# Among the many Diviations from God's Law ( which they do not, becauſe they will not, ſee) the Propher chargeth them with this kind of ſacrilegious Theft, they had detained his Tithes, ſhortned him 1n that Portion which he had reſerved to himſelf, & for his Ser- vices which is,as our Verſion expreffeth it, a robbing of God. And as the Words lie in the Original, they do by arguing trom the lels to the greater aggravate thisfin ; as they may be read, will a Man r0b 2 great Man ? or, a Fudze? for the word uſed will bear theſe Notions. Or, will a Man rob the Gods? 1.e. do not Heathens abhor the toulneſs of ſuch a Fault, and fexr the Puniſhment of Sacrilege, and therefore would not rob their Idols? As another Prophet ask'd once the Queſt i- on, Have any of the Nations changed their Gods, which yet are no God's 2? Fey, 2+ 11. ſo now, have the Nations robb'd their Gods ? « But bluſh, ye ſhamelcts Prieſts and Fews.” you have robb'd not a great Man, bur the great God ; not Judges, but the Judge of Judges; not an Idol, but the living God. How great is your Crime: x 4 Que- ſtjon juſt like thoſe, ch. 1. 7- & 2. 17, & 3. 7. which fee, y The People robb'd God, nor paying the full Tenth, which Gud appointed ſhould be paid tohim. The Prieſts robb'd God in Tities while they rook too much,or it may be all tor their own particular and Family- Uſe,and did not diftribute them to all that by God's Law had a Right toa *roportion of them. x Either firſt Fruits, or other Oblations
the Service of God ; inall which the People and Prieſts had given him leſs than his due. :
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curſed; the Curſe ſhall continue whilſt you continue in this your ſi>tul courſe. c This brought, increas'd, and multiplied your Curie : Or as ſoine, yet ye do rob me ! Strange that you dare ſin, whilſt I am puniſhing for this very fin! Or by way of queſtion, and do ye rob me ? Viilyou go on thus to fin when youare under the Curſe for it ? Will you as Ahaz, fin when in diſtreſs ? er Pharaoh-like, harden under the Judgment? &d Like Prieſt like People ; the Prieſts and Levites did »:culy employ the Tithes and Offerings, and the People did unduly Pay 3 *tis like the People obſerved how much of the Tithes were laid oat otherwiſe than the Law direfed, and they were ready to think they might do well enough ro keep that tor a uſe better (as they did think ) than the uſe the Prieſts and Levites put it ro: They thought *ewas ill ſpent by the Prieſts, and well ſaved by them : But this how- ever it ſeemingly excuſe them to themſelves, it leaves them gullty beto-e God 5 the whole Nation is facrilegious, and che whole Nation
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10 Bring ye e all the tithes into the ſtore-houſe f, that there may be meat in mine houſe g, and prove me þ now berewith z, ſaith the LORD of hotts, if I will | not open you the * windows of heaven #, and + * pour | you out a bleſſing, that there /ha/l not be room enough 7
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