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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

This Diadem this crown shall bee no more Hujus terrae Of this land Monarchical government shall down great at axy and confusion shall follow This shall not bee the same Thou dreamest through the delusions of the false Prophets that Nebuchadnezzar will not come to invade the Land or if hee do come that thou shalt vanquish him by the help of Egypt and so that thou and thy posterity shall reign still but this shall not bee all regal power shall cease from thee and thy posterity Exalt him that is low The word for Low is Hasfashaphalah from Shaphal which signifies to bee humbled oppressed and so low is opposite to Proud Haughty and those are lifted up it referres to one is like a valley not a mountain and that was Jehoiachin who yeilding himself by the Counsel of Jeremy to Nebuchadnezzar was carried into Captivity and there imprisoned Gods eye was upon him and him being depressed oppressed and Low hee would have exalted Some read I will exalt some Exalt the Hebrew is infinitive and may be read Indicatively or Imperatively Abase him that is high The former words and these may be read thus Heighten him that is low and make him low that is high This high person was Zedekiah who through his pride and haughtinesse of Spirit would not indure the Babylonish yoak but perfidiously breaking with Nebuchadnezzar fell in with the King of Egypt grew confident and despised the Assyrian Power Hee had high thoughts high hopes high confidences hee was become very mountainous but this mountain must bee levelled Jechoniah or Jehoiachin being a valley was exalted Jer. 52.30 2 King 25.27 and Zedekiah being a mountain was abased 2 King 25.6 7. Jeremy 52.8 9 10 11. Obs 1 The Lord doth strip great ones even Kings and Princes of their glory depose and abase them for their iniquities Zedekiah was prophane perfideous cruel injust and what saith the Lord Remove the Diadem take away the Crown abase him that is high Who ever bee the instruments that take wicked Kings that spoil and punish them its God that commands and commissions the doing thereof Nebuchadnezzar and his Army were the hand that did the things here they took Zedekiah they pulled off his Crown slew his Sonnes all the Princes put out his eyes bound him in chains carried him to Babylon imprisoned him there but they could not have done these things unlesse they had had Commission and power from above when Kings are pulled down and removed it s the Lord doth it Dan. 2.21 Job 12.18 Hee looseth the bond of Kings Balteum regum dissolvit Qui solvit disciplinam regum The Vulgar saith the Belt of Kings that is their authority and power say some Expositors Vatabl hath it Disciplinam that tyrannical Government they use he dissolves casts them into reproach prison captivity and so girds their loins with a girdle of sackcloath and calamity Potestatem a tyrannis auiert non nunquam populum a tyrannide liberat a conjecto invincula Tyranno Vatabl. Vulgar is precingit fune renes corum he girds their loynes with a rope and Vers 19. hee leadeth Princes away spoiled the word is Cohanim which though some turn Priests yet it signifies also Princes and Rulers 2 Sam. 8.18 and where our Translation who were much affected to Priesthood have put it Priest in the Text as Exod. 2.16 Gen. 41.45 chap. 47.22 26. yet in the Margent they have put Prince and such God leads away spoiled spoiled of their glory their Diadems Crowns and Princely robes spoiled of their power their Souldiery and strong holds spoiled of their stratagems and designes spoiled of their Territories Dominions and Revenues spoiled of their Friends Comforts and Hopes and whither doth hee lead them in dementiam saith Jun. and Trem. into madnesse and Brutishnesse and so hee led Nebuchadnezzar for his Pride and other sinnes to bellow and graze amongst the beasts Into contempt saith Job Job 2.21 being led out of all desirable and delightfull Hee poures contempt upon them that is he fills them with contempt and scorn who were wont to bee honoured of all and conferre honours upon others and how grievous this is you may judge by that of Zedekiah who chose rather to see Jerus●lem on fire than to yeild himself into the hands of the Chaldeans for fear of mocking Jer. 38.18 19. but afterwards hee had scorn and misery enough being rosted in the fire thereof The Lord throws wicked Princes from their height of glory and greatnesse into extream misery you know how Adonibezeck w●s served and in Isa 22.15 16 17 18. you may read of Shebna who was a great man Behold the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty Captivity and will surely cover thee and with what would hee cover him with misery and shame for it follows Hee will surely violently turn and toss thee like a Ball into a large Country There shalt thou dye and there the charets of thy glory shall bee the shame of thy Lords house The Hebrew for He will violently turn and toss thee is Tzanoph jitznapheka Tzenephah