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do, Judgment is toward, 7. e. agaiuſt you, You have tinned, and | ! | Confidence of eſcaping Ruine,or elſe foretels that Extremity of SUR, - ” ” oy K”
God will puniſh. God's Controverly, ch. 4. v. 1. is with you all, but firſt with Prieſts who neglected to inſtrutt the Pevple ; next with the Body of the Pcople z and laſtly, with the King, Court, and his Fami- I", e You, O Prielts and Princes, Nobles and Judges, have enfnared the People by your Examples and Prattices, which have been idola- trous, and the People have imitated you. It may poſhhly r1eier to that the Jews ſay was done; Spies ſet to watch who went to Feruſulem to worſhip, and to inform that they might be puniſh*d : Or elſe thus By commending the Calves, and palliating the Idolatry committed in worſhipping them, by perſwading the People they might as well wor- ſhip there as at FeruſaJem ; you have been a Snare unto them, and drawn them into Idotatry. f Either taken comparatively, as Fowlers and Hunters have taken many Birds and Beaſts, by Gins and Snares, on Mizpah; ſo you liave enſnared many Souls in Idolatry : Or by Jdola- tries atted at Mizpah you have enſnared many ; ſo at Mrzpah there was an Hgh Place, and idolatrous Worſhip performed there ; whether at Mizpah in Fudah, which is not very likely, or Mizpah part of L1b4- mus, which is the more likely, I determine not. g A very famous Mount for its exa& Roundnels, and the Hcight thereof, and as famous for the Pleaſantneſs thereof, which eafily perſwades me to think this Hill muſt needs have ſome High Place on it, andthat where High Places were fo much in faſhion Tabor could-not be omicted. Here, as in Miz- peh, Tdolatry catch'd Men, as Birds or wild Beaſts are taken ina Net: or briefly thus ; The Priefts and ſecular Power did make Religion and the Civil Government a Snare for Men ; both ſo managed the Laws of each as to intrap all they could, as if Men were Fowls and. Beaſts, and Governours Civil and Ecclefiaſtical Hunters -and Fowlers, and their Laws Nets and Gins ſet to catch Men, and make a Prey of them. "'Fhus *twas in //r.ze/ at that Day.
2 And the revolters þ are profound i to make ſlaugh-
TER ;®0d, ter k || though I 1 have bcen + a rebuker m7 of them all s,
- þ All thoſe that have caſt off the Law of God, both in Matters of Religion and Civil Government. 7 Dig deep fo hide their Counſels, or have taken deep Root fince their Apoſtacy from God, and revolt from the Houſe of David. k All their Religion is but a butchering of Cattle, no Sacrifice to God z or which is worſe, a murdering of Men- L Hoſea, m A Freacher. who in the Name and Word of God have ſharply- inveigh'd againft their brutiſh - Religion, and their bloody Slaughters. = None that have been guilty have eſcaped the Reproof. I have declaimed againſt Idolatrous Prieſts, and bloody Uſurpers, ſuch as were in thoſe Tumcs, Shallym, Menahem and Pekah.
3 I know Ephraim: o, and Iſrael is. not hid from me : for now, O Ephraim, thou committelt whoredom p, and
Iſrael is defiled 9. #8 &
0 Theſe Revolters neither are nor can be ſo deep as to conceal them- ſetves, their Deſigns, Contrivances and Prattices from me : I through- ly know Ephraim ; the Revolters are called Y7ae1 in this Verſe, who is not hid from me. It is an elegant Repetition of the ſame thing in different Words. þ All thy fair-Pretences thou canſt put upon thy de- viſed Religion cannot better it, ſtill 'ris-down-right Idolatry or ſpiri- tual Whoredom. . q J/rae! here is Efhratm, and when Jſrael is ſaid to be polluted, it is to be uriderftood both ofſpiritual and corporal Pollu-
- tion, which moſtly arelinked together, and draw on each other.
4 Þ || They. r will not frame their doings s to turn unto their God ft : for the ſpirit of whoredoms « is in the midſt of them x, and they have not known y the
doings will LORD z.
7 Thoſe Revolters, polluted 1/raelites, and Idolatrous Epkraimites.
s They are lo intent upon their Idolatries and Oppreſhons, they have been ſo long inured to theſe Doing, that now they are become Slaves to their own Doings, inſomuch that they neither have Will nor Power to change them, as Fer. 13. 23- #t Torepent of thoſe wicked Courſes, and to leave them, and lo return to their God, who was once theirs by Covenant,though now they. have violated the Covenant, and departed from God. They are in Sin hardened to a hopeleſs and remedileſs Ob- ftinacy and Iinpenitence. « Vid. chap.4iver. 12. Their Mind and Incli- nation ſtands bent, and fixed upon ſpiritual Whoredoms, and they are incited to it by the ſeducing Spirit, allured by Examples, and all theſe hurry them on. x It is an univerſal Diftemper among them, all fla with this Spirit, it hath ſeiz'd the Heart of them. » They never did rightly kncw, nor would they ever know ; they forgot, were wiltully ignorant of the way of Holineſs and pure Religion, contained in the Law of God. + Who is pure, zealous for his Glory, ſovereign in his Authority, rich in his Rewards, ſevere in his Puniſhments, and true to his Promiſes and Threats : That nothing can be more prejudicial to a People than to forſake, nor any thing more conducive to the Good of a leople, than to keep his Law.
5 And the * pride a of Iſrael doth teſtity b to his face c : therefore ſhall [ſrael and Ephraim d fall in their ini- quity e : Judah f alſo ſhall fall with them g.