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John Trapp on Isaiah 28:11

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Isaiah28:11

Ver. 11. For with ſtammering lips, &c.] with a liſping lip, Heb. with ſcoffs of lip, or with language of mocks. Surely God ſcorneth the ſcorners, Prov. 3.34. for he loveth to retaliate and proportion choice to choice, Iſa. 66.3, 4 device to device, Micah 2.1.3. frowardneſs to forwardneſs, Pſal. 18.26. ſcoffing to ſcoffing, Prov. 1.25.26.

And with another tongue] lingua exotica, ſuch as they ſhall be no whit the better for; ſee 1 Cor. 14.21. We read of John Elmar Biſhop of London in Queen Elizabeth's raign, that on a time when he ſaw his Auditory grow dull in their attention to his Sermon, he preſently read unto them many verſes out of the Hebrew Text: whereat they all ſtarted, admiring what uſe he meant to make thereof: then ſhewed he them their folly, that whereas they neglected Engliſh, whereby they might be edifyed, they liſtened to Hebrew whereof they underſtood not a word: and how juſtly God might bring in Popery again (with Latine ſervice, blind obedience, and dumb offices) for their contempt of the Goſpel.

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