Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 7:9
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Jeremiah7:9
9 Will ye steal, murder and commit adultery, and swear falsly and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not.
Here the Prophet mentions divers of those sins, in which they were notorious, viz. Thieves, Murderers, Adulterers, perjured Idolaters, &c.
q. d. Can you think, that this can be grateful unto me, or any whit advantagious to your selves, to frequent my house, and yet retain these odious sins, as if I were a companion for Thieves, Murderers, &c.
Such as they had set up new, and never had any experience of, and therefore could have no reason to serve them, therefore called new Gods, Deut. 32.17. Iudg. 5.8. but of my power, and goodness you have had ample proof, in your deliverance from Egypt, and the wonderful Miracles, and Signs, that God had shewn you in the Wilderness, and his Victorious Arm for you in Canaan, of which things these Iews could not be Ignorant, and therefore the more inexcusable, four of these sins respect the second Table, these two last the first; the name of Baal is here put for all Idols.
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