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A85668	An exposition continued upon the XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, and XXIX, chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, vvith many useful observations thereupon. Delivered at several lectures in London, by William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1658 (1658)	Wing G1856; Thomason E954_1; ESTC R207608	447,507	627

God being his image and glory and woman represents man and so is his image and glory 5 She is a Crown to her Husband a great ornament unto him Prov. 12.4 6 She is the builder of the house Ruth 4.11 Rachel and Leah did build the house of Israel 7 She is a companion in all conditions the wife of thy youth and the wife of thine age Prov. 5.18 8 Shee is a bosome friend in whom the heart of her Husband may safely trust Prov. 31.11 9 She is an heir of the grace of life together with her Husband 1 Pet. 3.7 These things besides beauty amiablenesse and sweetnesse of nature do indear wives to Husbands and so cause them to eye and minde them the more for Oculos conjicimus in rem ceu personam nob●s charam things or persons which are dear to us our thoughts our eyes are upon where Love is there will bee the eye Christ loved his Church dearly and therefore said Cant. 2.14 Let me see thy countenance the Church was black chap. 1.5 yet the delight of Christs eyes because shee had inward glory beauty excellency so many wives though they bee not outwardly so amiable and beautiful as others yet they may have inward vertues excellencies and those graces which may make them the desires of Husbands eyes if gratious themselves and if such inward attractives bee wanting propriety may do it Every one affects what is his own a peece of Land a House a Ship a Childe that is ones own is more delightful to the owner then what is anothers Doubtlesse Ezekiels wife was amiable vertuous gratious indeared much unto him upon several grounds so that shee was a delight unto and the desire of his eyes else the Lord would not have forbidden him to mourn and weep for her His love was such to her that it would have carried him out strongly thereunto if the Lord had not prohibited it With a stroak The Hebrew is Bemaggepheh which Montanus renders in percussione in striking or by a stroak it s from Nagaph which signifies to beat to smite yea ad internecionem percutere to smite unto death it hath some affinity with the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to touch or hurt more lightly but this notes hurting more vehemently and is applied in scripture to Gods striking with extraordinary judgements as Exod. 8.2 I will smite all thy borders with Frogs 1 Sam. 4.2 Israel was smitten before the Philistims 2 Chron. 13.15 God smote Jeroboam and all Israel Exod. 12.29 At midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt Hence the Nowns Negeph and Maggephah signifie a stroak and the heavy stroaks of God Exod. 9.14 I will at this time send all my Plagues upon thy heart and upon thy servants and upon thy people the word for Plagues is the same with that here the ten Plagues of Egypt were ten stroakes of God sometimes the word is put for that sad stroak of God viz. the Plague Numb 16.46 Hechel Hannageph the Plague is begunne Some think the stroak here was the Plague but whether that an Apoplexy Impostume or Palsy is not set down this onely wee have for certain that it was suddain whatever it was she did not lye long with a pining disease but was suddainly snatched away from Ezekiel Yet neither shalt thou mourn The Jews were wont to honour their dead with great mourning when Aaron dyed they mourned for him thirty daies Numb 20.29 and so many daies they mourned for Moses Deut. 34.8 Joseph mourned forty daies for the death of his Father Jacob in Egypt and seven daies after that in the Land of Canaan Gen. 50.3 10. and seven daies mourning for the dead was the ordinary practice as Ecclesiasticus observes cha 22.12 but Ezekiel is here forbid to mourn at all in a publike and solemn manner The Hebrew word for mourning is Suphad which notes mourning by striking the head or breast and refers most Ad Pompam funebrem Nor weep neither shall thy tears run down The word for weeping in Hebrew is Bacah which signifies weeping cum elevatione vocis as Judges 2.4 Job 2.12 They lift up their voices and wept and herein it differs from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to weep also but silently without noise Weeping oft is a great ease to the heart but Ezekiel must not testify any grief by voice tears or any outward gesture 17 Forbear to cry The Hebrew is Heaneck dom tace clamando hold thy peace from crying The Vulgar is Ingemisce tacens sigh holding thy peace so sigh as none may hear thee Others allow not so much as sighing but read the words thus a gemitu tace let there be no sign of any sigh Make no mourning for the dead The Jews were wont to bewail their dead 2 Chron. 35.24 25. