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A85666	An exposition of the five first chapters of the prophet Ezekiel, with useful observations thereupon. / Delivered in severall lectures in London, by William Greenhill.	Greenhill, William, 1591-1671.	1645 (1645)	Wing G1851; Thomason E272_1; ESTC R212187	422,046	514

had taken in and so are call'd Goiim Nations as if they had had the wickednesse of all the nations or because they were divided in their false and Idolatrous worship some were for the Ammonitish way some the Moabitish some for other wayes most for wrong wayes and this made them like the Nations who had their severall wayes and to deserve the brand of Goiim Rebellious Hammordim the rebellious ones of Marad which signifies to fall off to apostatize to rebell and resist it 's like the practice of men against States and Princes when they have made Lawes for their Subjects to live by and they have accepted of those Lawes and then fall off with-draw from their subjection obedience and shake off their yoke it 's call'd rebellion Gen. 14.4 the King served Kedorlaomer twelve yeers and in the thirteenth rebelled that is shook off those Lawes and yokes they were under In the Law sense rebellion is a traitorous taking up arms against the State be it by the naturall Subjects or by others formerly subdued or by whomsoever when arms are taken up to overthrow the setled Laws of a Kingdome and Religion setled by those Laws this is rebellion against that State and that State may preserve it self the Law of Nature Reason and Religion warranting the same I am not to speak of rebellion in this sense but Theologically when men will not be under the Laws and Government of Christ but go a whoring after their own lusts and inventions or others then they rebell so the other Tribes told Reuben Gad and Manasseh Josh 22.16 What trespasse is this you have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the Lord in that you have builded you an Altar that yee might rebell this day against the Lord Turning from God and taking up our own or others inventions is rebelling against God The Vulgar hath it to the apostatizing Nations Ad Gentes apostatrices and the Septuagint renders the word Rebell in Nehem. 6.6 to apostatize thou and the Jewes think to apostatize 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and apostasie is a wicked departing from God and his truth acknowledged and confessed to false wayes of worship and such were the Israelites at this time they had left the God of Israel and chosen other gods and served Idols which made the Lord to say Jer. 2.11 Hath a nation changed their gods which yet are no gods but my people have changed their glory such is the apostasie of Antichrist and his followers they have departed from the true God and his worship and set up false gods and false worship so that he and all his children are Goiim Hammordim a rebellious an apostatizing nation Against mee It 's not against their King their high Priest but against mee In pactum meum Jerom. against my Covenant saith Jerome God had made a Covenant with them not only a spousall covenant I will betroth thee to mee for ever Hos 2.19 But a matrimoniall covenant I am the Lord thy God thou shalt have no other gods before me Exod. 20.2 3. God said hee would have them and no other people to be his God kept the Covenant on his part and was no Polygamist to that day hee took not in any other nation but they brake with him and took in other gods and brought them not into the City only but into the Temple and provoked their God to jealousie Even to this day The Hebrew is to the body strength essence of this day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 even this self-same day these very words you have in Lev. 23.14 untill the self-same day had not this people been brutish they might have seen what an unprofitable thing it was to bestow honour upon Altars Idols to set up corrupt invented worship they might have seen what truth and force was in Propheticall threats how powerfull God was to save and to destroy for now they were carryed out of their own Countrey they were in Babylon a most Idolatrous place subject to the nations they so disdained and had been some yeers in bondage yet even here to that present time they were addicted to their old wayes and served false gods night and day Jer. 16.13 Transgresse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hebrew word signifies to sin not ignorantly or of infirmity but wilfully ex superbia Isai 1.2 I have brought up children and they have rebelled it 's the same word is in the Text they have proudly voluntarily sinned against mee the Septuagint therefore render it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They have prevaricated with me rejected mee they have taken mee out of the way who was established to be their God and have willingly brought in other gods and this word pashagn is of larger extent then marad say Rabbies but in Scripture they are promiscuously used Hos 14.9 the transgressors shall fall therein those go from under the command of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and oppose him Obser 1. That it 's Christs prerogative to set up and send officers unto the Church I send thee I that fit upon the Throne that am Jehovah that is to come that have all power in mine hand that can save and destroy that am the great Prophet of my people I send thee So Mat. 28.18 19. Christ is invested with all power and therefore sends Officers to all nations Eph. 4.11 He gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Euangelists and some Pastors and Teachers it was Christ gave them and set them up in the Church Hence saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 4.1 Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ we are set up and sent by him who is the Head of the Church the Authour of all Offices and Lord of all Offficers Hence followes 1. That those Offices and Officers are holy and warrantable which depend upon the will and authority of Christ Jer. 1.5 not those are of the wils and authority of men as all are in the Romish Synagogue and too many are amongst us Apostles Prophets Euangelists they were of Christ but being extraordinary are ceased Pastors Teachers Elders Deacons Christ hath given to be standing Officers in the Church and their callings wee acknowledge holy and lawfull but all others of humane institution and so unholy and unwholesome for the Church The Papists deny the calling of Pastors and Teachers in the reformed Churches to be lawfull because they are not sent by the Pope and ordained by his Bishops and so in succession from Christ but it 's cleer that Pastors and Teachers were given of Christ before ever Popes or Prelates were thought on Ephes 4.11 And as for them the Pope and his Clergie wee may safely say that neither himself nor any of his Hierarchy ever had any lawfull calling because none of them are sent of Christ hee will never own it that he sent any of them neither were they ordained according to the will of Christ and his Apostles 2.

