1 Prepare your ſelves in the manner ex;refſed, Exod: - Bu I 5; # Hebt tn the ſacrifice 3 is e. joyn with me in this att of \ - ip ping God, and off:ring this ſacrifice, rhereby to give jar $ 4: the Bleſſings you have received from him, aid to pray for what *s want. » It ſeems evident, that there was ſomething ey = in Jeſſe's Invitation. For Firſt, Both he and his ſons were oor whereas the others are only.Inviced for their own Perſons. Rn - ly, The different pbraſe here uſed, that he ſanFified theſe, when : only bad the other ſan#ify themſelves; argues 4 ſingular cage -_ agency of Samuel in their ſanRificarion : ( unleſs we ſhould as He ſanftified them, 15 no moro but that he cauſed them to be ſanfifie n that is, theſe in particular amongſt others: ) Whuch makes it pro- bable, that the reſt were only co joyn with him 1n the a& of _ ficing ; bur theſe, and only theſe, were Invited to Feaſt upon the Remainders of the ſacrifice ; | which Feaſt is here called a [acrifices As it is above werſe 3- And the only inconvenience of this Inter- pretation is, that the word ſacrifice 15 taken 1n different ſenſes in the ſame Verſe, which is no -unutual thing. See Mazthi 8: 22. And this difference may poſlibly be intimated by the differing prepoſiti- ons prefixed to the fame word, the firlt being Bazzabach, avd the latter Lazz«bach. Howſoever, that on'y Jeſſe and his 10ns were pre- ſent at the Feaſt, may ſeem probable, trom Samuel's delign of Pri- vacy, and from the following Relation.
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hu, o When the moſt of Feſ7's ſons were come, either to the place of the Feaſt, or to ſame other place near it, appointed for this private Diſcourſe, whither they were to come before they went to the Feaſt. It muſt allo be underitood, that S-mrel had acquainted Jeſſe with his Defign, which is eaſily gathered our of th= Context, and needed not be expreſſed. p i. e. Is in this place where God is now preſent. Forit is obſervable, that not only the ſacrifice is ſaid ro be offered, but even the Feaſt upon the remainders of it is ſaid to be earen be- fore the Lord, Deut: 12: 7. 1. e- before or near his altar, where God -wasprefent in a ſpecial manner. ind « ſeems to be this, That 7eſe brought nor all his ſons together, but made one after another to come to the place, and to paſs before Samuel, who ſtood before the Lord, in ſome place near che Alrar, -that-this great buſineſs might be managed with more ſolemnity. Arid Eliab being the Perſon now before Samuel, is ſaid to be now be- Firs the.Lord, But whatſoever the ground of this Phraſe 1s, this is 'certain.and confeſſed, that this is his meaning, This I take t» be the Perſon whom I am ſent to Anoint : wherein yet he was greatiy miſtaken, as other Prophets ſometimes were,whey they haſtily ſpake their own thoughts, before they had conſulted God in the cale, as 's Sam! 7: 3. ; ARS - But the LORD faid q unto Samuel, Look not on is countenance, or on the height of his ſtature r, be- 'cauſe I have refuſed him:for 1he LORD ſeeth not as man F Heb: Ze: ſeeth ; For man looketh on the | outward appearance -,*bur-the LORD looketh on the * hearr e. * r Chron.”,,, py ſecret Inſpiration: r Whereby thou waſt once deceived in 28:9. Pſal:, c..1, Chap: 10:23, 24. and therefore ſhouldeit not now be deceived 7* 9. JEr: o ſeeond time- f M<n value Men by their outlides. # God efteems In: 20. #nd.gf rien by the goodneſs of their hearts, and hath now proceeded by
men by the B 17:10. and;yht Rule in the choice of a King, and would have done ſo before, 207 12+ :"5Fthe"' People's finful deſires had not provoked him to give them a "bad King: + :8:/Then Jeſſe called * Abinadab, and made him paſs before Samuel: and he ſaid, Neither hath the LORD choſen this.: © 29, Then Jefle made Shammah « to paſs by : and he : ;faid,; Neither :hath the LORD choſen this. : u Called alſo Shimeah, 2 Sm: 13: 3. and Shimmah, 1 Chron: 2: 136 \-:x0 Again Jeſſe: made ſeven of his ſons * to paſs be-
"fore Samuel ; and.Samuel faid unto Jefle, The LORD {hath not choſen + theſes 7 -: 5 3.6; The reſt of his ſens, which-were ſeven, beſides David ; *F6x in all he bad eight, 1 Sam: +7: 12. Tr 15 true, there are bur ſe- 'ven of them named, 21 Chren: 2: 13, I45 . one of them was-either born vfa Concubine; or an obſcure Perſon: or, .one thardicd immediately after this time,
xx AndSamuel ſaid unto Jeffe, Are here all :byehil- "dren ? And he ſaid, There remaineth yet the youngeſt, and behold, he keepeth the ſheep y. And Samuel ſai unte Jefle, * Send and fetch him : for we wall not fi
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caty's ”, Employment. Either therefore he did not throughly underſtand 7 Hiv: David's great Wiſdom and Valour, or he judgeth him unfir, by ' Hor * ” reaſon of his mean Education» And God fo ordered ir by his pro-. * . - vidence, that David's choieemight plainly appear to be God's work, and not Samuel's, or Jeſ#F Defign. z To wit, to the Feaſt. Queſt. ' How could David be;admirted ro this Feaft, being, as it ſeems, not ſanKified with the reſt of his brethren? ſw. 1.Kcis not ſtrange; if _ the prophet by Gods diceCtion, diſpenſed with the ordinary Rulegin - a Perſon fo extraordinary, both for his Piety. and the Dignity to which he was.choſen. 2+ It is not affirmed. that David did fit down with them zo%he Feaſt ; but only, that they would not de fo rill be #4 hen he wzs come, and Samuel! had dane what he in-
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