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah Jeremy lamented for him and all the singing men and singing women Abraham mourned for Sarah Gen. 23.2 they were wont to cry Ah my Brother Ah my Sister Jerem. 22.18 to cut and make themselves bald in their Lamentations for their dead Jer. 16.6 which was forbid the Priests Levit. 21.5 though they might mourn for their near kindred ibid. v. 23. but Ezekiel must make no mourning he must not put on Sackcloath shave his head or the corners of his beard nor cut his flesh at all he is forbid all funeral pompe and expressions Binde the tire of thine head upon thee It was in practice among the Jews sometimes to cover their heads in their mournings as being unworthy to see the light or any creatures and sometimes to uncover them as not being worthy of any Ornament 2 Sam. 15.32 David and those with him had their heads covered and went weeping Levit. 10.6 When Nadab and Abihu were destroyed by fire and Aaron with his remaining Sonnes had great cause to mourn Moses commands them not to uncover their heads or rend their cloaths clearly demonstrating that that was their custome in their mournings They made bare their heads and laid ashes or earth upon them as you may see 1 Sam. 4.12 Lament 2.10 This Ezekiel might not do hee must not throw off his head tire The word is Peer or Pear which signifies Gloria ornamentum decus what ever the Prophet did wear upon his head hee must keep it on and not lay it aside And put on thy shooes upon thy feet In their mournings and funerals they went bare-foot 2 Sam. 15.30 David was bare-foot when hee went up the ascent of Mount Olivet Antonius Margarita who of a Jew became Christian and writ of the Rites of the Jews saith that the kindred at the death of a friend do tear their garments eat nothing that day in that house but abroad that they eat no flesh drink no wine unlesse it be upon the Sabbath and that they follow the Hearse nudis pedibus To this agrees what Leo Modena hath lately commended to the world The nearest kindred of

sonnes and their daughters and burn up their houses with fire 48 Thus will I cause lewdnesse to cease out of the land that all women may bee taught not to do after your lewdness 49 And they shall recompense your lewdnesse upon you and yee shall bear the sinnes of your Idols and yee shall know that I am the Lord God In these verses the judgements of God upon those Harlots are further set out and amplified with the events thereof 1 They shall bee punished like adulteresses and murtheresses v. 45. 2 They shall be carried into captivity and spoiled v. 46. 3 They their Sons and daughters shall bee stoned and slain v. 47. and their houses burnt ibid. The Events or effects are 1 Cessation of lewdnesse v. 48. 2 Instruction of other women to take heed of doing the like ibid. 3 Conviction of the equity of Gods dealings v. 49. 45 And the righteous men The Assyrians and Babylonians who destroyed Samaria and Jerusalem are called righteous or just men not that they were so really but comparatively they are stiled so in respect of the Jews they were such Ezek. 5.6 7. chap. 16.27 47. who exceeded the Nations in wickednesse or because they were Gods instruments to execute his just judgements upon them especially for their perfidiousnesse with those Nations They shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed bloud Adulteresses were punished with death under the Law Lev. 20.10 Deut. 22.22 and the death was stoning John 8.5 7. else Christ would not have commissioned them to have thrown stones at the woman if they had been faultlesse themselves and as these were to dye for their uncleannesse so were those that shed blood Of these words see chap. 16.38 46 I will bring up a company upon them I brought up an Army against Samaria and destroyed it and so I will do with Jerusalem I will bring the Babylonians upon her who shall spoil her by stoning slaughtering burning and removing her into Captivity No enemies can stirre out of their countrey to mischief others till the Lord call and bring them and when hee doth so sad effects follow they lay all waste making Cities heaps and pleasant Lands wildernesses Of this 46. and 47. vers see chap 16.40 41. 48 Then will I cause lewdnesse to cease out of the land When the Lord should have accomplished his judgements upon these Harlots when Aholah and Aholibah should be destroyed then idolatry should cease and be no more in the Land then sacrificing their children to idols and shedding of blood should be no more heard of Gods judgements will silence wickednesse and take away evil from the land That all women may bee taught not to do after your lewdness By Women here understand Cities Provinces Nations which seeing the just judgements of God upon these whorish women Aholah and Aholibah might learn to beware of such sinnes and not to go out from God having once given up themselves to him least they draw such severe and shamefull punishments upon themselves Obs Gods Judgements are teaching things hee brought dreadful judgements