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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

are and serve them according to the statutes and judgements of the Nations whence yee had them or if they bee of your own devising serve them according to the waies of your own hearts 2. Thess 2.10 11 12. when men receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved God sends them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye and be damned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the efficacy of error the truth comes with love error with efficacy if truths wooing and love be not entertained God sends error with efficacy to seize upon men Because wee have been wanton with the truths Ordinances and things of God not received the love of them but busied our wits and parts about them yea against them therefore God hath sent the efficacy of error to take hold of men Is not the efficacy of error upon them that say there is no Devil but holinesse no heaven nor hell but what is in a mans own conscience c. And I polluted them in their own gifts God being most holy could not communicate any thing that should defile them Subtraxi meam gratiam permisi eos pollui Vatablus from a holy God comes nothing but that which is holy and good Some take it in this sense that God suffered them to do those things which defiled them to prostitute themselves to all abominations Sanctius informes us that one is said to do a thing when hee declares it to bee done Levit. 13.3 The Priest shall look on him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shall pollute him that is pronounce declare him polluted so vers 6. hee shall cleanse him saith the Original that is declare him to bee clean and v. 44. the Priest shall by polluting pollute him that is declare him altogether polluted and our Ezekiel is said to destroy the City when as hee did but declare the destruction of the City Impuro● esse ostendens ur impuros tractans a me abdicans Iun. in annot chap. 43.3 so here God is said to pollute them in that hee did declare them polluted and not only so but in that he dealt with them as polluted ones rejecting them and their gifts In their own gifts Quasi pollutos repuli a me pollutos judicavi eos eorum munera The Septuagint reads it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so doth Codex sixti Complutensis Apollinaris saith Pradus in their Opinions and Tenets When men leave the statutes of God and take up opinions of their own or tenets of the world they pollute themselves God judges them so will declare them to bee such and deal with them as such this by the way By Gifts are not meant all the Sacrifices which they brought unto the Lord but their first-born which were to bee given to God in remembrance of their comming out of Egypt when the first-born of the Egyptians were all slain and the first-born of the Israelites all preserved Exod. 13.2 3.12 In that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb The Hebrew is making to pass all opening of the wombe it s a periphrasis the opening of the womb for the first-born and that of the male kind which were to bee offered to the Lord but they offered unto Idols causing them to passe through the fire as it is in the 31. ver of this Chapter they were forbidden and that upon pain of death to let any of their seed to pass through the fire or to give them unto Molech Levit. 18.21 ch 20.2 God expected they should strictly have observed his Ordinance of consecrating their first-born unto him and they either sacrificed or consecrated them to Idols David Psal 106.37 38. tells you they sacrificed their Sonnes and Daughters unto Devils hee calls their Idols Devils and they sacrificed their Sonnes not only their first-born but others and not onely Sons but Daughters so corrupt were they in their opinions and practice If it should bee granted here as some Interpreters conceive that they did not offer their first-born to Idols but to the true God that they did not cause them to pass through the fire as the Heathens did but caused them to pass from themselves from under their power and give them to God yet because they despised his statutes polluted his Sabbaths minded Idols and kept not his Statutes God polluted them in these gifts declared them and their gifts to be such That I might make them desolate The word for desolate is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make waste and desolate even to astonishment some render it here ut delerem that I might destroy them and then the sense runnes thus I have declared what polluted creatures they are that I may thence take occasion to destroy them but this suits not so well with what follows That they may know that I am the Lord. To keep then to the word as it s here God would make them desolate by convincing them of the pollution of their offerings and by afflicting their consciences making them to see that though they had offered their sons their first born to him or to Idols yet they had gained nothing at his hands thereby but were so far from pleasing him that they had greatly provoked him so that they should bee amazed at their desolation Obs 1 That if men alienate from God what is due to him or bring him his due and live in the breach of his commands hee will not respect them but declare them to be and deal with them as polluted ones They alienated their first-born to Idols which God commanded to bee consecrated to him or brought them to God living in the breach of his statutes and hereupon he saith I polluted them in their own gifts They thought they did mee good service and should obtain much favour at my hands that I would bee a great benefactor unto them but they were deceived I look upon them and their gifts as defiled loathsome things and pronounced them to bee so Many think their persons prayers and other duties are very acceptable to God but they will finde them otherwise Isa 1.11 12 13.14 Mat. 7.22 23. Obs 2 The Lord would not have men to confide in their sacrifices and services Hee declared them polluted that hee might make them desolate beat them off from their hopes and confidences they had upon doing these things wee are apt to rest upon duties and to promise much to our selves thereupon but when God shall tell men they are polluted things they offer yea that themselves are polluted in those offerings this will shake their vain foundations and hopes When God told them Hee that killed an Oxe was as if he flew a man hee that sacrificed a Lamb at if hee cut off a Dogges neck hee that offered an Oblation as if hee offered swines blood he that burneth incense at if hee blessed an Idol Isa 66.3 did hee not undermine their strong holds and make them

