of the LORD 4. b This is the Carriage of thy People; but the courſe of Wick- ed men is direQly contrary inallconditions : For if thou doſt ſpare them, when thou punifheſt thine own People. they will nor accepr of that gracious Invitation to Repentance, nor walk worthy of 16 =_ a Mercy. c Even in Gods Church, and among his People, where ighreouſneſs is profeſſed and taught,and by many praftiſed ; and where Unrighteouſneſs 1s diſcountenanced and puniſhed: all which things are Aggravations of his Sin. d Although God gives ſuch plain and clear Diſcoveries of his Majeſty and Glory, nor only in his Word, but alſo in his Works, and eſpecially in this glorious Work of his Patience and Mercy to Wicked Men, yet they wilfully ſhut their Eyes at it, and will not acknowledge its
11 LORD, when thy hand is lifred up, they * will Jobz4:
not ſee e 3 but they ſhal ſee f, and be aſhamed for their 37: ng
envy || at the people g3 yea, the fire of thine enemies , c;5127 þ ſhal devour them. [| Or, 2# e And they are guilty of the ſame obſtinate Blindneſs when thou wars thy doſt ſmite and puniſh them, which is commonly ſignified by /;/t:ng people. up the hand, as Exzek: 44: 12. Mich. 5.9. Compare allo 2 Sam: 20.21.
I Kings 11: 26. Or, as others render it, When thine hand is high or
exalzed, ti. e. When thy Works are moſt evident and moſt glorious,
when thou appeareſt moſt gloriouſly for the defence of thy People,
and for the puniſhment ef thine and their Enemies, they will not ſeen
f The ſame Word is repeated in another ſenſe : "Fhey fhal feel and
know that by ſad and coſtly Experience, which they would not
learn by other and eaſier ways. Secing is oft put for feeling ; in
which ſenſe Men are faid toſee afli#ion, Lam; 3: 1: and to lee death,
Pſal. 89: 48- and the like. gOr, at or towards the People, the Pro-
noun #hy being repeared out of the following Clauſe,as 1t is in many
other places of Scripture, as kath been before noted. Their Envy
and Hatred againſt Gods People blinded their Minds,that they nej-
ther could nor would ſee that God was on their ſide though the To-
kens of it were moſt manifeſt and undeniable. Which was the caſe
of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, who were not ſenſible that zhc Lord
fought for Iſrael again(i the Egyptians, as they ſaid Exed: 14: 25. till it
was too late. h Not efficiently, but objeQtively : Such Fire or
Wrath as thou uſeſt to pour forth upon thine implacable Enemies.
As my wrong, Gen: 16. 5. is not the Wrong done by me, but to me;
and my violence, Jer: 51: 35. is the violence doue teme, as we tranſlate
it, not by me.
12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us ;:for thou
alſo haſt wrought all our works & [| inus 2, ; Or fo i As thou wilt deſtroy thine and our Enemies, ſo thou wilt bleſs us thy People with Peace and Proſperity. k& Either, r.all the Good Works done by us, which are the Effe&ts of thy Grace ; or rather,2. all the Good and Great Works which have been wrought for us, all our wonderful Deliverancesand ſingular Bleſſings come from thee: And ſo the Argument is this, God hath delivered us formerly upon all occaſions and therefore he will ſtil] deliver us, and give us Peace.
plaig.206 this ſhewerh whence or by whom it is made ſuch, even #Ch:64z5, $ Yea, *in the way of thy judgments, O LORD,
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ſha! endeavour to ſwim out of ir, but to no purpoſe ; or rather, Name,and to the remembrance of thee "s Y 2. the Lord, whois deſigned by this very Pronoun he, both ng the r As we thy People have loved and ſerved thee whe h
- latter Clauſe of this Verſe,and in the fo!lowing Verie ; whole Po- made our way plain and eaſe for us ; ſo we have avg © _ oo wer they ſhal be no more able to reſiſt, than the Waters can rellil8 une waired npce thee, when thin he ancds © omared ' y en thee 0 Man that ſwims, who with grear faciliry divides chem hither and {ome by thy Judgments. He ſpeaks of the ſame Te = a6 56k thither. /Or, ftretch forth his harcds to che urmoſt, to ſmite and dee though itbe with a change of the Mumaboos NE a '9 iP 6 h 9. troy them. » Which he doth to the uttermoſt. » With all thit uſual in Prophetical Writings,the juſt, v. 7. we,v.8$. 1 FR
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»» Others befides thee, who art our only Judge and King, an Law-giver, 1a. 33: 22. and beſides thoſe Governours who have been ſet up by thee, and have ruled us for thee, and in ſubordi- ration to thee, even Foreign and Heatheniſh Lords, ſuch as the Philifimes, and lately the Aſhrians. » Have exerciſed a Tyrannical Power over. us. o By thy Favour & Help,by which alone{and not by our Strength or Merits) we have been reſcued from their Ty- ranny. Þ We will celebrate thy Praiſe, and truſt in thee for the furure. Thou only haſt given us both Ability and Occaſton to magnifie thy Name, whereas without thy Succour we had gone 5:to the place of Silence, where there is no remembrance of thee, as is ſaid, Pſal. 6. 5.
14 They are dead, they ſhall not live ; they are de- ceaſed, the ſhall not riſe q : therefore 7 haſt thou
viſited and deſtroyed them, and made all their memo- ry to perilh j. .
q Thoſe Tyrants and Enemies are utterly and irrecoverably deſtroyed, ſo as they ſhall never live or riſe again to moleſt us. Poſlibly he ſpeaks of the miraculous deſtruQion of Semacheris's Army before Jeruſalem, r That they might be ſo effeQtually de- ſtroyed,thou didſt undertake the Work. Or, rather, becauſe (as this Particle is uſed Numb. 143 43. P[al. 42: 6.) theu haſt &c. as it follows. f Thou haſt deſtroyed both them and theirs, and all the Monu- ments or Memorials of their Greatneſs and Glory.
I5 Thou haſt increaſed the nations O LORD thou haft increaſed the nation, thou art glorified « thou haſt removed 3t far unto all the ends of the earth x.