7 In that ye have brought c into my ſanttuary F tran! 17 gers 4* uncircumciſed in heart e, and uncircumciſed in WW fhippe fleſh f, to bein my ſanctuary to polkate it, ever my houſe," Ws me, when ye offer my bread g, the fat < and the blood 3; and: any : they & have broken my covenanc /, becauſe of all yourn "ung abominations. the H
c Either by abuſing your Power you have licenſed, or by conniving 5. ler. you have permitted tocome into my Holy Courts, 4 Foreigners and cap, 1 Heathen, who had their Idols in the very Courts of the Temple, and there worſhipped their Idols, as ch. 8. v. 5, 10,14,16, e The we 13 of them, profane and impious. f No uncircumciſed one ſhould com? the of into the Court of che People, but you have brought them into the ve. 'of my ry SanQuary at the times of publick Worſhip, and when you have 'bear r been offering my Bread, &c. Some think that the profane Careleſ hay neſs ofthe Jewiſh Rulers was ſuch, they ſuffered uncircumciſed ons Þ © EY fo be Prieſts among them, and to approach to God's Altar; this done Þ | * Th in Solomwon;*s degenerate Days, and in the Days of Ahaz, Manaſſeh, Amt g9"0P Ne £ Either che Meat-offering, or firſt-Fruits of Corn and Dough, and = th the Shew-bread. þ Which was taken off the Sacrifices and hurnt. op : How let out, received into Veſlels, ſprinkled and poured out; the Þ * mens
thens have given them Courage to ask, and you have not Zeal and urage eriough to refuſe them, but you have ſatisfied their forbidden urioſity, and ſhewed them all theſe things; or, as was ſaid, havt \hereof advanced ſome to be Pricits in my Houſe, and ſuffered others to be Þ © ge Prieſts of Idols ſtanding, and worſhipp'd in my Courts. & The whok Þ | 14 Nation of the Jews, the People of the Land. ! Turr'd Idolaters, + 1 mix'd with Heathens, forſaken meand my Law. »» Taking Example
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And ye have not kept » the charge of mine holy
» You have not obſerved the Laws I gave you for the careful and
0 You have ſubſtituted others in your rooms, made Officials, and Sur-
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Now God renews his former Law againſt the permitting of the
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£ 43.-oks into my San&yary. Perhaps Solomon ſhew'd Sheba's Queen | "at pps Dora : ſhewed the Ambafadors too much,
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= _ cad not that either of them ſhew'd the Santtuary. io And the Levites p that are gone away me, when Iſrael r went aſtray, which went aſtray away
fom me after their Idols, they ſhall even bear s their ini- Teri intended here, and indeed the Sons, or Poſterity of them 25 here intended ; for this Apoſtacy among them was elder than the eldeſt of them all, q Tdolaters go far from God, for they depart as an Adulterous Wife from her Flusband, their Hearts and AffSionsare far from God, they fell ro heatheniſh Iiolarry. » It may be worth our: while to enquire what time, or near what time this was, I doubt Baal- Por, Numb. 25. or from Solotzors time, when there was ſomewhat of this Sin among the Prieſts. But of Rehoboam's Time 'ris ſaid 2 Chron. 12. 1. All rae! forfook the Law of the Lord. And in | Hhaz his Time, when the Altar at Damaſcus ſo pleas'd him, andche High-Prieſt Ytriah, that preſently an Altar like that ismade and ſer up between © God's Houſe and Altar; and Orders, or in our Language Injunttions, FP” from the King to the High-Prieſt, and from him to the1aferior Prieſts I and Levites, who obey, 2 King. 16. 16. and Manaſſeh carried the Apo- ftacy higher. Now account from any of theſe, from the laſt of them co the firſt return out of Captivity,is 114 Years, to which we muſt add; the 25 Years, which each Prieſt muſt be e're they enter the Prieſts Office, *cwill amount to 139 Years, and to theſe add 44 e'rethis Tem- ple was repair'd, "twill be 183 Years, too great an Age forany of the Prieſts to be of ; therefore, as I ſaid, the Prieſts that are now degraded, are the Childrenof thoſe Apoſtare Prieſts who were (as Zech. i. 5,6. faid of the Fathers) dead. s Shall bear the Puniſhment of this their > Apoſtacy, bedebaſed ro meaneſt Services, ſubje&ed ro others, and be deprived tor ever miniſtring atthe Altar. So 2 King. 23. 8,9. andfo
ars God executed his Threat againſt Z/i's Houſe, 1 Sam. 2+ 13. | 5 u 11 Yet they ſhall be miniſters : in my ſanctuary s, nd i #aving charge at the gates x of the houſe , and miniltring n! + to the houſe : they ſhall ſlay z the burnt-offering, and the ſacritice a for the people, and they ſhall ſtand before "rs b them to miniſter unto them c ; and : Servants, employ'd in the loweſt and leaft honourable Work. « Not cle, if the Temple it ſelf, but about the Courts of it. x Shall be Porters to to open and ſhut, and ſweep, and ready to go on Errands. y Probably | the may learn the Arts of Maſon or Smith to mend and repair, to fetch aken Wood and Water with 7ebuſites. x Do that ſervile Work tor the ſacri-
d ticing Prieſt, + a All the Sacrifices the People bring. Heb. expreſſion | of Servants attendance. c To wait and obey the Prieſts. |
| T2 Becauſe they miniſtred 4 unto chem before their % . idols, and -| cauſed e the honſe of Iſrael to fall into lg iniquity 3 therefore have I life up mine f hand againſt ff: chem, faith the Lord GOD, and they ſhall bear their yp; iniquity g.
{ 4 Add as Prieſts to Idols, and in the Name of idolatrous Wor- ſhippers ſacrificed ro the Idols. e Were firſt occaſion of Fall ro ſome, when their Example was follow'd; and in after-times they E ſeduced, perſwaded and urged them to ſerve their Idols, and ſacrifice ” tw them, for this was the Gain of the Idol-Prieſts. f Sworn againſt
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ours WF them that they ſhall ſuffer for this their Iniquity. This lifting up
the Hand 1s the Form of an Oath, Exo4. 6.8. Deut. 32. 40. thap. 20. nivins WW 5; !Ef: 7- g The Puniſhment of this Sin, fo 'ris chap. 14. 10. and rs and WW £92: 18. 19, 20- and 23. 35, 49.
le, and 13 And they ſhall not come near & unto me to do Al | .the office of a prieſt unto me, nor to come near zto any there. | of my holy things, in the moſt holy place : but they ſhall zu have © bear their ſhame &, and their abominations / which they Carele: Þ have committed. © |
ed ons Þ * þ They ſhall never be admitted to the Office, nor employ'd in the his don ® {proper Workof a Prieſt, that miniſters to me. # They ſhall nor come