4. 6 * The Wolfalſoſhal dwell with the Lamb, and the _ ; ith che kid f: and the Calf 55: 25, Leopard ſhall lie down with the K1 f: an e ( izek. 34. and the young Lion, and the fatling together,andalittle *þ child ſhal lead them £- ; ; Hoſ: 2:48. f The Creatures ſhal be reſtored to that State of Innecency in which they were before the Fall of Man. . But this is not to be underſtood literally, which is a groſs and vain Cenceit of ſome Jews; but ſpiricually and metaphorically as 1s evident: And the ſence of the Metaphor is this ; Men of fierce, and cruel, and ungo- vernable Diſpoſitions,ſhal be ſo transformed by the Preaching of the Goſpel, and by the grace of Chriſt, that they ſhall become moſt humble, and gentle, and traftable, and ſhall no more vex and perſecute thoſe meekand poor ones mentioned v: 4, bur ſhall become ſuch!as they : of which we have inſtances in Saul being made a Paul, and in the rugged Jaylour, 4#s 16: and in innumerable others. But how can this be applied to Hezekiah with any colour ? g They will ſubmire their proud and Rebelious Wills to the Condutt and Com- mand of the meaneſt Perſons thar ſpeak to them in Chrifts Name.
7 And the cow andthe bear ſhall feed 6, their. young ones ſhal lie down together : and the Lion ſhal eat ſtraw
s like the ox. : h Together, as it follows, without any danger or Fear: # The
Graſs and fruits of the Earth, as they did at firſt, Ger.1:49: 30.and ſhall not devour other Living Creatures, as now they do:
$ And the ſucking child (ball play on the hole of the aſp &, and the weaned child ſhal pur his hand on the ||
cockatrice 1 den.
k A moſt fierce and poiſonous Serpent, Deut: 32: 33: Job 20: 14, 16. which alſo will not be charmed by any Art of Man. Pſal: 58. 5. 1 ASerpent of more than ordinary Cunning and Cruelty, Prov: 23.32. Themeaning is, They ſhall nor fear to be either deceived or deſtroyed by thoſe who formerly wacched all Opportunittes to
do
f Or, aa- ders.
| it. * They ſhal nothurt nor deſtroy in all my Holy "w * Cs: + for the earth = ſhal be full of the know-
a. 354a9. "*Hab:2:14 ledge of the LORD o, as the Waters cover the
SCa p,
- In Zion, in my Church, Where-ever the Goſpel comes and prevails, it will have rhis effe&. » Meronymically pur for the In- habitants of the Earth ; and as before it was uſed for the greater part, w: 4. ſo here it is uſed for the better part of the world. o Of faving and praftical Knowledge. Whereby he intimates, That all the davageneſs and Malignity which is in wicked men towards true Chriſtians, proceeded from their deep Ignorance, and particularly from Iznorance of God ; and witha),that a right Knowledge of God will make a marvellous and thorrow Change in the Diſpoſitions and Converſations of men. p The Channel of the Sea, the thing contained being put for the thing containing, by a Meromymy common
in Scripture, and all Authors. , And in that day there (hal be a root q of Jeſſe,
which ſhall ſtand for an enſign r of the people /: toit
*Rom:15: £11 the * Gentiles ſeek rt, and his reſt « ſhal be + glori-
10. 12. _ he R f which
| A Branch growing upon the Root : of which ſee on wer: 1. »
| go: & 4 - A and high Tree, ſhall become a viſible
$h3)l grow up into a gre and eminent Enſign. ſ Which not enly the Jews, bur all nations,
may diſcern. and to which they may, and ſhall reforr. t As the Goipel ſha!l be preached to the Gentiles, fo they ſhall receive it, and believe in the Meſiah. «u His reſting=place, as this Word fre- quently ſignifies, as Gen: 8: 9: & 49: 5: Plal: 132; 8,14: Ja; 34: 14: Mich: 2: 19. his Temple or Church, the Place of his Preſence and Abode. x Shall be filled with greater Glory than the Jewiſh Tabernacle and Temple were ; of which ſee on Hag: 2; 9. only - this Glory ſhall be Spir;tua), conſiſting in Glorious Ordinances, in the picntiful Effuſions of the excellent Gifts, and Graces, and Com-
forrs of the Holy Spirit, ; 1t And it ſhall come to paſs in that day, that the
LORD ſhal ſer his hand again the ſecond time y, to re- cover the remnant of his people which ſhal be left, * from Afyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cuſh, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from
w7ech:io; Hamath, and from the iſlands of che ſea z.
10, 11, y The firſt time, to which this Word ſecond releats, ſeems to be
either, 2. the Deliverance out of Ezypt, as moſt both Jewiſh and
Chriſtian Jarerpreters underftand it : And then this ſecond NDelive- rance mult be thar out of Babylon : Or, 2. the deliverance out of Ba. bylen : And then this ſecond Deliverance muſt be in the days of the
M-ſfiab, Which, with ſubmiſſion to better Judgments, ſeems to me
more probable; 1. becauſe rhar firſt deliverance is ſuppoſed to be,
like the ſecond, a Deliverance of the Remnant of this People from
ſeveral Countries, into which they were diſperſed : whereas that
out of Egypt was a Deliverance not of a Remnant, but of the whole Nation, and that out of Egypt onely : 2: becauſe this ſecond Delive- rance was univerſal, extending to the generality of the Outcaſts and Diſperſed ones, both of 1/rael, - or the Ten Tribes, and of Juadgh or the two Tribes, as is evident from v: 12:13, whereas that out of Babylen reach<d only tothe Two Tribes, and to ſome few of
by Geographers to Promontories of Land which ſhoot forth inta
of his people, which ſhal be lefe from Afſyria p * like * Chapiy asit was to Ifrael in the da Land of Fgvpt.
So the fence i, Thar all Imp*dimenrs ſhali be removed, and a way made for tie R-turn of God's 1/rael from all parts of the World?! He mentions Aria, becauſe thither the Ten Tiibes were carried,
ter, ſhall be fulfilled.
ſtrength and my ſong, he alio is become my fſaivation. 2.
Almighty Power of God.
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