a wheele in a wheele not the gnave stocke in the midst of the wheele to which the spokes are fasten'd for that hath not the forme of a wheele but there was one wheele in another as the orbes of the heavens comprehend one another as in some Water-works and Watches there be wheeles one in another and then the meaning is that there is a secret hidden motion or wheele that moves the wheeles which way soever they run Observe first that the motions of the world and kingdomes are perplexed and crosse motions like a wheele in a wheele Saul moved with all his strength to settle the kingdome upon his own Son but he met with a contrary motion David is anointed to be King and the men of warre came to David to Hebron to turne the kingdome of Saul to him 1 Chron. 12.23 And so Adonijah said to Bathshebah the kingdome that was mine is turned about and become my brothers hee met with a crosse wheele that carried the kingdome from him 1 King 2.15 How perplexed intangled were the motions of the Jewish affaires both in Babylon and at Jerusalem when the Prophet saw this vision The Papists doe erect regnum in regno an ecclesiasticall monarchy in the temporall exempt from temporall jurisdiction onely subject ob pacem or bonum commune if subject at all and so they give Monarchs a broken right in some things but defeasible in other things by their spirituall Monarchie Nebuchadnezzars wheele was in theirs and intangled them much in both places What crosse motions were in France when the King of Navarre Prince of Condee the Admirall and all that were of the Religion looked for peace and met with a massacre Are not there Romish Spanish French and Popish wheeles moving in our Kingdome Armies and Councels Look at this instant upon the motions of this Kingdome in Parliament or out of it and they are exceeding intricate Never was skaine of silke or thread so knotty or involved as the affaires of the kingdome and world are never bird so intangled in the Limetwigs or Net as things are at this time 2. The motions to mutations and ruines are very swift things move faster then we conceive to their ends The Jewes hasted out of Aegypt and destruction hasted on the Aegyptians A wheele in a wheele notes intension of motion as Elias prayed in prayer Jam. 5.17 That is he was intense so a wheele in a wheele intimates intensenesse of the motion All things make speed to their owne ruine 3. There is a secret motion which carries on the wheeles and moves them that way they goe there is a wheele in a wheele and that sets the other a moving as a spring in a Watch sets all the wheeles agoing some latent engine stirs the wheels of the world in some places you shall see the waters suddenly fly all about you the cause of that motion is hidden so in all the motions turnes and stirres of the world there is a secret wheele divine providence that sets on worke and carries on That was a great wheele and turne when ten tribes at once fell from Rehoboam and ran to Jeroboam Politicians and Statesmen could see sedition rebellion and treason in that motion the outward wheele was obvious but the wheele in the wheele was not seene by every eye Behold I will rend the Kingdome out of Solomons hands and give ten Tribes to thee 1 King 11.31 If there be divisions ruines plunderings in a Kingdome there is a wheele in those wheeles a providence that acts and orders Job 6.5 Afflictions come not forth of the dust nor trouble out of the ground they come out of the wheele God turnes that upon Kingdomes and families as Micah 1.12 Evill came downe from the Lord to the gates of Jerusalem God hath a wheele in all the wheeling businesses of the world Anastasius the Emperour being inform'd of a conspiracy against him and the State Zonar commanded Justinian and Justinus with many others to be executed by a voice in the night he was bid to spare Justinian and Justinus for they were to doe good service and they both afterward were Emperours the motion of the wheele in the wheele sav'd their lives and advanc'd them to honour At the Battell of Keinton was a wheele in a wheele the wheele at first ran for the adverse partie but the wheele in the wheele turn'd it on our side At Brainford there was a wheele in a wheele When the enemies plots have been their plagues and their doings their undoings the wheele in the wheele both moved and turn'd their owne workes upon them Psal 9.16 4. The motions of divine providence in the things of the world are beyond the reach of the ablest braines Providence walkes works so darkly deeply changeably wheeles about so that mortalls cannot tell what conclusions to make when the issues of things are extant we can see what the antecedent motions carried in their wombe otherwise not unlesse wee have it by vision as here Ezekiel had or some extraordinary way Providence hath such bouts and fetches as puzzle the thoughts and hearts of the ablest and best when the Children of Israel were at the borders of Canaan they were carried backe againe to Ezion-gabor Numb 33. Exod. 13.18 it 's said God led them about through the way of the Wildernesse by the red Sea and so providence leads businesses about they goe backwards and forwards so that we cannot make sense of Gods motions in the world As in Characters till a man learne be instructed in them he can make no sense of them and men now of rare abilities cannot tell what sense to make of the motions of the wheeles Mounsieur Chastileon Admirall of France at the match of Charles the 9th his Sister with the King of Navarre was invited with the chiefe of the Protestants by the King to celebrate the marriage at Paris and to confirme Peace the Protestants at Rochel advised him not to goe but importunitie of others prevailed with him he went and was massacred for it Although he was of great wisdome hee could not discerne what way the wheeles would move the wisest man is too weake to spell out the meaning of the wheels and mysteries of providence once before he had refused to come to Court at the Kings sending who sent Mounsieur Du Tore his cousen to advertise him of important affaires he had to communicate he suspecting answered the King means me no good and tell him there be no Count Egmonds in France I will not suffer my head so easily to be cut off as he did in Flanders Roderick King of Spaine to assure himselfe against the children and friends of King Vitiza whom he had deposed dismounted all the strong holds and disarm'd the people this strengthened him against domestick enemies not forein attempts For the Moores invading him shortly after overthrew him and finding little resistance in seven or eight moneths conquer'd almost all Spaine The Britains molested by the