x 0 . « - q ; a pure and whien ſeen, liked, and prepared afcer the manner of the Heathen; 35 And I will * bring you into the wilderneſs « 0 BB rhough this was forbidden, yer this thou did'ſt, build'{t their high| (he people, and there will I plead x with you z face (0 cogk
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7 here they lifted. m Either to God, as ſometimes | . qr ws os 6 woos. Lioll, as the moſt did, which is here called} *': Drive you, and ſince you think of ſuch a Courſe of Eaſe to = 3+ and pr
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ſich 5 you ſhall be ſoon weary of. » Into the moſt horrid, barbarous and faivage Parts of the inhabited World; into the mountainous bar- ren Parts of Media, Hyrcanta, lberia, Caſpia, Albania, and Scythia, _ hoſpitzb!e Nations and mortal Enenues ro Strangers. + Debate, pals Sentence, and execute it alſo on you. » Not, as Rabbins dream, to conceal the Diſhonour of the Jews, but indeed plainly, openly, and ſo as my Hand ſhall be ſeen.
Ot; 35 Like as I pleaded with your fathers & in the ye lems nets a of the land of Egypt, fo will I plead with you, the lis >
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lar z who dizd there, and never entred Canaan. aWhich lay on the
firther Side of the Red Sea, over againſt the land of Egypt, and 1s from it called, as here, though it be .{rabia Deſerta; in which, with- in t » Space of leſs than 40 Years, all the rebellious Murmurers died, ſo will I plead with you,
37 And I will 5 cauſe. you to paſs under the c rod,
2and I will bring you into [| the bond of the cove-
- nant,
þ I will bring you out by Number, yetſo as you ſhall, either by a
| voluntary Submiſlion own my Scepter and Government, or by a con- | | quered SubjeRion yield ro my Sword and Power. £c Either referring to the manner of Shepherds in that Country, which did tell their N Sheep in, and out of the Fold ; or rather as a king, whoſe Scepter | Y protets tome, and daſheth orhers, and maintains his own Righe. I | will diflerence Perſons and Perſons, that I may deal with each ſuta- ; 6 ble to their Stare and Carriage. & 4. e. thevoluntary and obedient iato Covenant with my ſelf. . = 38 And 1 will e purge out from among you the f re-
f WW bes, and them that tranſgreſs againſt me : I will bring s them forth out of the country where they ſojourn, and 7 * they {hall not enter into the land of Iſrael, and ye ſhall j- + og know that I aw the LORD. n e Cull and pick out that they may be rejefted, as they deſerve, or brought forth to ſhame and Puniſhment. f The contumacious Sin- @ | ners, who harden themſelves againſt God, his ſevere waſting Judg- ments ſhall find them out intheir hiding Places, and drag them our, -_ but not to return them to Canaan, they ſhall no more return thither. d g By which it ſhall appear, that though Apoſtates may change their 12*, Religion, and deny their God, yet he hath notleſs Power to reſtrain, of nor leſs Right to govern, nor leſs Soveraignty to diſpoſe of them. 39 hþ As for you, O houſe of Iſrael, thus faith the n- RX Lord GOD, z Go ye, ſerve ye every one his idols,. and nd k hereafter alſo, if ye will not hearken unto me : but on pollute / ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and A with your idols. | "od þ In ſhort, you have done as wickedly as you could, and IT have done in. what was ſufficient to reclaim you, I have foretold you what will be 108 the final Event, O Houſe of 7ſrae!, and farther I will not ſtrive with | you, #Ironically ſpoken, or, as 1s uſually ſaid tounreclaimable Ones, Jall take' your Courſe, which allows nor, nor commands, but threatens | 7 the evil Courſeof ſuch a one; or *tis a Divorce, of this adulterous 1%, Houſe, an utter caſting them off for their Idolatry. & Irſeems an ind abrupr, vehement Speech, which includes ſome heavy Sentence, but *ris ſuppreſt as too great to be uttered, or to leave room for doing em more than the Offender expeCted, Eccleſ. 11. 9. Amos 4. 4.'Matth. 23. ited, 23- You take yours, I will take my Courſe, and ſee whoſe Word ein | ſhall ſtand. / But while ye are ſuch Idolaters, and notorious Sinners, and torbear to take my Name into your Lips, bring me none of your | the Gifts and Sacrificesto your Idols, and pretend you bring them ulti- ai mately to me.
lem, y to you,
49 For mz * in mine » holy mountain, in the moun- "tain of the o height of Iſrael , faich the Lord GOD,
in the r land, ſerve me /: there will Is accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the (| firſt-fruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. |
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_— The Giits of Tdolaters, and all their painted Stuff God rejeQed here- in the former Verſe ; now he encourageth the Uprighr, thoſe that cheth ſeared, and obeyed, and waired on him. » Sion, Holy Hill, Pſal. 2. (ible, 6. Holy by Defignation, and God's own appointingit for his Tem- ighty ple and preſence. o You Hypocrites, you have your high Places, I 1 Vel. abhor them ; my Church hath its high Place, bur 'tis the Mount S:- *© ON 01: I have loved and choſen, called the height; "was the Glory of over» I/rael, and rhough lower than many other Hills, yet *rwas above them otte- all for God's peculiar preſence there. p Redeemed ones, whom I have cath broug hr out of Babyloz according to promiſe, the returned Captivity. ok a 7 Tis doubled to enſure them. » Their own Land, andtheir Fathers 2U ars Land. e Not Idols, but the God of their Fathers. : Delightin them, >cifon and in their Sacrifices, u When I have brought you into, and bleſt
youin the Land,then I will require your Offerings as formerly ; your firſt Fruits, your Tithes, in a word, all your holy Gifts : You ſhall fee my Temple built, Feruſalenr filled with Inhabitants, the Land of 1/rae! planted with Seed of Man and Beaſt, my Worſhip reſtored, and you ſhall goup with Joy, carrying your holy things, and' I will there accept them;
- 41 x I will accept you with your - y ſweet favour,
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