Convolvendo convolvet convolutione as Montanus renders i● and Prad is Cidarizando cidarizabit te cidari by crowning or compassing hee will crown compass thee with a crown or compass Vulgar hath it Coronans coronabit te tribulatione hee shall crown thee with misery God cast this Shebna who was proud and high into extream mifery and disgrace hee was driven out into a Forrain Land where hee was either torn in peeces by Dogs Vide Sanct. in locum or buried with the Burial of an Ass Obs 2 The Lord puls down and puts an end to Kings and Kingdomes at his pleasure This shall not bee the same This Crown shall bee no more for thy head any of thy posterity or for the Kingdome of Israel Here God puld down the Kingdome of Israel or Judah when it had stood neer five hundred years and put a period to Monarchical Government Josephus in his tenth book of the Jewish Antiquity chap. 10. saith that the kingly government lasted five hundred and fourteen years six months and ten daies from the begining of Sauls reign to the end of Zedekiahs Kingship beganne with them in Gods wrath and ended in his fury 1 Sam. 8. Ezek. 19.12 The Assyrian Empire lasted some one hundred and twenty years and then God pulled it down it was the same no more The Athenian Government by Kings was some four hundred and ninety years and then the Lord said This shall not be the same hee changed it into a popular government The kingdomes of the earth are the Lords and he deals with them as he sees good hee breaks them in peices and gives them new forms at his pleasure Dan. ● 20 21. wisdome and power are his hee changeth the times and the seasons hee removes Kings and s●ts up Kings Hee takes away one form of Government and sets up another hee puts down Monarchy and sets up

that is done unjustly and neglected justice therefore I will cast thee as prophane out of the Mountain of God I will destroy thee O covering Cherub from the midst of the stones of fire Nebuchadnezzar and his Army were the instruments to do this but God was the chief Agent I will cast thee out I will destroy thee and it was for his wicked acts and want of doing justice When Princes do just things punish evil doers countenance them that do well then they establish themselves in the mountain of God in their thrones and greatness but when they fail therein they undermine themselves and hasten their own ruine The Arabians say firmitas regni est justitia justice is the sinews and strength of a Kingdome in●ustice then must bee the dissolution of it Justice equi●e sont l'establishment de ●on throne Psal 89.14 Justice and judgement are the establishment of Gods throne it is habitation in your books but the margent hath it establishment and so the French reads it and the word Mecon signifies a basis or foundation justice upholds the very Throne of God should hee not execute justice or do unjust things his Throne would shake his glory and greatnesse come down would Rulers and great ones bee established in their places let them keep justice and judgement and do wrong to none Saul spared Agag when hee should have hewed him to peices 1 Sam. 15. hee caused to bee slain eighty five Priests of the Lord 1 Sam. 22. and shortly after for his unjust acts and want of doing justice hee was thrust out of his throne cast out as a prophane Prince from the Mountain of God and destroyed from being a covering Cherub and from all his glory and greatness Obs 4 The abundance and glory of outward things occasions men to forget God and themselves Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty hee had abundance of all things and they with the glory and beauty of them swelled his heart made him proud forget God the giver of them and himself who was to give account for them It s hard to keep the heart in a right frame when wee are compassed about with creature-plenty glory and beauty Pride disdain and violence are the brats and bastards of plenty It s harder for Princes or any to regulate their spirits in prosperity than in adversity A man under pressures is seldome puft up with Pride overcome with luft drowned in covetousness overtaken with surfeiting and drunkennesse or tickled with worldly glory all which and many other evils are incident to them that dwell in the midst of abundance see Deut. 31.10 ch 8.10 11 12 13 14. in their fulnesse men forget and forsake God when in their adversity they seek and sue unto him Hos 5.15 In their affliction they will seek mee early or diligently Manasses in his greatnesse and fulnesse forsook God and his worship did violent acts but when hee was in fetters in Babylon and in affliction then hee besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly 2 Chron. 