a From being as a Father to chem, to be a Tides over them puniſh chem ; whereas formeriy he had bletſed them. e Thi. deed to aeliyer them 10 Satan, God with hoidins his grace which thes had abuſed, Row. 1. 24, :5. and giving them up, {ro f4ll fig Ne {1a unto another ) though not p-lirively, vor pormifiely; £ The .tngels are fo calied, Zike 2. 13. but ir is rather hope ſtood of ihe ſun, mom, ard ffars, which wr calle. 1/3. 40.26. g The words here referred ro, are 5:
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politive queſtion does vehemently deny, that they liad offered any | Sacrifices unto God, whilelt they were 1a the wildernsf,; byr at tha | lame time they oft-red Sacrificzs unto luols; tor when they hid cor- ' rupted Gods worthip their Sacrifice was as n9 Sacritices y
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43 Yea, ye z took 1Þ the tabernaclez of Moulech,and the ſtar of yourged / Remphan,zz figures which ve made to worſhip them: and | z will Carry you away o beyond Babvlon |
z On their ſhoulders, as they did the Ark. & The idol of the
childcen of Ammnmn, which the 72elites were etpecially forbid- den to worthip, Lv 18. 21. and Lev. 20. 2, yer they did ordinarily worlhip him, 2 Chron. 28. 3. Jer. 7.39. Ard thee was an high place built by Solorzcn for him, 1 Kings 11. 7 Toe fahernacle of Molech, was either a cheſt or prels ta which that Idol was pur, or th Chapels into which the wo:ſh+ppers of Meech were adiniried ; accenlins to rue quality of the Offering which they brougat. Which of the plancts they intended ro buzour bereby, whether the Sw, or Marr, or Saturn, it matters not fo much ; any of theſe, or any other of their Gods, might be called Aflech, taking rhe word appellatively. I Remphan in the place here cit:d, 15 called by .the Prophet Chinn 3 w hich 1s one and the lame Tdol in both places, the Prophet callins It by-1ts nam# then in wir; and Sr. Stephen like unto the name the Septuagint had cailed it by; whether Saturn was intended by rhis, as fome think, or Hercules asothers; 1t 15 not our preſent buſineſs to enquire. Images and repreſentatives of the hoſts of Heaven, or of the Planets. o The Prophet Amos faith, beyond Danaſone, Ans7 5. 27. here St Srephen does not contradict the Prophet, for they were carrved away b:yond Baty/ov, muſt needs be carryed away beyond Damaſc:z, as theten captive Tribes were, ( unto whom this was threatned )
44 Our fathers had p the tabernacle of witneſs in the wilderneſs, as he had appointed, [| ſpeaking unto Moſes |! Or, 7779 that he ſhould maks it 9 according, tothe fathion that he /24#*- had ſeen.
p Called allo the Tabernacle of the Congregation , Exod. 33.7. be- cauſe about it on all ſolema occalions ths people aflembled. Here "tis called the Tabernacle of witneſs, becauſe God here teſt 'ficd or wat- neſſed his g!orious Preſence; and efpecially, becauſe in it the Ark of the Covenant, the Law, and tliz Teſtimony were kept. 4 Exod 25, 40, Heb. 8. 5, Moſes was charged not to vary from the prefcripr ; God' being jer'ous of his own appointments : Now this is the rather ſpokzn of by Sr. Stcp/en, that be might prove that the place where God was worthipped in, had varied, and charetore might allo now bechanged.
45.* Which alſc our fathers [|thart came after,brought # j,g;-.; i ” 4 a © Es | CN - Ne RNs in with r Jeſus into the polieſiion of the Gentiles, whom !| Or, Haw. God drave out before s the tacs of our fathers, unto the #75 received, days of David.
r Or 7ojhna ; it being the ſame name, as appears allo, Ie. 4.8. onely Jetus 1s more according rorhe Greet uſe : Joſb1a vras a type of Jeſus, and agreed with him in his name, . and in the reaſon of his name ; hehaving alſo faved the people, and brought them into the promiſed reft; yer thz difference is as great b-rween them, as betwix* the Heavenly Canaan, and the Earthly, 5s They were not able to look upon an J/raelite, whileſt God was for them.
45* Who: tound favour before God, and : defired * r Sans,
: As Luke. 30. uſt was David's earnett reque?, that he might any ways glorifte God , efpectaily in his worlhip, and rhar he might know wh-re the Ark ſhould reſt, and where the Temple vas to be built, as Pſa/m 132. declares throughout,
47 * Bur x Solomon built him 7 an houſe.
» 1 Kings 6. 10. 2 Coronicles }. 1, 2. y A fixtand ſtable Structure, , not moveable, as the Tabernacle was.
48 Howbeit* z the moſt High dwelleth not 2 in tem- © : fin 9.57, ples made wich hands, as faith che Propher.
2 This is alſo Sr. Paul's Do&rine, Chap. r7. 24. which divers a» mongſt the wiſer Hearthens were perſwaded of; for God cannot be comprehended in any place, no, not where he 1s worthipped ; and therefore they did fooliſhly conceive, that the worthip of God vras ſo tyed to the Temple, as if he himſelf had been included in it.
a The Primitive Chr:ftians abſtain:d from calling the places of their aſſembling, by the n.me of Temples ; and were charged by ther Pagan-enemies for having no Altars, or Temples, or Images.
49 b * Heaven 7s my throne, and earth zs my foot- 15. ſtool : Whar c houſe will ye build me ? faith che Lord : & 25 > or what is the place of my reſt ?
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