they are made the objects of shame and contempt to all that look upon them: or they are made naked, that is, of ⟨image 22⟩the grace,1 blessing, and protection of God: or they are naked, that is, say others, they are forsaken and cast off; for every one forsakes and casts off naked persons, they will have nothing to do with them: Others render the words thus, The people will keep holy-day, they will have nothing to do but to weep and wail, or, they will do nothing that is good; Others thus, The people shall be stripped naked, they shall be left as a City without walls, exposed to the fury of the enemy, as a body without clothes, open to wind and weather. Others carry it thus, The people shall be discovered; it will then appear what is within, whether grace or sin; it will then be discovered, what pantings, breathings, hungerings, and longings there be in souls after God, and Christ, and holiness, and Ordinances, &c. Pagnin thus, The people will grow barbarous, rebellious, &c. as experience in all ages hath fully demonstrated. Others thus, The people shall be of no esteem, of no repute, no body will prize them, no body will value them, no body will regard them; men set no price, no value upon naked persons. Others thus, The people shall be dispersed, scattered, shivered and shattered; and this in all Ages hath been too apparent. Others thus, They shall be drawn away with errors: they shall either be starved, or else poisoned with God-dishonouring, Christ-denying, Scripture-debasing, Conscience-wasting, life-polluting, and soul-damning opinions; it is concluded on all hands, that it shall go ill, very ill, with that people that want vision, that want serious, sincere, faithful and powerful preaching; for where there is no vision, no serious, sincere, faithful and powerful preaching, there the people perish certainly, undoubtedly, there they go tumbling to hell thick and three-fold; and this is evident in the Text, where there is no vision, the people perish; he doth ⟨image 22⟩not say they may perish, but they do perish: or they are in danger of perishing, but they do certainly perish. Where there is no serious, conscientious, faithful, powerful preaching, there the people grow abominably wicked; as woeful experience tells us: And what the issue of that will be, you may see in Psalm 9.17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, 2and all the Nations that forget God:
they are made the objects of shame and contempt to all that look upon them: or they are made naked, that is, of ⟨image 22⟩the grace,1 blessing, and protection of God: or they are naked, that is, say others, they are forsaken and cast off; for every one forsakes and casts off naked persons, they will have nothing to do with them: Others render the words thus, The people will keep holy-day, they will have nothing to do but to weep and wail, or, they will do nothing that is good; Others thus, The people shall be stripped naked, they shall be left as a City without walls, exposed to the fury of the enemy, as a body without clothes, open to wind and weather. Others carry it thus, The people shall be discovered; it will then appear what is within, whether grace or sin; it will then be discovered, what pantings, breathings, hungerings, and longings there be in souls after God, and Christ, and holinesse, and Ordinances, &c. Pagnin thus, The people will grow barbarous, rebellious, &c. as experience in all ages hath fully demonstrated. Others thus, The people shall be of no esteem, of no repute, no body will prize them, no body will value them, no body will regard them; men set no price, no value upon naked persons. Others thus, The people shall be dispersed, scattered, shivered and shattered; and this in all Ages hath been too apparent. Others thus, They shall be drawn away with errours: they shall either be starved, or else poysoned with God-dishonouring, Christ-denying, Scripture-debasing, Conscience-wasting, life-polluting, and soul-damning opinions; it is concluded on all hands, that it shall go ill, very ill, with that people that want vision, that want serious, sincere, faithful and powerful preaching; for where there is no vision, no serious, sincere, faithful and powerful preaching, there the people perish certainly, undoubtedly, there they go tumbling to hell thick and three-fold; and this is evident in the Text, where there is no vision, the people perish; he doth ⟨image 22⟩not say they may perish, but they do perish: or they are in danger of perishing, but they do certainly perish. Where there is no serious, conscientious, faithfull, powerfull preaching, there the people grow abominably wicked; as wofull experience tells us: And what the issue of that will be, you may see in Psalm 9.17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, 2and all the Nations that forget God:
- 1Exod. 32.25.
- 2See Psalm 11.6.
