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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

Some are so prophane and atheisticall that they thinke God sees regards not the things done here below Psal 94.5 6 7. They breake in pieces Gods people afflict his heritage slay murther widows and fatherlesse ones yet say the Lord shall neither see nor regard it And in Psal 10.11 He saith God hath forgotten he hideth his face and will never see it and not only Gods actuall seeing but his power of seeing and knowing things here is denyed Jab 22.13 How doth God know can he judge through the darke clouds Some have confidence to say God sees no sin in his children and others blush not to say he sees not the sins of and in the wicked and so God shall see no sin at all they make him an unseeing and unknowing God David cals this brutishnesse Ps 94.8 9 10 11. He that made the eye shall not bee see He that teacheth man knowledge shall not be know Yea saith he the Lord knoweth the thoughts of men and that their thoughts are vanity What is most remote from mans eye and knowledg that God knows exactly afar off Psal 139.2 And denounceth a woe to men of such thoughts and practises Isa 29.15 Woe to them that seeke deep to bide their counsell from the Lord and their workes are in the darke and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us God seeth them God knows them and pronounceth a dreadfull woe against them because mens lives doe proclaim that they believe not Gods Omnisciency therefore God professeth it openly Isa 66.18 I know their workes and their thoughts He had observ'd all within and without therefore they should be consum'd Gods eye is upon all our wayes and works let us every day do as God did review them and see that they be good 6. God in his judgments will proceed with sinners according to their ways and deserts Job 34.10 11 12. Elihu proves there that God will not doe wickedly nor pervert judgement and why for the worke of a man shall be rendered unto him and cause every man to find according to his wayes God is most just therefore takes notice of all thoughts counsels projects attempts and actions that so he may deal answerably with men Jer. 32.19 His eyes are open upon all the wayes of the sons of men to give every one according to his wayes That in Revel 18.6 seemes to crosse this truth when God will judge Babylon shee must have double punishment her cup must be doubled God doth not command here that Babylon should be twice punished for the same sin that were not according to the rules of Divine Justice Double here hath reference to Babylons dealings with the Church She did greatly afflict Sion and now God would have Babylon to have double afflion to that Babylon did injustly in oppressing Sion Sion should do righteously in destroying Babylon and observe the word double render unto her double according to her works If she have twice as many strokes judgments twice as much blood shed as Sion had its according to her workes she deserves it and nothing can be too much for her therefore Jer. 51.49 As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall so at Babylon shall fall the slaine of all the earth The Babylonian Empire was a little world to Israel and cal'd it's selfe the universall Empire and Babylon said shee was the Queen and the only City of all others Isa 47.7 8. The golden City Isa 14.4 But now when God would punish Babylon for her bloodinesse against Sion not only should Babylon's chldren that dwell in her be destroyed but all her Subjects in her great Territories should be slain for her sake Alapid understands it of Rome heathnish or together with her which sets out the greatnesse of her punishment su●table to her deserts and is well cal'd double for the death of one Israelite deserves the death of two Babylonians 7. They that will not know God in the way of his mercies they shall know him in the way of his judgments God had walked in paths of mercy amongst this people many years and they minded not God honoured him not in the middest of mercies but fed according to their pastures and forgat God therefore he brought heavy judgments upon them and saith They shall know that I am the Lord. This phrase is used above 50. times in this Prophet and assures us that God will be known and that amidst his enemies and with an experimentall knowledge for that is the meaning of the words not a literal and brain knowledg Isa 26.11 When thy hand is lifted up they will not see But they shall see They will not see to fear to repent but they shall see that is have experience of the strength of his hand to their shame and destruction The phrase of knowing I am the Lord sometimes refers to mercies as Exod. 6.6 7. God would bring them out from the burthens and bondage of Aegypt take them for his people then they should know him to be the Lord. So in Exod. 16.12 1 Kings 20.28 God would give them Manna deliver up enemies into their hands And they should know