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A85667	An exposition continued upon the sixt, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. Delivered in severall lectures in London, By William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1854; Thomason E577_1; ESTC R206361	436,404	591

about yet he laid it not to heart And is it not so with England we had need to cry with David Psal 79.8 9. O remember not against us former iniquities let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Help us O God of our salvation for the glory of thy name deliver us and purge away our sinnes for thy names sake My face will I turne also from them Ver. 22. and they shall pollute my secret place c. This verse is a continuation of their calamities and hath in it two grievous ones 1. The aversion of Gods face 2. The pollution of the secret place Concerning the first it 's questionable from whom he would turne his face from the Chaldeans or from the Jewes Some cary it from the Chaldeans and so the sense is this Though they be a barbarous people and doe unheard of things pollute my holy place sack my holy City burn all to the ground slay and captive my people yet I will turne my face from them I will not restrain them at all but let them goe on freely and fully in such wayes and take no notice of any thing done against mee or my worship Others to whom I incline expound it of the Jews that God would turn his face from them and then the meaning is that God would afford them neither his presence counsel comfort nor deliverance but he would leave them to shift for themselves and take no further care of them Gods face in the Scripture signifies 1. His presence Psalm 51.11 Cast me not away from thy pr●sence The Hebrew is from thy face 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Counsel 2 Sam. 21.1 David enquired of the Lord. Hebrew sought the face of the Lord that is sought counsel of him 3. Comfort Psalm 69.17 Hide not thy face from thy servant for I am in trouble shine upon me and comfort me So Psalm 31.16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant That is favour comfort make him glad 4. Deliverance Psalm 31.1 How long wilt thou hide thy face from me That is deny to deliver me There is mention of hiding his face turning away his face and setting his face against The first befals the godly Psalm 88.14 and 30.7 The other two the wicked as here in our Prophet they were a wicked Generation and God turned his face away from them and set his face against them Ezek. 15.7 They shall pollute my secret place That is the Sanctum Sanctorum the most holy place where the Arke was which had the two tables of stone 1 Kings 8.9 Into this only came the High Priest and but once in the yeare and that upon the dayes of expiation in which day he expiated the sins of the whole year by blood for blood and Incense hee carried in with him Heb. 9.7 And some thinke the smoake of the Incense darkned the holy place because no man can see God and live At first it was filled with a cloud and God was in that cloud 1 Kings 8.10.12 Gods nature is invisible and inaccessible but in the cloud smoake he did manifest his glorious presence to the high Priest who consulted with the Lord for the good of the people The place was cal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Sept. render it my visitation because there God and the high Priest visited one another It 's observ'd in Histories that Pompey went into this secret place and being asked what he saw said a Cloud and hereupon it was given out that the Jewes were Cloud-worshippers One Heliodorus also thrust into this holiest of places Cunaeus de republ Jud. Weems who afterwards was strucke with madnesse Robbers shall enter into it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Septuagint hath it They shall enter without restraint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without any keeping them back Theodot Plagues shall enter men that will be a plague infecting and destroying all The Hebrew notes such Robbers as do make a violent entrance into the houses and possessions of others Your margents express it Burglers and Burglary in the acceptance of Law is a fellonious entring into another mans house wherein some person is or into a Church in the night time with intent to steale or doe some fellonious act there albeit the act be not done But in the naturall signification of the word burglary is a robbing of an house whither by night or day and these Chaldeans were Burglers men that should breake into the Sanctuary and secret place Ezek. 18.10 There is the same word and it 's joyned with blood If he beget a son a Robber that is a shedder of blood a house-breaker a murtherer which shews there is violence joyned with it which regards not Lawes and rights Obser 1 That judgements succeed one another upon a guil●y people Also I will turn away my face Hee had spoken of sad judgements some 11. or 12. and yet he comes in with more There was a succession of sinnes and answerably a succession of