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Phraſe cannot be underitood of Chriſt, For although our fi o o - n tobe laid upen Chriſt, \ſe. 53. and upon that ws, ke is rr plares made fin tor us, 2 Cor« 5, 21, yet the Scripture every where repreſents him, as one that never knew nordid 2ny fin, as in that place, and n Pet; 2+ 22, and clſewhere; and even when his puniſhment is dalerib. ed, yet it is expreſly noted, that he did nct ſuffer for himſelf, or for his own fins, but only for us, and for our ſins, as ſa. 53. 4. By Dar 9. 25.1 Pet, 2, 24, Andtherefore it is not probable that the Hol / Ghoſt would uſe ſuch an Expreffion concerning the finlefle Chriſt of God, as isnever uſcd in Scripture, but cither of a Mans own fins or of the puniſhment deſerved by his own fins. o Mens fins are figura- tively ſaid to follow them, 1 Tim. 5g. 24, and to find them 0+ Numb 32. 23. and here to take hold of thei, as a Serjeant takes hold of 2 Man whom ke Arreſts. p Unto God or Men, with any Comfort and Confidence, I am aſhamed and confounded, by reaſon of my nums- berlefle fins Or, ſo that I was nt able to ſee, either, becauſe he was as1t were drowned or overwhelmed with his fins: Or becauſe his E es did tail, or-were conſumed through Grief, as he complains P/al 's: 7. and 38 1n, Or he means that he could not forſee them, the Sim- ple Verb being put for the Compound, as it is frequently among the Hebrews. They came upon him unawares, and therefore were the more grievous to him. q To wit, mine iniquities here mentioned properlie ſo called : For Gods people arc more apt to aggravate their fins, = the puniſhment of them, See Ezra g. 13, 14. E 12 * Be pleaſed, O LORD, to deliver me xz : LORD, make haſte to help me. r Frommy fins, and the puniſhicents due to them. | 14* Let them be albamed and confounded 5 ther, that ſeek after my ſoul ? to deſtroy it « let be _—_ backward, and put to ſhame that wiſh me EV1 . « s For the diſapointment of their Hopes and Deſi z, 0 Life, as Exod. 4; 19. 1 Sam. 20: x, 4 _ I5 Let them be deſolate « for a reward of their ſhame x, that ſay unto me, Aha, aha. u Or amazed or aifmaicd, or overthrown : Of ſuch Imprecati : ens Ih rar ue oh Fe arg finful avd ſhameful + om is put tor a ſhameful Idol, Hoſea 9. 18, and CEE , 9 and as Fear 1s oft put for the 16 Let all thoſe that ſcek thee, rejoyce and be glad
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» Either, 1, Such as deſire and rejoyce in the $ I ſ- verance which thou giveſt to me des anhers of nth ogra wasa great Eye ſore and Grief to the wicked. Or 2. Such as exyeR | and ſeek for their Salvation and Happineſſe not from idols, nor " com
their wicked Courſes, nor from any Creatures, as other men do, but from thee only, and gladly accept and embrace that Salvation which thou haſt promiſed, together with the Conditions required to it, to wit, Faith and Repentance. Or 3_ Such as love thy Meſſias upon whom both Davids and other Holy Prophets and Saints Thoughts and Affettions were much fixed, as is evident from many places of Scripe cure, as John $8, 58, Affs 2; 30, 31- 1 Peter x. 10, 1x who is cal- led the defire of all Nations, Haggat 2. 75. and the Glory and Conſolation of Iſrael, Luke 2« 25, 32e Yea and, by the very Title here uſed, Geds Salvatim, I/atah 62. 11, Luke 2, 30, whoſe appearance or comingthe Godly of all Agesdid love and long for ; and of whom David had ſo lately and clearly ſpoken, v, 6, 7. &c, All which conſidered. this cannot ſeem aforced,or very far fetched Interpretation. 2 Let "them _ continual occeſion to magnifie God for his Nercies vouchſayed
o them, 17 ButT a» poor and needy, yet the LORD think- eth upon me : thou art my help andmy deliverer, make no tarrying, O my God. 4 PSAL. -XLT.
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