diſhonoured me, and made my Sacrifices contemptible. y I have cepted lefr you under the contempt of the Peop'e, who think as you de- facesa ſerve baſely of you z you have diſhonoured me, and I have made
and will make good my Werd, you ſhall be lightly eſteemed. 2 There are none but account you an unworthy, unathankful, profane
and unjuſt Generation, neither fit to ſerve God or guide Man.
4 Your Puniſhment is as your Sinz you forſook the Law'of God, and
made his Table and his Bread contemptible, now I make you con- temptible;z you were weary of my Service, and the People are we2-
ry of ſuch Prieſts. b You have perverted the Law for to picaſe great Men, or to favour your ſelves; or to ſpeak all in few Words,
you haye declined the true Judgment of God's Law to ſerve ſome uti worthy Defign or other ; ſo that none could be ſure of a right in- terpretation, or ofa juſt Judgment, or of a ſafe and ſure Direction trom you.
Io T Have we b not all one father c ? hath not one God created usd? why do we e deal treacheroti:y f every man 2 againſt his brother þ,by protaning 7 the co- venant of our tathers ?
b We Jews. c Either Abraham or Faceh, (not Adam here intend- ed) with whom God nide the Covenaat by which the Poſterity was wade a peculiar People ſeparated from other Nations, and on very weighty Reaſonsforbid to join and intermix 'with ftrange Nations, 4 The Prophet ipeaks of that great and gracious Work ot God, crea- ting them co be a choſen Peopie, a Nation formed to ſhe torth his Praiſe, Deut. 32. 6, 18. Jſa. 43. 1, 7- and fo we Chriſtians are crea- -ted in Chriſt Jetus, Eph. 2. 10. and are in him new Creatures, 2 Cor. 5+ 17, e& The Prophet was nor guilty of the Fault, yetfſpeaks as one of the Commuriry,partly to take off the Envy of the Jews, and to cyt off all occaſion of quarrelling againſt his VYord, ard partly to infj- nuate the Senſe he had of this thing,and theAffeRion he had for them, though he reproved them f Deſpite, ſo ſome, hreak our Faith in the Marriage-Contra@ engaged, ſocarry it difloyally, azainſt the Dy- ty we owe to;God's Law,which equally binds us,as our VViyes to muy»
tual Love, Honour and Faithfulneſs ; and why then do we take Hea- | then VVives,('tis bad ifa Jew unmarried do it, bur here now the Cafe
1s worſe) Jewiſh Wives being diſliked, rejedtcd, and fo grcar!
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quity was not found in his lips f : he walked with meg | ſed? why do we this againſt the Bond of Contanzuiniry ? and do
we Sens of Abraham abuſe thus the Daughters of Abraham 2 Why do we ſo little regard the Bond of Religion ? we ate Feople, Sons ind Daughters of one God, who hath called us, ſeparated us from t'146 Hez- then to keep Religion pure and unmixed, why then do we franſgreſs thus? g The Fault was very common, among the People and Prieſts too, and ſince their return out of Baby/m. h This wrong was done immediately againſt the Wite, but the Father, Brothers or Kinſmen of the wronged Wite are immediately, and by conſequerce wrong- ed; the whole Family of che Wife thus uſed is pertidicuſly abuſed, but Brothers as principal of the Family are named, 7 Violating the Covenant of God, the Law, which approyes no Polygamy, aud for- bids marrying of Idolaters. : |
11 © Judah & hath dealt treacherouſly 7, and an abomination z# is committed in Iſrael zz, and in Jeru- falem o : for Judah hath profaned the holineſs p of the
LORD which he || loved g, and * hath married the oy daughter of a ſtrange God 7. * Neh12,
þ Though 7u4ah only is named, yer the reſt of the returned Cap- 23- tives are included. / Vid. ver. 10. let. f. m Such Treachery is a very abomivable thing, God and all good Men abhor it, and yer here'tis committed. n Who are God's peculfar People,and above others ſhould have been holy. s Under the Eye of the Governcurs, the High Prieft and Sanhedrim, nay under the Eye of God who divelt at Fe- raſalem; this could, not bur greatly provoke God, p Profanely via- lated the necefſafy cautionary Law of Marriage, confining Iſrael to marry within thewſelves,and not to endanger themſclves agd Religi- on by joining in Affinity with Idolaters, who would draiv them and their Children from the holy Law, Worſhip and Temple of God, which are the Holineſs that he loved. 4 Which he, 7.e. Zudah,once lo- ved,ſo 'twas Apoſtacy in Fudah. Or which he,t.e.the Lord, loved above all, ſo 'tis a regle@ of a main Duty, 'tis lighring what God ſo greatly loved. r Exra 9. 1. and 10. 2. mentions what Nations they were whoſe Daughters were by theſe Jews taken for Wives; they were idolatrous Nations, and the VVomen were [dolatrefſes when Wiyes
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