Judgements Obser 2 2. They are a miserable people from whom God turnes his face where his face is there is happinesse When Aaron and the Priests prayed for a blessing upon the people Numb 6 25 26. this was the chiefe Petition of it The Lord make his face shine upon thee The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee Intim●ting that if they had these no comforts or blessings would be wanting Psal 44.23 The destruction of the Canaanites the implantation of the Israelites and their salvation is attributed to the light of Gods countenance as well as to his right hand and arme because if they have Gods face and favour they shall have his hand and arme to doe anything for them therefore Asaph in Psalm 80. three times prayes thus Cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved vers 3.7.19 He knew if Gods face were towards them Gods power would work for them and they should have salvation of all sorts salvation from enemies which there he speaks of and from errours Psal 67.1 2. If Gods face did but shine upon them then his way would be known upon earth if not they should mistake and fall into errours and foul wayes Prov. 16.15 In the light of the Kings countenance ●s life much more in the light of Gods countenance is life the life of Kingdoms Churches Families which Daniel knew and therefore prayed Chap. 9.17 That God would make his face to shine upon the Sanctuary which was desolate the turning his face to them would quickly re-edifie it as the turning it from them had made it desolate When the Lord doth turn away his face nothing but misery attends a people Gen. 4.14 saith Cain from thy face shall I be hid Thy favour wil not be towards mee no shine shall I have but all shade and what then I shall be a vagabond upon the earth and feare death by every one that meeteth me When God takes away his face from any the face

great load upon his spirit Gods eye beheld their courses and his eye affected yea afflicted his heart Lam. 3.51 The Vulgar reads it Oculus meus depraedatus est animam meam hath taken away the vertue spirit and life thereof Whorish heart A heart hankering after Idols pleading for them delighting in them and prostituting it selfe unto them this people was much addicted unto this sin which is oft expressed by the name of whoredomes and whoring Levit. 20.5.17.7 Judges 2.17 This sin is so called First Because it is a breach of Covenant as whoredome is God marries his people to himselfe he is for them and they should be for him only Exod. 20.23 he is a Husband to them Jerem. 2.2 Hosea 2.19 And now to leave him for Idols is to deale treacherously with him Jerem. 3.9.20 Deut. 31 16. Secondly It s a pleasing sinne as Whoredome is Hence all Israel is sayd to goe a whoring after Gideons Ephod Judges 8.27 and Isaiah 66.3 Their soule delighteth in their abominations they please their senses give some satisfaction to blind consciences help on their devotions as they conceit which affects much Thirdly It s a defiling sin Whoredome is a defiling sin and so is Idolatry and all false worship Exek 22.3 Jerusalem maketh Idols against her selfe to defile her selfe Acts 15.20 they are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pollutions and pollute the persons and places where they are Jer. 3.9 As pure worship sanctifies so false Worship pollutes Revel 14.4 They were not defiled with Women Not with false Worship with the Whore of Babylon or any of her inventions but were Virgins that kept themselves chaste not going out from God to the corruptions of any Fourthly It hardens stupifies makes impudent Prov. 7.13 and so Idolatry produces such effects hence the Jews which were given to it are called Impudent Children Ezek. 2.4 Hard hearted Ezek. 3.7 Sottish Children Jer. 4.22 Jezabel stir'd up Ahab to Idolatry they were both Idolaters 1 Kings 21.25 26. they were hard hearted impudently wicked Jer. 2.20 It s cal'd playing the harlot bloody and cruell Naboth and the Prophets were slain by them Fifthly It inflames and Idolatry doth so Isaiah 57.5 Inflaming your selves with Idols slaying the children in the Valleys With their eyes which goe a whoring after their Idolls It s evill when the heart follows the eye worse when the eye follows the heart this notes habituall evill th' other but occasionall Their eyes as well as their hearts went a whoring they looked and lusted their eyes were eyes of adultery 2 Pet. 2.14 Ahaz saw the Altar at Damascus and he must presently have such an one up at Jerusalem 2 Kings 16.10 Men follow the sight of their eyes Eccles 11.9 The lust of their eyes It s bad when eyes are in amore duces worse when in religione duces as John cals it 1 John 2.16 And sensuall men are led by the eye in point of worship as in point of Women Ahaz was But mens eyes and hearts are ill Factors for worship Numbers 15.39 Remember all the Commandements of the Lord and doe them and that yee seeke not after your owne heart and your owne eyes after which yee use to goe a whoring The eyes are the spies of the body they give information to the