and of his People, whom Chriſt led in triumph, having ſpoiled them, and making a ſhew of them openly, as it is expreſſed Col. 2+ 15. y Though as thou art God thou art uncapable of receiving any thing more .than thou haſt, yet according ro thy Manhood thou haſt received from God all the Treaſures of Wiſdom and Know- ledge, and all thoſe Gifts and Graces of the Holy Spirit, which are neceſlary either to the perfe&ion ofrhky Nature, or to the diſcharge of thine Office, or to the ſervice and good of thy Church and Peo- ple. z Not for thy ſelf, for thou didſt not need them, having the * fulneſs of the God-head dwelling in thee bodily, Col. 2.9. but for the ſons of Men, or which thou mighteſt give unto Men ; whence for receiving for men, the Apoſtle juſtly ſaith, gave unto men, Eph. 4. 8. becauſe he received them for no other end but to give them, and in ſuch caſes receiving or taking is oft pur for giving, or for taking and giving, as Exod.25. 2. Judg. 14. 2, 1. Kings 3. 24, and 17. 10. Oc. a Nor didſt thou only receive Gifts for, and gave them to thy Friends and People, as the manner of other Conquerors is, bur alſo to thy moſt ſtubborn and rebellious Enemies, whether Jews or Gentiles, who reſolved to break thy bands aſunder, and to caſt away thy cords from them ; as is ſaid Pſal, 2. 3. And would not ave thee to reign over them, Luke 19. 14. Who crucified him, and put him to open ſhame; and yet to theſe, as well as others, thou didſt give thoſe ſaving Gifts and Graces, as we read A4#s 2. and elſewhere» b That having received ſuch Gifts, and thereby being made fit ha- bitations forGod,he who as man is aſcerided into the higheſtHeavens might, as God, come down to them, and dweli with them, not only in and by his Ordinances in which he is preſent, bur allo by his Spirit dwelling in their Hearts by Faith. Or, that they might dwell with the Lord God ; the Particle w:th being either underſtood, as it 1s in many places, or being contained in the Hebrew Verb Shacan, which, -as ſome Hebrew Criticks obſerve, ſignifies not on- ly to dwell, but ro dwell with another ; of which the Learned may ſee many inſtances in Forfterus his Hebrew Lexicon. So the ſenſe is, that they who were eſtranged,and at a diſtance from God, and Enemies to him, might draw near to him, and dwell with him both here ana in Heaven.
19 Bleſſed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with be- nefits, c even the God of our falvation 4. Selah.
c And beſides that great and glorious Bleſſing of his Aſcenſion which once he wrought for us, he is daily conferring new favours upon uss Heb. Who layeth hold upon us Which may be under- ſtood either, 1. Of the burden of Afflictions, for which Gods people have cauſe to bleſs God upon many accounts. Or rather 2+ Of Mercies and Favours, which is more agreeable to the Con- text ; wherewith in common ſpeech men are ſaid to be loaded by another when they receive them from him in great abundance.
d The only Author and Finiſher both of our preſent and of our
Eternal Salvation- ; 20 He that is our God, #s the God of ſalvation, and * unto God the Lord belong e the f iſſues || from death g.
, Rev. I. e (i:e.) They are only in his hand and power to diſpoſe them
Or of 3s he pleateth. f Heb The out-goings, or evaſions, eſcapes or deli- luth, © Sg VETances, as a Greek word of the ſame fignihcation 1s uſed, 1 Cor. h : 10. 13. g Or, in ( as the Hebrew Lamed is uſed Plal. 16. 10. and
31. 17, ) death, (i: e.) the moſt deadly dangers. yea, even death it ſelf, in and from which God through Chriſt delivers his people.
2x But God ſhall wound the head þ of his enemies, and the hairy ſcalp ; of ſuch a one as goeth on ſtill in his treſpaſles &. |
h Either 1. The political Head, their Ruler or Rulers,the Devil or other wicked Chriſtians : Or rather 2. The Natural Head, as appears from the following expreſſion added to explain this and the hairy Scalp : And he ſpeaks of the Heads or hairy Scalps not of one, bur of all his Enemies, the ſingular number being put for the plural, than which nothing is more frequent. # (7 e. ) His moft fierce and terrible Enemies. For in antient times many people uſed to wear long and ſhaggy Hair, thar their looks mighrt.be more rerrible to their Enemies. k Of thoſe who periiſt in their enmity and rebellion againſt him. Whereby he opens a door of hope and —_— to his very Enemies, if they return and ſubmit themſelves to him.
Numb, 22 The LORD faid J, I will bring again from * Ba- +403; ſhan m, I will bring my people again * from the depths
of the ſea ».
1 Either within himſelf, he purpoſed or he promiſed ; for ſo he had done by divers of his Prophets, though not in the ſame words which are here uſed, yet to the ſame purpoſe. m I will repeat my ancient favours, and give my people as great deliverances as I formerly did, when Ifaved them from that great Giant Og King of Baſhan, who came out againſt rhem with all his Forces, Deut, 3. I. whom TI deliveced into: their hand, as it there follows. Which deliverance is oft mentioned in ſucceeding Scriptures, as one of the rhoſt eminent- » From the Egyptians at the Red Sea, and from the Red Sea it ſelf, through which I brought them with honour and Gfety, when it overwhelmed their Enemies.
WP,8i0; 23 That thy foot may be || dipped in the blovd of
0r, red, 3hine enemies,and the tongue of thy dogs in the ſame o.
o And as it was at the Red $-a, and at Baſjhan before, ſo 'yer a- gain thine Enemies ſhall be ſlain in ſuch great numbers, that thou mayſt wade in theirblood, and thy Dogs lick it upin the held.
24 They have ſeen p thy geings 4, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the ſanctuary r.
p Itis an indefinite expreſſion, Men ſaw and obſerved it, thy people to their comfort, and thine enemies with terror and afto- niſhment. q Either 1- How thou didſt march before them through the Rea Sza and the Wilderneſs, even untill rhou didſt bring them into Canaan, and afterward as occaſion was, and how thou didſt ſubdue their Enemies before them. Or rather 2. The proceſſion ofrche Ark to Sion, the ſolemnity whereof 1s particularly deſcribed in the following. Verſes: r Or, 7n holineſs; for it was not a light and carnal. but an holy pom Or, in the holy place ; as the Ark, in and with which God is ſuppoſed to go, might very fitly and truly be called: Or, into the Sanfuary, or holy Tabernagle prepa= xed top it 5; whither the Ark was now going.
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