rances are ſcarce worth of your remembrance and conſideration. Which expoſition is confirmed ty two parallel Texts, Fer. 16. I4, 15. and 23: 7, 8. Fremall which Texts laid together irappears, thar this Jater deliverance, compared with that out of Egyps, js not to be confined to their freedom from the Babyloniſh Caprivity, but to be extended to the conſequences of ir, and eſpecially ro the Re- demprion by Chriſt; becauſe otherwiſe that Egyptian deliverance, vhs more glorious and wor:derful in many reſpetts, than the Baby- 071Aans,
19 Behold, I will do a * new thing a: now b& it a ſhall ſprivg forth, ſhall ye not know it c? I will even og make * a way in che wilderneſs, ard rivers in the de- ' Fg ſert && 4 Chap:
a Such a work as was never yet done in the World, even the Re- 42: 16: demption of the World by the Mcſfiah. 6 Shortly although is was Jer« 31:# not to be done till after ſome hundreds of years. For ſo the Scrip= ture oft ſpeakerh of things at a great Ciſtance of time, as if they were now at hand, as Hag. 2. 6. Jam. 5. 9. Rev. 22. 20. and elfe- where, which it doth to corre@& cur impatience, and. to make us willing to wait ti]] God's time come; and to aſſure us that the mer« cy ſhall come as ſoon as ever it is fit for us, and we for it; and to rake us ſenſible of the inconſiderableneſs of time, and all temporal things in ccmpariſon of God, and of the eternal things; upon which account it is ſaid that a :hiuſand years are in Gods ſiaht but asone aay, Pſal. go. 4. c Certainly you Jews ſhall knew it by experiences and ſhall find that I do not deceive you with vain hopes. 4d I will give you direQion and proviſion in the Wilderneſs, where there is commonly no path, and where all neceſſaries are wanting : which as it literally ſpeaks of God's conduRing them in the way from Ba= 6ylon to Jeruſalem, which lay through a great deſert; fo it is myſti- cally meant of thoſe ſpiritual bleſſings,' which Ged in and through Chriſt will confer upon all his people, not rhe Jews only, bur alſo the Gentiles, who in Prophetical Language are oft compared to the Wilderneſs, as Uſa. 35. 1. andelſewhere.
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jOr, dragons fand the || F owls : becauſe I give waters in the erg wilderneſs, end rivers in the deferc, togive drink to my þ Fane ©, people g, my choſen. J WID :
owl. . * Shall bave cauſe, if they had abilities, to honour and praiſe me ef for their ſhare in this mercy. Poflibly rhe beaſt of the field may my- ſtically ſignifie the Gentiles, whom the Jews reputed as Beaſts, and who were as deſtitute of all ſaving knowledge, as the Beaſts which periſh, yet ſhould become the Lord's People, as _— ſcem to be cal- led, wer. 21. f Which live in dry and barren deſerts,and are very thirſty, and therefore more ſenſible of this mercy. 5 To whom theſe waters were principally deſigned, but the beaſts fared tetter for their ſakes. Thus Chriſt was primarily ſent to the Iſt Sheep of Iſrael, Mat. 15. 24. yet the Gentiles there compared to Dogs, fared berter for the Children, picking up ſome crumibs of their bread ; and the Jews generally reje&ing Chriſt, the Gentiles came in their ſtead.
21 * This people + have I formed for my ſelf,* hey
ſhall ſhew forth my praiſe 5.
h My People, as he now called them, wer, 20. conſiſting in part of the Jews, but eſpecially of the Genriles. i I have created as it were out of nothing, I have called them into my Church, that I might have glory and praiſe from them for ſo ſtupendious a mercy.
22 But & thou halt not called upon me /, O Faceb, but
thou haſt been weary of me, » O Iſrael.
k Or, For, as this conjunQion is oft uſed. $9 this may be added, as a reaſon, why God called the Gentiles ro be his People, becauſe the Jews forſook him. 1 Thou haſt groſly negle&ed or very ſlightly performed the duties of my worſhip. » Thou haſt not eſteemed my ſervice to be a priviledge, as in truth it is, but as a burden and bondage. Compare Mal. 1. 13.
23 Thou haſt not brought me the + ſmall cattel of
thy burnt offerings », neicher haſt thou honoured me with thy ſacrifices s,I have not cauſed thee to ſerve with
an offering, nor wearied thee with incenſe p.
xz Either, 1. Becauſe thou didſt not offer thy Sacrifices to tne but
- to Idols. Or rather, 2. becauſe what thou &didſt offer, was net done to me, not for my ſake, not from a principle of love and obc=- dience to me, not to pleaſe and honour me with it, but meerly fcr thine own ends. Which interpretation ſeems to be favoured by the following clauſe, and by comparing this with Zech. 7, 5, 6. Did ye faſt unto me, even tome? And when ye did eat did ye not eat for your ſelves ? oe Becauſe thou didſt either negle& this work of Sa- Crificing to me ; or didſt perform it meerly our of cuſtome or i'] deſign, and not with a purpoſe to pleaſe and glorifie me ; or didſt diſhonour me, and pollute thy Sacrifices by thy wicked courſe of life. p So the ſenſe may be this ; I didnet require theſe wearifome ſervices of thee, to wit, upon theſe terms, or to be offered in ſuch a manner, as God ſpeaks, Iſa. 1. 11, 12, 13. But the words may very well be rendred, Although 1 did not cauſe thee ro ſerve with offe= rings, nor weary thee with Incenſe : the Particle Although, being here un- deritood, as it is in many other places,as hath been formerly noted. And ſo this is an aggravation of their former ſin, of being weary of, and negligent in his ſervice ; altkough God hath nor laid ſuch hea- vy burthens upon them, nor required ſuch hard ſervices or coſtly offerings from them, as might give them cauſe to be weary,nor ſuch + —_ did freely and greedily perform in the ſervice of their I-
ols.
24 Thou haſt bought me no ſweet cane q with mo- ney,neicher haſt thou f filled me with the far of thy ſa- crifices r, but thou haſt made me to ſerve with thy ſins
s, thou haſt * wearied me with thine iniquities,