As an aſſurance of the Puniſhment of the Murtherer, without any exception of the neareſt Relation ; which, though ir makes the Sin greater, yer many times isa ſecurity againſt Puniſhment, the Mur- therer eaſily finding Favour and Pardon from his Parents and dear Friends, _Butr the former ſenſe ſeems the better. 14 * Wholo ſheddeth + mans b:ood by man » ſhall his blood be ſhed *: for in the image of God made he * Maitti; NAN 0. 26. 52. , m Wilfully and unwarrantably. For there is a do Y ._ Revel.135 on to this Law, 1. Of caſual "Flr arc exp eſled _ DE , Deut: 19; 4. 2 Ofdeath inflictes by the Hand of the Magiftrat for Crimes ceſerving it, mentioned in the following words, and elſewhere » (7: e:) By the Hand of Man, namely the Magiſtrar Rom: 13: 4. Who 1s hereby impowered and 1equired upon pain of my tigheſt diſpleaſure ro intii this Puniſhment. See Exod. 21: I2: Levit; 24: 17: Matth: 26: 57: Or, For that Man. 5: e: For that Man's ſake, whoſe Blood he hath ſhed, which cries for Veng=ance. 0 So that Murther is not only an offence againſt Man, bur alſo an injury to God, and acontempt of that image of God, which all Men are obliged to reverence and maintain, and eſpe- cially Magiſtrats, who being my Vicegerents and Servants, are therefore under a particular obligation to puniſh thoſe who: d: face and deſtroy it. : : 7 And you, beye fruitful, and multiply p, bring forth abundantly in the earth, and mulciply therein. p (7.e. ) As for you, I do not revent of that former Bleſſing F gave to your Parents, Ger. 1. 28. but do hereby reftiew it to y or and to your Seed after you. 8 4 And God {pake unto Noah, and to his ſons with him, ſaying, 9 AndI, behold, I eftabiiſh my covenant you, and with yourſ.ed # after you ; * g*( i: e: } My promiſe : For the Betfts included in this Cove- nant, verſe 10. are not capable ofa Covenant properly ſo calleds And the word Covenant is oft uſed for afimple Promiſe ; as we ſhall ſee hereafter. » (7 e. ) Your Poſterity, as that word is frequently taken, as Gen. 12.7. Exod. 28. 43, &c. 10 Ard with everyÞ living creature that is with
of the fowl, of the cattel, and of every beaſt of earth with-you, from all that go,out of the. ark, to e-
very beaſt of the earth *. | |
* To wit, which ſhall hereafter be in the Earth. So they are diſtinguiſhed from thoſe which were now with thtm.
11 And *1 will eftablith my covenant with you, +, neither ſhall all fleſh be cur off any more by the waters of a flood, neither ſhall there any more be a flood s to
deſtroy the earth» | | 5s \ 7.e. ) An univerſal deluge : For particular inundations there have been, whereby Towns and Countries have been overwhelmed with all their Inh:birants.
12 And God iid, This ;s the token of the cove- nant t which I make betwcen me, and you, andeve- ry living creature that #5 wich you, for perpetual gene- rations :
t This, (i: e: ) The bow mentioned in the next verſe ; I appoint to you for aſenlible ſign and evidence to affure you, that I thall perform this Covenant or Promiſe. F
13 1do ſet F my bow # in the cloud x, and it ſhall be for a token of a covenant berween me and the earth.
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of juit fear; and that which naturally was, and is a ſign of Rain; might by this new Appointment of God, be turned into an Af- furapce, that there thould be no ſach overflowing Rain as now hag -
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ing Ham committed the Crime, Why is the Curſe inflifted upon his Son Canaan ? Anſw. 1. When Canaan is mentioned, Ham 1s not exempted from the Curſe, bur rather more deeply plunged into it, whilit he is pronounced accurſed,not only in his Perſon ( which is manifeſtly ſuppoſed by his commiſſion of that Sin for which the Curſe was intlied ) but alſo inhis Poſterity, which doubtleſs was a great aggravation ofhis Grief : As on the contrary Joſeph is ſaid ro be blefled, when his Children are bleſſed, Gen: 48: x5, 16. 2. It ſeems therefore very probable from theſe Words, and the Hebrew Doors, and others affirm it, that Canaan did partake with his Fa- ther in theSin, yea, that he was the firſt diſcoverer of his Father's Shame. 3. Canaan 18 particularly mentioned by the ſpirit of Pro- pheſy, in regard of the future extirpation of th:t People ; and this is here remembred for the encouragement of the J/raelites, who were now in their expedition againſt them. 4. This may be an Ellipſis, or defe& of the word Father ; for ſuch relative words are oft-times omitted and underſtood in Scripture, as Matth: 4: 21: James of Zebedee, for the ſon of Zebedee. John 19: 25: Mary of Cleo=
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all fleſb that is upon the earth.