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CHAP. IV.
1 he A R G U M E N T.
Tinder the Emblem of a Siege, and oftheflraitnefs
ofTrovifion during the Siege, is-(hewed the Mi-
series the Jews JhaU juffer when the City is befieged:
and by the "Prophets lying upon his Right
and heft fide a certain number of 'Days, is declared
of how long continuance thofe Sins were
which God did vijit upon that "People.
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Ver. i. ^m^Hill^i^G/^ thee a Tile and lay it Ver.i,
before thee.~\ The Prophets
often forefhew impending
Judgments by fignificative
Emblems, being of greater
Force and EfHcacy than
Words. So Jeremy was commanded to go down
to the Potters Houfe, and fee how frequently Ve£
fels were marred in his Han^s, Chap, xviii. and
to take one of thofe Earthen VeflTels and break it
in the fight of the Elders of the Jews. Chap. xix.
that they might thereby be fenfibly taught the
greatnefs of God's Power, and their own Frailty.
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