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not bin guilty of Idolatry and the other National Chapter
Sins, as well as thofe that have. Only the Few XXI.
Mourners mentioned Chap. ix. 4. have a Promife L/*V\J
to efcape. God's abfolute Dominion will juftify
any Temporal Calamity he thinks fit to bring up-
on Men :
and every Man is fb much a Sinner, that
no Evil which befals him in this World can be
thought unjuft with refpect to God that inflicts it.
But yet when God punifheth Men immediately by
himfelf, as he did in the Deft ruction of the Old
World, and of Sodom, it may be expected he fhould
put a Difference between the Righteous and the
Wicked : as eAhraham argues with him upon this
Subject, Gen. xviii. 2}, 25.
Ver. 4. oAgainfl all Flejh from the South to the Ver. 4.
North.1 See Chap. xx. 47.
Ver. 5. It (hall not return any more."] Into z£j- Ver. e
Sheath, as the Senfe is more fully exprefled, Ver.
£o. till it has executed my Commands.
Ver. 6. Sigh therefore with the breaking of thy yer a
Loins, 8tc] Shew all the Tokens of Grief and
Concern : Compare Ver. 13, and 17. and let the
Senfe of thefe impending Judgments fo deeply af-
fect thee, as to make thee ftoop, like one that is
perfectly bowed down under the Weight of
them. Comp. Ifa. xx'u 3. Tjal. xxxv. 14. xxxviij.
5. God's Judgments, as they were reprelented to
the Minds of the Prophets, did very often affect
them with dreadful Apprehenfions : efpecially
when they concerned their own People. See Jen
xxiii. 9. Van. viii. 28. Halah in. 16.
Ibid. Before their Eves.'] Before the Eyes of the
Elders of Ifrael, mentioned Chap. xx. 1. or of the
Jewifh Captives,who could not but be touched with
a ten-