. of lords, and God bleſſed for ever. i 55:3 28 * My mercy o will I keep with him forevermore, and my covenant p ſhall ſtand faſt with him. | o Declared and promiſed to him and his Seed, as it here follows. p Of which ſee 2 Sam. 7. 12, 13, &C.
29 His ſeed alſo will I make to endure for ever q, and
his throne as the days of heaven 7. q i. e. To fit upon the Throne for ever, as the next words ex- Plain it. This was accompliſhed only in Chriſt, the eternal King
ding to the fleſh. r i. e. For ever, as he now faid ; as long as the World ſhall have a Beeing. It ſhall be as unchangeable and durable as the Heavens themſelves, which are of an incorruptible Nature. See the like expreſſion, Devt. 11. 21. Jer. 31. 35, 36.
30 If his children forſake my laws s, and walk not | in my judgnents: BS FHeb pro- s Of this and the two next Verſes, ſee the Notes on 2 Sam. 7. HE I
4, Is. Jane my 31 If they + break my ſtatutes, and keep not my
ſtatutes.
commandments ?. 2 | e By this variety of expreſſions he implies, that God will paracn $:S4.7.14." 29t on)y their leſſer bur even their greater 1105. , q 22 Then * will Lvifictheir tranſgrefiion with the rod,
*Heb.1wit and their iniquity with firipes. ; mot make BY Nevertheleſs my loving kindneſs « * will I not ut- rp4 "7 terly take from him, nor ſufter my faithfulneſs # co tail.
., # My Mercy promiſed to David. . _ 34 My bovenlant will I not break, nor alter the thing *Heb. If 7 that is gone out of my lips. hi. 35 Once have I ſworn by my holineſs x, * that I will
no lie unto David.
x Here he gives ſome reaſons why he would not brezk his Cove- nant with David, though he ſhould have juſt cauſe to do ſo, and though he had upon ſuch juſt cauſe broke his Covenant made with others; Firſt, becauſe this Covenant was confirmed by his Oath, which adds not only more ſolemnity, but more ſtability and certainty to it, as is evident from Heb. 6. 17. wherein he ſheweth thar God ad- deth an Oath to his Promiſe or Covenant to make and prove it td be immutable; and from Heb. 7. 20, &c. where he proveth the
! Prieſthood of Melchiſedeck ro be unchangeable, becauſe it was con- b firmed by an Oath. And though judgements ſimply threatned have 4 not always heen executed, but ſometimes were prevented, yet thoſe Comminations which were confirmed by Oath were thereby \ rendred and declared to be irrevocable, as we ſee Numb. 14. 28, 29, 2 30. Jer. 44. 26. Secondly, becauſe this is ſaid to be {worn once, ; which word and phraſe ſometies implies the compleatneſs, certainty | and irrevocableneſs of the thing ſaid or done, as Prov. 28. 18. ſhall | fall at once. Thus Chriſt is ſaid ro have «ied or ſuffered once, Rom. 6. I 10. Heb. 9. 26, 28. Thirdly, becauſe God ſware by his Holineſs, in or by which God is but ſeldom read to ſpeak or ſwear, and when he is, it conttantly adds more weight and confirmation to the | ; ſpeech, as Pſalm 69.6. and ro8. 7, mor 4. 2. ; s #*2$5.16. 36 © tis {eed ſhall endure for ever, and his throne
Luke1.33. as the ſan y before me. Joh 12.34 - y In reſpe&of perpetual duration, as appears both from the fore- *PL. 72.5, going words, and from the following vere.
I7s 27 Ic Jhall be eſtabliſhed for ever as the moon, and
as a faithfal witneſs in heaven z. Selah.
& Whereby he underſtands, either, firſt the moon laſt mentioned, to which this clauſe may be added rather than to the Sun, ro imply that as the Moon, though ſubjef ro Eclipſes and frequent and ma- nifold changes, yet doth conſtantly and perpetually remain in Hea- ven; AaSa witneſs of my covenant of the night, aS It 1s called Jer.
3. 20.-f0 ſhall che Houſe and Kingdom of David continue for ever notwithſtanding all the change; and calamities which it may undergo. Or ſecondly the Rainbow, which theugh in it ſelfir be unſtable and tranſient, and doth but ſeldom appear, which learned
alſo the Progenitor, of the Mefſſias, who is King of kings and Lord |
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