upon Aholah and Aholibah that all women might bee taught thereby Gideon by thorns and bryers taught the men of Succoth Judges 8.16 and God by his peircing judgements teaches the Nations hee punisheth one City that others may take warning There is no judgement of God upon any City Nation or people but it speaks and teaches Micah 6.9 hear ye the rod it hath a voice a teaching voice 1 It Teaches all who are guilty of the same sinnes and not visited with the same judgements to admire the long suffering and goodnesse of God towards them 2 It Teaches those presently to consider their waies turn to the Lord by repentance who are guilty of such sins least the Lord being now in a way of judgement should break out also upon them and make them examples of his justice 3 It Teaches others to fear and fly from such practises as bring such destructive judgements When Samaria and Jerusalem shall be destroyed by dreadful judgements for their confidence in armes of flesh by confederating with other nations for their idolatry cruelty prophaneness and perfidiousnesse will not other Cities fear to do the like will not every City learn to see what is the reward of wickedness in the sufferings of others This Gods judgements teach sinners to do that so they may consult for their credit and safety 49 And they shall recompense your lewdnesse upon you The Hebrew is And they shall put your filthinesse and lewdthinesse upon you that is the Nations and Cities round about shall concur with the Babylonians to punish you for your wickednesse to bring upon you the merit of your sinnes or thus they shall approve of what the Lord doth in destroying of you saying all is the fruit and just recompense of your own doings And ye shall bear the sins of your idols Their Idols did not sin but they sinned with their Idols and the fruit of those sins they must eat the punishment due to them they must bear there is a near connexion between sinne and punishment they have the same names so v. 35. Obs Gods proceeding with sinners in judgement righteously brings them to acknowledge the equity of his dealing with them when the just punishment of your lewdnesse and idolatry shall bee upon you ye shall know that I am the Lord God who observed all your waies who waited long for your repentance who have dealt justly with you in all the evils I have brought upon you you cannot but justify me and condemn your selves CHAP. XXIV Vers 1 Again in the ninth year in the tenth month in the tenth day of the month the word of the Lord came unto me saying 2 Son of man write thee the name of the day even of this same day the King of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto them thus saith the Lord God set on a pot set it on and also pour water into it 4 Gather the peices thereof into it even every good peice the thigh and the shoulder fill it with the choice bones 5 Take the choice of the flock and burn also the bones under it and make it boyle well and let him seeth the bones of it therein THis Chapter is conceived to bee the last prophesy against the Kingdome of Judah before the final destruction thereof which with the great Calamity thereof is set out under the type of a boyling pot and the death of the Prophets wife In the Chapter is contained a double prophesy 1 That of the boyling pot and the interpretation thereof to the 15. v. 2 That of Ezekiels wife dying suddainly his not mourning for her and the explication thereof from the 15. ver to the end In the verses before us we have 1 The Time of this prophesy v. 1 2 The Occasion ver 2. which was the

should dare to mourn or express any tokens of sorrow how full soever their hearts were thereof But when they were in secret a man with his brother for so is the Hebrew then they should open their minds one towards another and mourn 24 Thus Ezekiel is to you a sign The Hebrew is Lemopheth in portentum for some prodigious thing Mopheth it notes a visible sign presageing good or evil and so accordingly is pleasing to the sight or horrible it s that is unusuall Preter Naturam fore-shewing somewhat to come Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife was a sign to them that they should bee in such perplexity as not to mourn for their Temple City and desireable things which should bee pulled from them by a suddain stroak of God The Hebrew have Oth and Mopheth which comming together are rendred signum prodigium as Isa 20.3 that is Oth or a sign which is not preter naturam as to cure the sick Martinius in lex verb. signum that is Mopheth or a prodigy which is preter naturam as to raise the dead and do strange things According to all that he hath done shall yee do You have beheld Ezekiels doings and wondred at them hee hath but preached what ye are to do and the time is at hand wherein he shall see you acting over the same things Obs 1 The resting in holy things causes God to remove them how dear soever they bee unto us I will prophane my Sanctuary the excellency of your strength the desire of your