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there knowledge nor understanding lot, &c. Her treacherous sister Judah to say, I have burnt part of it in the feared not, but went and played the fire, &c. and shall I make the residue harlot also, &c. committed adultery thereof an abomination? Shall I with stones, and with stocks. Jer. fall down to the stock of (or that which comes from) a tree?-Isa. xliv. 9-20.

iii. 6. 8, 9.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire; and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven,

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together, that are makers of idols, &c. They have no knowledge, that set up the wood of and to pour out drink-offerings unto their graven image, and pray unto a other gods, that they may provoke god that cannot save.-Isa. xlv. 16.20. me to anger. Jer. vii. 17, 18.

To whom will ye liken me? &c. One cutteth a tree out of the forest, They lavish gold out of the bag, and &c. they fasten it with nails; they weigh silver in the balance; and hire speak not, &c. be not afraid of them, a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god; for they can do neither evil nor good, they fall down, yea, and worship: &c. They are altogether brutish, they bear him upon the shoulder; and foolish: the stock is a doctrine they carry him, and set him in his of vanities, silver spread into plates, place, and he standeth: from his &c. but the Lord is the true God, &c. place shall he not remove: yea, one The gods that have not made the shall cry to him; yet can he not heavens and the earth, even they answer, nor save him out of his shall perish from the earth, and from trouble. Isa. xlvi. 5-7.

I have even from the beginning declared, &c. lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them: and my graven image, and my molten image hath commanded them.-Isa. xlviii. 5. A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face: that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick, &c.Isa. lxv. 3, 4. Jer. i. 16.

under the heavens, &c. Everyfounder is confounded by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them: they are vanity, and the work of errors.Jer. x. 3-5.8-11.14. 15.

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? - Jer. xiv. 22.

The Gentiles shall come, &c. and say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things, wherein is

Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my no profit: shall a man make gods

people have changed their glory for unto himself, and they are no gods? that which doth not profit, &c. The -Jer. xvi. 19, 20. house of Israel is ashamed, &c. sayThen all the men which knew that ing to a stock, Thou art my father; their wives had burnt incense unto and to a stone, Thou hast brought other gods, and all the women that me forth, &c. But where are thy stood by, &c. answered Jeremiah, gods, that thou hast made thee? let saying, &c. We will certainly do them arise, if they can save thee in whatsoever thing goeth forth out of

the time of thy trouble; for according to the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. Jer.ii.11.2628. xi. 12, 13.

Israel is gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree; and there hath played the har

her own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty, &c. So that the Lord could no longer bear, because for they have sown the wind.--Hosea of the evil of your doings.- Jer. xliv. 15-22.

viii. 4-7.

According to the multitude of his I am broken with their whorish fruit, he hath increased the altars: heart, which hath departed from me; according unto the goodness of his and with their eyes, which go a land, they have made goodly images: whoring after their idols.-Ezek. their heart is divided; now shall they vi. 9. be found faulty; he shall break down

The vision that Ezekiel had of their altars: he shall spoil their their abominable idolatry.-Ezek. viii. images.-Hosea x. 1, 2.

These men have set up their idols And now they sin more and more, in their heart, and put the stumbling- and have made them molten images block of their iniquity before their of their silver, and idols according face: should I be inquired of at all to their own understanding; all of by them? &c. I the Lord will an- it the work of the craftsmen: they

swer him that cometh, according to the multitude of his idols, &c. I the Lord will answer him by myself.Ezek. xiv. 3-7. Hosea ii. 2-4.

The insatiable idolatry of Jerusalem, with all nations. - Ezek. xvi. 15, &c.

I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols,-Ezek. xxiii. 30. xvi. 36, &c.

Such of the Levites who had offered before idols, God refused, afterwards, that they should offer any more unto him. Ezek. xliv. 10-15.

The image Nebuchadnezzar set up. -Dan. iii.

Belshazzar and his princes, &c. praised the gods of gold and of silver, &c. Dan. v. 3, 4.

say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kiss the calves: therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, &c.Hosea xiii. 2, 3.

I will cut off them who worship the host of heaven, &c. that swear by the Lord, and swear by Malcham. Zeph. i. 4, 5. Amos viii. 14.

