7. warned : if the ſword come and take 4 y pzrfon from among them, he is taken away in t:; «:iiqui- ty z, but his blood & will I require 5 at the waichmai's hand.
x Negle& his Charge, which is to give the Alarm. » But, un- warned, are ſurprized by the Enemy. z Puniſh'd by rhe Lord for his Sins and Treſpaſſes formerly done, and he is deſtroyed under the preſent Fault of not watching, which is a Fault in every one thar is 1{o ſecure in time of War. a The Guilt of that Blood. + Charge up- on, and for it puniſh the Warchman, who finn'd in nor giving warning.
7 © * So thou, O fon of man, I have ſet thee a+ chap, ; watchman unto the houſe of Ifrael : therefore thou ſhale r7, &c hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
8 When I fay unto the wicked, O wicked mar, thou ſhalt ſurely die; if thou do not ſpeak to warn the . wicked from his way, that wicked man ſhall die in his iniquity, bur his blood will I require at thins
e Hophra ſhall go to them by a like DeſtruQtion, and as if he did ſee hand.
9 Nevertheleſs, if thou warn the wicked of his way, to turn from itz if he do not turn from his way, he ſhall die in his iniquity, but thou haſt delivered thy ſoul,
Theſe three Verſes are the ſame with the 17:5, 13h, r9th Verſes of the third Chapter, where ſee them explained.
10 Therefore, O thou ſon of man, ſpeak c unto the houſe of Iſrael 4, Thus ye ſpeak e, faying, If our tranſgreſſions and our fins be upon f us, and we * pine away in them, how ſhould wethen live g?
c Declare to them from me. 4 The Reſidue of the Two Tribes, which are brought to Babylon, or elſe to thoſe already there, and * hear their Brethren are on the way thitherward, ſince Feruſal: 2 was taken. e Thus ye diſcourſe among your ſelves, obje& againſt Ged
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_Oments; and fo, ſaith God, will I do with Pharaoh : b That is, Pharaoh | and his Prophet, and your own Duty ; ſome of you out of Inficmity, : Hophra c, ſhall ſuffer as they, ſince heſinned as they; he made himſelf” others out of Perverſneſs. f The unpardoned Guilt, and the unſup-
portable Puniſhment of our Sins, who were warned, and took not warning, do thus, as in the waſting our Country, burning our City, aboliſhing the publick Worſhip of God, comeupon us ; we ſhall pine away, conſume, *tis roo late to hope 'twill be berrer with us now, we ſhould have heard, and followed the Counſel earlier if we would have delivered our own Souls : if the Prophet ſpake true at firſt, there is no hope, ſay the weaker ; if there be hope now atter ſo perem- ptory Menaces, and ſo great Execvtion, the Prophet did nor ſpeak Truth fay the Perverſe, and ſo concluded they would, as they were, run the hazard. £ How can it be better with us, if the Threats be true, and ſure 'twill be worſe ; if nottrue, how are his Promiſes to bereſted on, that 'twill be better ?
11 Say unto them, As I live , 4 faith the Lord GOD, , I have # no pleaſure * in the death of the wicked, but & Bhs: that the wicked turn from his way and live : turn / ye, cp" ,g eurn ye from your evil ways : for * why will 2 ye die, 23, 32. O houſe of Iſrael ? * Ch. 1%
h Vid. chap. 5. wer. 11. and ch#0. 16. wer. 48. Tet. f. rad 2h, 17. 16. 31-4 et. g- See chap. 18. wer. 23. and wer. 32. let. q. & Here an Evipſis, but I have pleaſure in the ſeaſonable return the Sinner makes ſrom Sin 'to Holineſs, and from Death co Life. / O leave Sin, ceaſe to do Evi}, be perſwaded to repent; it will pleaſe me to pardon your Faults, and to throw away the Rod, and to ſave your Pertons. m Death is your choice, not mine, ſo long as you go on the Way that is not good 3 whoſo ſinneth againſt me, wrongeth his own Soul ; andlove to Sin is interpreratively a love and chooling of Death, 'Tis your culpable Will, not my ſevere Reſolution thar you die,
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evi), both which parts of this Righteouſneſs are deſcribed 1a chap. 18. wer. 5, 6,7,8, 9 r Makehim promiſe of doing him Good, and gi- Ving him Life, Peace, every B c f-rmer Righteouſneſs is ſufficient, and therefore turn tO waysof Sin pleaſing tro an evil Heart. # Give himſelf to doing Evil, as 'twere his Work. » No Regard ſhall be had to what he had done; he doth himſelf praQtically renounce it, and interpretatively recant his doing it. x In his Apoſtacy and backſlidden State. »y Shall be puniſhed, his Comforts ſhall be taken away, or die in his Hand, he ſhall live and Gjie miſerably. » His Iniquity any Puniſhment of it, and this is c-7- ;Eaticalle xe eated, as chap. 18. 26. L
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15 /f the wicked reſtore c the pledge, * give again that he had robbed 4, walk in the {ſtatutes of lits without committing e iniquity ; he ſhall ſurely live f, he ſhall not die.
c Chap. 18. wer. 7. let. q. & Ibid letr. Tis not a finleſs Life here required or ſuppoſed, but a Life in which a Man doth not habi- rually, and wilfully work Iniquity. f Vid. cap. 18, wer. 9. let. z.