tion of a Perſon, to ſome high Dignity or Employment, as £zeb. 28, 14, andelſewhere: Or, 2, The final Cauſe. or end of Chriſts Union, So the Senceis; To that end, (7. e.) That thou mighteſt loye Righteouſneſs, and hate Wickedneſs and govern thy ſelf, and thy Kingdom accordingly, God hath anointed thee, &e. (i. e,) Hath en- dowed thee with all the Gifts, and Graces of thy Holy Spirit, 4&s 10* 38. inan Eminent and peculiar manner, tothe Comfort and Refreſh- ment of thine own, and all thy Peoples Hearts 3 and hath Solemnly called thee to be the Prieſt and Prophet and King of atl his People. But the former Sence ſeems tobe the trueft, and is for Sabilance the
ſame thing, whichis ſaid in other Words, Phil. 2, 8, 9, 10, e Ac- cording to thy. humane Nature, John 20. 17. though in reſpe of thy
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8 All thy garments ſmell of myrrhe, and aloes, aud caffia þ: out of the ivory palaces i, whereby &they have made thee glad /.
h Wherewitn they uſed to Perfume their Garments ; See Gen, 27. 27. This may denote thoſe glorious and ſweet ſmelling Vertues,which as they were Treaſured up inwardly in Chriſts Heart, ſo did they ma- pifeft themſelves outwardlic and viſibly, and give forth a gratetul
Smell, j2 the whole courſe of his Lifeand Ations 3 his Dg&rine alfo
was a ſweet Savour unto G 'd and Men, 2 Cor. 2, I4, 15. 7 Which may b_ referred : Either, r. To the Garments, which were uſuaily kept in and now upon this extraordinarie Solemnity were brought out of, Palaces, or Houſes, or Wardrobes of ivory, ſo called here, as alſo, 4mos 3- 15. not hecauſe they were wholly made of [vory, but becauſe they were adorne?, or covered here and there with it, Or cather. 2. Tothe Kiny himſelf, why is heie ſuppoſed to reſide in his
Ivory Palaces, and his Garments arc fo :ragrant, that they do not on- ly Perfume the whole Palaces in which he 1s; but the ſweetSavour theres of is perceived by thoſe that paſs by them,or areat ſome diſtance from them. All which is poetically ſaid. and with a manifeſt Allufion to Solomon's glorious Garments and Palaces. By th: ſc zvory Palace', he may mean either, r, His humane Nature, 11 which Chritt awelt as in a Tabernacle, as the Greek word ſignifies, John x. 14, in which all theſe fraza''t Vertucs were, and from whencethey were diffuiced every wheie, Ind-ed the Body is called a Temple, John 2. 19. a3d an Houſe or Tubernacle, 2. Cor.5. I, 2, andſoitmight be called a Palace, But why it ſhould be called ”alaces, and that of Ivory, ſecms not ſo plain. Or rather, 2. Thoſe gloriousand heavenly Manſions, jobn 14.2. which may not unfitly be called ivory Palaces, asciſewhere 1n the lame igu- rative manner they are {:id to be made of, or adorned with Gold and Precious ſtones Revelations 21, 18, 19, from which Mantions Chriſt cameinto the World, John 3. 13, and into which Chriſt went, and where he ſet'ed his abode after he went out of the World, Zohn 13. 1+ AF; 1, 11. an4 from whe::ceChriſt poured forth all the fragraot Gifts and Graces of h's Spirit, into the world and Church, 4#s 2, 33. Al- though there is no neccflity to firainevery particular Cir. u.vftance 18
: ſuch poetical Deſcriptions, nor to find out ſome particulas thing |
Chriſt to which it agrees; for ſome Expreſſions may be uſed, oncly as Ornaments in ſuch Caſes, as they are in Parablesz and it may ſuffice to know 2nd ſay, that the Glories and Txcellencies of the King Ch-ift are deſcribed by ſach thing: in which earthly potentate: do place their Glory. k Or from which : Either, 1, From which pl-ce or Palaces. Or rather, 2. From which thing, (7. e. ) Fr -m the ſweet ſmell of thy Garmen!s out ofthoſe ivory valaces, or from the Effuſion of the Gifts and Gracesof thy Spirit from thy Fathcrs right hand, 19 Hea- yen ; which as it is a great Bleſſing and Comfort to theſe who receive them, io doth it rejoyce the Heart of Chr ſt, both as it 15a Demonſtra- tion of his own Power and Glory, «nd as it is the happy Inſtrument ofdoing ſo much good i» the World, and of bringing Souls to God, Thou art mad: glad z ſuch Phraſes being oft uſed indefiaitely and 1mperſonally, as Lube 15+ 32- andin many other places.
9 Kings daughters were among thy honourable wo- menm 3; uponthy right hand » did ſtand s the queen in gold of Ophur p.