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams, &c.-Zech.

x. 2.

Nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, ye are our gods. - Hosea xiv. 3.

Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved (or ought to love); and hath married the daughter of a strange god.-Mal.ii.11.

God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven.-Acts vii. 42.

The people said, &c. The gods are come down unto us, in the like

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms have caused them to err, and they ness of men: and they called Barnahave gone a whoring from under their bas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, God: they sacrifice upon the tops of because he was the chief speaker. the mountains, and burn incense upon Then the priest of Jupiter, which the hills, under oaks, &c. Ephraim was before the city, brought oxen is joined to idols; let him alone.- and garlands unto the gates, and Hosea iv. 12, 13. 17. would have done sacrifice with the

Of their silver and their gold have people which when the apostles, they made them idols, that they may Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they be cut off. Thy calf, O Samaria, rent their clothes, and ran in among hath cast thee off: mine anger is the people, crying out, and saying, kindled, &c. The workman made it, Sirs, why do ye these things? We therefore it is not God: but the calf also are men of like passions with of Samaria shall be broken in pieces; you; and preach unto you, that ye should turn from those vanities, unto heaven or earth), as there be gods the living God, which made heaven many, and lords many; but to us and earth, &c.--Acts xiv. 11--15.18. there is but one God, &c.-1 Cor.

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Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them: as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play, &c. My dearly beloved, flee from idolatry, &c. What say I then, that the idol is any thing? or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that

Paul, &c. at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry (or full of idols), therefore disputed he in the synagogue, &c. Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious: for, as I passed the things which the Gentiles sacriby, and beheld your devotions (or fice, they sacrifice to devils, and not gods whom ye worship), I found an toGod; and I would not that ye should altar with this inscription, To THE have fellowship with devils.-1 Cor. UNKNOWN GOD. Whom thereforeye x. 7. 14. 19, 20. ignorantly worship, &c. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art, or man's device. -Acts xvii. 16, 17. 22, 23. 29.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.-1 Cor. xii. 2. Ye did service unto them, which by nature are not gods.-Gal. iv. 8. How ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God.1 Thess. i. 9.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. - 1 John v. 21.

Demetrius said, This Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying, That they be no gods which are made with hands: so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also, that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all devils, and idols of gold, and silver, Asia and the world worshippeth, &c. and brass, and stone, and of wood; Great is Diana of the Ephesians, &c. which neither can see, nor hear, nor The image which fell down from walk. Rev. ix. 20.

Jupiter.-Acts xix. 26-28.34, 35.

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship

The Lord will be terrible unto

When they knew God, they glori- them; for he will famish (or make fied him not as God, neither were lean) all the gods of the earth.-Zeph. thankful; but became vain in their ii. 11.

imaginations, &c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, &c. who changed the truth of God into a lie, and served the creature more than the Creator. -Rom. i. 21. 23. 25. ii. 22. Ps cvi. 19-21.

CHAP. XXXIX.

OF ANGELS APPEARING TO MEN;
WHAT THEY ARE, AND DO.

AND the angel of the Lord found
Hagar by a fountain of water, &c.
And the angel of the Lord said unto
her, Return to thy mistress, &c. I
will multiply thy seed exceedingly,
&c.-Gen. xvi. 7-11.

Thou who abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? - Rom. ii. 22. We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one: for though there Three men appeared to Abraham: be that are called gods (whether in his discourse with them, and enter

taining of them. Gen. xviii. Dan. x. 5, &c.

And there came two angels to Sodom at even, and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them, rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground, &c. but the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house, &c. and they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, &c. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son-inlaw, &c. for we will destroy this place, &c. The angels hastened Lot,

And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him: and when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host, &c. And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled a man with him, &c. As a prince hast thou power with God and with men, &c. And Jacob said, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.-Gen. xxxii. 1, 2.24.28.30. Hosea xii. 4.

The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.-Gen. xlviii. 16. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, &c. And when

2-6. Acts vii. 30. 35.