imagined against us by wicked ones let us make use of this Scripture and comfort our selves therein not breaking out into bitternesse and passion Obs 3 Reproaching and reviling Gods people when they are in affliction draws judgement upon the Reproachers and Revilers The Ammonites reproached the Jews when the Babylonish sword came upon them and here the Prophet must tell them the sword is drawn fourbished for slaughter and consumption of them Reproach in this kinde is a provoking sinne Gods Name Truths Ordinances suffer when his People are reproached for his correcting hand upon them for their iniquities Jer. 48.26 27. Make yee Moab drunken that is let the cup of Gods wrath bee given him let him have judgement after judgement drink so deep of divine fury that he shall not bee able to stand and why was this hee magnified himself against the Lord hee derided Israel verse 27. hee magnified himself against their border Zeph. 2.8 and this is called magnifying himself against the Lord for what is done against his People and their borders is done against him and Moab must be made drunk for it yea Moab also shall wallow in his vomit he also shall be in derision he shall be derided scorned in his misery as a drunken man who lys wallowing in his vomit Moab for reproaching should be re●roached yea grievously afflicted yea utterly destroyed Zeph. 2.8 9 Both Moab and Ammon reviled reproached the Jews and magnifyed themselves against their border Therefore as I live saith the Lord of Hosts the God of Israel surely Moab shall bee as Sodome and the Children of Ammon as Gomorrah even the breeding of nettles and saltpits and a perpetual desolation The meaning is not that they should bee consumed by fire from heaven as Sodome and Gomorrah were but they should suffer extream and severe judgements at the hands of the Lord and be perpetually desolate as they were 29 Whiles they see vanity unto thee whiles they divine a lye unto thee The Hebrew is Bachazoth lack shane bicksom lack cazab In seeing to thy self a vain thing in divining to thy self a lye The Septuag runs to that purpose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In thy vision for vanity and in thy prophesying a lye to thy self The Ammonites like other Nations had their false Prophets Diviners and Soothsayers as you may clearly see from Jerem. 27.3 where the Prophet under the type of bonds and yoaks put upon his neck prophesyeth the subjection of the Nations unto Nebuchadnezzar and among others the Ammonites and verse 9. hee forbids them to hearken to their Prophets Diviners Dreamers Inchanters Sorcerers which told them they should not serve the King of Babylon They held them a sleep by telling them either Nebuchadnez would not come to them or if he did they were a strong people had strong Cities and needed not to fear any enemy But they saw vanity and divined a lye unto them and this is the sense of the words both according to the Hebrew and our translation To bring thee upon the necks of them that are slain Their false Prophets and Diviners put them on to insult over and trample upon the Jews when they were slain by the Chaldaeans assuring them of safety Or thus To give thee to the necks of them that are slain so the Hebrew may bee rendred and then the meaning is thy false Prophets and Diviners by their vanities and lyes do subject thee to the sword of Nebuchadnezzar and make way for thy destruction like the Jews Of the wicked whose day is come These words of the wicked are joyned with the former in the Hebrew El Tzauvere challe reshaim To the necks of the slain of the wicked and so is the Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All Translations and Expositors do joyn them and they may refer either to the slain or slayers noting their wickednesse some do refer them to the one some to the other In Hebraeo non est Syntaxis convenientiae ita ut intellige●di sint confossi improbi sed rect●onis ut intel igantur con●ossi ab improbis Piscat Piscator by wicked understands the Chaldaeans and reads the words thus Eorum qui ab improbis confossi sunt upon the necks of them who are slain by the wicked Whose day is come when their iniquity shall have an end The day of the Jews that was come wherein Gods judgements should cut them off and put an end to their iniquity of these words see ver 25. Obs 1 When the Lord threatens sinful Nations with sore judgements they have those amongst them which divert them from the truth possesse them with delusions and put them upon destructive practises The Ammonites were threatned here with the Babylonish sword but they neither beleeved Ezekiel nor Jeremy who told them the same thing chap. 27. Their false Prophets their Diviners beat them off from it possessed them with vanities and lyes put them upon insulting over the Jews when the hand of the Lord was most heavy upon them and so brought them to suffer by the same sword the Jews did It s just with God to give men and Nations over to beleeve lies and lying Prophets which shall lead them to destruction when they have stopt their ears against the true Prophets Ahab would not beleeve Micaiah but the false Prophets who spake words according to his minde but they were vanity lies and he smarted for it 1 Kin. 22. Obs 2 Though the Lord forbear sinful Nations long yet hee hath his daies and times of reckoning with and punishing of them the Jews day was come and their iniquity had an end The Ammonites day came and their iniquity had an end God punished them severely for their sinnes Ezek. 25. Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians were forborn long but God had his time for them Jer. 27.7 All Nations shall serve him and his Sonne and his Sonnes Sonne untill the very time of his land come then many Nations and great Kings shall serve themselves of him Babylon and its King had a time to sinne and a time to suffer God staid many daies yet had his day and came at the day appointed Jer. 50.31 ch 51.13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters abundant in treasures thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousnesse Babylon was insatiably covetous robbing the Nations of their riches but all her wealth could not purchase one daies respit from the wrath of God nor all her waters preserve her from the fire of his indignation the fire God sent in his day burnt up their habitations and lickt up the water of Euphrates whereon Babylon sate God bare long with us and the Nations about us but his day is come hee is visiting wee they have had our times of sinning and now must have our times of suff●ring Vers 30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created in the land of thy nativity 31 And I will pour out