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& For joy, or go nimbly and readily. And this Clauſe alſo, and 32 33 that which follows are to be underſtood, both Spiritually and Li. 12+ 22-© terally, as in the former Verſe. 1 The moſt dry and barren Places 15; 3% ſhall be made moiſt and fruitfal : Which is principally meant of Joh 7 the plentiful Effufion of Gods Grace upon ſuch Pertons and [Nati- 38, 4" ons, as had been wholly deſtitute of ir, m Thoſe dry and parched Or,s y" Deſerts, in which Dragons have their Abode, ſhall yield abundance #9 79» of Graſs, and Reeds, and Ruſhes, which grow only in moiſt &c: Grounds, Jo 8. xx,
_ 8 And anhigh-way ſhall be there, and a way », and it ſhall be called the way of holineſs 0, * the unclean nnpept ſhall not paſs over it p, || but it ſhall be for thoſe q: the j oc, fort! way-faring men,though fools, ſhall not err thereimr, {hall w n The high-way, and the way are not to be taken for two diffe- with 5s rent Ways, but for one and the ſame Way, even a Cauſey or Caſt- way, Which is both raiſed Ground, as the firſt H:brew Word figni- fics, and a Way ; both ſignifying a convenient, prepared, plain, and common Road, the Goſpel IS,
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put withour an Antecedent, as it 15 in many other places. But this, and the following Clauſe, is, and may well be rendred other= wiſe, and he (to wit, God who is oft deligned by this Pronoun, and is caſily underſtood out of the Context ) fhall be 70 or with q them walking in the way (their Companion and Guide in their Way, | which is a great felicity ) fat fools may net ery therein. Y The way ze ſo plain and ſtraight, that even the moſt fooliſh Travellers
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£ They whom God ſhall. Reſcue and Redeem from their corporal Slavery in Babylon, and eſpecially from their ſpiritual Bondage un- der Sin and Satan. Shall come again ro Zen, from whence they had been carried away Captive. Or, ſharerurn, to wit, to the Lord now mentione:!. ana come to Zion, i.e, joyn themſelves to Gods Church ard People. * Which Expreſſions are roo magnificentand emphatical. to be ſatisfied by th return of the Jews from Ba"ylon ty their own Land, which was accompanied and followed with many Sighs an Sorrows, as appears, both from ſacred and other Hiſto- rias; and therefore muſt neceſſarily be underſtood of Goſpel-times and of the Joy and Happineſs purchaſed by Chriſt for his People,
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1T And Rabaſhkeh ſaid untothem,ſay ye now to Heze- Kkiah, Thus faith che great king, the king of Afſyria, What confdence #s this wherein thou truſteſt ?
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7 Bur if thou ſay to me, We truſt in the LORD our GOD; 3s it not he,whoſe high places,and whoſe altars Hezekiah hath taken away. and ſaid toJudah, and to Jeruſalem, Ye ſhal worſhip before this altar ?
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ro And am I now come up without the LORD againſt this land todeſtroy it ? the LORD ſaid unto me, Go up againſt this land, and deſtroy it.
1: QY Then ſaid Eliakim, and Shebna, and Joah unto Rabſhakech, Speak, I pray thee, urto thy ſervants in the Syrian language, for we underſtand it : and ſpeak not to us in the Jews language, in the ears of the peo- ple that are on the wall.