= &7 Both Priefts and' People,” þ Where their Altars. were, ſome- |. © times to God, ſometimes to Idols ; theſe were the high Places choſen
E ctcem'd little elfe than Tdolatry, 7ſa. $7. 7.
8 (as the Heathen did) that the Numer, Deity delighted to dwell, or
p. IV. of Whoredom e hath cauſed them to err f, and they have
one a whoring, from under their God g. poet
1: Whom I choſe, brought out of Fg ypt, and ſettled in this Land, who are not yet caft off, tho they deſerve it, who call themſelvez my People. b Enquire about future things, and what ſhall befal them 3 I threacen from Heaven, they believe me not, but flatter themſelves *will be b=tter than my Prophets lay it will, an they enquire of their Idolatrous Priefts concerning their Fate. c Wooten Statues or 1dols. with which their Prieſts conſult, and make them give Anſwer ſating to the hope of theſe People. 4 This was another kind of forpidden conſulting with the Devilz an Art much in ule in thoſe times and places. Yeu read of this Ezek. 21.21, Theſe were parts of their ſattiſh Tdolatry, So they thought they believed what rheir falſe Prophets reported from.the Sraff or Stock 3 unparallcli'd Folly, nat to believe God ſpeaking from Heaven, but at the ſame time be- li-re a Stock or Staff that knows. not in'whoſe hand tis, or what uſe *js put to, e A Heart addicted .to, and enſnared with Whoredoms Syiritual and Corporal. f Hath blinded, miſled and deceived them, 69 /[4, 40, 20» and 44+ 14, 18, g So: they have lett their God, re- fiiinz to be under his Guidance, endeavyonring to evade his Cor- vcions, and to- fortify themſelves, Rebel like, againſt his Armies raiſzd to chaſtile them; truſting herein to Idols.
and Poplars 1, 'and Elms #2, becauſe the ſhadow there- of is good 2 : therefore o- your Daughters ſhall commit
out by themſelves, and where their Sacrifices offered to God were i Another piece of Ido- latry they praftiſed, which as it uſually was joined to their Sacrifices, | ſo is it here added by the Prophet. This Idolatry abounded in J/7ael, where without Controll it had heen in uſe ever fince their Revolt if not before. A. Wood ſo deep rooted, that the beſt Kings of Fuday could not quite extirpate it. & Some fay Pines, or the Alder. 7 The white Poplar. m Or, Lime-tree; or the Tree whoſe Boughs ftretch'd ont together, caſt a pleaſant Shadow. Under all theſe 'tis certain the Antient Heathen did perform their Tdolatrous Services z ſo did this Veople chooſe all theſe great Trees, which having. many-and great Boughs do afford the. darkeſt and cooleſt ' Recefſes, Eztk. 20. 25. 2 Convenient for the Sacrificers, while. the Smoke and Smell of the Sacrifice went up through the Boughs, and the Coolnels of the ſhady place kept their Perſons from ſultry Heat z-it may be they thought
be often in ſuch places. 0 For theſe Sins of yours (tho you account them no Sins) for your harmonizing with , Heatheniſh Superſtitions; for your leaving, my Temple, and againſt my Commands ſacrificing where beſt liketh you- p Shall diſhonour themſelves and their Fa-
lies, by their Lewdneſs and unlawful Converſe with Fornicators.
he Sin ofthe Fathers is thus puniſh'd, that they might. ſee God's |
juſt Hand puniſhing; and the Sin puniſh'd : Here.is ſpiritual Whore- tom puniſh'd ; With giving up: Daughters to their wandring Luſts: | Or, Spouſes , of ,your Sons, as Gallic Verſon ; a great unhappineſs to any Family to be diſparaged and wronged by Adultereffes, and a grievous Puniſhment. where or whenſoever executed ; and this is here toretold (*twill be o) not countenanced.
14 || I will not puniſh q your daughters when they com- mit whoredom- r, nor your ſponſes when they commir adultery -s : for themſelves are ſeparated with whores *?, and they ſacrifice with barlots u- therefore the people that doth not.underſtand y, ſhall || fall z.
q Or, viſit upon your Daughters; God will not any -more lay on them ſuch Refcraints,as remarkable Puniſkments are uſually to all that dbſerve them. © They are threatned thus to be thrown up'to their own Hearts' and others Lufts. ' r You have rejefted my Law which lirected the Correttion' and Puniſhment of ſuch Sins, and do- you think I will by extraordinary Courſes reſtrain, where you caſt off the
ordinary ? $ You ſhall have no bitter Water of Jealoulie to diſcover,
onvidt and torment an Adulterous Wife, as Fudah had, Numb. 5. 12.
*Or Will I by unuſual ſtrokes of my Hand (mite them. This Impunity
ill increaſe. your Grief and Shame, and ſo you ſhall be puniſh'd.
The Husbands .and Fathers are Examples to Wives and Daughters 3
hole are ſeparated with the lewd Wowen, which either they took
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vided che Land, #4jþ. 14. 6, there the TaberniGe wa
aſter they came over Fordan, and there they facrificer
Ab4b's time a College of Prophets 4 and now. whtior
rence to the place 0n thele accounts, or for what v!1.o! matters not, but cert3in "tis this Gilg! was choſen gut by ©»: fs, by ſucceeding Idolaters, 'Or a; Pace 0! publick Worlniy ot their Idols and grew famous for it. Go nut up to partase or their tdo!itry.ur to I2arn It, Tris a Concile Speech which forbi:ts. all the Si; Mk be CAS at Gupal, f Which is Betiel where F+<29.lodge.!, hae a Vion "Tre Angels, and a more comfortable Yition of Gol! wh) «P:car'd T0 Fact - who jor this gave Name wo che Place, and call ir b. the] Nate 8. God; but when Ferovoam made it the place for his Cal-- worſkin, :
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became and is called Berh-aven, Houſe of nity or Iniquity, Go vt thither to worſhip 3, *tis as the former, a prohibition of being, of t';a Religion Wiich was in ule at Ecth-avin, and had heen the _—_ Wig Religion for two hundred Years, or thereabouts, wiz. ever flac 4e- roboam's time. g This iS in it {elf a lawful Oath, and may b< utes. but in the Circumltances wherewith *tis here attended, it's tDrbidden, becauſe many who went thither yet pretended there to ſacrifice only to the true God, that they own'd him the only living God, reverenced him, ſwore by him, tho they went up to B-rh-27n or Giigal, yet they worthip'd God there. This is a Synecdoche, a part being war tor the whole Worſhip of God, which the Prophet warns them not to blend and mix with 1dolatries, which yet was done before Toſral/s time Zeph. 1.5. which ſee, with the Annotations on it. s
16 For h Irael 7 ſlideth back, as a backſlidins heifor þ : now / the LORD m will teed them as a Lamb in a large
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