c. That is have experience of his mercy truth and loving kindnesse Sometimes and mostly it refers to Divine judgment especially in this our Prophet God would bring in the Chaldeans with the sword and those grievous calamities attend it and they should know that he was the Lord that is they should have reall experience of his Authority and power over them they should feele the bitter fruits of his displeasure in them CHAP. VIII VERSE 1. And it came to passe in the sixth yeare in the sixth moneth in the fifth day of the moneth as I sate in mine house and the Elders of Judah sate before mee that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon mee IN this and the three next Chapters you have the grievous sinnes and answerable punishments of the Jewes at Jerusalem laid downe with some other things considerable This eighth Chapter hath three things in it 1. An Introduction to a new Vision vers 1. 2. The Vision it selfe from the beginning of vers 2. to the end of vers 17. 3. A Declaration of Gods severe dealings with them vers 18. In the Introduction to this Vision you have these particulars 1. The time exactly set downe when it was in the 6. yeare the 6. moneth the 5. day 2. The place where it was As he sate in his house 3. The persons before whom it was The Elders of Judah sate before me 4. The cause of it The hand of the LORD fell there upon mee For the time It was now the sixth yeare of Jehoiachins cptivity and in the sixth moneth The Jewes first month is Nisan the second Jiar the third Sivan the fourth Thamuz the fifth Ab and the sixth Elul and answereth to that is called August The fifth day of this moneth had hee this vision which Junius saith was the Sabbath

for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and so f●ll into that errour which is not great for one heart was another heart then that they had The Hebrew is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one heart Heart By it here we may understand 1. The judgement or understa●d ng so it s taken Ephes 4.18 heart and understanding are the same there 2. For the will and aff●ctions so Prov. 23.26 Matth. 22.37 3. For the conscience so it s taken 1 John 3.20 One. Is taken in the word 1. For likenesse 1 Sam. 6.4 One Plague was on them all That is a like plague 2. For samenesse 2 Cor. 11.2 I have espoused you Rev. 21.21 Every Gate was of one pearle that is of the same pearle to one husband Heb 10.14 By one Offring he hath perfected for ever them that are Sanctified One is put for the same in both places 3. For that is united and makes one Gen. 11.6 Behold the People is one They were united t●gether as one man in the Building of Babel We may understand all here that God would unite them together as one man give them likenesse and samenesse of heart Some thinke by one heart is meant the mutuall consent to hasten to Jerusalem to build the Temple As they were one people of one language and Spirit in building Babel so these should be one People of one minde and language in rebuilding Jerusalem But if it should be confind to this sense it were no spirituall mercy and here God is promising spirituall mercies Th●s sense may be included but there is something beyond it We will enquire what heart was antecedently in this People which will give us light for the better understanding of this onenesse of heart 1. They had a backsliding apostatiz●ng heart in them 1 K 18.37 Elijah prayes that their hearts may be turned back againe Jer. 5.23 This People hath a revolting and Rebellious heart Ezek. 2.3 They are cald A rebellious Nation and Ezek. 6.9 God saith he was Broken with their whorish heart which departed from him They went out from God to Idols and to false wayes of worship They walked after the imaginations of their hearts after other Gods to serrve and worship them Jer 13.10 2. They had a slippery unfaithfull heart Psal 78.8 Their spirit was not stedfast with God they were off and on no certainty in them but full of changes Hence they are sayd to gad much about to change their way Jer. 2.36 and in Isa 24.5 To change the Ordinances and in Ezek. 5.6 To change Gods judgements into wickednesse more then the Nations 3. They had a deceitfull hypocriticall heart Isa 44.20 A deceived heart hath turned him aside and Chapter 10.6 God calls them an hypocriticall Nation they pretended love and obedience to God but Jer. 3.10 Judah serv'd God fainedly in falsehood is the Hebrew their hearts were deceitfull false 4. They had a divided froward bitter heart Hos 10.2 Their heart is divided God had a peice of it and the World a peice Ezek 33.31 and their Idols a peice Ezek. 14.3 And it was contentious and froward Isa 57.17 He went on frowardly in the way of his heart They had divided hearts divided tongues and divided wayes Manasseh was against Ephraim Ephraim against Manasseh and both against Judah Now this one heart here mentioned is opposite to all these 1. God would give them one heart and that is an heart should be for himself and not for Idols an heart should not withdraw or turne back to any false wayes but cleave to himselfe onely After they came out of Babylon they never could indure Idols more God had separated their hearts from them and therefore upon their returne God promised they should take away all detestable things vers 18. 