33.12 his heart was lifted up before but now humbled and that greatly Affliction pricks the bladders prosperity hath blown up and filled with pride Obs 5 Mens priding themselves in an outward glory doth prejudice them in a greater excellency Thou hast corrupted thy wisdome because of thy brightnesse his wisdome was of an higher nature than all his greatnesse and glory than his shipping souldiers buildings pretious stones and whatever other external excellencies were in Tyrus but by his pride in these hee marred that Sin is the smoak of the soul and what smoak is to the eye of the body that sin is to the understanding which being darkened mens wisdome is corrupted If there bee a drop of ink or poyson in milke or wine they are corrupted so if sin especially pride be found in a man his wisdome is corrupted and he will think speak and do corruptly Prov. 11.2 When Pride commeth then commeth shame but with the lowly is wisdome When men are puffed up with their parts and injoyments then commeth shame Then they will carry themselves so as others will bee ashamed of them their wisdome is corrupted and they do foolishly but when men are low and humble they are wise and do things commendable true sound uncorrupted wisdome dwells with the lowly and is a stranger to the proud One saith upon these words of our Prophet That all proud men are fools their pride hath darkened their foolish hearts Let us take heed of priding our selves in any externals or internals thereby wee shall corrupt our glory let us bee lowly so shall we have wisdome unspotted humble so God will give us more grace James 4.6 Obs 6 The end of Gods dreadful judgements upon sinners is that they may bee examples and warning peices unto others I will cast thee to the ground I will lay thee before Kings that they may behold thee and so take heed of thy waies and practises God is terrible unto Kings hee cuts them off and makes them exemplarie unto others they are oft blasphemous proud unjust violent Tyrannical and God by the thunder of his power cuts them down and by their fall sets them up to bee lights unto others that they tread not in their steps least they come to their ends Pharaoh is drowned in the Sea the Princes of the People hung up before the Sun Herod is eaten up with vermin the King of Ai banged on a tree Josh 8.29 Adonizedeck and other Kings their necks were made footstools to the Jews Josh 10.24 Agag was hewn in peices 1 Sam. 15.33 Joash was slain in his bed 2 Chro. 24.25 Jehoram was so smitten with sicknesse that his bowels fell out 1 Chron. 21.19 Zedekiah had his eyes put out was bound in fetters and carried to Babylon Jerem. 52.11 and made a prisoner all his daies the Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah were roasted in the fire and burnt to ashes and why were these things done to Kings that they might bee examples to others both Kings and people 1 Cor. 10 11. All these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come had they not been written they would have been forgotten but God in his great wisdome would have them written that all that read or hear of them may be admonished by them and learn to avoid those sinnes they were guilty of least they partake of the same or paralell judgements Examples in holy scripture are used diverse waies 1 For Arguments in prayer as Psal 83.9 10 11. 2 As matter to strengthen our faith Deut. 3.21 22. Isa 51.9 10. 3 As Presidents for God to proceed by Jerem. 7.12.14 Ezek. 20.36 4 As Motives to repentance and turning unto God Luke 13.1 2 3 4 5. Amos 4.11 5 For Cautions and Admonitions unto us that wee do not commit such things as they did 2 Pet. 2.6 Such an example did God make the

Jews but whatever opposition was made or difficulty appeared in the way God said I will bring again the Captivity of Egypt Had they bound them all in fetters laid them in dungeons set guards of souldiers to have kept them all these should not have hindered the reduction of them for as Jehoshaphat acknowledged in his prayer God rules over all the Kingdomes of the Heathens and in his hand there is power and might so that none is able to withstand him 2 Chron. 20.6 no King no Counsel no Countrey no Army no created power is able to withstand him The Jewes who had laien longer in Babylon and were like dry bones in the grave without hope Ezek. 37.11 but God made good his word hee brought them out with a strong hand breaking in peices gates of brass and cutting insunder bars of Iron Obs 5 It s the same hand the same God that drives men out of their Countries and comforts into deep and long afflictions abroad and brings them back out of the same to injoy their countries and comforts God scattered the Egyptians among the Nations hee threw them forty years into Captivity and hee brought them out again from the Nations and from their Captivity into the land of Pathros into the land of their Commerce God lead them out and hee brought them in hee afflicted them and hee comforted them God conducted them outward and inward as the losse of their Countrey was a great affliction unto them so the repossessing of it was a greater consolation unto them God threw the Jews into Babylon those deep and brackish waters they were so long pickled in and he brought them out again to the sweet waters of the Sanctuary Long afflictions have comfortable ends the Jews seventy years sufferings ended in everlasting