Cy, Beauty and Grandeur of their State, and vaunring of it 2bov« their F (Neighbours, & 7. e. Luxury, and riotous Exceſs in Eating and Drinl. 7309
They were very 1atemperace in ther Dicer, ! Every mt:
Honour, neither fear'd God's wrath or Man $s Sword ; the ficit wasthe Fault of particular Sinns®s, the Jattcr was rhe Sin and Fault of the #1, Community. 7 She refuted to help Strangers, as appeareth in the Hiſtory of the Ang:1s Entertaintmenr, G2. 19. nor was the mindful 7 of helping the poor with Counſel and Defence; they were unmerciful, [is 's L and hard-hearred toward the Poor amongit them ; this was a great (118. $10 to thoſe that abounded in Wealth, as the $,domices did. ih Ab
fo And they were » haughty, and * » committed p 4. *cen, x8. "Rs bominetion q before me : therefore 1 took them r away as 2-. ;
ſhould be executed upon this People. d This Paflage is ſomewhat intricate, "tis otherwiſe read by ſome, I have not done according to what all thine Abominations deſerve, or T have notexecuted ſuch Thoughts as all thy lewdneſs calls for. Some read, as we, 1n the ſecond Perton, thon haſt nor, &c. 7. e. made account, or thought with thy felt what would become of thee, or what thou ſhouldſt do after all thine Alwminations, therefore theſe ſore Judgments have overtaken and ruin'd thez. As our Verſion rendersthe words, they ſeemro be the {me with that, ver. 41. Atter all God's Judgments poured forth, fuch ſbould bs their Condition and State, they ſhould be ſo poor and de-
[ ſaw ba good, R * GceN. 19. j n Inſufferably_ arrogant w their D-portment towards good Men ; 24- : they vexed the Soul of righteous Lo:, and towards the Angels whom they afſaulted in Zoz's Houſe, and towards God himſelf, as both in this werſe, and in Gen. 13. 13. o Worked, as if it were their Trade. þ The whole of theſe Mens Life waz one contizued AQ of the bigh- et Wickedneſs. q Eicher againſt God, or openly 2nd publick!y, as 1/4. 3.9. r Deftroy'd their State, Cities, People and Country, turi- ed them into a Lake of dead and deadly Water ; or rather Bitumen and Sulphur. In a way none could have ſuſpe&ed ; and for ought
ſpis'd, rhey neither ſhould have Opportunity nor Ability to pleaſe their Idolarrous and Adultercus Companions.
I know, none ever aw b<fore or fince : If you enquire how Feruſas lem's Sins wwe greater than Sodrrn's, T wou'd anſwer, 1t not in the
44 Behoid, every one that e uſeth proverbs, ſhall uſe this proverb f againſt thee, ſaying, As # the g mother, fo is her 4 daughter,
ce That delights to make Parables, and uſeth to taunt at the Vices
of notorious Sinners. f This might be read with the former Phraſe, 2nd render us this Senſe, Evcry one that would ſpeak againſt thee, O
things done, yet in the aggravating Circumſtances of them, againtt ; redeeming Mercy, againlt rhe Law of Cod, which forbad whar they did; and told them what they ſhould do again Admomtions, by the Mouth of Prophets, and againſt Examples of God's Vengeance on Sodom, and the Cities of the Plain.
51 Neither hath £5 Samaria committed #« half of thy fins; x but thou haſt multiplied thine abomina-
"4; »ſalcm, and tartly upbraid thee, ſhall uſe this Proverb. £ Old Je- nee Y more
r:jalem, when the Seat of the Jebruſitcs, or the Land of Canaan, when full of the idolatrous, bloody, barbarous Nations. Synagogue of the Jews, which is more like in the Wickedneſles of thoſe accurſed Nations, than near them in places of Abode. See more, Vver.. 3.
45 # Thou art thy & mothers daughter, that 7 loatheth her husband and her 2 children ; and thou art the fiſter of thy ſiſters, which loathed » their husbands and their children : your 0 mother was an Hutite, and your father an Amorite.
7 The Nation of the Jews. & As much for her vicious Inclinations, as for thy Original derived from her; the moſt wicked Daughter of as wicked a Mother. ! That was weary of the beſt Husband ; that, while ſhe doted on aboſninable Adulterers, did moſt contemptuouſly diſregard het Hnsband, and forſake him. m: Other lewd Women have had tome love for their Children, becauſe born of them, bred by them, and reſembling them ; ſo much of the Mother was in the Chil- dren, that ſome Adultereſles have loved themſelvesin their Children ;; but here's a looſe Woman, an unnatural Beaſt, that loaths her own Ficſh, perſecuting ſuch as are conſtant to the Law of God their Fa-
h Feruſalrm, or 'done.
than they, and haft & juſliticd thy
ſiſters in all thine abominations which thuu halt
? The ten Tribes, or Kingdom of 1/-ac!, founded In Rebellion and Idolatry. « A proverbial Speech, ufaal 1n comparitoia cO ſer fortit the lefler patr, as 1 Kings 10.7. » Thisexplains the former, y More, or greater, the H:5rcw word fignifieth both. z Not made themiighs reous, bur declared chemſelves leſs unrighteous than thou in thy Abo- minations ; of the two they are leſs faulty. _
52 a Thou alſo, which haſt 5 judged thy filters, c bear thine own 4 ſhame for thy (ins that thou haſt committed e more abominable than they : * they are 'J= more righteous than thou : yea, be thou confounded allo, and bear thy ſhame, in that thou haſt juſtified
thy ſiſters.
a Feruſalem, and all the Jews with her. + Haſft pretended 'ewas wonder a People ſhould Sin as Samaria, or haſt once condemned rh:ir Apoſtacy, whilſt thou ſtoodeſt ; or haſt judged their Puniſhment juſt, that they deſerved all they ſuffered. © Shalt ſurely be loaded - with Puniſhment. 4 That ſhali be thy Shame as well as Smart. e Sce wer. 47, 48, and 51.
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ther, and murdering others in Sacrifice to Devils. »It runsin the Blood; as rhe Mother, to thc Sifters loved, and doted on ſtrange Fleſh, were as inordinate in their AffeCtions to others, as they were in theft Diſaff:Qtion tg cheir own Husbands and Children. © See ver. 3. He ſpeaks of them colleCively, and as the greateſt part were.
46 And thine p elder ſiſter # q Samaria, ſhe and her r daughters that dwell at thy s left hand : and thy
ſr [| younger fiſter, that dwelleth at thy # right hand, » ' x Sodom and her'y daughters. |
p i.e. The greater for Power, Riches, an4 Numbers of People, not the elder for Years. q Metropolis, or Mother-City of the re-
voited and idolatrous ten Tribes. »r Lefler Cities of the Kingdom of
i/-ac!, or the People who dwelt in them. s Northward as you look
toward the Eaſt. 7 Or leſſer, fo the Hb. which conſiſts of fewer
People, is of leſs Power. « Southward from Jeruſalem. Sodom, as