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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

his daies After the flood at the building of Babel God confounded the languages and dispersed the posterity of Noah into diverse Lands and set them their bounds Gen. 11.9 and so when hee brought the Israelites into the land of Canaan hee gave them their bounds according to what you find Psal 78.55 Hee cast out the Heathen before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the Tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents hee drove out and destroyed the Hittites the Girgashites the Amorites the Canaanites the Perizzites the H●vites and the Jebusites seven great and mighty Nations Deut. 7.1 and gave the land unto his people the Jews If God now will drive out the bloudy perfidious and Idolatrous out of Ireland and give it unto others that the seed of his servants may inherit it Martin in the lives of the Kings of England Heylin in his Cosmograph Fox in Act and Monum Grafton Speed and that those which love his name may dwell therein who shall fault and blame him for it and that England hath had right thereunto not onely from Henrie the eighths days who was proclaimed King thereof in Parliament here and in an Irish Parliament likewise if Heylin say true but also from Henry the Seconds Time yea from Edgars who was long before appears by English History Obs 3 The Lord provides and bestows the choicest mercies upon his own people If there bee a land in the World that flowes with milk and Honey that exceeds other lands for plenty and ple●santnesse his people shall have it hee espies out Canaan for them that land was too good for Heathens his people must have it When God carried Jacob and his family into Egypt hee provided the good and fat of that land for them Gen. 45.18 yea they were placed in the best of the land chap. 47.11 God fed and filled his with the finest of the wheat Psal 147.14 Moses mentions seven things together in Deut. 32.13 14 15. as honey out of the rock Oyle out of the flinty rock Butter of Kine milk of sheep fat of lambs and Rams of the breed of Bashan and Goats fat of Kidnies of wheat the pure bloud of the grape these the Lord provided for his people and they had all an excellency in them When Gods gives honey oyle butter milk fat flower wine hee giveth the best and purest you may read what choice mercies God bestowed upon this people Ezek. 16.10 11 12 13. they had goodly pleasant things Joel 3.5 the Hebrew is goodly desirable things and David acknowledgeth hee had a goodly heritage Psal 16.6 God had not measured out to him a mean portion but a good yea a goodly heritage that which was so in the eies of all even a wealthy place Psal 66 12. God provided the best places in the Court for Esther and her maidens when in Babylon Esth 2.9.16 so likewise Daniel and the three Children were set in eminent places Dan. 2. 3. ch God made his people to ride tread upon the high places of the earth and of their enemies Deut. 32.13.33.29 Obs 4. Spiritual mercies make a land glorious yea more glorious than all that lands want the same whatever mercies they else injoy Canaan was the glory of all lands not so much for its flowing with milk and honey its great plenty it had as for the spiritual mercies it injoyed There was the Lords presence his Prophets his worship his Oracles and his Ordinances and these made it glorious yea more glorious then all the Nations farre or near Psal 76.1 2. In Judah is God known his name is great in Israel in Salem also is his Tabernacle and his dwelling place is in Sion God was not known in Babylon in Egypt in other Nations his Tabernacle and dwelling place was not amongst them therefore they were not glorious but see what is in the 4. vers Thou art more glorious than the mountains of Prey Thou Judah thou Israel thou Salem thou Sion that hast spiritual mercies and blessings art more glorious than they whatever their glory bee have the Nations abroad goodly towers thou hast the Temple have they stately Cities thou hast Jerusalem the City of God have they wise men thou hast the Prophets have they gods of gold silver and stones thou hast the true living God Jehovah to bee thy God have they humane Laws that are good thou hast Divine Laws that excel have they temporal excellencies thou hast spiritual have they the glory of the world thou hast the glory of Heaven Psal 50.2 Out of Sion the perfection of beauty God hath shined what made Sion so glorious and beautiful it was the presence of God if hee had not been there Sion had been like other mountaines and Canaan like other Nations but his presence was like the Sunne darting out her beams and making all lightsome glorious and beautiful Spiritual mercies are beams and raies of that God who is ten thousand times more bright than the Sunne by these hee shined in Sion and made it the perfection or universality of beauty by these hee shined out of Sion and darkned all the glory