem,not theElders who were now, and had been ſometime in Babylon. & Chap. 8. 1.
2 And the word of the LORD came unto me laying.
3 Son of men, theſe e men have f ſet up their g idols
3 1 their heart, and put the + ſtumbling-block of their ini- flat Quity before their face : ſhould I be 7+ enquired of at all be ing. Dy them £
J "y- e Who probably were come from Jeruſalem, ſent by Zedekiah, and - 2 mentioned by Jeremiah, Chap. 51. v. 59. ſome of the Courtiers who £2 moreout of Curiofity than Religion, give a Vitit to this famous Pro- We Phet. f Reſolved Idolaters, their Heart was totally addi&:(d to their x I Worſhip and Ceremonies, immerſed in it. g Dunghil-Gods.
* Their Idols ſo expreſt, becauſe they were both the Obje& of their Sin, and Occaſion of their Ruine ; they account theſe Idols to be Gods, and Worſhip, fear truſt in, and plead for them ; this is their Sin, and ere long this ſhall bring'Ruine on them. 7 Can theſe Men Icriouſly conſult me? Is it fir I ſhould give Counſel to obſtinate, re- iolved Sinners, who come to enquire but will not hearken ? Should I
help them in their Diſtreſs, who depend on Idols which I hate ?
4 Therefore & ſpeak tinto them, and & ſay unto / them, bus faith the Lord God, + Every 2 man of the houſe [[rael » that ſetteth up his. idols in his heart, and the ſtumbling-block of his iniquity before his and cometh to the prophet, o I the LORD will
Credir ſhall be gone, and you found falſe Dreamers, you ſhall never
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. * a | no more vanity, nor divine '
C:vinations : for ] will deliver my people out of your hand, 3
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7 For + every one of the houſe ſtranyer that fojourneth in lfrae), himfelt from me, and fetteth up his and putteth the ſtumbling-block of
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idols in his heart, his iniquity before tace, and c cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me, I the LORD will anſwer him by {eli
Every Jew of the Sezd of 4rabam. a Every Profelite. 6 With- raws himie!7 from me and worſhips Idols, keeps them in his Heart
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of Ifrae!, or of the 4 Ev. which b ſeparateth 248 16%.
to the increale of their own Sin and my Diſpleature. « Yet forloori: *
comes to (he Propher to enquire how his God reſenterh what to doy