eyes and that which your soul pittieth you confide in the outward means you are taken with the outward splendor of the ceremonies and pompe of the Temple but the spirituall true worship yee minde not the Temple City and State are dearer unto you than I am they have your eies your hearts your souls when I am neglected I have honoured you with my sanctuary and all the holy things in it belonging to it but you have not honoured mee why is the Temple and not my self The excellency of your strength why is that the desire of your eies and not my self who fill the Temple with my glory why is that the pitty of your souls being troubled that it should bee laid in the dust and not my honour my glory my name which are prophaned amongst you and laid in the dust Obs 2 That sometime mens sinnes bring them into such streights that though they have lost their dearest comforts yet they dare not outwardly manifest any sorrow for them God would take away the Temple the Excellency of their strength the desire of their eyes the pitty of their souls their Sonnes and daughters and they should not dare to mourn or weep openly but should secretly pine away and come to nothing It was sad to loose their dearest comforts and more sad that they might not case their hearts by tears or sighings and most sad that they must shew no respect to their dead friends by any funeral rites This sad condition had Jeremy told them of chap. 16.6 7. Both the great and the small shall dye in the land they shall not bee buried neither shall men lament for them nor cut themselves nor make themselves bald for them neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their Father or for their Mother they should be in such streights through the fury and violence of their enemies whom their sinnes had brought upon them that they should not dare to mourn for their dead and the great evils upon them Obs 3 God may and doth put his own faithful servants upon hard and unwonted things thereby to declare what shall bee the condition of the wicked Thus Ezekiel is to you a sign hee hath had his dearest comfort taken away by an extraordinary stroak he hath not been suffered to mourn or weep therefore and why so that hee may bee a sign unto you you would not bee taught by my doctrin now you must bee taught by my example according to all that hee hath done shall yee do The things are harsh and unnatural that I have done but it s for your sakes that I am put upon them and yee shall do as I have Thus Isaiah was put upon it to walk naked and bare-foot three years which was hard and reproachful and why That hee might bee for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia Isa 20.3 Some may think God deals ill with his Servants in putting them upon harsh reproachful unnatural ridiculous things but know all souls are the Lords and hee may command them what hee please they have comfort in their obedience what ever men think or say of them when as those they are made signs unto have nothing but bitternesse and terrors Obs 4 Signes accomplished convince men of the truth and just proceedings of God When this commeth yee shall know that I am the Lord God by the fulfilling what this sign foretold yee shall bee so convinced as to acknowledge Ezekiel was a true sign made so by mee and that I have dealt justly with you for your iniquities in bringing you into such streights as not to dare to mourn openly for your miseries if Ezekiel have nothing to object against mee from whom being innocent I took away the desire of his eyes and forbad him to mourn for her what can you object against me being so guilty as none more If I rend away your desirable things and hem you about so with my judgements and enemies that you shall not dare to mourn Vers 25 Also thou Son of man shall it not bee in the day when I take from them their strength the joy of their glory the desire of their eies and that whereupon they set their minds their Sons and their Daughters 26 That hee that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee to cause thee to hear it with thine ears 27 In that day shall thy mouth bee opened to him which is escaped and thou shalt speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt bee a sign unto them and they shall know that I am the Lord. In these words you may perceive 1 A Repetition of the taking away what was dearest to the Jews v. 25. 2 The Events thereupon which are 1 Tidings thereof brought to the Prophet ver 26. 2 Freedome of prophesying in Ezekiel v. 27. 3 Conviction of the People ibid. 25 When I take from them their strength What in the 21. vers hee called The excellency of their strength here he calls their strength that was the Temple it was strong but should not have been their strength the God of the Temple should have been their hope and confidence The joy of their glory The word for joy is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is oblectationem habere in animo to have inward delight in the mind and that without external gesture The