kindnesses Isa 54.8 They shall be there a base Kingdome The word for Base is Shephalah which the Septuagint render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Montanus humile a vile base low Kingdome Martinius saith humile is quod non est elevatum a terra it should be like a low Shrub that is little above the earth such as that Kingdome Ezek. 17.6 of low stature Some Kingdomes are great high like Cedars of Lebanon and oakes of Bashan Others are small like vines and Shrubs that creep upon the earth Such a Kingdom should the Egyptians be They were not free but in subjection to the Babylonians Persians Alexander the Great to Ptolomy the Romans who made Egypt a Province after that it was under the Saracens and Turks 15 It shall be the basest of Kingdomes Not onely shall it bee base as many Kingdomes are especially after warres but it shall bee the basest of Kingdomes It should have lesse power dignity and liberty than other Kingdomes Neither shall it exalt it self any more above the Nations It had got power and Dominion over other Nations the Pharaohs of Egypt had power over the land of Judaea and the Kings of Judah 2 King 23.33 34 35. and other Nations but after this it became an underling and nothing remarkable is mentioned about it in the word of God here God put a band of iron and brass upon this Kingdome to keep it from rising again it shall not exalt it self any more above the Nations For I will diminish them that they shall not rule over the Nations I will make the Egyptians few and the Kingdome little The Hebrew for Diminish is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maat to make little or few in number When either or both of these are done there is a diminishing Their number might increase yet they bee diminished in power liberty and dignity so that other Nations should look upon them as contemptible Obs 1 When Kingdomes are ruined brought to utter desolation and have lain so a long time God is able to raise them up again Egypt was made desolate from one end to another man and beast cut off the Egyptians scattered into remote parts yet what saith the Lord They shall be there a Kingdom Egypt shall bee possessed again inhabited become a Kingdome after forty years desolation God can raise up great structures out of heapes and ruines When a Kingdome is brought to ashes the Lord can out of those ashes bring forth another The Lord causes Kingdomes to cease Hos 1.4 hee plucks them up Dan. 11.4 Jer. 1.10 and hee plants and builds them up again Jer. 18.9 Judea and Jerusalem lay waste seventy years and then God returned the Jews from Babylon built their City planted their land made them a people again Obs 2 The wise providence of God in restoring and ordering of Kingdomes mingles judgement with mercie They should bee a Kingdome but a base Kingdome they should want that dignity power and Liberty they had formerly So the Kingdome of Judah after Josiahs daies was low and base Ezek. 17.6 14. Pharaoh and Nebuchadrezzar kept it under It s from the Lord what condition Kingdomes shall bee in they shall be honourable or base as he pleases Obs 3 Those that lift up themselves above others shall proportionably be brought down beneath others Egypt exalted it self above the Nations they were proud haughty insolent but Egypt exceeded them therein and what came thereof it shall be the basest of the Kingdomes consider what Kingdomes is basest amongst them all and Egypt shall be baser than that it as was the highest in pride so it should be the lowest through baseness and most contemptible The Lord poures out contempt upon Kingdomes and Kings Nebuchadnezzar was a Son of pride and did not God drive him out from among men and make that proud King graze among the beasts and abase him proportionable to his Pride and cause him to say those that walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. and in his time he will abase all such he hath abased Kingdomes Kings and Potentates in our daies who sweld with Pride The learned Jews tells us what God saith of every man whose spirit is lift up Ego ipso non simul possimus habitare in mundo Buxtorf Apoth Hebr. 16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel Whilst Egypt flourished abounding with men horses and charets the Jews had an eye unto them and leaned much upon them Isa 30.2.31.1.36.6 9. Ezek. 17.15 but the Lord laid it waste brake the pride of its power made it base and kept it in that condition that the Jews might not confide in it for when they hung so upon the Egyptians for help that drew them on to their Idolatrous practises and to break the leagues they had made with others Which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance The Hebrew is Mazcir gnavon or avon which Montanus renders Commone factor iniquitatis the remembrancer of iniquity The Vulgar hath it docentes iniquitatem teaching iniquity and so refer it to the Egyptians who being familiar with the Jews taught them to do evil but the words refer to confidence which brought their iniquity to remembrance