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O, but when the Lord should make a glorious turn upon their spirits, then they should readily and roundly deface, defile and disgrace their Idols, then they should hate and abhor them, then they should so detest and loath them, that in a holy indignation, they should cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and say unto them, get ye hence, pack, be gone, I will never have any more to do with you. And so in that, Isa. 2.20. In that day (that is, in the day of his people, ⟨p. 167⟩vers. 17.) A man shall cast his idols of silver, and h•s idols of gold, which they made, each one for himself to worship, to the Moles and to the Bats: In the day when God should exalt himself in the souls of his people, and before the eyes of his people, they should express such disdain and indignation against their Idols, that they should not take only those made of Trees and Stones, but even their most precious and costly Idols; those that were made of silver and gold, and cast them to the Moles and to the Bats; that is, they should cast them into such blind holes, and into such dark, filthy, nasty and dusty corners, as Moles make under ground, and as Bats roost in: So when Christ, and grace, and holiness comes to be set up in mens hearts and lives, then all their darling sins, their bosom lusts, which are their Idols of silver, and their Idols of gold, these are with a holy indignation cast to the Moles and to the Bats, they are so loathed, abhorred, abandoned and cashiered, that they desire they may be for ever buried in oblivion, and never see the light more. Idols were Ephraim's bosom sin, Hos. 4.17. Ephraim is joined (or glued, as the word signifies) to Idols, let him alone. But when the dew of grace fell upon Ephraim, as it did, in Chap. 14.5, 6, 7. Then saith Ephraim, What have I any more to do with Idols? ver. 8. Now Ephraim loathes his Idols as much or more than before he loved them, he now abandons and abominates them; though before he was as closely glued to them as the wanton is glued to his Delilah, or as the enchanter is glued to the Devil, from whom by no means he is able to stir; (as the words in the fountain imports) When it was the day of the Lords power upon Ephraim, then Ephraim cries out, What have I any more to do with Idols? O, I have had to do with them too long, and too much already: O, how doth my foul now rise against them? how do I detest and abhor them?