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John Trapp on Isaiah 65:5

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Isaiah65:5

Ver. 5. Which ſay, Stand by thy ſelf, come not near to me] Theſe Jews were all manner of naughts (and therefore worthily rejected by God) Necromancers, Idolaters, Epicures, groſs hypocrites, as here their words (full of pride and contempt of others) ſhew them to be. Such were the Phariſees with their Sanctior ſum quam tu: Luk. 7.39. the Monkes and Maſſe-Prieſts among the Papiſts, and the Browniſts with their broad leaves of formal profeſſion amongſt us. Abbots his trial of Church forſakers, pag. 148. From Mat. 18.19. becauſe Chriſt promiſeth not doing for them that ask, except they agree on earth, Browniſts peremptorily conclude, that they ought not to pray with them that do not conſent with them in their opinions: nor will they pray with their own wives and children, though never ſo pious, if they do not meet in the ſame center of conceits.

Theſe are a ſmoke in my noſe, a fire that burneth all the day] i. e. A continual offence to me, as ſmoke is to the noſe and eyes, Prov. 10.20. and ſhall be perpetually tormented by me in the hotteſt fire of hell; whereof hypocrites are the free-holders, and other ſinners are but tenants as it were to them; whiles they are ſaid to have their portion with the Devil and hypocrites. Some think he hinteth at their ſmoking and ſacrificing in their gardens and groves, ver. 3.

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