m You through Covertouſneſs take any the People bring, whether fuck as the Law requires or no. If it anſwer not the Perteation ot the Lis, yet you fiſt make irſerve me, throug't your Contempt Of : n Either by ill managing it, and miſordering what is good and allowavie, 07 AC- cepting what is diſallowed a.d t bidden, becauſe of 1ts Blemithes- 0 Either the Shew-bread, of which Exod. 25. 30. of Mcat-Otfcrings, Ex9.29. $1. Lev. 2. Numb. 28. 5: or 1n a morce-large Senie, all that was to he offered uato God, Sacrifices and Oblations. p By this 1t appears Bread is fo be expounded here of Sacrifices, ard not to te C2 fired tn the narrow Bounds of this one kind. q They ſtand upon their own Juſtification, avd proudls contend with Goo, cither 1m- plying they did net offcr Tuch polluted things, or it chey wcre de- ic&ive, and in Law-Scnſe polluted, yer that this d1d redound to God, or affect him no more than the Perfe&ion of chem could add to him F Perhans in Words, however by your Deeds you ſpeak Your Though:s and Judgment ; you think ſo, and then at ſo, «s Be- not os Altar, now it is Tale. not to be oppoted each to other, but commrebeiGing bork, and a{l that was offered unto God on both.
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4 This if, implies they had done ſo, it chargeth them with ſome- what in watter of Yra&ice amotig them, the lame and fick alſo they had offered. x Is it. not againſt the expreſs Command of God, Lev. 22. 22. 23, 24. and Dyvt. 15. 21. the living God ſhould have living Sacr:fices, and God who is pericf, ſhould have perfect Sacr1- fices. Bur the People bringing ſuch, the Prieſts accepting ſuch, do in cf tcll the World, hey thought ſuch Sacrifices good etough for that God they were offered to; fo great FProfaneneſs runs through this whole Carriage. y Not their King, for they had none 3 but Go- veriours they had, and theſe the Jews reverenced, and would not dire do that to them which they do boldly with God daily. 7 Your Governour would not thank you, he would be angry with you, ard account it an Affront; and ſhall not the Lord of Hoſts much more account it an Indignity offered unto him ? People in bring- in, Pricfts in accepting theſe blemiſhed Oblations, which were not £574 enouzh ior a Man, did fin greatly, and ſpake their Apprehen- 11.95 of God to be contemptible and flight.
o And now I 2 pray you 6, belſeech f God that he this 4 hath been + by your vwill he regard your perſons ? Jaith the LORD 0: hoits.
a Malachi, b O Pricſts, Poople, among which (with the Modeſty that 1s uſual among Gad's Suyrs) he rangeth himfelf, intreat they may find Grace with God, ad be pardoned. 4 Deteſtable Contempt of God, his Altar and Werſh'p. e You, O Priefts, have heen great Occaſions of this, *tis tare your Sin, though too much theirs; beg then, that it may be $0r21v48, reventand pray, or you will not be regarded : Some think the whole Verſe to be an Irony againſt thoſe Priefts and their Sacri- ficet.
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Some make this Verſe to be a kind of wiſh, that there were ſome among them tiat would ſhutup the Doors of the Temple, and keep out ſuch Sacrifices and Sacrificers; it would be leſs diſplcaſing to ©0d, 'tivere better not done at all, than ſo 1ll done; and ſo long as it 1s 10 i}! done, God can have no Pleaſure in it or them. Others make jr a Reproof of the Priefts upbraided for their profane Contempt of God, and for ther tnexcuſavle Negligence, while they are ſo well paid tor a!1 their Service, he it everſolittle andinconfiderable, as rhe tonttvg a Fire on the Alcar, or ſhutting the Doors of the Temple; 1.cazcutable diſhovefty to receive large Wages, and negict your Work f 1 cannoite picaſcd with ſuch Servants and Services ; or "tis a Ferrſss, I am very greatly difpicated with you. g Whiltt you are thus proare and contemprucus, 1 will ever accept your Giirs, but rcjeR you aid them.
11 FOr From the Tifing of the fun even to the going Gown or the lame, my Name /hel/ be great among the (+1/ties, and * in every place incenle Þ hall be ottered KG My Pume, and a pure oftering 7: tor my Name JÞ4 be great among the !
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Ti:\s Verſe is a very full and plain Prediction orPromiſe made cn bchalf of tre Gentiles, that they fhowld be a veople to.the Lord, ang {ould exalt his Name, and worſhip him in a pvre way, and well. plcating to the Lord. That wien he caſtcth off Ceremonial Services ad Carnal Ordinances, he w:ll fet up Spiritual and Heavenly; and all Nations, from Eaft to Weſt, thall ſubmit to them, and ſanRifie rh+ Holy and Reverend Name of God in them. hþ A Law-term for a Go. ſpel-Duty, and under this Type is contained the Prayers and Praiſes: nay the whole Goſpel-worſhip 1s that Incenſe which thall be offered unto God, which is in this Verſe cailed a purc Offering. 7 Both fn. cere in oppoficion to Hypocrifte, and holy in oppoſition to Impurity and purged trom Superſtition and Idolatry. The ſum of this Vers 1s contained in that Fob 4. 21, 22,23 24.
2 & But ye # have profjaned / it, 1n that ye ſay 7A The table of the LORD zs polluted z, and the tryir thereof, even his meat o 1s contemptible p.