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poration, the Privileges' of which Society none can Chapter
pretend to, but they whofe Names are entred into XIII.
fuch Registers. Comp. Ezra. ii. 61. Tfal. lxix. 28. L/W-J
Exod. xxxii. 3 2. Luke x. 20. Thil. iv. 2. Heb. xii.
23. It may bethefe Falfe Prophets foretold a fpeedy
return to the Exiles ; whereupon God tells them
that they (hall never live to fee it, nor fhall their
Names be entred into the Regifter of thofe that
Return Home. See Nehem. vii. 5.
Ibid. Neither flail they enter, into the Land of
Ifrael.~] They fhall never fee their own Country
again, nor fhall they have a fhare among the true
lfraelites. See the Note on Chap. xx. 38.
Ver. 10. They have [educed my Teople, faying, yer. IOr
Teace, and there were no Teace.'] They have deceived
my People by telling them that none of
thofe Judgments fhould overtake them which Jeremy
and the other true Prophets threatened
them with, and they have fpoke Peace to Men's
Confciences upon falfe Grounds and Principles:
See Jeremiah iv. 10. vi. 14. xxiii. 14,17.
Ibid. cAnd one built a Wall, and lo others daub-
ed it with untemfered Mortar. ~]
Inftead of provi-
ding fuch a Fence and Bulwark as might fecure
the People againft the Judgments that threaten
them, See Ver. 5. They have made a flight Wall
without any Mortar, or Cement to bind and
ftrengthen it: that is, they have applied flight
and palliating Remedies to publick Calamities,
which will never give true Peace to Mens Confci-
ences, nor (land them in any ftead when God vi-
fits for their Iniquities. Juft as i^ an unskilful
Builder fhould undertake to fet up a Wall, and his
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