Chap. 31 rín ExpoJ Lion ups the Book of J O at. Ver1.. 26. 563 den Paraphrafe gives this fence of it ; The Congregation of ;Trod Paidbefore the Heathen doe not defpife tete,beeaufc Iam blacker these you, having acesrding to your cisflosses, worfhippeel the Sienne and c.2Ioone. Ealfe Priphets have been the caufe that the bet di[f lea- Deni rata fun fare ofGodbath fallen upon me; they taught me toferveyour Idols, d; m crea:ura, and walke in your wayer; I beholding theSun have adored it, and adori, ( ^m+ffa er am become blacks. I find oneof the Jewifh Rabbins joyning with °hose a/ae- this interpretation,and thus glufíing the Churches fad complaint; f;aG irm odor; I am blache, while I warship creatures ( forgetting the Creator) pro foie Mi- and this vifbleSan for the Sun of rightrcufnefs, r;æ, Rob: So?. Thus we fee how the very Jewes were mad upon the worship ofthe Sun and Moone, though theywere not only (hewed the vanity of fuck wcrflrp, but warned not to doe it, and threatned in case they fhould doe it. (Dour. 4. r 5, t y. ) Takeye therefore goodheed unto your%elves (forge jaw no manner offimilitude an the day that the Lord [pie onto you in Horeb out of the tuidff cf the fire ) left ye corrupt your [elves, andmakeyou a graven Image, the limiterude ,fany figure, the licçnes cfmoleor female, &c. And ha- vingcaution d them ogatnit making the figureofany living thing, whether on theearth, or in the ayre and waters , he proceeds to give them caution againft the Adoration of the bolt of heaven ( v.19. ) t,.fttd leftthou life up thine eyes to heaven, and when thou ¡tri the Sun, and the Marne, and the Starres, even all the hrff of heaven , ¡h,uidef be driven to werfhip their, and ferve th.errs, which the Lord thy God bath divided (..r imparted) to all î1T priors under heaven. As if ho had fayd, Will you ferve the Sunne and Moone ins fteadof God, when as God loath made them to free you and All Nations ? What is the Sun? your fervanr. What is the Moone? your fervant. Wherefore doe the Sun and Moone Thine but to giveyou light and to influence theearth, that it may be fruitfull and bring forth what is neceffary both for your ufe and delig! t ? Nor doth it fume to bewithout the fpeciall dirccìion of the molt wife God ; That the Sun whichmany have doated upon and worfhipped as a God , fhould be ettpreffed in the Hebrew language by theword Showell), a fervant, whofe mote is Sh.e- tnafb, which fignifiethsto serve ; as if the Lord would imply in the very name of the Saone, how improper it is for any in the world to worfhîp that as a god, which God hach made a fervant Cceea to
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