a Þ:' Anointed of God; for the Exerciſe of rhy Power and Office, as + Shield, as a ProteQor of the weak ; thus thou arr, or thinkeſt thy 7.1f to be, and prideſt thy ſelf herein. oT, whom thou forgettcſt, I gave nade thee fo, ſer thee above others; this ſhould have been Matter of Thanks and Humiiity, not of Pride and Atheiſm. Thus the Sar. af: is continued, and he is upbraided for his Infolence. þ Or thus, ty the Holy Meuntain a God thou haſt been, ſo tis an Irony, and ſutes the et; or elſe, in purſuance of our Verſion, thou waſt advanced to kingly Dignity - (which David calls a Mountain, P/al. 30. 7. Jer. 51, 25. Dan. 2.35.) a Sacred Office,and of Divine Inſtitution and Conſe- cration, and thou haſt in Pride exalted thy ſelf above me, as well as above Men. q In proud and ſtately manner. r Surrounded every way in thy Chambers, and Beds, and Clothes, with Stones that ſpar- kle like Fire; the Crown, thy Throne, thy Chariots, thy Umbrella's or Canopies gliſterirg, and dazling Beho!ders; as if thus alſo thou wouldeſt contend with God, who is clothed with Light.
15 Thou weſt perfect 5 in thy ways? from the day thou
waſt created, till iniquity was found in thee. = 51 think the Prophet continues his Trony : The Prince of Tyrus would be a God, yes. Now God 1s perfett in all his Ways or Works :
EZEKIEL,
| Beſide the along from the 14th. Verſe I think there hath been, much of an 7o1y f which in their publick Treaſures, much was uſed about | deriding this proud Prince, an Alluſion tohis pretended Godſhip. A 'Tis like theſe precious | God hath his SanCuaries, and rhouthine, bur thy naſty polluted Onzs
0 By the greatneſs as well as number. þ Impierties, Irreligion and A- theiſm of thy Merchants, as well as by their Injuſtice. Falſhood and Opproſlions, by their Perjuries, breaking Covenants confirmed in the Temples ar the Alrars; or in the Nam: of their Gods; when thy Trace thrived by theſe, thou and they haverhonhtrhere was nothing Sacred, nor any God aboye thee. q Some civi! Difſenſion or Occaſion of thy Injuſtice ſhall, like a Fire, riſ:. r Among thy injured Male. contents. s Which like Fire in the Houſe, ſhall burn up all and waſte a.l, thou ſhale never quench it; thy diſcoatenred Subjetts applying themſelves ro Nebuchadnezzar with Addreſſes for his Favour, Power and Royal Juſtice to relieve them, and to right his ova Subjetts op- preſt by Tyre 1n rheir Trade, fhall enkindi'e NbAuchodnzzars Rage,and he ſhall never be appeaſed but in thy Ruine. * Chou ſhalc be burn to Aſhes, theſe caſt on the Earth co be ſcattered abroad, and trampled under Feet. » All this done that all about thee may ſee, - fear and re- verence the Juſtice, Power and Holineſs of the God of Heaven, who. rulecth among men, and knows how to abaſe proud Atheitts.
I9 All they that know y thee among the people, ſhall
be aſtoniſhed & at thee : * thou ſhalt be + a terrour a, and * Ch. 27. 36
never ſhalt thou be any more.
Y All that have heard, ſeen or formerly known thy Riches, Power, Allies, Wiſdom, and Vigilance. z Be amazed at the certain News 79#* of thy great fall from greateſt Glory to greatzſt Reproach. a To all that hear the Bruit hereof, 7hough thou haſt been a Terror, (to the Heby.) to others by thy Puifſance and Arms, thou iha't never be fo again
or ever, and this Word hath been made good ; Tyre never roſe to that Greatneſs, as to be feared by her Neighbours.
20 < Again the word of the LORD cane unto me, laying»
21 Son of man, ſet thy face 5 * againſt Zidon c, and propheſie d againſt it,
b Vid. chap. 21. 2. let. i. and chap. 20, ver. 46. let. o. c N<ighbour * If, 2+. and Confederate of 7,rus. d Declare her Sins, approaching Sorrows, 4, 12. and my Judgments againſt her.
22 And ſay, Thusfaiththe Lord GOD e, Behold, 1 «773 againſt theef, O Zidon g, and I will be glorified 4 in the raidſt of thee : and they z ſhall know & that I am the
And thou, O Prince, wert ſo too; wert thou,and from thy Original? ; But remember what a God is he that hath a Beginning, that was
this Prince to his great Miſcarriages If any elſe will think all theſe
created, that at laſt was found full of Iniquity ? And this Reproof | and Taunt leads us to look with the Prophet from the proud Claim of |
LORD, when / I ſhall have executed judgments m in her, and ſhall be ſan&ified » in her.
e To theſe Heathen, yet Neighbours of the Jews, thePcophermgglir well ſuppoſe the Name and Greatneſs of the God of 1{-ac! was ſo
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I ' + Heb. tc:
Jer.25.22
- things ia the 14th and 15th Verſes to be Allertzrsof God's Bounty to | known, as to command their attention when he ſpeaketh. f Provo- © this Prince, and of his great Magnificence and State in Hyperboles and ked by thy Sins, T am an Adverſary to thee, andas ſuch determine ro ” Alluſions, nothing I have ſaid ſhall contradi& them, for they have ' proceed with thee. g A City in the North-Weſt from Canaan, at the © their Liberty as I have mine, to think what ſeems moſt like the | foot of Mount Libanus, a King's Seat of old, and from which Tyrm de- D Trach ſcended, as a Swarm caſt out of that Hive, 7/2 23. 2. for 'twas « 15 By the multitude « of thy merchandiſe they have great City in 7efbuab's Time, 70h. 11. 8, and 19. 28. and built by E filed x the midſt of thee with violence, and thou haſt S749 Canaan's Son, Gen. 10. 15. and 1 Chren. 1, 13. a famous Mart
| ſinned y : therefore I will caſt z thee as profane out of the mountain # of God : and I will deſtroy & thee, © 0 covering cherub c, from the midft of the © fire,
| Greatneſsof thy Trading ; In Tjruswere Merchants that traded in ve- | ry great Advenrures, with vaſt Stocks, and in mighty Cargoes. x Thy
Craft would not, compaſled their unjuſt Deſigns, as noted, ch. 27.49.36. This Injuſtice and Violence grew, as their Trade did, and filled the ' City with Guilt as . ding among them, thou haſt violated Juſtice to promote thine own
them in their Violence, and judged for rhem againſt oppreſſed Stran-
| hke to. God, who hates Violence, loves Juſtice, and relieveth the