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EZEKIEL. Chap x | - ' . " a. | W.; - » I) rice Enemies; ſb fall they all by che ford = \0 Vang ee A en Oboe he ot mt ; The fotciſh Heathen thought meanly of the God of Tract, and pog- | chan ho ts thaw good in this their latter End. 2y re} "med they came into Captivity, becauſe the People of ſome pet | CHAP. XL
{04 had by the Power of their God, prevailed againſt — : - bur by this overthrow given to Gog, they ſhall lee |
and his People ; but by - _— OY hat The time, manner and end of the Lords apyearing to the prophet in a ;c
on, I—5. A deſcription of the ſeveral gates, chambers, ports and arches
*rxyas not Impotence in 2/5 ae!'s God, but iniquity 1n 1/rac!'s People - | brought them into Captivity. & Committed Sin perver{ly,continuany, , and A an hi*h Hand. 1! Withdrew my Favour, would no more re-| of = ag ſs. of the eaſt gate, 074g. 2004 that looketh "
WY 1 1 20—2J. te gate towar 77 SE x gard them, and then *cwas ſoon a Night of Trouble ro them. m2 In-/ mink ge Foe bs - 3 y ah” —_ oe 4 4 mm 24—31. the to the Power of their Enemy which could nor have hurt 7/rae!, if 1]- ri 65, J2—43- the chambers of ths ſingers, 44. ihe porch of t. -e! had nor firſt forſaken his God, but then God forſook them. = When | wuſe, 48.
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God withdrew his defence as fenceleſs, they fell under the Sword of | N the five and twentieth year of our captivity , ?
the Enemy, for tis he that ſubduerh Enemies, and giveth Victory.
24 According to their uncleannefs 9, and according to their rranſzreflions have I done p unto tnem, and hid
my face irom them.
o Whatever Severity I have ſeemed to uſe, 'twas but according to their Sins, yer 1cf than their Sins. p In puniſhing and hiding my Face from them.
25 Therefore q thus ſaith the Lord GOD, Now » will 7 bring again the captivity of Jacob s, and have mercy ; upon the whole « houſe of Iſrael, ard will be jealous for my holy name x:
Since my Name, my Power and Juſtice are vindicated, and the Heathen ſe 'twas 1ſ-ae!'s Tniquiry brought them into Caprivity, and Iſracl knows this roo. + From this time of Gog's overthrow. 5 The Seed of Jacob here called by their Father's Name. 7 This reducing C-ptive Jews is meer Mercy ; it's very true, by Sin they deſerved to b- made Captives ; and *tis as true, they never did, or could deſerve a «ci erance from Captivity : *twas not extremity of Juſtice that ſo punith'd, bur *'twas the Riches of Mercy thar fo pardoned and re- d:emed. # On the ten Tribes with the two. «x Andall this in zeal for my holy Name, by which I am engaged to be their God.
26 Affer y that they have born their ſhame 2, and all their treſpaſſes a whereby they have treſpalſed againſt me, when they dwelt ſafely & in their land, and none made them atraid c.
y They have Jong ſuffered, and now ſhall ſuffer no longer : for it is enough my People know, and rhe Heathen know, that I am the Lord. z Rep:ozch for their Sins caſt on them by the Heathen, with great Re- flections on their God ; this was part of the Punzſhmeat of them all, and the greateſt Grief to the beſt among them, that their God was reproach'd. a The Puniſhment of thoſe Treſpaſſes, whereby they tinned againſt God, which thisProphet plainly and frequently charg- eth them with. þ And this done amidſt that Proſperity and Safety, which ſhould have obliged them to Love and Obedience ; bur when they were ſafe at home, they ſinned as if danger would never over- take them. c No Enemy to endanger and alarm them ; ſtrange In- gratitude ! to caſt off the Fear of God and his Law, when he had ſet them free from the Fear of Enemies.
27 When I have brought 4 them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies lands e, and am * ſanctined Fin them in the fight of many na- tons ;
a "The Phraſe cap, 28. wer. 25. Jet. 5. the Perſons here are not the two Tribes only, butthe ten with them, as wer 25. let. v. e Where. ever they were, they were among Enemies out of their own Country. f By their accepting Puniſhment, repenting for Sin, loathing their former Ways, and themſelves for them, acknowledging God to be holy, his Law holy, and his Worſhip holy, and engaging themſelves in Covenant: of perpetual Obedience ro God, and keeping 1t : by theſe things God will be ſan&ified among rhe 7/-aelites, and in fighr of the Naricns, when they ſee the Furnace hath purified them.
28 Then {hall they know g that I a2 the Lord 4 their GOD 7, + which cauſed & them to be led into. caprivity among the heathen : but I have gathered chem 7 unto their own # land, and have left none z of them any more
ther? 0 7 On fulleſt Experiences, and cleareſt Evidences, fee, acknowled
and publiſh ro each other. þ The mighty One, the juſt Judg, who de- |