Part of an exposition of 2 Kings, 17:15-16 Isaac Newton c. 1,618 words Newton Project London 2006 Newton Project, Imperial College

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 1670s, in English, c. 1,666 words, 4 pp. on 2 ff.

Described in the Babson catalogue as part of SL261, the bulk of which is now Yahuda Var. 1 Ms. 21 (see notes there for the sale history) and Harry Ransom Research Center Ms. 130. This document is clearly related to those two, but whether it actually constituted part of the same lot is still unclear.

 4 pp. on 2 ff.

in English

 Exposition of 2 Kings 17:15-16 [Ms. 130]Exposition of 2 Kings 17:15-16 [Yahuda Ms. 21] Ms. 437, The Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA USACaliforniaSan MarinoThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical GardensThe Babson College Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton Ms. 437 Part of SL261?

Bought by Babson College as Lot 421 at the Untermeyer sale, New York, 9 May 1940. In 2006, following the closure of the Dibner Institute, the holdings of the Babson Collection were transferred on permanent loan to the Hungtington Library, San Marino, California.

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2 Kings 17.15. They followed vanity And became vaine & went after the Heathen that were round about them concerning whom the This Lord had said that they should not do like them. –– Baâl.

This whole Chapter is spent in describing how the 10 tribes for their abominations were carried into captivity by yethe Assyrians & how yethe nations wchwhich the Assyrians placed in Samaria to in yethe roome of yethe Iewes captivated Israelites, continued in yethe abominations of yethe Israelites wchwhich was to joyne yethe worship of yethe true God in the calves wthwith yethe worship of yethe Heathen Gods round about. And yethe words wchwhich I have chosen to discourse upon are a description part of yethe second that is a part of the description of yethe Idolatry of yethe Israelites for wchwhich they were captivated.

– but yethe words I have chosen to discourse of are a part of yethe description of yethe abominations of these Israelites wchwhich these nations imitated. Now theise comprehending both yethe worship of Ieraboam's calves wchwhich was a kind of Idolatry almost peculiar to yethe Iews dedicated as I shal show to the true God, & also yethe worship of yethe other Idols of yethe nations round about dedicated to yethe Gods of yethe nations round about we have here an opportunity to consider Idolatry in its full latitude & to discourse of it's nature in general: & for this end I shal propound these three queres ⓧ 12 Whether yethe Israelites worshipped yethe true God true God in the Calves as dedicated to yethe true God 23dly whether they worshipped other Gods as equal to this God or as his ministers, 31 whether yethe Israelites worshipped the Images as Gods themselves or as dedicated to other Gods. whether the And having determined these Quere's I shall shew then proceed to shew you plainly wherein yethe nature of Idolatry consists & how its definition is couched in these words, as also in many other places of scripture notwithstanding / And for this end I shal first shew you what kind of Idolatry this was worship that of yethe calves was, & secondly what kind of worship that was of yethe Gods of yethe Gentiles. And after this I,

thirdly because it is accounted recconnenedrecconed as a crime among the crimes of these nations that they made yethe lowest of yethe people priests to this God: for had this sleight been done to any but yethe true God, yethe prophet here would not have reprehended them for it.

By this history it is easy to collect that yethe Lord of yethe Land wchwhich yethe new nations were tought to wpworship in yethe cities of samaria was yethe true God & that this same Lord, was worshipped by the Kingdom of Israel even amidst the worst of their Idolatries as the God of their Land till yethe very captivity. But this though it be plain enough of it self yet I will intend the next time to point at yethe particular marks by wchwhich it is put beyond all cavil & not only so but also to shew out of Sacred History that by examples in distant ages before Ieroboam's times that yethe Israelites & their forefathers who forsook not absolutely yethe true God when they fell into Idolatry but only joyned to his wpworship yethe adoration of yethe Gods of yethe Gentiles as these did since Ieroboam: whence it seems And this I shall do that it may plain appear that Is:Israel to follow most likely to be true that Israel in yethe midst of her during all her abominations from first to last scarce ever forsooke yethe true God but only corrupted his worship by the mingling their own inventions wthwith it as too many of orour neighbouring Christians dayly do. upon yethe account of wchwhich corruptions if they are at any time said to forsake & reject him no more is to be understood by that but only that they forsook & rejected his laws

