And then, Altars shall be unto him to sin

And then, Altars shall be to him to sin.

Shall be to him.] That's thus; Seeing they will have them, they shall have them, they shall have enough of them, let them go on in their way, let them multiply their sin.

When mens hearts are set upon false ways of worship it's just with God to let them have their desires to the full. They shall have their way that they do contend for: they keep a great deal of stir for it, and have it they must, they refuse to see the light, they are prejudiced against the way of God's worship, let them have what they would have. Says God, they shall have Governors to establish what they would have by their Authority, and they shall have their Teachers that shall defend by subtle Arguments those things to be lawful, they multiply Altars to sin and they shall be to sin, even to harden them; and so the Seventy seem to take the meaning of these words by their translation of them; whereas you have it, They shall be to sin, their Altars shall be to love, their hearts are set upon them and they will have them, and love them, and they shall be hardened in them: and this is the heavy judgment of God to give to men their hearts desires in what is evil. And as it shall be to them for sin, so it shall be to them for their misery for the fruit of sin, for so sin is taken very frequently in Scripture for the fruit of sin, they will have them to sin, and they shall find the fruit of sin by what they are so eagerly set upon them. And thus much for the eleventh verse. It follows.