2. An heart faithfull and stedfast that should hold fast the things of God and not be given to change Hence Jer 32.39 God saith I will give them one heart and one way that they may feare me for ever Their heart shall besetled fixed in my way and never looke out and wander after other wayes 3. An honest syncere heart free from hypocricy guile and lying Zech. 8.3 Jerusalem shall be called a City of truth The inside and outside should be the same intentions words and actions should be correspondent 4. An united loving peacable heart as they shall have one God be firme to his way and syncere in that way so they shall have sweet communion together strife bitternesse Isa 11.9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine division shall not be found amongst them Isa 60.18 Violence shall no more be heard in the Land There should be much unitie much love and mutuall agreement betweene them they sh●uld have but one heart Vnum est ens indivisum in se Vnius quidditas Scaliger Exercit. 65. Num. 2. Suarez in Metaph est essendi indivisibilitas O●hers say that is one which is Indivisum a se And divisum ab omni alio Such an heart they should have an heart undivided in it selfe and divided from all things heterogeneall and of a dividing nature as God he is one simply absolutely individed in himselfe and mostly divided from every thing differing from himselfe Gal. 3.20 God is one and one is oppos'd to many so that they shal have one heart not many hearts This onenesse of heart may be considered 1. As respecting themselves and so fi●st as it includes the judgment and affections they shall not dissent and crosse one the other but when truth is in the understanding the affections shall close with it oft time there is much truth in the heads of men but no love to truth in their hearts 2 Thes 2.10 They received not the love of the truth the truth was revealed made love to their soules appeared very lovely and beautifully but they had no love to it John 3.19 Light is come into the World and men loved darknesse rather then light their affections closed with their own lusts and errors but it should be otherwise here they should have a heart towards truth not divided from truth 2. As it comprehends the will and conscience they shall not be one against another sometimes conscience dictates and tels men they must doe or not doe such things and their wills carry them a wrong way Rom. 1.32 their hearts told them that they did such things as are there mentioned were worthy of death yet their wills carryed them to doe those things and to delight in them So in the 18 Vers they held the truth in unrighteousnesse their consciences told them it was truth and to be obeyed but their wills were against obeying that truth so that here was not one heart in them Here the promise is Will and Conscience shall be one 3. As it looks at the intention and practice many men have one heart within and another without faire pretences but foule

confiscations proscriptions and other most grievous punishments yet would not this good Emperour either force or punish the Arrians though he deadly hated them but granted unto both the Arrians and other the Catholicks their Churches and suffered them in every Towne to have two B●shops of either Religion one and though at the importunate suit of the Catholick Bishops he commanded certaine Edicts to be published against the Arrians yet he was contented to have the same held in suspense and not to be put in execution as his Letters to Ambrose declare Trade Arrianis Basilicam mei namque sunt omnia juris Theodorick King of the Goths though favouring the Arrians would not yet inforce the consciences of his Subjects nor have them tormented for their Religion lest under the pretence of impiety he should have seemed to have taken the spoyle of their goods to bend their minds which could by no threats or commands be constained to bend for thus he writes unto the Senate of Rome Religionem imperare non possumus quia nemo cogitur ut credat invitus He saith also No man is to be forced the private exercise of his Religion is to be yeilded if it cannot be publickly professed without Sedition otherwise men will become Atheists and so having lost the feare of God and trod under foot Lawes and Magistrates wil practice all impieties and villanies Mr. Forbes being sent for to the King of Sweden when he was victorious and asked by him what Government he should set over Lutherans Calvinists Papists whom he had Conquered his answer was You have Conquered their bodies with ease but you will find it a hard worke to conquer mens judgements and consciences What ill effects