out of it, 1s largely exprefled by this very Gmilitude, —_ os wy &c. 4 AsI my ſelf, who am one of your tumber, and of theſe Dead men, ſhall live again. You ſhall be delivered together with mc. Which he might add, to meet with an Obje&ion ; for they might think that God would take ſome ſpecial Care of this Holy Propher, and would preſerve him when they ſhou!d be deſtroyed. No, faith he, As IT am at preſent like a dead Carkafſs no leſs than you, ſo you ſhall be reſtored to Life no leſs than I, IF the Sy pple- ment of our Tranſlation ſeems to be too, literal, it may be rendred to the ſame purpoſe, as my body, the Particle as being oft under« {ſrood,as I have divers times obſerved: As my dead Body ſhall riſe ſo ſhall theirs alſo ; we are equally dead, and ſhall equally live : To e. » Out of your ſleep, even rhe fleep of death, as it is called. Pſal. 13: 3. Death being oft compared to a Sleep, as John 11:1. As 7: 60. and Reſtrauration to Life unto awaking, as 2 Kings 4: 31. o You that are dead and buricd in the Duſt, as the Dead are faid to /ep in the ar, Dan. 12: 2, p The Favour and Bleſſing of God upon thee which is oft compared to the dew, as Hoſ: 14: 5. Mich. 5: 9. The Pronoun thy is here taken not efficiently, but objeQively, as thy curſe, Gen: 27-13+ is the Curſe coming upon thee. q Which gently refreſheth and reviveth them, and maketh them to grow--and flouriſh. r As an abortive Birth is caſt out of the Womb, to which the Grave is compared, Job 1, 21. But becauſe the Verb here uſed doth not fignifie to caſt out, but to caſt dewn,which ſeems not proper here, thele words may be and are, op by ancient and later Interpreters, rendred otherwiſe, and t ilt caſt down the land of the Giants, or of the wiolent ones, of the proud and porent Tyrants of the World. For the word here rendred dead, is elſe- where rendred giants, as 2 Sam: 21:16,i8. See alſo on Job 26:5. Pro. 9: 18: © 21: 16. But then the words ſeem to be better rendred, and thou wilt caſt the giants down to the ground ; Either 1, thou, O God, who is oft underſtood in ſuch Caſes 3 or r&her, 2. thou, O my People, to whom he ſpeaks in the foregoing Clauſes of the verſe, thy dead body, and thy dew, and here continueth his Speech, - theu wilt or ſbalt caſt, &c. thou ſhalt ſubdue even the moſt Giant-like and mighty Enemies. Which though it be properly Gods work, the Church is oft faid to do, becauſe ſhe by her Prayers engageth God to do it. And ſo as the former clauſes of the Verie ſpeak of the Deliverance and Proſperity 6f Gods Church and People, ſo this clauſe ſpeaks of the Deltrution of their Enemies, which uſually accampanieth it»
20 Tome, my people /, enter thou into thy cham- bers, and ſhut thy doors about thee t : -bide thy ſelf as
it were * for a little moment #, until the indignation * p
x be overpalt. J Having foretold the wonderful Deliverance and
leſt they thould think they were now entritig into the poſſefiio
of this Felicity, he adds hot here follows, Tool ret. that for the preſent they were to expect Storms, and to Prepare for them, and patiently to wait God's time for the Accompliiment of lo great a Mercy. # Withdraw thy (elf from the company and converſation of rhe wicked World,leſt partaking with them in their Sins, thou doſt alſo partake of their Plagues : pour out thy Prayers to God in thy Cloſet, as this may be explained by comparing Mat. 6. 6. pur thy ſelf under the protection of my Providence and Grace by Faith and Prayer. He alludes ta the common practice of Men, who when there are Storms or Dangers abroad, betake themſelves into their own Houſes or Chambers for ſafety ; or;as ſome think,to that Hiſtory, Exad.'g: 19. 20. or to that Command of net going out of their houſes, Exod: 12; 22. or to the like Charge given to Rabab, as the Condition of her Preſervation, Joſ. 2. « Whereby he intimates, that all cheir Afflictions, how long and tidious ſoever they may: ſeem, are but ſhort and momentany, in compariſon of that happi= neſs which is reſerved for them. x The dreadful Effects of God's
Zo ger, thoſe ſore Judgments of God mentioned in the following 'Erle.
iniquity ; the earth alſo ſhall diſcloſe her ſhall no more cover her ſlain #. Fs y Cometh down, from Heaven ; which God in Scripture is fre«
"quently ſaid to do, when he undertaketh any great and glorious
Work, either of Delivering his People, or of Deſtroying their Enemies. The Speech is borcowed from the manner of Princes, who come out of their Palaces either to fit in Judgment,or to fight- againſt their Enemies, which is the caſe here. z All the Enemies of God and of his People ; for theſe are here oppoſed to Gods: People: Therefore take heed you be not found in the number of them. « The innocent Blood which hath been ſpilled upon the: Earth ſhall be broughr to light, and ſhall be ſeverely revenged upon the Murderers, For the Phrafe ſee on Gen, 4: 16, Joh 16; 18, Exeks 24» 7.
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Gods care over his Vineyard, 1———6. his chaſtiſements on them,y—9. his ſevere judgments again# them, 10 11. their return, 12——j7. N that day the LORD with his ſore and great and
{trong ſword fhall puniſh Leviathan « the piercing ſerpent 6, even Leviathan that crooked ſerpent c, and
he ſhall ſlay * the dragon 4 that zs in the fea. + a What kind of Creature the Leviathan is, ſee in my Notes on
Job 41:1, Oc. Whence it is evident, that it was a very great and
terrible Sea-monſters. Bur here it is certain that the Expreſſion is +
metaphorical, and that by this Leviarhan, Serpent and Dragon, ( for all ſignifie the ſame thing ) he underſtands ſome: very powerful
Enemy or Enemies ( for the hs," numbers may be here pur _ F'.Z the
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