anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and caſt them into another land, as #5 zs this day. 29 The ſecret things belong unto the LORD our God
k: but thoſe things which are revealed, be/:ng unto us, and to our chiidren / for ever, that we may do all the
words of this law.
& Having now mentioned the dreadful and amazing Judgements of God upon the whole land and people of 1/rael, and foreſeeing the Spirit of prophecy the utter extirpation and deſtruftion w_ would come upon them for their wickedneſs, he bre:ks out into this pathetical exclamation, either to bridle their curiolity, who Hearing this, would be apt to enquire into the time and manner of
* fo greatanevent; or to quiet his own mind an fatisfie the ſcru- ples of others, who perceiving God to deal ſo ſeverely with his own people, when in the mean time he ſuffered thoſe Nations which were guilty of grofſer Atheiſm and Idolatry, and impiety, than the generality of the Jewiſh people were, to live and proſper in the world, might thence take occaſion to deny or roprcach his providence, or queſtion the equity of his proceedings. To this he anſwers, That the ways and judgments of God, though never un- juſt, are oft-times ſecret and hidden from us, and unſearchable by our ſhallow capacities, and are matter for our admiration, not for our enquiry. / But the things which are revealed by God and his word, theſe are the proper obje&t of our enquiries and ſtudies, that thereby we may come to the knowledge ot our duty, by the pra- Ctice whereof, we may be kept from ſuch terrible puniſhments and calamities as theſe now mentioned.
CH A P. XXX.
A Promiſe of Gracious Deliverance j0- the Jews upon their Repentance, in fus | Fure times, x —-10. The Law of God manifeſt and juſt, 1114.
. Life and Death ſet before them, i 5 20, | 4 26. * AND it ſhall come.co paſs, when all theſe things '' +2 are come upon thee, the blefling - and the curſe þ, which I have ſet befote thee c, and: thou ſhale call
them to mind 4 among the nations whicher the LORD
thy God hath driven thee. # When thou art obedient.
*Gen. 19. 24, 25.
9.09. Jer. 22.
b When thou becomeſt rebellious
* and apoſtatical. « Heb: Placed before thy face, 7. e. propounded to '
thy conſideration and choice. 4 Or, bing them back r9 thy heart, (i. e.) deeply affe& thy heart with the ſenſe of theſe things, ro wit, ofthe bleſſings offered and given to them: by God's mercy, and the gurſes brought upon themſelves by their fins.
2 And jhalt return unto the LORD thy God, and
DEUTERONOM YT.
Chap. X W ſhall obey his voice, according to all that I ccmmand l thee this day,thou and thy children. with all thine heart, | | 3 * Thatthen the LORD thy God will turn thy cap- *Pſal.r2 | tivity e, and have compaſlion upon thee, and will re- *pr1.14 turn, and * gather thee f from all the nations whither \ 14
e (i.e.) Bring back thy captives, as captivity is taken, Pjal: 14. 7. | Eph: 4. 8 f( i.e. ) Thy children, either ſpiritually ſuch, as it is |
4 * If any of thine be driven out unto the urmoſt — parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God *Neh.1.
5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the 37- || land which thy fathers pcſſeſied, and thou ſhalt poſſeſs | thy fathers.
6 And * the LORD thy God will circumciſe thine thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy ſoul, that "—_— | | thou mayelt live. FT l and Spirit change and purge thy heart from all thine Idolatry and Superſtition and wickedneſs, and encline thy heart to love him, ag why and how thoſe great things ſhould be accompliſhed, God would firſt convert and ſanfifie them, the fruit whereof ſhould be and then ſhould proſper in all things, v. 9. The Hebrew Yas is oft rendred for, and notes the reaſon of athing, as 1 Kings 1. 21. and 18. principally. reſpefs the times of the Goſpel, and the Grace which was to be then imparted to all God's Iſrael by Chriſt, by whom a- deſcribed to them the Law of God, the rule of their obedience ' here, and in foregoing chapters, and conſidering their great inſta- ably adds a glorious Goſpel Promiſe, and dire&s their Faith to the Meſſias, by whonralone they could expe& or receive the eſtabliſh-
7 And the LORD thy God will put all theſe curſes upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which
8 And thou ſhalt return, and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I com-
9 * And the LORD thy God will make the plente- 2 ous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, *chap. 234 goodg. for the LORD will again rejoyce over thee for go0d þh, as he rejoyced over thy fathers. ; for thy hur:, through thy own wicked and fooliſh hearr, when thou waſt full and fat, forgetting God, and kicking againſt him, thy heart ſhall be ſo changed by the Grace of the Goſpel, that thou ſhal: no: now abuſe them, bur imploy them to the more chearful good; as he did rejoyce to deſtroy thee, Deut: 28. 63.
10 If thou (halt hearken ; unto the voice of theLORD which are Written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart,
; This caution and condition is added to warn them that they ſhould nor receive the Grace of God in vain, and to teach them that nor excuſe him for the negle& of ir, and that Converſion and San- Qification, though ir be God's Work, yet it is man's duty. this day &, it * is not hidden from thee 1, neither zs it = £2 far off m. 455.19 | loving and obeyingGod,mentioned here v. 2,6,10,16, Which is the {um of the Law, of which yet he doth not here ſpeak ſimply, br as of the Goſpe], whereby God circumciſerh mens hearts to do this, as is exprefled, v. 6. The meaning is, That although the praftice our ſtrength, yer, conſidering the advantage of Goſpel Grace, where- by God enables us in ſotte meaſure to our duty, andaccepts of our feftRighteouſmeſs unto us that believe, now it is near and caſte to us. I ſo this place well agrees with Rom: 10. 6, &c., where St. :