of the Nations what or how great soever it was where God and his Ordinances are there is glory and where these are not there is no glory but Egyptian Darknesse a land without the Sun In Canaan was spiritual light and glory There were glorious appearances of God glorious praisings of God glorious conversions of sinners unto God glorious sabbaths and assemblies and glorious beauties of holinesse glorious types of Christ and people who were the glory of God Isa 4.5 and had glorious communion with God There were glorious Truths Ordinances and dispensations of God So then wise Counsellors good Magistrates stout Souldiers rich Merchants industrious Labourers strong Towns stately Houses high Mountaines fertile Vallies pleasant Rivers goodly Corn-fields heards of Cattle flocks of sheep with plenty of all outward things do not make a land so glorious as spiritual mercies do if God Christ Gospel and the Ordinances of it bee in a land they make it glorious and glorious beyond all other things and above all other Nations Let us learn to know our true glory even spiritual mercies and prize them highly though loathed by some like Manna of old and pray that such glory may ever dwell in our Land Vers 7 Then said I unto them cast yee away every man the abominations of his eyes and defile not your selves with the Idols of Egypt I am the Lord your God This Verse is a command wherein you have the Commander the things commanded and the reason thereof 1 The Commander Then said I unto them 2 The things Commanded which are 1 Casting away of abominations where 1 You have a specification of these abominations they are the abominations of their eyes 2 The extent of this act every man 2 Non-defilement of themselves with Egypts Idols 3 The reason I am the Lord your God Then said I to

mee When an Army is marching to a Town to destroy it if there bee a strong wall in their way that puts them to a stand and oft causeth them to give over their attempt So Prayers against judgements when God is marching out to destroy a people puts him to a stand and oft causes him to retreat into heaven 3 In putting things into their primitive condition When the bushes trod down and stakes pull'd out are put into their places again or new in their rooms then is the hedge made up When Josiah caused the house of the Lord to bee repaired the Covenant with God to bee renewed the Law to bee read and the Passeover to bee kept according to the institution thereof and all things were brought to their primitive condition 2 Chron. 34. 35. chapt then was the hedge made up then was there a man stood in the gap before the Lord. So when Jehoshaphat brought back the people from false doctrin and false worship to the Lord God of their fathers that was to the true Religion and worship and set Judges in all the fenced Cities of Judah and set Levites Priests and the chief of the Fathers in Israel in Jerusalem and instructed them to do all things faithfully with a perfect heart and for the Lord 2 Chron. 19.4 c. when hee brought things to the pattern in Moses's daies then was the hedge made up then God was with them and protected them against those wilde beasts the Ammonites Moabites and these of Mount Seir ch 20. For the Land that I should not destroy it By Land is meant the people of the land the inhabitants and their habitations which were all shortly after laid waste by the Chaldaean Army The Septuagint renders these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I should not destroy it That I should not leave it for ever God by degrees left the Temple the City the land and none of them intreated him to stay and when he was gone destruction came upon them But I found none Was there not Jeremy and Ezekiel who interceded with God for this people were there not many that mourned for the abominations that were amongst them Jerem. 9.1 chap. 14.11 Ezek. 9 4.8 It s true Jeremy did appear for God hee opposed the false Prophets cryed out of their false and corrupt waies of worship the perverting of justice the iniquities of Priests Princes and People but they would not hearken to him Jer. 44.16 they devised devises against him and slandered him chap. 18.18 they sought to put him to death and cast him into prison chap 38.4.6 and God had forbid him to pray for them three times ch 7.16 ch 11.14 ch 14.11 and hee could prevail with none of them towards making up the hedge As for Ezekiel hee was in Babylon and the Lord looked for a man amongst them in Jerusalem so the Lord tells Ezekiel here I looked for a man among them not among you For the sighers and mourners that were in Jerusalem they did it in secret and durst not openly bee seen they had not spirits to contradict the wicked Prophets Priests and Princes or if they had yet they saw there was no good to bee done the times were exceeding and desperately wicked a man was made an offender for a word and a snare was laid for him reproved in the gate Isa 29.21 if any appeared openly to speak