u Or, But, or Yet, or So, for all theſe ways this Particle is uſeds Which is more fully expreſſed in the next verſe. x The deſtru&i- on which they deſign to others, falls upen themſelves. 7Theirblood anſwers to zheir feet, v. 16. and belongs to the ſame Perſons.
I9 SOy are the ways Zof every one that is greedy of gains which btaketh away thelives of the owners there .of c.
y As is expreſſed both in the foregoing andfollowing words. z The ations and courſes, which are ſo in the tendency and event of them.
a That fecks gain by unrighteous and wicked praftices. b Either
whi. h greedineſs, or rather, which gam, by comparing the laſt words.
c Brings fudden and violent death upon thoſe who had made theme
ſelves Mafters and Poſſcflors of fuch gain. | | 20 | * Wiſdom crieth 4 without ez ſhe uttereth her #FHeb:
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4 Having expreſſed the counſels and invitations of folly and of
ſel of God revealed ro the Sons of Men by his Word. Which he
calls W-ſdems here, as alio Prov. g. r. either to note the excellency
of this Witdom beyond all other, as the greateſt and chief of Beaſts is called Behemoth or Beaſts, Job 40. 15. or becauſe it conſiſterth of a | multitude of wiſe Precept3; or becauſe it hath been delivered ta Mankind at ſundry times, and in divers manners, and by many per- ſ:ns, Prophets and Apoſtles,and Eſpecially by the Son of God, who is called the Wiſdom of God, Luke 11. 49. And this wiſdom is ſaid to cry waith a loud voice, to intimat both God's earneſinefs ininviting {inners to Repentance, and their inexcuſableneſs if rhey do not hear fuch loud cries. e Or, abroad, or in the ſtreets or open places, as ma» ny others render it, and as it is in the next Clauſe, Not in cor-
ners and privily, as ſeducers perſwade men to error or wickednels, being afraid of the light, bur openly and publickly before all the World.
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ereis probability of moſt ſucceſs g Where Magiſtrats es A eople A aſſembled. So it crieth borh to the wiſe and to the unwiſe, as Paul preached, Rom. 1: 14. þ Not only in the gate, bur inevery part of the City. Or, in the Cities, the fin-
gular number being put for the Plural. [ * 22 How long ye fimple ones 5 will ye love ſimplici-
ty &? and the ſcorners / delight in their ſcorning, and
fools w hate knowledge ?
: Ye ignorant, and eaſie,and credulous Perſons, who are ſo ſoon cheated by the World and the Devil, and do not underſtand your own Intereſt. & Being unwilling to part with it, or to be made wiſer. 1 That ſcoff atall Religion,& contemn the Word and faith- ful Miniſters of God. »: Willful and wicked fools, as Prov. 17: 10: & 26: 4.
23 Turn ye nat my reproof o: behold, I will pour out p my * Spirit q unto you; I will make known my ##:3- werds unto you 7.
mY wy PAOYTERESs.
» From your evil courſes unto me. o Upon this admonition here given to you. p If youwill do fo, I will freely and abundantly im- part unto you. 94 Either my mind, as Spirit is taken, Pſal: 77: 6: Prov: 29: 11: or the gifts and Graces of my Spirit, which he hath promiſed to ſuch Perſons, Luke 11: 137 John 4: 14: & 7: 39. 7 By my Spirir I will cauſe you truely and ſavingly to underſtand my 65.2. Word which is hid from others, 2 Cor: 4: 3+ 24 * Becauſe I have called s, and ye refuſed ; I have
+13: ſtretched out my hand ?, and no man 1egarded u; 8:18 ; By my Miniſters, & by my Judgments upon you or others, and by the motions of my Spirit and your own Conſciences. # Ot- fering Grace and Mercy to you and earneſtly inviting you to accept of it. Leſt through your deafneſs or diſtance from me you thou'd not hear, I have beckned to you with my hand, which this Phraſe ſignifies, 1ſa: 13; 2: & 65: 2. # Few or none complied with it.
would none of my reproot :
7:32 x» Or deſpiſed, or made woid, reſiſted its power and authority. y Either, 1. my deſign of doing Sinners good, which you have made of none effect to your ſelves. Or, 2. my commands and counſels which ſuits better with the next Clauſes
26 I alſo z will laugh at your calamity @: I will
mock when your fear b cometh ;
z As you have ſcoffed at me and my ways.” # 4 e. deſtroy you without pity,and take pleaſure therein, Comp. Rewel. 8: 20. b The miſery which you do or ſhould fear, The act for the object, as Iſa; 8: 12, and elſewhere. | |
27 When your fear commeth as deſolation c,and your deſtruction cometh as « whirlwind 4; when diſtreſs and
anguiſh cometh upon you. > As ſome p—_ ſword or Judgment,which quickly over-runs a whole Countrey. 4 Which inſtantly ſp:eadeth it ielf from place ro place with great and irreliſtible violence. and doing much mitchief. 27:9 . 28 * Then ſhall they call upon me, but 1 will nor an-
x: 15- {wer ; they ſhallſeek me early e, but they thall not find
11: 11. me : + 12. e& Or, in dhe morning, as the word properly ſignifies, and is here * 3* 4+ retdred by others, as ſoon as their calamity comes or rather, with 7:13. great diligence and fervency, as this phraſe commonly ſignifies, f Be cauſe they do nor ſeek me by choice and with ſincerity, bu: only by conſtraint, and that they may be freed from their miſcries.
29 For that they hated knowledge 7, and did nor
chuſe g rhe fear of the LORD.
_ f To wit, the practical knnwledge of God, and of their duty to him, asit is explained in the following clauſe. g Not heartily ap- prove of it and love it, but only made ſome ſhew of it
20 They would none of my counſel h:; they deſpiſed
all my reproof. h They refuſed ro be guided by my Counſels or Precepts. 21 therefore ſhall they eat of the fruit of cheir own
way zi, and he filled with their own devices &. # They ſhall receive puniſhments anſwerable to their ſins, k
which they have plotted againſt others, ſhall fall upon themſclves. 22 For the tuining away / of the ſimple ſhall ſlay them, and the proſperity of fools (hall deſtroy them m.