* & hence I gather before them for in yethe 33d vers it is expressly said accord that the new nations feared yethe Lord & served there own Gods after yethe manner of the nations whome they carried away from thence that is after yethe manner of Israel. Thus runs orour English translation but yet bec:because yethe original is capable of being otherwise translated I shall not lay yethe stress upon this place but shew you yethe matter of fact from other characters of in yethe history. And first whereas it is said that at yethe first coming of of yethe new nations to dwell in yethe cities of Samaria they feared not the Lord & therefore the Lord sent Lions among them wchwhich slew some of them: because th one may hence infer that yethe Lord had been feared in those regions till that time & that he sent in these Lyons becaus his worship began now to cease out of yethe land: for if had heis sent in those Lyo had his wpworship ceased there before ytthat of Gods people wchwhich are every where in scripture called whoredome much be wors then yethe abominations of yethe heathens wchwhich are never called by that name, God being as he sometimes calls him self, yethe Husband of his people, but not of any other nation: & this abomination must because be yethe wors because it was done not after yethe upon a forgetting of their God, but even while they acknowledged him & pretended to honour him. And reason it should be so because this acknowledgment of him is a testimony agtagainst them that they owned his laws wchwhich they & therefore were more inexcusable for not keeping them. ffor he ytthat knows his masters will & does it not must be beaten wthwith many stripes: And this I could wish they would well consider who goe about to extenuate any crimes of Christians for their being committed by Christians: for as Chistia yethe profession of Chrstianity exalts every thing ytthat is good so it aggravates every thing that is evil. No drunkard so bad as a Christian drunkard, no adulterer so bad as a Christian adulterer & so no Idolater so bad as a Christian who does those things wchwhich a Heathen cannot do wthwithout being an Idolater. Nor let any one perswade himself that he is charitable in extenuating any such crimes, or ytthat yethe aggravating them is uncharitable or ytthat yethe aggravating them as he may suppose is uncharitableness. ff For though To pronounce damnation universally upon any state as yethe Papists do upon us or to do it upon any single person only would indeed be great uncharitableness: but for my part I know not what w whilst he for my part I know not what mercy God may have for both yethe best of heathen & yethe best of Christian Idolaters such as sin though invincible ignorance & in in yethe meane while labour to know as much of their duty & to live upup to their knowledge as they can. And so I judge no man's person, but only inquire into yethe nature of yethe sin abstractedly R And where nothing but this is done yethe sin I see not what danger or ill consequence there can be in aggravating yethe guilt of a thing that is certainly evil, since yethe least sins cannot be too much avoy abominated & shunned, but for yethe diminishing ym may be of very ill consequence because it will certainly weaken mens aversion from yethe sin & may in yethe end prove yethe means of many's falling into it. And certainly yethe greatest

Prop 3. Hos: 4.15. ~ King 17.21. 1 Kings 14.9.

Here you may see that yethe Israel performed the retained yethe worship of yethe law at Bethel & Gilgal the chief places of their transgression, but not exactly: for they offered – – – whereas yethe institution was being wthwithout Leaven Levit. 7.12. Now whereas God upbraid 'em for this, deviation from certainly – — This respects the national worship of yethe Tent tribes for yethe discousediscourse begins wthwith a lamentation against yethe h. o. I. for w. they did at B. G. & B. & ends wthwith threatening them yethe the Captivity by yethe Assyrians wchwhich happened about 3 or 4 score years after.

The first Proposition I laid down to explain these words was that – – – – & this this I proved out of yethe history of yethe captivity set down in this chapter, & conf for further confirmation added a place out of Hosea where they used to tis exprest how upon coming to do their wicked wpworship at Bethel & Gilgal they used to swear Iehovah liveth

Gen. 24.51, 52. (2) . Gen 31.24, 29, 49, 50, 53. & 30.23, 24, 27 . Iudges 17.3, 13. 18.5, 6. 2 King 17.

Genes 30 23 Abstulit Elohim opprobrium meum elohim in ver 21 & 22 at Iehovah in vers 24 viz addat Iehova mihi alium filium. Item in vers 27 benedixit mihi Iehova propter te. & Gen 1.49 Iehovah sed non in 50 est Elohim testis inter me.

Iudges 17.2, 3 Iehovah bis viz benedictus fili mi Iehovah. & sanctificavi argentum Iehovæ. vers 13 Iehovah. ch 18.6 Ante Iehova via vestra

Iudges 2 King 17.28 Quom docens eos quomodo timerant Iehovah. vers 32 erant timentes Iehovah & fuerunt sacerdotes ver 33 Iehovam timentes & Idolis servientes. sic et vers 41.

Gilgal Bethel Bethaven Oes. 10.5. 1 Sam 16. Bethel = yethe House of God Beth-aven yethe house of iniquity. Amos 4.4. & 5.5