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88 A Com m entary
Chapter Ver. 6. They have feen Vanity and lying Divina*
XIII. tions.~\ Concerning Peace and Profperity : See Ver.
UTV^O 10. and Chap. xif. 23, 24.
Ver. 6. Ibid. oAnd they have made others to hope that
they would confirm the Word.~] Or, that the Word
fiould le confirmed : the Tranfitive Verb being of-
. ten taken in an Imperfonal Senfe : See the Note on
Jfa. xliv. 18. their fpeaking with fo much AfTurance
made others confidently expect that the Event
would anfwer their Predictions : and fometimes
even impos'd upon the true Prophets for a
time ; as Hananiah did upon Jeremiah : See Jen
xxviii. 6.
Ver. 9. ^ er ' 9* They Jliall not he in the eAfembly of my
TeopleJ] They (hall not be Members of the Church
here, nor partake of the Communion of Saints in
Heaven. The Hebrew Word Sod, fignifies a fe-
cret AfTembly or Privy Council: Such as are acquainted
with the moil inward Thoughts and fe*.
cret Intents of a Prince : and from thence it is ap-
plied to God's chofen People, thofe that are acquainted
with the whole Counfel ofGod, and whom
he inftructs by the fecret Directions of his Holy
Spirit. See Tfal. xxv. 14. Jerem. xxiii. 18. So the
Prophet tells thefe Men that pretended to know
fo much of the Secrets of the Almighty^ that they
fhould never be of the Number of thofe Favourites
of Heaven, to whom God will reveal himfelf and
his Counfels.
Ibid. Neither Jhall they be written in the Wri-
ting of the Houfe of Ifrael.'] The Senfe is much the
fame with that of the foregoing Sentence :
the Expreffions
being an Allufion to the Regifters that
ufe to be kept of the Members of any City or Cor-
poration,