against them and their waies they were made a prey It was an evil time and the time for the prudent to keep silence Amos 5.12 13. So then there was none among the Prophets the Priests the Princes or people whom hee mentioned in the verses before that minded or made up the hedge or stood in the gap Obs 1 That sinne makes breaches and gaps In this chap. the Lord having enumerated the sins of all sorts in Jerusalem here hee tells them the hedge was down and gaps were in it Their sinnes brake down the hedge and made those gaps Isa 30.13 This iniquity shall bee to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in an high wall as stormes warres do make breaches in a wall so doth sinne make breaches in a State Solomons sinnes made such a breach therein that ten Tribes were rent there-from and given to Jeroboam 1 King 11.31 whence it came to pass that Ephraim envied Judah and Judah vexed Ephraim Isa 11.13 Sinne made the breach between the Tribes Isa 9.21 the breach between them and other Nations Zedekiahs perfidiousnesse did it Ezek. 17.15 the breach between God and them Isa 59.2 their iniquities separated between them and their God and their sinnes hid his face from them that he would not hear and set God against them Ezek. 5.8 Sin makes breaches in Churches 1 Cor. 1.11 12. and breakes Churches Rev. 2.5 it makes breaches in Cities Luke 19.14 in families Ezek. 16.38 in mens names Prov. 6.33 in mens estates Deut. 28.15 16 c. Mal. 2.2 in mens consciences Mat. 27.3 4. Prov. 18.14 chap. 15.4 and between the chiefest friends Prov. 16.28 There bee some sinnes which make such breaches as shake the foundations Psalm 82.5 all the foundations of the earth are out of course The Laws were their foundations but the iniquitie of the Judges moved those foundations out of place and the State was like a bowing wall and tottering fence Psal 62.3 Religion was a foundation unto them but they had so corrupted the doctrine and the worship made such breaches therein that God was departing far from the Sanctuary and so from them Ezek. 8.6 Obs 2 When breaches and gaps are made by sinne the Lord hath a purpose to let in his judgements thereby and to destroy for the same They had trode down the hedge and God had thoughts to destroy the land to bring in a flood of wrath Ezek. 20.8.13.21 you may see how upon their making breaches upon the worship Statutes and Sabbaths of the Lord hee resolved to pour out his fury upon them and to consume them Isa 1.23 you have the gaps their sinnes made and vers 24. the resolution of God thereupon Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge mee of mine Enemies They had made breaches upon his Law and hee would make breaches upon them Therefore Isa 5.5 6. I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall bee eaten up They have trodden down the hedge of Justice made great gaps therein and I wil take away the hedge of my protection let in the wilde beasts and boars to tread them down and eat them up which the Lord did quickly after When lately the hedge was trodden down here in England and gaps made in it did not the Lord let in wilde beasts to devour were not our Princes roaring Lyons our Judges evening wolves did not the Prelates and Priests raven the prey Devour soules take the treasure and pretious things though now the wilde beasts bee destroyed or driven to their denns yet every gap is not stopt nor the

wildernesse and there leave him to bee a prey unto the enemy when hee and his Army were spread over the wildernesse then they should be deserted of God and left to spoil Thee and all the fish of thy Rivers As a fish drawn out of the water left upon the land dies and becomes a prey so should the King of Egypt and the Egyptians Thou shalt fall upon the open fields thou shalt not bee brought together nor gathered Thine Army shall bee so beaten routed and overthrown as no one part of it shall bee joyned to another there shall be no rallying no recruiting no gathering up for burial but all shall bee meat for the beasts of the field and for the fowls of Heaven Some fishes when they are drawn out of the waters are taken up much use is made of them others are thrown away Mat. 13.48 but here they were so bad that all should bee thrown to the beasts and birds of prey Obs 1 When God is wroth with Princes and people he makes and takes occasions to execute his judgements upon them Pharaoh and his people had sinned greatly against God and hee stirred up the Cyreneans to invade their neighbour countrey the Lybians Whereupon hee and his are drawn out to warre and fall thereby He and his thought to live securely in Egypt but God had hooks to draw them out and judgements to inflict upon them being so drawn out The Elder Pharaoh in Moses daies having greatly provoked God by deteining the Jews in Egypt God made an occasion by dividing the waters of the red Sea for him to follow them and then hee and his being in the red Sea took occasion to bee avenged on him by causing the waters to swallow up him and all his host Exod. 14. God drew Zerah with his huge host of one thousand thousand and three hundred Chariots out of Ethiopia unto Maresha which was a City in the Tribe of Judah Joshuah 15.44 and there hee smote the Ethiopians and overthrew them 2 Chron. 