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Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

§.3. Practice

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Prophets

5. Ezekiel

5. Next comes a whole string of passages in Ezekiel Ch. xvi.

Speaking of Jerusalem ‘Behold (says he v. 44) every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother so is the daubhter.

‘45. Then art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children, and thou {art} the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother {was} an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.’

46. ‘And thy elder sister is}Samaria, she and her daughters that dwelt at the left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand, Sodom and her daughters.’

‘47. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but as {if that were a very little {thing} thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.’

‘48. As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done thou and thy daughters.’

‘49. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sides Sodom, Pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.’

[50.] MS ’40.’ ‘And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore took them away as I saw good.’

[51.] MS ’41.’ ‘Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.’