below, as is noted Pſal; 11 4. and of his ſoveraign ard irreſiſtible Power, as is aence gathered, Pſal: 115: 3: See the Preface to rhe Lords Prayer | their crafty devices, whic1 he ſhall manifeſt to che World ro be "6 pans and contemptibile folliess Compare 2 Kings 19: 21. PJat 37543. EY
& 9; S Thenr ſhall he ſpeak to them in his wrath s, and ||
4 © vex them in bis ſore diſpicaſure. TEE
r In the inidſt of all their plo's and confilencesof ſucceſs. s He
ſhall ſeverely rebuke rhem, nor ſo much verbally as really,by dread- ful Judgments. For Gods ſpeaking 12 oft put for his aftious ; and 1o here it is explained by vexing in the next branch. Or, he ſhall pronounce a terrible Sentence againſt them.
.5 Ycr # have If ſet « my king *Þ upon my holy hall
Ted. 4. Wed: O Zion : TUeb. t NotwichFanding all their art fices and powerful combinations,
"+ "il of 39 this word is commonly uſed in Scripture, as of Prieſts, z Chron: w; Mineſ i
eurez or asthe fyriner word notes the Gentiles, ſo this may deſign -
both of Gods clezr and certain kno + {edge of ail things that are done [
q ( zee. ) Shall borh deſpiſe and deride them and all
Mt Zion # Heb. 1 have anointed, ( 7.e. ) deſigned,. appoinred «or conftiruted, *
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29: 22: and of Prophets, 1 Kings 19: 16, 19, 20: So alſo of Kings, 2$ Juag. 9: 8,153 2 Sam; 2: 4, 7: & 3: 39: Ezek: 28: 14. x Ina fingu- jar manner, who hath not his Kingdom by ſucceſſion from for- mer Kings, nor by eleQtion of the People, as other Kings have but by my ſpecialand extraordinary deſtination ; and who ruleth in my ſtead, and according to my will, and for my ſervice and glory. y (:.e,) Over my Church and People. Sion properly and ſtriiy ta= ken, was an Hill on the North part of Jerujalem,Pſalm 48. 2. where there wasa ſtrong Fort, which when David had raken he called ir the city of David, 2 Sam: 5.7, 9. and made it the head of his King- dom. But in a more large and improper ſente it is frequently put for the City Jerſalem, Pjal 483 12: & 87: 2: & 119: x: and for the Temple of Jeruſalem, Pſal: 157: 3; Iſa: 18: 75 Jer: 51; 10: which was builtupon the Hill of Moriah, which was either a part of Mount Sion, oranother Hill adjoyned to ir; and for the Crurch of the Jews, Pſalm: 65: 1: & 69: 36: & 97, 8; and for the Chriſtian Church, Heb. 12. 22: Rev: 14:1: Andby theſe things it is plaia why Sion is here Called Gods holy H /!
7 I will declare z|| the decree a: ecrees
gotten thee c. 33 and ſubmit to it upon their peril, Publication or promulgation is ef]:ntial to al] Laws or Statutes. @ Or. concerning the decree, (i. & ) the will or pleaſure and appointment of God concerning my ad- vancement into the Throne,and the ſubmiſſion and obedience which the People here following ſhail yieldto me, þ Which tho it may in ſome ſorr be ſaid to, or cf David, who was in ſome reſpe&s the Son of Ged, and begottren by him, as all Believers are, Toba 1. 12 1 John 3:9. Jam. 1: 18. y:t much more truly and properly belongs to Chriſt, who is comm«cnly known by this Title both in the Old and New Teſtament, as Prov: 30. 4. Hoſea 11.1. Mat. 2. 15. & 3. 17+ & 4. 3, 6. and ofr elſewhere: And te whom this Title is expreſly appropriated by the Holy Ghoſt, who is the beft interpreter of his own words, A#s 13.33. Heb. 1.5. & 5. 5. and te whom alone the foliowing Paſſages belong. c This is alſo applyed by ſome.to David, and ſo thy day is the day of his Inauguration, when he.might be ſaid tO be begotren by God, ina\much as he w2s then raiſed and delive« red from all his troubles and calamities, which were a kind ofdeath, and brought forth and advanced toa new kind of life,of Royal State and Nignity ; and ſo this was the Birth-day tho' not of his Perſon, yet of his Kindom, as the Roman Emperors celebrated a double Birth-day ; firſt tte Emperor's, when he was born, and then the Empires, when he was advanced to the Empire. Bur this is bur a lean and farfetched and douttfulSenſe ; & therefore nor to be allow- ed by the laws of Interpretation, when the words may be properly underſteod concerning Chriſt, And ſo this may be wun- derſ\ood either , 1, of his eternal generation. This day, from all Erernity, which is well deſcribed by this day, becauſe in Erernity there is no ſucceſſion no[yeſterday, Jno [ to morrow, ] bur itis all
| 35 onecontinuedday or moment without change or flux; upon which J account one aay 15 faid to be with the Lord as long as # thouſand years,and
a thouſand years as ſhort as one day, 2 Pet. 3: $. or rather, 2. Of the manifeſtation of Chriſts Eternal Sonihip in time ; which was done partly in his Birth and Life, when his being the Son of God was de- monſtrated by the Tefimony of the Angel, Luke 1. 32. and cf God the Father, Matth: 3: 17: & 17: 5: and by his own wordsand works; but principally in his Re{urre&ien, which ſeems to be here mainly intended,of which day this very place is expounded, z#s 13: 33: Which Chriſt v-as in a mcſt ſolemn manner declared ro be the Sen of God with power, Rom: 1: 4: And this day or time Chriſt might very well be ſaid to be begotten by God the Father, partly becauſe the ReſurreGticn from the dead is in Scripture called a regeneration or ſe- cond Birth, Met: 19: 28: as well it may, being a reſtitution of that very B.cing which Man received by his firſt Birth, and that by the peculiar and migity power of God: Parcly becaule in this reſpe& Chrift is called che ft begotten of the dead, Rev. 11 15, and partly be= cauſe cf that common oblervation, T hat things are oft ſaid to b+ done in Script ure when they are declared or manifeſted to b+ done.: of which ſee | Inſtances, Gen. 41:13. Jer. 1:10, Exek, 43-2, and elfewhere, =- 8 * Ask of med and I ſhall give hee the heathen fo; * PL.; thine inheritance e, and the uttermoſt partsof che earthf
for thy poſſefiion.