John Trapp on Malachi 1:12

Verſe 12. But ye have prophaned it.] Ye Jews in general, though my peculiar people, and called by my name. You that quarter armes with me as it were, and ſhould therefore lift up my Name as an enſign: that you ſhould uſe me thus courſely, and caſt dirt upon my name by your irreligion: this moves me not a little: ſo that I cannot but once and again complain of it. Had it been an enemy, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. I ſhould better have born it. But it was thou my familiar, &c. What, thou my ſon Brutus? Friend, betrayeſt thou the Son of man, and that with a kiſſe? Scipio had rather Hanibal ſhould eat his heart with ſalt, then Laelius his friend do him the leaſt diſcurteſie. God wil take that of a profane perſon, that he will not of a profeſſor. Philiſtins may cart the ark, & ſcape ſcotfree. But if David do it, God will puniſh him in the death of Ʋzzah. Auguſtus Caeſar may ſend forth a decree that all the (Roman) world ſhould be taxed or numbred, Luk. 1.2. but if David number his people, God wil make bloody wailes upon his back: & if he make Gods name to ſtinck among the heathen, God wil ſcour out that blemiſh caſt upon his name with Davids tears and blood, See Ezek. 36.21. & 39.7. Amos 2.7. Levit. 10.3, I will be ſanctified in all th[illegible: 2 letters] that draw near unto me. Sanctified he will be either actively or paſſively: either in the ſincerity of their converſation, or elſe in the ſeverity of their condemmnation. If Solomon forſake the Lord that appeared unto him twice, God wil chaſtiſe him with the rods of men at leaſt. If Iſrael profeſſe Gods name, and yet profane it, God wil caſt them off, and turn to the Gentiles. And indeed what could he do leſſe to a nation ſo incorrigibly flagitious, a nation ſo unthankful for mercies, ſo impatient of remedies, ſo uncapable of repentance, ſo obliged, ſo warned, ſo ſhameleſly, ſo lawleſly wicked?

The table of the Lord] that is the Altar: ſee verſe 7.

And the fruit thereof.] Or the revenue, the income of it: It is a baſe allowance that the Prieſts have; priſoners pittance: they live that's all. Or thus, The table of the Lord is polluted, &c. That is, it is no better worth then to be polluted; neither do his Prieſts deſerve either countenance or maintenance. So many wretched people in theſe dayes think there is more ado made then needs in the worſhip and ſervice of God, Colo Deum, ut par eſt. Whereas indeed we that have received ſo many mercies, and have lived in ſuch an age of miracles, ſhould not onely ſervire Deo, ſed & adulari as Tertullian phraſeth it, ſerve God, but be unſatiſfiable in ſerving him. And as Gods ſervice is ſlighted, ſo his miniſters are well night ſtarved in many places: the vulgar holding the miniſtry no better then a idle uſeleſſe trade, taken up to make a living of. How Shamefully are Gods ableſt ſervants defrauded, mocked, miſuſed. A ſad prognoſtick of a dying State, 2 Chron. 36.16.