heart that lusts whoredome is committed and God is provoked to jealousie The eyes are called whorish because they are Internuncii adulterii Idololatriae they dislike forsake the beauty of Gods worship Truth Ordinances and spy beauty in corruption in false Worship Superstit●on Idolatry mens additions they see a Decorum in them are pleased with them and draw the heart to them They shall loath themselves The Vulgar read it Displicebunt sibimet they shall displease themselves Calvin pudefient they shall be ashamed Junius fastidium erunt sibiipsis they shall be a loathing to themselves the Hebrew hath more in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ingem scere Septuag is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nakottu ingemiscent saith Montanus they shall so sigh and groane that you shall see it in their faces Shindler offensi sunt in faciebus suis ad mala when they saw what they had done it was offensive to them and they smote themselves upon the face for griefe The word notes a cutting Lavater succidentur Maldon excindentur when a man is so ashamed that he dare not behold God or Man he is l●ke a man cut downe So it s used Job 10.1 My soule is weary of my life it s the same word and rendred in the Margent cut off his sorrow was piercing and cutting such should be the condition of those here their Idolatry and other evils should be carnifices qui corda eorum discerperent There should be actus contritionis ex suiipsius peccati displicentia The meaning is they should have much shame sorrow and breaking of heart for their sins 10. And they shall know that I the Lord c. They shall know experimentally that I speake and threaten not in vaine punish not unjustly but order all things for my glory and their good Obser 1 1. Gods people escaping destruction in common calamities are mindfull of God though they suffer much hardship as here they had lost all their very liberty and were Captives yea being preserved by God among the Gentiles they should remember God that is repent returne and trust in God honour him praise him and worship him the right way Psal 78.34 35. When he slew them then they sought him they returned and enquired early after God and remembred that God was their Rock and the high God their Redeemer When death devoured some and mercy delivered others then their hearts were affected and God seriously thought upon Never is the heart in a better frame towards God then when it hath been in the jawes of death and is set at liberty from the King of terrours David made the sweetest Psalmes when he had the greatest deliverances Psal 18. the 46.103 and many other which made him say Thou liftest me up from the gates of death that I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of Zyon Psal 9.13 14. God brings his people into trouble that he may deliver them and that they may remember him Psal 50.15 I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me That is effectually not in a low faint formall degree such great deliverances as give life should cause those they concern to look strongly and live wholy unto God to glorifie him in all things to remember him at all times and to shew forth all his praises Obser 2 2. That God is not tyed to any persons places or times to shew mercy but on whom he will where he will and when he will he sheweth mercy these persons were Idolaters in the holy Land met with sore judgements there were driven forth into Babylon a polluted Idolatrous heathenish place there the lives of some of them are

John 9.35 and Isa 66.5 When their Brethren that hated them cast them out then was the gracious promise given in he shall appeare to your joy and they shall be ashamed Ill manners occasion good Lawes and rough dealings have drawne forth sweet promises 2. Afflictions be they of what nature soever are the acts of God they were deprived of their Countrey all their comforts there they were in a sad Captivity mingled among the Heathen but who did this Was it their owne act The Babylonians or any others No the Lord takes it upon himselfe I have cast them a farre off I have scattered them it was his counsell power and providence did it who ever were the instruments The Scripture denyes afflictions to be from beneath they spring not out of the dust Job 5.6 the root of them is not in the earth but in Heaven it therefore attributes all of them to God Mich. 1.12 Evill came down from the Lord unto the Gate of Jerusalem It s evill indefinitely what ever evill came nigh that City is came from the Lord he created it he sent it and not onely what was without the City but all in the City Amos 3.6 Shall there be evill in a City and the Lord hath not done it It s an interrogation and vehemently affirmes that all is the worke of God Men take not notice of the hand of God in affliction and therefore the Lord is oft brought in and presented as the true and onely Author of them the instruments are eyed by us and we are vexed at them and greatly perplex our selves that creatures of the same ranke and condition we are in should harme us and afflict us but did we see the Lord in all it would qu et and still our spirits whatever the agents were God would have us to take notice of this Isa 45.6 7. That they may know from the rising of the Sunne and from the West that there is none besides me I am the Lord and there is none else I form the light and create darknesse I make peace and create evill I the Lord doe all these things Man doth none of them 3. God is mindfull of his threats and faithfull in performing of them He had long before in the dayes of Moses told them that if they sinned against him they should be plucked off the Land they possessed and be scattered awong the Heathen Dan. 28.63.64 Levit. 