Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 18:25

25 Yet ye say, the way of the LORD is not equal: Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your wayes unequal?

You persist in your hard, unjust, and ungodly sentiments of an inequality in my waies, and are not afraid to speak as much.

'Twere too much for sinners to charge God with inequality in a single act, but here are some dare censure the way, the whole management of affairs.

Strange frowardness, own him for Lord, yet condemn his Government, grant his Sovereign Authority, and yet arraign the exercise of it.

Not right, steddy, or consistent with his own Declaration and Law; so the word Heb. This prodigiously wicked assertion they build upon a most gross Ignorance, and intolerably proud conceit of their own Righteousness: We, say, they are Righteous, not Wicked, yet punisht, unheard of pride to condemn God, with whom is no Iniquity, and acquit themselves, in whom is all Iniquity.

Consider what I have propos'd to clear my justice, hear me and my defence e're you condemn me, weigh well my defence.

Both you that are in Ierusalem, and you also that are in Babylon at Tel-abib.

Do you speak what you think, do's your judgment thus conclude, when you know or might know, that this is the general rule I proceed by, the Righteousness of the Righteous is upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked is upon him? Can there be inequality here.

Which you choose, keep, plead for, and obstinately hold to, these are the crooked, unsteddy, and unjust wayes: for the question is to be resolved into a vehement asseveration.

Marginal references: chap. 33.17, [illegible: 1 letter]0.