rermineth righteouſly between Men and Men, yea, between them and himſe!f 7 Who in Covenant with their Fathers, hath remembred it for the good of their Children, who did afſure them thar if they vio. Jared his Covenant he wou!d paniſh, and when they repented he would ſh:w mercy. k Who by his own Hand raiſed up Enemies againſt, and then delivered rhem into the Enemies Hand) ſo ſent them into a {ad and long Captivity. / Burt now done more for them than when I brought them out of Babylon, - whence the rwo Tribes (yer not all of them, for ſome ſtaid bchind) and a few of the Houſe of Jſ-ael re. turned, now the whole of the twelve Tribes ſhall be gathered. »» That Country they fo dearly loved ſomewhat for their Father's ſake, whoſe antient Seat it was, but more for the Goodneſs of it, which flow'd with Milk and Honey, » This Recovery it ſeems ſhall be much more univerſal than the former ia Zerobabel's Time, as com- ing out of Egypt, not a feeble Perſon left behind, ſo nor here, if the Words be ro be literally explained. o In the Land of Captivity, the En=mies Country. :
29 Neither will I hide p my face q any more from them : for I have * poured r out my ſpirit 5 upon the houſe of If-
rae), ſaith the Lord GOD. |
> See wer. 23. let, 1, I will not turn from them in Difpleaſure. q From the whole houſe of 1ſrac! : This is no aſſurance to any Preten- der of great Intereſt in God, who yer lives in Sin. » In abundant Mea- ſures of Wiſdom and Holineſs. 5s Which is a Spirit of SanQtification ro make them holy, and a Spirit of Strength to confirm them in Ho- lineſs, and of Adoption to ſweeten Obedience to them ; they ſhall not, they will not depart from me, according to the Promiſes, chap. 113. 19, 20. and 36. 25, 26, 27. and c-ap. 37. from 23, to 28. and
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« . O * the city was ſmitten e, in the feiflame f day thz., i hand g of the LORD was upon me, and brought 4 ms... thither z. b ; a Of thoſe that with Jeconiah, who is alſo called Jehojachin, were h carried away into Captivity, eleven Years before Feruſslem was (2.11 0 and burnt. And this falls in with the 3374th Year of the World, 9: 7 near it ; abour 574 Years before Chriſt's Incarnation. 6 Tn the Month ke Niſan. c The day that the Paſchal Lamb was ro be taken up in orger R ro the Feaſt on the roth Day, on which 1/-2c! went our of £y,,, d Which appears thus, the Ciry was ſmitten in the 11th Year of 5.. coniah's Captivity, or 11th Year of Zedetiak's Reign, to which, if you TC 'add fourteen, they amount ro twenty five. e Taken, plundered ang bi (petſes by the Babylovians. f This 1s very particularly noted, a of ga (ſome weight. 2 The Spirit of Prophecy, wid. chap. 1. 3. let, 4. ang ad (3. 14. let. x. and 8, 1. ler. g. -þ Notby local Motion carrying his þ,. A dy, but in viſional Repreſentation, ſhewing the Prophet what he xe. for lates to us. # To Jeruſa!:m, the place where it did ſtand, as apycars on in the next verſe. anc 2 In the viſions & of God brought 7 he me into the ”u land 2» of lirael, and ſet » me upon a very high moun. "we cain 0, [| by which was as p the trarne of a city 9 on thei | ſouth r. : " k By this it appears *twas not. 2 corporeal Tranſumption of the Pro. Fr . pher, 7:4. chap. 8. 3. let.g. 1 Vid. wer. i. let. 5. m The Land of ca. =o zaan Was in a Scheme repreſented ro him. #= Placed him in the moſt Rs convenient Situation for Proſpe&. 0o*'Twere vain to enquire what _ Mountain this was, ſince this is a Viſion, probably it was Mount 2. oth riah here ſignified. p The Pourtrait and Model of a Ciry, 4 a MF goodly fair City, or by way of Eminence The C:ty,-or of that Cjry WF 9 which 14 Years agone was burnt. r On the South of the Mountan WF © bits, where the Prophet was ſet ; and this was the Situation of Fers/.:/, MW gate on whoſe North was Mount Sion, Pſal. 48. 2. e ] 3 And he s brought me thither 5, and behold, hr: EN Was a man #7, whole appearance x w4s like the appearance G _—_ of braſs, with a line of flax y in his hand, and a * mes; fon ſuring reed ; and he ſtood in the gate z. the ot s The Lord by his Spirit, as wer. 1. let. h. z Yer. 1. Tet. ;, « Th" Proru ſame no doubr, which appeared to the Propher, chap. 1. 26. ler. 6, 22 the whoſe Name is the Branch, and who builds the Temple, Zech. 6. 1:, Y 10 13. x Whoſe Faſhion and Colour was like burniſhed Braſs, ſo Rev:, three I. IF. much like to that chap. 1. ver. 27. let. c. and ſpeaks Glory and Strength. » A Plumb-line. a Maſon's Line to diſcover the ReQicud: One of the Building or its Defe&s. z Not the Eaſt-gate, but in the Nortt- |. one © gate next toward the Eaſt. by Th 4 And the man a faid unto me 56, * Son of man, beg vt hold with thine eyes c, and hear with thine ears d, and. _— ſet thine heart e upon all f that I ſhall ſhew thee ; for to MW? ; The the intent g that I might ſhew them unto thee, art thou F tions. brought hither : declare + all that thou ſeeſt to the houſe of WF: 1: Ifrael. b* ; gate t a See Yer. 3.1et.u. b Ezekiel called here, as many other Places, MW * bits. the Son of Men. c Diligently view ; all accurateneſs is required her: WW: ; It in Jooking into theſe things preſented to the Eye. &d Like care ani i * thePo attention uſe alſo in hearing what-ſhall be ſpoken, theſe kind of Phraſes of a Se S |do' bind us to greateſt heedfulneſs. e Ponder and weigh with thy (el, WM } Lengr| \meditateand ſtudy on them ; though here is a ſupernacural Revelation, MW * becayſ yet he is required to a rhe utmoſt part of Man to know the things D agree 1
revealed. f Nothing is ſignificant here, therefore all muſt be regard. ed. g This was the reaſon why thou waſt brought hither, and wiy WW 12
I am come to meet thee. +4 Plainly tell them that they may diſcen W- One ct and tell all, conceal nothing. jo: lide;
5 And behold, a wall ; on the out-ſide & of the houk MW and 4 { round about, and in the mans hand m2 a meaſuring-reed BF ! Th » of ſix cubits /ong o, by the cubit, and an hand: breadth p: WW; Cubir d; ſo he meaſured the breadth q of the building, one reed, WF ep. and the height » one reed. na
7 This was that outmoſt Wall which did encompaſs the wiol! WW the Rail Ground, on which the Temple ſtoed, and the Courts thar belonged WE South, to the Temple ; a Wall that encompaſſed the whole Mount Sion, up- Chambez