26.33 and see it here performed I have cast them out I have scattered them among the Countries God is not forgetfull of what he hath threatned against sinners he hath his times to fulfill his threats though some thousand yeares after There is a Propheticall threat in Hag. 2.22 which is probable that the Lord is now thinking of and fulfilling I will overthrow the throne of Kingdomes and I will destroy the strength of the Kingdomes of the Heathen I will overthrow the Charriots and those that ride in them the Horses and their riders shall come downe every one by the Sword of his Brother Some interpret this place of Zerubbabel literally and some shaking of Heaven and Earth was then some great changes were made but the most interpret it of Zerubbabel mysticall of Christ and his Kingdome so D●odate takes it God for the advance of his Church under the Gospell will overthrow the throne of Kingdomes all power and greatnesse that is against the Kingdome of his Sonne and how shall it be done by Warres mostly by civill Warres Every one by the Sword of his Brother God in his wise providence shall stirre up Kingdomes and Kings one against another and they shall break themselves and each other in pieces that his truth and faithfulnesse may be seen 4. Afflictions are not alwayes arguments of Divine hatred God had cast them a farr off and scattered them among the Countries this the Inhabitants of Jerusalem tooke to be an argument of Gods hatred that he had forsaken them that now they were none of his people they conceived such great judgements upon them could not stand with Gods love but the Lords thoughts differ from mans he look'd upon them as his people as the true Church as dearer to him then they at Jerusalem as those he would be a Sanctuary unto If great afflictions were arguments of the Lords hatred and wrath then Noah Job and Daniel were hated of God they had exceeding great affl ction Noah saw a World drown'd Job had all pluckt from him his Friends and Wife against him yea God also in appearance Daniel was a Captive cast into the Lyons Den yet how deare were these to the Lord Noah God accepted his Sacrifice Gen 8.21 Blessed him Chap. 9.1 made a Covenant with him vers 8 9 So Job how doth God justifie him Chap. 42.7 You have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath Job was Gods servant spoke what was right of God Job must pray for his three Friends him God will accept God gave Job twice as much as he had before and Daniel was a man greatly beloved Dan. 9.23 Christ was Vir dolorum yet the man in whom Gods soule delighted Isa 42.1 Afflictions are arguments of l●ve Prov. 3 12. Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a Father the Sonne in whom hee delighteth God loves not affliction but he loves his Children and his bowels cause him to correct it were cruelty not love in a Father that would suffer his Child to dye for want of a little Physick if Physick will doe a Child good a loving Parent will be at any cost that way Take heed how you censure those that suffer affl●ctions are not alwayes wounds of an enemy but arguments o● love especially when they break the stubbornnesse and pride of our hearts purge out our pollutions cause us to seek the face of God quicken our endeavours after more holinesse cause us to mind the things of E●ernity more make the Word and Christ more sweet and precious to the soule really and seriously 5. What ever others think or say of Gods people whithersoever they are driven whatsoever they loose or suff●r God will be a little Sanctuary unto them these men were hardly thought of yea rejected and condemned of those at Jerusalem carryed Captive into Babylon they had lost all Countrey-comforts City-priviledges Temple-Ordinances Estates and Liberties they had hard bondage when they were yet now in this case God was a Sanctuary unto them he preserved them vouchsafed them his presence accepted their persons and prayers gave them counsell sanctified and comforted them he was a speciall Sanctuary unto them and in stead of all Ordinances Take Sanctua●y for the Land of Canaan as some thinke its taken Exod. 15.17 God would be a Land of Canaan to them or take it for Sanctification as some doe here and in Psal 114.2 God would be their Sanctification or take it for Heaven as it is Psal 102.19 God would be a Heaven unto them However the Jewes in