ro adorn thee, theſe haſt chou made the Carpersand Maalogs for he © « Honour and Service of Idols. #« So matchleſs is this Adultreſs, that , none ſhall befo impudent, and do like her; as there was none before kk, # her thar hath done fo to be her Example, fo ſhall there be none to fol- IR” d
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17 Thou haſt alfo takea thy o - fair p jewels of — bl gold, and of my filyer, which I had » given thee, and all ,, s madeſt to thy ſelf 7 images of -- « men, and didſt com-;: &f mit x whoredom with them, th ch | 0 She forgot thePropriety was in God, ſhe reckon'd them her own, {AW » 2 The word in Heb. is of larger Extent, and includes Veſſels, Inftru- 8 m ments, Furniture of all forts, with which ſhe was abundantly ſtord, Rar even from their Departure out of Egypt, when they ſpoil'd the £g1p. | 2 © tians, Exod. 11.2, where the ſelf-ſame Phraſe isuſed, and more tince Þ. $ m
Solomon made Gold and Silver ſo common in Jeruſalem, 'with which © #3 ©
they made Veflels for uſe, and Furniture of all forts for Ornament. {© 3: 9 the greater was the Sin of this Harlor, her Ingratitude, and her In- Þ $ V juſtice, that ſhe robb'd God, committed Sacrilege, that ſhe might have | Idols with which to defile her ſelf by her Idolatry. » Had ſhere- I & vw ceiv'd them of any other hand, the Wrong had been the leſs; bur the ÞÞ received then, every one of them, of the hand of God:: He gave her i V what the Egyprian; lent, what David won from Enemies, and wha {WE # 2] Solomon brought in by Traftique ; ſo Hoſ. 2. aggravates 1f-ae!'s Idolatry, Þ $
s Brutiſh Stupidity! to make an Idol, and account ic a God! «& Sta: ME a tues, Molten and Graven Images, not one ſingle Image, but many ; ſs T t! Idolatry , as Adultery, is boundleſs. # Idolaters had Male and ke- © «6
male Idols; and this Idolatreſs here, as moſtly they did, doted on E I
male Idols. Ir is not unlike to that chap. 8. wer. 14. which ſee : And WE fi poſſibly the Egyprian Idolatry with Oſiris, or Adonis, may be noted , @ n or ſome more lewd Image or Pourtrait of Priapws, which might bt A
'confirm'd from ver. 26, and ch. 23. v.19, 20. x Provoked by ſuch Repreſentations to ſpeculative Uncleanneſs, and prepared for bodily | Uncleanneſs alſo, and proceeding to ſpiritual Adultery with thel* lt ſhametu] Images. «2 20.
18 And tookeft thy » broidered garments, and z cove- FR © redſt them : and thou haſt ſet mine - oil, and mine # in- FE ©
cenfe before them. Ra”. 4 » Mentioned wer. 10. given by him who eſpouſ® this Woman. - BK z Didſt clothe the Adulterers, with whom thou didſt commit Lewd- * Ur neſs, or didft clothe the Images which thou hadſt mrde, as was th: Cuffo a
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ba of thy whoredoms a ſmall matrer ?
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| 23 2Vikeir Wickednefles. When they have filled up the Mcaſure of their
£3 another upon them, as they proceeded from one Wickedneſs to ano-
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terally didſt in thy Feaſt with thine Adulterous Lovets entertain them} W<re theſe Sins with the Jews , in erorv large Street capabi» of,
with the 0111 gave thee. | P.,rr of what they cfered to Idols, or burnt in the private Houſe to
make it the more grateful to the Adulterer ; as Prov. 7. wer. 16, 17. 10 My + meat c alſo which I gave thee, 4 fine fioar,
and oil, and honey, herewith I ted thee, thou hait even
{:t ir before them for a e + ſweet favour; and f thus it was,
- The Bread, all that was neteſſary and proper for thy Suſtentation
b Burnt before the Idol : Incenſe being one; and frequented with much Com pany.
iT 8s > - cv 0 " a > # _ Iims in Feri/ai;22 and her
Cities. | 25 Thou haſt buile thy high place at evory head ofthe way, and haſt g made thy beauty to be ablocred, and haſt þ opened thy feet to every ons that paſſed þ y, and multi- pied thy whoredoms. | f Not cont«nt with what was done in tlie Ciry, ſhe buile her Idols T<mples, and Stews inche Countrey, in Pls wheremany Wars or
in general, which I gave thee, thou haſt fed thy Paramours withal.
4 Here are particularly recounted the things God gave,and this Aiul-,
Roads mer, whereſoever it was l:itzely Pailengers would com.
A » 4 ; - Z 11S rhe Beauty of a ſhimeleſs Whor® is abhor'd 54 chem ro whom;
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rereſs mitimploy<d both literaily and myſtically : ForT doubr not the | fers her ſelf. In he: high Plices every Pail-nger might meer hiso wn ws were Javiſh of the Fruits of the Divine Bounty, be*ſtowing rhem | God, nd worthip his own Idol, and then fati-fi his Luft wii wd
borh on Adulterers, and on Idols.
heir Adulterers, or to provide for the Idolatrous Prieſts, and their Families, vv hich could ſpend all rhis,” though the Idoi knew not of ir 7 All which 15 {c]If-evident, plain, and needs no Pioof ; "tis undenia- ble. 20 Moreover, thou haſt taken g thy bſonsand thy daugh-
thou 2 ſacrificed unto them to be » - devoured : 1s 0 7his
7 They were her's by Birth, and ſhou!d have been her's in 4ffettion, Care 2nd Preſervation : but as Idolatty is from the Father of Lies, the
e To reconci'e the Idot, or to| prolong the Favour of the Ido}, orto give a pleafing Entertainnient to they wourd have admir'd dreſt in modeſty,
Womer,, common as a Strrec; and this made AT-n abhor that Braury and dwells retir'd, Þ A modeſt expreſſing of the moſt iminudeft Pr Shice f jon and in- |at1ab'e Adulterefſes and Whores, which are ready tor every Comer, and cempt ſuch as tempt not them, v:r. 32, 33-
26 Thou haſt alſo committed z fornication wich the Egyptians thy & neighbours, / great of fleſh, and haſt increaled thy whoredoms , to provoke me to #2 an- ger. { Boch figuratively and literally underſtood, wor ſhipp'd F2yr:'s Gous, made Covenants wich them, keprup a Cominerce of Trade