+ fi J. they - [!:m, The moſt warlike, who will betaice themſelves to Toraſulom for Janner of women that ſhed blood: becauſe they are adul its Defence. q As theſe are the prin. 5a] Parts for Copannr, Motion, | Deferice and Strengrh ; fo thoſe Citize15, Souldiers, Ru'ers, that ars the Strength, Defence and Glory ofthis People, are here ſignified by thoſe Parts. » Fill the Pot, Fernſalers, let no pizce be empty s With thoſe Pieces that are biggeſt, fatteſt, full:& of Marrow, aid wh* © are divided according to thc Bones; theſe are the piincipal Mem? ; is Jewiſh State, King, Princes, Prieſts, Magiſtretes and wea -': -' 2.608
5 Take *# the choice of the flock, and || buin « alſo the
Seal and blood x intheir hands. | |
' » Men that kept the Law of their God : ( for ſome ſuch there were about 4bolibah her ſeIf,) or Pcophets, ſuch as Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and ſore few more; or elſe the Baby/onians, who in the preſent Contro- verſy between Jeruſalem and its King on the one part and Nebachad- 12247 and rhe Babylonians on the-other part, were comparatively the righteous Men. q Which wasto be putro death by ſtoning, Lev. 20. 10. and Murder was puniſh'd with Death.
46 For thus faith the T.ord God, * TI will bring up a bones x under it, and make it boil :vell », and ler then {' Or, #7
NIST ſeeth the bones & of it therein inany 7 2M, and will give them 7 Þ to bere- | : | company 7 upon s chem, a Þ | N : Pick our rhe very beſt in the Flock, that is, the greateF, richeſt, ; : _ | moſt powerful for Authority and Intereſt in the Nation and City. « Or. » The Babylonian Army. 5 Apainſtthe Jews, the Chiltren of this | heap ro;cther, in order to burn, to make a Fire with. = The Bones.
I '© ” _ FRA pa O D.. _ . . it, Abel:banh. : The Inbabirants of Juden, the Citizens of Feruſalem with 'Not Of rhe Picces to be boiled, buc the Bones of the miny I :nocenrs
Princes and Royal Family. #« To be carried away Captive inte tr murdered in Jeruſa':m, and in the Land ; for their Blood crierth for Land of Chaldea. x By the rapine of the Sonldiers in their own | Vengeance, and their Bones ſcattered on the Face of the Earth, will Land, and by thecruelty of their Maſters ro whom they ſhall be Slaves both make and maintain this Fire. y Ler the Fire be © gre2t, and the ina firange Land ; this is the plain Senſe of the Verſe, though poſt Por ſo long over, till a!] within: it be boiled throughly, till boiled that by there may be an Allufion to the folemn Proceedings of a Court of all rhe Strength and Marrow be waſted, and the very Fleſh drop to Judicature couch'din the proper Import ofmany of the Hebr. Words. | "Oy L - —_ this ro mo by this Judgwent. . _ ne + Z them wit det. s. 1s 1s doubled to aflure us, however the meaner ſort did, the 7 And the company y ſhall ſtone z them with ſtones, more conſiderable Pare of hl wer clear. Het , , | there may lie conch'l an exa& Correſpondence between the Sins and ctheir ſons and their daughters 4, and burn up their hou- | puniſhments of thi; 1 cople ; their Sin was the Daying the beſt, or by j2se with fire. | opprefling them, broke th. r Bones, \1iled out the Marrow,fuck'd the 7 Congregation Hebr. the Babylonian Army. 2 The Puniſhment of an 'dry, and How God w1!: retalltat. to theſe Men. | Adu'tereſs, and this was in manner done, when the Engines, which | 6 E< Wherefore thus ſaith the Lord GOD, Wo 2 tothe caſt mighty Stones into the beſieged City, daſh d out the Brains of bloody b city, to the pot whoſe ſcum « z therein , and
fome ; and when Chimneys, or Walls, or Towers beatdown by thoſe | . age DN ! | Srones caſt out of the Engines, fell on others, and buried them alive. | whoſe ſcum is not g0Ne out 4 of it . bring it out pIece by
s Some of them whoſcaped the Stones, fell under the Sword, 5 Of, PISCES ©, let no lot f all upon if, £ OR the Babylonian Souldier. c Either in Fight, or when they break into| _ ® All this Allegory contains wofu] and heavy Tydings, Miſery and the City, or light on them wandring on Mountains, or hiding in| Deſolation to them that are repreſented by ir. 5 Chap. 22. 2, 3- Je bens and Caves. d Either in ſacking the City, when they regard no ruſalem, which is this Pot. « Filthineſs, her Abominations, all her Sex, or becauſe they chooſe to die, rather than yield to the Luſt of Lewdaeſsare ſtili vithin her, they havenor been puaiſh'd, reſtrain'd, thoſe vile Ones. As the Cities and Houſes abroad in the Countrey ; ſo | ®r Caſt our by the Execution of juſt and good Laws; but the Citizens the Babylonſþ Army deſtroyed what they could not carry away with | have with Obſtinacy, Impenitence, and with Impudence continued in them ; as ver. 25. let. 9. , pe eter. mas Pas ny” - e m kno e alingring Deſtru&iontothem, yet a tota), 48 Thus * will 1 cauſe lewdneſs to f ceale out of the one piece after another, till all ' confumed. f Lots ar: For ſaving ſome, and determining who they ſhall be, bur here ſhall no fuch lewdnefs. ; . . [Diſcrimination be made, no ſparing any, and flaying others by Lot ; f See wer. 27.ler. t, Hereafter in this Land ſuch like Abominations | who do not die, ſhall gointo Captivity. ſhall never be committed more, as indeed we donor readof any ſuch | - Fgr her blood 7 is inthe midl(t of her, ſhe ſet it upon
afrer their return out of this Captivity. g Countries, Kingdoms and , , _ | . |tbe top of a rock 2, ſhe poured it not upon the ground to it Examples of Sorrows, DeſtcuCtion aaclar* k
Ciries may be wars @oy your Examples - uction, | over & it with duſt :
: ; y, and hate Violence. mo _—_ pe Lang, re ea. ence # your lewdneſs up= | £ Innocent Blood which ſhe hath ſhed. þ Openly and publickly T9 y 1 L <Jols * d without Fear, or Shame, or ReluQtancy. : Where it might be long on you, and ye ſhall bear the fins & of Y Our 1909; 200'FE ; ſeen, cared not to hide her Mnrders, as the next Words clear it. thall know /thatI am the Lord God. & Wit Cruelty and Inhumanity they did murder, for when the Law 2» The Babylonians and their Confederates. 7 As God's Miniſters of, direQ2J, that the Blood of Beaſt or Fowl kill'd ſhould be poured on
| | juſt Vengeance ſhall judg you worthy, and execute on you what you the Z:1th, and covered with Duſt, Lev. 17. 13. theſz Butchers of in-