14. God made Ramoth in Gilead an hook to draw out wicked Ahab to war against the Syrians and when hee was there hee was slain and his army wholly routed 1 King 22. God wants not hooks to draw Leviathans Dragons and Crocodiles out of their holes fens or rivers nor swords to peirce them when they are drawn out Hee had hooks for Hamilton and the late King of Scots to draw them into England and judgements to inflict upon them being come forth for their iniquities Let great and small take heed how they offend the Lord hee hath hooks enough and can make new if hee want them to drag sinners out of their lurking holes and vials of wrath to poure out upon them being haled out Obs 2 In those actions men do freely the wise providence of God acts powerfully and accomplisheth his designes Pharaoh and his subjects go out freely to war against their enemies yet God had a hook in their chaws and drew them toth at work Rhehoboam freely refused the counsel of the wise men and freely followed the counsel of the young men yet Gods hand was in these actions his hook was in his chaws 1 King 12.15 The cause was from the Lord. Rhehoboam carried on freely his own design and God powerfully carried on his though Rhehoboam discerned it not neither aimed at it God sent the Assyrians against the Hypocritical Jews hee charged him to take the spoil and tread them down like mire in the streets Hee came freely though Gods hook were in his nostrils hee came to do his own will not Gods that hee aimed not at for hee meant not so his heart did not think so Isa 10.6 7. yet Gods providence over-ruled so that he did the work of God This is a great mystery all wicked men act freely drive on their own interests yet God powerfully moves in these actions brings to pass his own purposes and counsells and that without sin Obs 3 The Counsels and strength of Princes and Armies comes to nothing where God doth not assist but desert I will leave thee thrown into the wildernesse thee and all the fish of thy River thou shalt fall Pharaoh was a great Dragon wise and subtle hee had wise Counsellors strong Souldiers a great Army but neither their Counsel nor strength stood them in stead when God had drawn them into the field he left them and they fell Humane wisdome and strength can do nothing without God Saul had a great Army all Israel were gathered together to fight against the Philistims but did they prevail no they fled and fell down before their enemies and what was the reason Saul tells you 1 Sam. 28.15 The Lord is departed from mee hee is neither with mee nor mine Army all Israel can do nothing against uncircumcised Philistims when God had forsaken them Jeroboam had an Army of eight hundred thousand men mighty men of valor Abijah meets him with an Army of four hundred thousand even half so many and slew of Jeroboams Army five hundred thousand They were strong men on that side and two to one yet more fell by an hundred thousand than Abijahs Army consisted of And what was the cause hereof 2 Chron. 13.3 12. The cause was God was with them Behold God himself is with us for our Captain he guides us and girds us with strength said Abijah Jeroboam by his golden Calves had driven God from him so then where God is not there can bee no successe 1 Sam. 2.9 by strength shall no man prevail Let men have strong horses strong Armes strong bodies strong Counsels strong Armies strong treasures if they have not El-shaddai the strong Almighty God with them all their strengths will prove weaknesse wee have seen this made good in our daies most eminently Obs 4 God in his just judgements brings Princes and Armies who confide in an arme of flesh to open shame and utter ruine Thou shalt fall in the open fields thou shalt not bee gathered nor brought together thou shalt lye unburied and be meat for beasts and fowles This Egyptian great Dragon and all the fish of his Rivers were such as God cast out for naught and gave to bee meat to Kites Crowes Vultures Dogs Swine and wild beasts their shame was open their end was miserable Pharaoh that intreated the Israelites so cruelly did not God bring him to open shame and his great Army did hee not drown this Dragon and all adhered to him in the deeps did hee not give their Carkasses to bee meat to the Sea-Dragons and Sea-Leviathans Absolom and his Army met with shame scorn and misery enough 2 Sam. 18. Jehoiakim was buried with the burial of an Asse Jerem. 22.19 that is hee had no burial but was cast out to shame scorn and feeding of birds and beasts 6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord. In this verse the Event of the former judgement upon Pharaoh and his Army is laid down together with