The fifth thing observable in the words is, the little Effect the §5Judgments of God had upon them. Now they were under such monstrous stupidity, that they were not all awakened, nor affected 1with the Judgments of God, they regarded them not, they laid them not to heart. And as stupid and senseless were they when Titus Vespasian had laid their City desolate by fire and sword, and sold thirty of them for one piece of silver, as Josephus and other Historians tell us. O Sirs, since their crucifying of the Lord of Glory, they have never laid their finger upon the right sore, to this very day they won't acknowledge ⟨p. 4⟩their sin in crucifying of the Lord of Glory. They confess they have sinned more then ever, and therefore 'tis that God hath more sorely afflicted them then ever; but their cruelty to Christ, their crucifying of Christ, which ushered in the total ruin of their City and Country, they cannot be brought to acknowledge to this very day, though the Lord hath burnt them up on every hand, and hath scattered them as dung all over the earth to this very day. A Learned Writer tells us, that they call Christ Bar-chozab, the Son of a Lye, a Bastard, and his Gospel Aven Gilaion, the Volume of Lies, or the Volume of Iniquity, and us Christians Goii•n, that is, Gentiles, Edomites; when they salute a Christian, they call him Shed, that is, Devil. They hate all Christians, but none so much as those that are converted from Judaism to Christianity, and all this after so great a burning and desolation that the Lord has made in the midst of them. 'Tis true, the length of those heavy Judgments under which they groan to this very day, hath often puzzled the Intellectuals of their Rabbis, and hath many times put them to a stand, and sometimes to break out into a kind of confession, That surely their Judgments could not last so long, but for crucifying of one that was more then a man. There was one Rabbi Samuel, who six hundred years since, writ a Tract in form of an Epistle to Rabbi Isaac, Master of the Synagogue of the Jews, wherein he doth excellently discuss the cause of heir long captivity and extreme misery. And after that he had proved it was inflicted for some grievous sin, he showeth that sin to be the same which Amos speaks of. For three transgressions 2of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold the righteous for silver.
The fifth thing observable in the words is, the little Effect the §5Judgments of God had upon them. Now they were under such monstrous stupidity, that they were not all awakned, nor affected 1with the Judgments of God, they regarded them not, they laid them not to heart. And as stupid and senseless were they when Titus Vespasi•n had laid their City desolate by fire and sword, and sold thirty of them for one piece of silver, as Josephus and other Historians tell us. O Sirs, since their crucifying of the Lord of Glory, they have never laid their finger upon the right sore, to this very day they wo'nt acknowledge ⟨p. 4⟩their sin in crucifying of the Lord of Glory. They confess they have sinned more then ever, and therefore 'tis that God hath more sorely afflicted them then ever; but their cruelty to Christ, their crucifying of Christ, which ushered in the total ruine of their City and Country, they cannot be brought to acknowledge to this very day, though the Lord hath burnt them up on every hand, and hath scattered them as dung all over the earth to this very day. A Learned Writer tells us, that they call Christ Bar-chozab, the Son of a Lye, a Bastard, and his Gospel Aven Gilaion, the Volume of Lyes, or the Volume of Iniquity, and us Christians Goii•n, that is, Gentiles, Edomites; when they salute a Christian, they call him Shed, that is, Devil. They hate all Christians, but none so much as those that are converted from Judaism to Christianity, and all this after so great a burning and desolation that the Lord has made in the midst of them. 'Tis true, the length of those heavy Judgments under which they groan to this very day, hath often puzled the Intellectuals of their Rabbies, and hath many times put them to a stand, and sometimes to break out into a kind of confession, That surely their Judgments could not last so long, but for crucifying of one that was more then a man. There was one Rabbi Samuel, who six hundred years since, writ a Tract in form of an Epistle to Rabbi Isaac, Master of the Synagogue of the Jews, wherein he doth excellently discuss the cause of heir long captivity and extream misery. And after that he had proved it was inflicted for some grievous sin, he sheweth that sin to be the same which Amos speaks of. For three transgressions 2of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they sold the righteous for silver.
- 1By Titus Vespasian their land became astage of blood and of all kind of barbarisms, and now their so renowned City, their Temple, and Sanctum Sanctorum so fam'd all the world over, was turned into ashes, and laid level to the ground. Buxtorf. Synag. Judaica, cap. 5. &c. 36.By Ti•us Vespasian their land became astage of blood and of all kind of barbarisms, and now their so renowned City, their Temple, and Sanctum Sanctorum so fam'd all the world over, was turned into ashes, and laid level to the ground. Buxtorf. Synag. Judaica, cap. 5. &c. 36.
- 2Amos 2 6.