the forcing of mens spirits brought forth you may read in that learned and judicious Treatise of Sir Simon D' Ewes intituled The Primitive practice for preserving Truth You know who sayd it in things of the mind we look for no compulsion bu● that of light and reason He is not a loving Father but rather a step-Father who will compell his Children to eate of that meat is against their stomacks when there are variety of dishes to feed upon which are suitable to them Wise Physitians perswade doe not force their Patients to take Physick It s good to cure errours be in mens minds The conscience is not obstinate which useth meanes to know truth If God hide it from it liveth under the power of conscience and is not turbulēt and to save their soules but in Gods way James 5.19 by conversion not by compulsion by the power of the Word not the edge of the Sword this makes Hypocrites that Saints These things I speak not to make way for licentiousnesse that what ever opinions me● hold think say or practice they may be free but meerly that consciences truely tender may not be forced It s one thing to restraine mens practices which are Idolatrous blasphemous against pure worship the power of god inesse and peace of the State another to force men to that their judgement and consciences are against I pleaded not ever for a Toleration of all neither doe but onely that those whose lives are holy peaceable and differ in judgement from others in some things may not be forced to conforme or depart Ezek. 11.19 I will put a new Spirit within you The word Spirit notes sometimes the Soul Acts 7.59 saith Stephen Lord Jesus receive my Spirit 2 Cor. 7.1 Let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit Sometimes for the heart and affections 1 K. 21.5 Why is thy Spirit so sad said Jezabel to Ahab that is why is thy heart so heavy Acts. 17.16 Paul his Spirit was stird within him when he saw their Idolatrie his affections mov'd him to speake and dispute with them Sometimes for the faculties of the soule Viz. Vnderstanding will and conscience 1 Thes 5.23 I pray God your whole Spirit and Soule and body be preserved blamelesse By whole spirit the understanding will and conscience may be meant Pro. 18.14 A wounded Spirit who can beare that is a wounded conscience Sometimes for the gifts and graces of the spirit Gal. 3.2 Received yee the Spirit by the workes of the Law or by the hearing of faith New Is in Scripture sometime that wich is totally new for matter Deut. 20.5 A new H●use Judges 15.13 New wayes 1 Sam. 6.7 A new cart 1 K. 11.29 A new Garment Sometimes for that is renewed 2 Chron. 20.5 Jehoshaphat stood before the new Court that is judged to be the Preists Court renewed in its building or use after some publique prophanation so it s cal'd a new Shipp or Garment that are altred and chang'd Sometime for that is excellent and admirable Mar. 1.27 What new Doctrine is this its admirable and excellent doctrine so the New Name Rev 2.17 Chap. 3.12 That is an excellent and admirable name Sometimes for that is diverse from what it was before especially in regard of q●alities Mar. 16.17 They shall speake with new tongues which Acts. 2.4 are cal'd other tongues tongues which had other gifts and graces in them By new Spirit here is not meant a new Soul or faculties for substance or the inward forme of it but the same soule altered in the frame renewed in the qualities thereof it hath other excellent qualities in it which it had not before even the gifts and graces of the spirit hence it s call'd the new birth or birth of the spirit John 3.6 The new man Ephes 4.24 The new creature Gal. 6.15 Not onely faith and love mentioned Gal. 5.6 But all divine qualities man is capable of are included in this new spirit 1. The understanding is enlightned with divine light which it had not before Acts 26.18 To open the eyes and to turne them from darknesse to light The Gentiles were blind before God gave them this new spirit which brought new lights unto their mindes Ephes 4.18 Having the understanding darkned beeing alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindnesse of their hearts but when they had put on the new man vers 24. in the next Chap. vers 8. Paul saith of them Yee were sometimes darknesse but now are light in the Lord the Lord by his spirit had brought in marvailous light into their understandings and scattered their darknesses this Paul calls Gods shining into the heart 2 Cor. 4.6 John Christs giving an understanding 1 John 5.20 and Luke an opening of the understanding Luke 24.45 all which phrases as they suppose oldnesse of dark●esse so a renewing of the understanding with newnesse of light and this light is the light of life John 8.12 brought into the soule by the spirit of wisedome and revelation Ephes 1.17 18. 2. This new spirit hath influence into the will and alters that which in it selfe is corrupt and carryeth the soule the wrong way John 1.13 Will of the flesh is put for the whole