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(Meant
Tabor
thought ,to
be
the
t
!Lountaine.
place had
:
Shall fo
many thoufand foules
perith
for
want
of
knowing
God
and
Chril} becaufe
they
havé
not
a
coníècrated
place.
It's
a
very
fad
thing
to
confider
of This
Mountaine
(if
it
be Mount
Taber,
as
I
find
both
Jerome
any
;
others think
it
was)
was as
ill
a
place
as
á
Play-Houfe could be
;
where
Chrifipreached
this Sermon
:
and
a
place that
was
like
to be
abufed
to
much fuperftition
and Idolatry
;
I
find
in
the pro
-
phefie
ofHofea, mention of this place
;
Chap.
S.
v.
t.
Hear
ye
this
O
Priefls, and
hearken ye
houfe
of
Ifrael,
and
give ye
ear O
houfe
of
the
ÍCing
:
for
judgement
is towards.
you,
becaufe
ye have
been
a
flare
on
Mizpah,
and
a
net fpread
upon
Tabor.
The
meaning
of
it
is
this, That
when
the
i
o
Tribes
had fallen off
from
the true worfhipof
God
in the Temple
at
3erufalem,and
fet
up
their
Calves in
Dan
and
Bethel,
there
were fome
that
were more Godly
and
ftrift
;then others,
and
they
could
not becontent
to
worfhip
there,
but they
muff
needs
goe
to
worfhip at
f
ern
falem
:
But
now
the
Lawes
of
the
King and
the Prieíts
were
againft
it,
and no
man
could be fuffered
to
worfhip
at
(erufalem
but
it
was
upon his
perill, but yet there
would
many
goe, therefore the Priefls
and
others,fet
watchers
to
watch
thofe
that did
go
.up,
into ferufalem to worship,
as
heretofore there
have
been men fet
to
watch when men
went
from
their
Pariíh
Churches. Though they
had
no preaching
at
home,
fo
there were
watches fet
upon
Mount
Tabor
to
watch
thofe
that
went
to
(erufalem, for
they
were
to
go by
that
place,
and
therefore
it
is
faii,
that there
was
a
Net
fpread
upon
7
abor. Surely
this place
was
prophaned
as
much
as
any
place
could
be,
and
yet
for
all
that, Chrifi
he goes and preaches
this
Sermon upon
Mount Tabor.
It
was as
wicked
a
worke
to
fet
watchmen
to
fpy
out thofe
that
went
to the true worfhip
of
God
to
(erufalem,
as
it
was
to
make
a
play, and
yet
I
fay,
Chrift
comes and preaches here upon
the
Mountain.
And
fo for
any
fuperflition in
places,the
Synagogues
of
rh.
lo
Tribes,
and
the
places
that they fet
up
for
their
fervice,
and for
teaching, they were
abufed
exceedingly, for they fet
them up
in oppofition
to
the
true
worfhip
of God
in
Terufalem:
and
yet Chrifi
would preach' in every place according
as
he
C
2
came.