vation g. e Or, w: for he ſpeaks here in the name, and on the behalf of the whole Nation, as is evident from v 6, 7, 47- of which he oft ſpeaks as of one perſon. f With thoſe Favours andBleſſings which thou doſt uſually and peculiarly give to thy people; ſuch as the pardon of all our fins, by which we have procured our preſent mi- ſeries, and a compleat deliverance, and that improved to thy praiſe and Glory, as well as to our own comfort, as is clearly 1mplyed wv. 47. £ Give me that ſalvation or deliverance which thou haſt promiſed, and which none but thou canſc give. | — 5 That I may ſee b the good of thy choſen 3, that 1 may rejoice in the ghdneſs of thy nation & : that I may
glory / with thine inhericance », - þ is e Enjoy, as the next clauſe explains it, and as this word is frequently uſed. : Of thy choſen people ; which thou uſeſt to give to thine Ele&, or to ſuch as are Iſraelites indeed: k With ' tuch joy as thou haſt formerly afforded unto thy beloved Nation or people. / That we may have occaſion to glory in Gods Goodneſs towards us. 22 Either in the Congregation of thy people : that we thy people may jointly and ſolemnly praiſe thy Name : Or, as thy people, who are commonly called Gods inheritance, in former Ages have frequently done, for the particle, wich, is ſometimes u- ſed as a note of compariſon, as it is in the very next Verſe, and Job 9. 26. and 7. 1r. 6 X We have ſinned with our fathers n : we havecom-
mitted iniquity, we have done wickedly. » As our Fathers did, and have not been made wiſer or better by theirexamples, as we ſhould have been.
7 Ourfathers underſtood not othy wonders in Egypt: they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies,F but
<p eta provoked him at the ſea, ever at the red ſea p.
| | eb. Hal.
-4 Heb. of thy People,
*Dan.g-s.
thy power and Goodneſs in Egyps were but newly done, and frefh in memory.
I Ex. 9.16. 75 [| that he might make his power to be known.
hated ther /, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy :
was not one of them left. "I 12 |[Then believed they his words;they ſang his praiſe. IExu4. au *K . . . 13 *Þ They ſoon : forgat his works; they waited & 15, 1. not for his counſel «. Ex.15.24. t Even within three days, Exod. 15. 22, 23, w They did not & 17. 2.
wait patiently and believingly upon God for ſupplies from his hand in ſuch manner and time as he in his own counſel had appointed made hafte
and thought fit, they fergat.. 14 * But t luſted exceedingly x in the wilderneſs, , and tempted God in the deſarrt. Num-re. x To wit, for Fleſh, as the next Verſe ſheweth. og 4 I5 [| And he gave them their requeſt, but ſent lean- 4 1465, 4. neſs into their Souls y. fled in luft,
o Or, conſidered net, to wit, ſo as to be rightly affe&ed with them, to give thee that Love and praiſe, and truſt and Obedience, which they deſerved and required. p When thoſe wonders of
8 Nevertheleſs ; he ſaved them for his names ſake
9q That he might glorifie his Name, and vindicat it from the Blaſphemous reproaches, which the Egyptians and others would have caſt upon it, if they had been deitroyed. This Argument
M 8S.
To And he ſaved them from the hand of him that
ſ Of Pharach who purſued them with cruel Rage and Hatred. 11 X And the waters covered their enemies : there
THeb, chey
7 Either into their perſons : Or rather their Bodies, which are |Num 1, oft underſtood by this word ; of which ſee the Notes upon Pſal. 31:
16. 10. So their inordinate deſire of pleaſing and pampering
their Bodies, was the occaſion of deſtroying them ; whilſt God de-
nied his Bleſſing, which alone makes Food able to nouriſh us, and
ge" on his curſe, which made their Food as deſtruQtive as poiſon
to them.
16 * They envied Moſes alſo in thecamp, «nd Aaronty,, ;c
the Saint of the Lord 2. 1, Os,
z So called here not ſo much for his inherent Holineſs, whereof
Moſes had a greater ſhare,but becauſe he was conſecrated or ſer aparr
by God for that ſacred Office of the Prieſt-hood, in which reſpe&
all the Prieſts are ſaid to be holy, Levir. 21. 6, 7, 8. Hereby he in-
timats, that their envy and Rebellion was not only againſt Asron,
but againſt God himſelf.
17 f The earth opened, and ſwallowed up Dathan {Num a, and covered the company of Abiram. >> a With his company, which is ſufficiently underſtood out of Deu. 11, the following clauſe, and out of the Hiſtory, Numb. 16. 16.
18 || And a fire was kindled in their company 6, the |Num16 flame burnt up the wicked. 35,46.
b In their Aſociats or Confedrates, thoſe wicked men, as he calls them in the next clauſe, to wit Kerah and his company, who were conſumed by a fire from the Lord, Numb. 16. 35« compared with v. 1, 2,16, 17, 18, 19. ; :
I9 * They made acalfin horeb c, and worſhiped the * molten image. | $3t-4 c When they were but very lately brought out of Zzypt by ſuch wonderful power and goodneſs of God, and had ſeen rhe dreadful plagues of God upon the Egyptian Idolaters, and upon their Idols ro04 as 1s noted Numb. 33. 4. and when the Law of God was bur newly delivered to them in ſuch a ſolemn and tremendous manner and the moſt high God was yet preſent, and delivering further pre, cepts to Moſer for their benefir upon the top of that very Mount.
This greatly aggravatedtheir ſin.
. 20 Thus ® they changed «their glory e into theſimi- q,,,;;, litude of an f ox that eateth graſs g. Rom.1.23 d As far as in them lay, and 1n reſpect of their Worſhip. e
Their God, who was indeed their glory ; for they had this juſt occaſion of triumphing and glorying over all the Nations of the Worldz that whereas all other Nations worſhipped ſtocks and ſtones, or the heavenly Bodies, or dead Men, they only worſhip-
ped the living and true God, who was preſent and in Covenant with
them, and with them only. f Into the Golden Image of an Ox or
4Calf. g Which is ſo far from feeding his people, as the true
God did the Ifraclites, that he muſt be fed by them. And yet the mage of ſuch a creature was preferred by them, before the all- Flufficient and ever-bleſſed God, which was an evidence of their _— contempt of God; and alſo of their prodigious folly and ſtue pidity. : ' :
21 They forgat Ged their Saviour, which had done
great things in Egypt. |
22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, «nd ter-
rible things by the Red ſea. FD 23 Tf Therefore he ſaid hþ thathe would deſtroy them, + Ex. 3% had not Moſes his choſen ſtood before him in the breach 1, 11.3%