&c. and while he lingered, the men the Lord saw that he turned aside to laid hold upon his hand, &c. When see, God called unto him out of the they had brought them forth abroad, midst of the bush, &c. said, I am the he said, Escape for thy life, &c. And God of thy father, &c.-Exod. iii. Lot said unto them, O not so, my Lord, &c. And he said unto him, See, And the angel of God which went I have accepted thee concerning this thing, &c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone, &c. Gen. xix. 1. 10—13. 15-19.21.24.

And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? Fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad.- Gen. xxi. 17.

And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham, &c. Lay not thine hand upon the lad, &c. And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time. Gen. xxii. 11, 12. 15.

Abraham said unto his servant, The Lord God of heaven, &c. he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence. Gen. xxiv. 6, 7.

before the camp of Israel, removed, and went behind them: and the pillar of the cloud, &c.-Exod. xiv. 19, 20. Behold, I send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way, &c. for mine angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites.-Exod. xxiii. 20. 23. xxxii. 34. xxxiii. 2.

He heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt.-Numb. xx. 16.

God was angry with Balaam, because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way, for an adversary against him, &c. And the ass (upon which he rode) saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside, &c. But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, &c. And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust

Jacob dreamed, and behold a ladder, herself unto the wall, &c. And the &c. and the angels of God ascending angel of the Lord went farther, and and descending on it. Gen. xxviii. 12. stood in a narrow place, &c. and when

The angel of God spake unto Jacob the ass saw the angel of the Lord, in a dream, &c. said, For I have seen she fell down under Balaam, &c. all that Laban doth unto thee: I am Then the Lord opened the eyes of

the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me.-Gen. xxxi. 11-13.

Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak, &c. appeared unto Gideon, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, &c. And Gideon said unto him, O my Lord, &c. The Lord said unto him, Surely, I will be with thee, &c. And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh, and the unleavened cakes, and by sending evil angels amongst them. lay them upon on this rock, &c. Then -Ps. lxxviii. 25. 49.

his face, &c. And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. -Numb. xxii. 22-27.31-35.

When Joshua was by Jericho, &c. behold there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? and he said, Nay, but as captain (or prince) of the host of the Lord, am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face unto the earth, and did worship; and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? -Josh. v. 13-15.

An angel of the Lord came, &c. when the angel of the Lord spake these words, &c. the people lift up their voice and wept.-Judges ii. 1. 4. Curse ye Meroz (said the angel of the Lord, &c.) because they came not to the help of the Lord. - Judges

v. 23.

wisdom of an angel of God.-2 Sam. xiv. 20.

When the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil.2 Sam. xxiv. 16. 1 Chron. xxi. 15, 16.18.20. 30.

The angel of the Lord came to Elijah, and gave him food, &c.-1 Kings xix. 5-7.

The angel of the Lord said unto Elijah, Go down to meet the messengers, &c.-2 Kings i. 15.

The angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred fourscore and five thousand.-2 Kings xix. 35. Isa. xxxvii. 36.

His angels he charged with folly. -Job iv. 18.

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.-Ps. xxxiv. 7. Dan. iii. 28. vi. 22.

Let the angel of the Lord chase them, &c. Persecute them.-Ps. xxxv. 5, 6.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand; even thousands (or many thousands) of angels. - Ps. lxviii. 17.

Man did eat angel's food, &c. Не cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble,

the angel of the Lord put forth the For he shall give his angels charge end of the staff, and touched the flesh, over thee, to keep thee in all thy &c. And when Gideon perceived ways: they shall bear thee up in their that he was an angel of the Lord, hands, lest thou dash thy foot against Gideon said, Alas! O Lord God; a stone. Ps. xci. 11, 12. Matt. for, because I have seen an angel of

iv. 6.

the Lord, face to face. And the Lord Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that said unto him, Peace be unto thee, excel in strength; that do his comfear not; thou shalt not die.-Judges mandments. Ps. ciii. 20. vi. 11, 12. 15-17.20-23.

The angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah's wife, &c. When Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord, he said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.-Judges xiii. 3. 6.8.13.16.18. 21,22.

My Lord is wise, according to the

Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire. Ps. civ. 4. Heb. i. 7.

Praise ye him, all his angels, &c. -Ps. cxlviii. 2.

Neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error.-Eccles. v. 6. They are called seraphims, each one had six wings, &c.-Isa. vi.2, &c.

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