\25.* Let # their -habitation.» be deſolate, and + let x" 1: Done y dwel in their tents. | be pp; * Heb. cheir Palace, as this word ſignifies, Gen. 25. 16." Numb. re 31-10. Cant.'8-'g- Either their Temple in which they place their Glory and Safety. Or rather, 2. And more generally, rheir ſtrong- eſt and -rhoſt magnificent Buildings, and Houſes, in which they dwelt, as it follows in the next Clauſe, which explains this. 3 Either, 1. None of their Poſterity. Deſtroy them both Root and Branch: Or 2»: None at all. Let the places be accounted ex- __..___ecrableand dreadful- F - hgh Fa +26 For they perſecute * him whom thou haſt ſmit- deg, ten 2, and they talk 2to the grief of + thoſe whom thou
;haſt wounded. | -
2 Which is an a& of barbarous Cruelty, and inhumane Malice. # Reproaching them with, and inſulting and criumphing in their Calamiries. - Eel Fg Dr, Pu- 27 Add || iniquity to their iniquity þ; and let them
ſbment of not come into thy righteouſneſs c.
2%)" — b Give themup to their own vain minds and vile luſts, and to a reprobate ſenſe, and take off all the reſtraints of thy Grace and Providence, . and expoſe them to the Temptations of the World, and of rhe devil, that ſo they may grow worſe and worſe, and at laſt may fill up the meaſure of their ſins; as is ſaid Math. 12. 32. compare Rom. 1+ 28, 2g. "Or, Add Puniſhment to their Puniſhment ; as this Word is oft taken'; Send one Judgment upon them after a- nother, withour ceaſing. c Let them never partake of thy Righ- rtcouſneſs, i.e- Either, 1. Of thy Faithfulneſs, in making good thy Promiſes to them.Or, 2. Of t:iy Mercy and Goodneſs. Or rather, 3- Of thy Righteouſneſs ; properly fo called, of that everlaiing R ghteouſneſs, which the Meſſiah ſhall bring into the World, Dan. 9: 24. Which is called the Righreouſneſs of God, Rom: *1- 17, Phil, 3. 9, &c. which is faid to be Witnſſed by the Law, and the Prophets, Rom- 3 2:+ by, and for, which God doth juſtifie or pardon ſinners, and accept them in Chriſt as righteous Perſons. For this was the Righ:couſneſs which the Jews rejeted to their own ruine, Rem 10. 3. according to this prediftion. Thus as the firſt branch of the Verſe maketh, or ſuppoſeth them guilty of many Sins, fo this excludes them from the only remedy, the remiſſion of their Sins. And that juſtifying rather than ſanRifying Righte- ouſnels is here meant; ſeems moſt probable from the Phraſe, which ſeems to be a judicial phraſe, as we read of Coming, or entring into Fudgment, Job 22+ 4: and 34. 23+ and into Condemnation, Joh.5. 24+ "oppeſite unto which is this phraſe, -of coming into Juft-fication ; or Which is all one; into thy Rrighreoufne[s. I
28 Lerthem be blorted outof the book of the living 4, and not be written with the righteous e.
d Or, of Life. Either, 1. Of this Life: Out of the number of living Men ; which anricntly uſed to be written in Catalogues, out of which the Names of thoſe who died were blotted: Or rather, 2. Of Ercrnal Life, as both Jewiſh and Chrifian Interpreters com- monly underſtand it. Which agrees beſt, 1. To the uſe of this
ts 1.
#11 the Book, Dan. 12: Book of Life, Phil- 4+ 3: Rev: 3- 5- and 13: 8. and 17- 8- and 20. 12. and 21+ laſt. 2 To the laſt Clauſe of the Verle, which exp/ains It, of thar Book, wherein none but the Righteous are written ; Whereas this Life, and that attended with health and proſperity, is. promiſcuouſly given to and taken from good and bad men. '3. Fo rhe qualiry of the perſons of whom this is faid ; Which are the malicious enemies of God, and of his people, and the murder- ers" of the Lord of Glory ; Who ſha!l be piirfiſhed with eternal -Death In this ook Men 'may be fag to be written; Either 1 In rewity, by God's Ele&ion or Predeſtimation. Or 2. In appearance, when a Man is called by God to the profeſſion and prattice of the _ *trite Religion, and into Covenant with himſelf, and profeſſerh ro :eompiy with ir; aid ſo is written, in the writing of the Houſe of I##4;' which is ſaid of all that are in the 4ſembly of God's People, Ezek. rouhy and' ſo ſeems to others, and it may be to himſelt; To be
really writren in the Book of Life. And when a man renounceth this Profeſſion and Religion, he may be ſaid to be blotted our of that *Book, -Becauſe his ApoFacy makes it evident, that he was not writ- zefi in it, as he ſeemed ro be. For this is a known and approved Nule For the undertanding of many Texts of. Scripture, that things are oft ſaid to be done, when they only ſeem to be done, ard are not really done ;as he is ſaid to find his Life, Mat: 10: 39+ who falſly imagined thathe did find it, when in truth he loſt ir; And ro have, Mat- 1.3, 12. who only ſeemed to have, as it isexplained in the Parallel lace, Luke 8.18 and to /ive, Rom: 7. 9- when he vainly conceited himſelf to-be alive And in like manner Men may be ſaid to be written in, or blotted out of this Book, when they ſeem to be ſo;"by the courſe of their Lives and Afftions, Burt that this blorting out is not meant, Properly and poſitively, is clear from the laſt brangh of this Verſe; whach, after the manner of theſe Books, ex- pounds the former, wherein this doubtful phraſe is explained, by one, which is evident and unqueſtionable, even by his not being wric- zon.jinjt. For itis impoſſible that a Man's name ſhould be proper. Iy blotted out of that Book in which it was never written. 'The Senſe of the Verſe ſeems to be this : Let their wickedneſs be ſo no- torious, and the tokens of God's wrath upon them ſo manifeſt, that all men.may, diſcern that they are blotted our; Thar is, that they neves,were Written: in the Book of Life, in which the Righteous are;Whitten-; Ce 1 &. In the Book of Life, in which all Righteous or holy Perſons, and only they are written, whereby it may appear - that whatſoever ſhew or profeſſion they once made, yet they nei- ther are nor were truely Righteous perſons. | 29 But I am poor and ſorrowtul : let thy ſalvation, © God; ſet me up on high f. ? PF Our of the reach of mire Enemies : Or, lifr meout of the deep irs. and the Mire; 'in which I was finking, verſe 14. "zo 1 will praiſe the name of God with a forg, and wil im with thankſgiving.
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