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Ezekiel 20:29-37

The Lord is still expostulating with His people for their transgressions; and the Lord shows the folly, as well as the sin, of Israel in going to those high places for sacrifice, for what could any or the whole of those dunghill gods do in a way of comfort or help? All and everyone of them may well be called Bamah, an high place of vanity and disappointment; for where God in covenant is not, all is vanity. But I beg the Reader to mark the grace of the Lord in the midst of His people's undeservings. He will bring them into wilderness straits; but it shall be to give them mercies there. He will bring them to pass under the rod; but it shall be the rod of the covenant. Still in grace; all in mercy. The Lord's corrections of his children are all of this kind. Hence one saith, and saith very blessedly, Thy loving corrections shall make me great. Psalms 18:35. See Hosea 2:14, etc. Psalms 89:30.

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