any one withour Partiality ; whoſoever ſhould keep theſe Statures and Judgments, for with God is no Reſpett of Perſons. p Not that any ever did os could by ſinleſs keeping the Law, attain the Erernal Blet- {edneſs; Grace gives that : but it ſurely points out a future Proſperity, and flouriſhing State in this Life, to all that are careful to ke-p rheſe Statutes and Judgments as they can ; ſuch ſhould not be cut off, nor brought into Captiviry, but live and rejoice in their own Land. q Borh in the Frufr of them already obeyed, and in the Coutinuance to do them for the future. .
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+ Both commanded, and alſo fan&ified thoſe Portions o® time to he holy Reſts. s Either the week'y Sabbath , which recurring every ſe- venth Day, ſoon mulriplicd into many, and was to be th: Comm: mo ration of God's Reſt from his Labour, 1/-ac!'s Delivery out of £2167,
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God : Or it may, as moſt like it doth, inciude all the folema Days of God's Worſhip, every of which was a Sabbath, and no work to be done in it. # Oftheir being peculiarly my Peop'e ſele& from al} o- ther, to walk with me, to reſt in me, and receive mor: Grace from me. # This was a teaching Sign, they might by other ways kaow, and by thisalſo. & In this fee my Authority and my Holineſs, who by ſuch means do promote, and attain ſuch holy Purpotes and Ends. » Thar have withdrawn them from the prophanz and common Herd oft the Heathen, and made them by this, relatively ho!y ; or elfe, that have changed the Heart, and filied it with holy, pure, and gracious Inclina- tions, and ſo made them really holy.
13 Bu: the & houſe of Iſrael a rebelled againſt me in the 6 wiiderneſs: they wajtzed c not in my ſtatutes. and they 4 deſpifed my judgin-nts, e which if a man do, he thall even f live in them ; and my fabbaths they greatly g * polluted : my tury upon them .in the wilderneſs to * conſume
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z Not a few,(this T might have born inSilence,) but moſt of them ; they were,, as we are, a rebellious Houſe. a Provoked me bitterly to Indignation by their Contumacies, and that frequently, as Exoz. 37.7. Numb. 20. 24. Deut. 1.26+43. aſtubborn and rebellious Generation ; P/:/.-78. 8. with wer. 40. 6 Where they moſt needed my Care and Favour, where the preſerving their Life from DeſtruRion by the noxi- ous Creatures, and from Famine by the barrenneſs of the Wilderneſs, was acontinued Miracle, which required their Obzdience and Depen- Uance, c& Made not them the only Rule of their Religion, and Exer-
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,a2d among theſe ſome by immediate Wrzrh but how many ſoever | they were, yet the growing Generation was ſpared, and the Nation was nor extirpated,
; 18 x Put I faid y unto their children in the z wilder. 'neſs, Walk ye rfot 4 in the ſtatues of your b fathers, nei- ther obſerve their c judgments, nor defile your ſelves with their idols 4,
| x And, or, Then Tſaid; the Fathers were refraftory, and deaf , would not hearken, therefore God turns his Advice to Children. 3 Thoughthe parcicular Place isnot ſpecified, yer inong the Calami. ties of that mournful Age, and at the Funerals of fo many as then did, there were ſome that had Piety, Z2al and courage enough to warn the Survivers,and Pſal. go. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Verſes aftord us ground enough to believe Moſes did warn and adviſe. z In that pa'r of it where their Fathers murmured,and where ſome were cuc oft by che Hand of God, and in other Parrs through which they rraveiled and fuffered. a *Tis both Conuſel, as from Love ; 'tis a Command as from Power z live not as your Fathers, tor rkey waljkd contrary to Reaſon, Religi- on, and their own Good, as much as they wa'k'd contrary to me. '6 Though Fathers, they may not command contrary to God's Com- mand, nor be imitated in what they do contrary to God « Law. c 'Tis obſervable, the Propher forbids them to imirare the Cuſtoms, Rights | aid Uſages of their Fathers, theſe included in Judgments ; and thence | paſlerh to forbid their imitating their Fathers in their Idolatry. d Ido- latry is fruitful, when it fo multiplied in Egyptian Bondage, and in the deſolate State of a People in the Wilderneſs.
19 I am the e LORD your f God ; waik in my ſtatutes, d keep my judgments, and dothem :
e The only God; Idols, though your Fathers Ido!s, are no Gods, therefore let them never be that to you they arenor, cannot be in then. ſe ves, the Obje&s of Worſhip, and Trudt, and Love. f By Covenanr, by Redemprion out of Egypt, by Adoption, and giving you the Law ; , therefore own me as ſuch,by keeping mine Ordinances and Judgments ro do them. I am moſt your Father.
25 And f hallow my ſabbaths; and they ſhall be a gfgn between me and you, that ye may know + that I az the LORD your God.
f Remember to keep them holy, imploy them on holy Works of God's ſolemn and publick Worſhip, and ceaſe from ſervile and world- ly Buſtnefles. g See wer. 12. |.t. t. As the Friday obſerved a Reſt is the ſign of a Turk, rhe ſev-ath Day obſerved is the ſign of a Few, and diltinguiſheth : So *twas ofold, fo'tis now : The Chriſtian Sabbath is align berween Chriſt and us. þ More jully, acknowledge ir more op-n- ly, and 1a waiting on mine Ordinances, may know by experience what the Almighty Grace of your God can do.
21 # Notwithſtanding the children rebelled againſt me: they walked not in my ſtatutes, neither k2pt my judgments todo them, which if a man do, he ſhall even live in them 2 they polluted my ſabbaths. Then | faid I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplilh my anger againſt them in che wilderneſs.
7 Theſe unhappy Children do eyen as their Fathers in all Points of Difobedience to God, are as deaf to his Counſel, and as aveifc to his Law, which here is Point by point recounted, and is the ſame with Verſe 13. where ſce it explained.