a oath in breaking the covenant. and » took the - higheit branch of the # cedar. bn: + This is uſhered in with a moſt ſolemn and ſacred Aſſeveration.| þ Nebuchainezzar King of Babylon, as wer. 12. compared to a great [* z Eicher thus ; Thou haſt defpiſed the Laws and Privileges of my Co- Eagle, King of Birds, ſwifr, ſtrong rapacious, and of a lofty flight. venan!t with thee, and I will deſpiſe all thy Pretenſions to my Favour|/ Mighty Provinces on each fide of his Kingdom. »: His Kingdom by virtze cf my Covenant; 'tis mutual, and who breaksit forfeits all| was valtly extended, as Dan. 3. 3- and 4. 1. the greateſt King then benefir by it; or deal with thee according as thou haſt done to other living. » His Kingdom was very full of People. o Wereof divers ' priniſkr Sinners, over which thou haſt inſulted and condemned them. | Nations, Languzgesand Manners,ſo that this Eagle may be wel] thought a By wilful and contempruous Deſpite haſt perjured thy ſelf, which is| to be that ſort which is greateſt in the kind, and beſt reſemblerh him a Sin the Nations about rhee could not be guilty of; for they were| who was Ch: greateſt Monarch in the World at that time. pInvaded not, thou only waſt in Covenant with me: Or elſe, thou haſt con | with a mighty A:my ; he care not as a Traveller, to pleaſe his Cy. ter ptuorſly flighted my Bounty, and Grace, and my Faithfu'neſs, riofity, but as an Invader to enlarge his Dominion. 9 Eirher the Tem- and Truth, and bound rhy fe!f by Covenant with Idols, and Idoja-| ple built with Cedars of Lrbaxin; or Jernſaiam the chicf City of che ters, though 1 had 1o exprefly forbiiden them. 6 Made in Hereb. Country, where this great, frui-ful and pleaſant Hill was; or the whole 6D e Neverthel<fs, lf will remember g my covenant| Country ſet forth by its chiefeſt Hill, which runs about 125 Miles in
WE thee > davs of thy vouth. and 1 will ; -(1, | length, and encloſeth the Land of Jwudeaon the North Side. r Took with þ thee in the days J) 4 l 4 eſtabliſh captive and carried away with him. s The King of Judah, Fchotachin,
unto thee an & everlaſting covenant. | t Either the Royal Family, or rather the who'e Nation of the Jews. e The Lord having d:nounced a perpetual Puniſhment to the Stub. 4 « Hex crop'd ott the y top of his young twigs, od
boin impenitent Body of the Jewith Nation, he doth now promiſe to . pf | bo. > . ' the remnant, that they ſhall be 1emembred and obtain covenanted. pas into a z land of trathck ; he ſer ir in a city of
lercy, whidh makes up thelaſt parr of the Chapter. f Proper] :
aan remen:b11g, Or Ceamibs i in God, who jp IE *A - Nebuchadnezzar, ſirnamed the Great. x As a Gardiner that crops after the manner of Man this 1» ſpoken of God, who is ſaid to re. | 7 the goodiieſt Cions, and carrieth them away to graft on ſoine other memember, when he makes ir appear that he hath regard to us, as Sock. » Both the King of Judah, now 18 Years old, andthe Nobles Pj. 20. 3. ard bleſſeth us. g In which I promiſed I would not utrer. and Chief of the Land. z Into Babylon, which was a City of migh- Iy caf? «ff the Seed of Iſra:l, nor fail to ſend the M:ſiah. the Redeem. | ©Y T rade, explained farther by being 2 City of Merchants, and pecu- er, who ſhould turn away iniquity from Jac. + In the Loins of| 11arly of Merchants that traded in ſweet Spices and odoriferous Gums. Abraham, and ſolemnly renewed after their coming out of Egypt, F 4 He #5 took ailo of the & ſeed of the land, and which is the time called the Days of thy Youth, 1/a. 44. 2. and 46. 3.|-f- 4 planted it in a e fruitful field 3 fhe placed #r by it and Etek. 16. 43, 7 Conftim and ratife, It ſhall be ſure, and unfail. great waters, and and fer it 45 A willow-tree. " ing & Everiafting, 7. e. of a very long {ng hh pork 25 fO that part], Nebuchadn:zz.ar. þ Choſe but one to be King inſtead of Tehojachin.”” of the Covenant which reſpeCterh thel! 19n4 EL in the Land of |, a native, and which is more, one of the Royal Family Matraniai, Promiſe or Canaan, but in hay Is fpiritus), fan ——— heaven-| hora he called Zedekiah. d Sertled him on the Throne of Juds). ly th:cgs Ir ſhall be abſo!utely Everlaſting, Jer. 3. 31—34. e A Field fit forſuch a Deſign in the Land of 5udes. f The Propher go- *Ch.22.43z G1 I Then * thou ſhalt 2 remember ; thy ways, and | eth on in his Alluſion,and explains what he meant, compares this new be » aſhamed, when thou ſhalt o.receive thy Pp liſters, made King to a Willow, which grows no where ſo well as in a wet thine 4 elder and thy 7 younger : and I will 5 giye|S9il, and on Banksof great Waters. OWE *Ifa. 54-1 them unto thee # for daighters, * bur not by « thy 6 And g it grew, and became a þ ſpreading vine 0 60.4. tual 7 |;zlow ſtature, whoſe branches & turned toward / him, and
+ 3" COVEnant. _ Is { When that new covenant, made, and confirmed, ſhall operate the 7 roots thereof were under him : fo » it became 2
and take effect. m: Confider and lay ro hearr, repent of, mourn for, vine 5 and brought forch 0 branches 9 and ſhot forth loa h and abhor, and turn from all chy wicked Ways, all thy evil | Þ ſprigs |
P:atices and Doings. n Thou whilſt thou waſt an Adultercſs and| g Both the King and Kingdom. . þ Took root, grew up to a tolets- fa'ſe ro thy Husband rhou didſt nor buſh, now thou ſhalt with a deep; þJe Condition of Riches, Plenty and Proſperity. # Bur never reached Shame r: menier, and deteſt thy Lewdaneſs. o Admit into Church-! rhe Height of the Cedar, Nebuchaanezzar; who though he made Zedekian Communicn, own them as Members of the Church of God. p The! King, yet kepr him ſubje& and dependent, & I hey grew and flou- Gerale., mw Srrangers, bur then biſters. 9g Or thoſe that aregreater | r;ſh'q, while they owned cheir Stare tributary to Babylow. 1 Nebuchai-
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