"Ch. $1.8% 014 as a garment : the * moth hall eat them up '# £ n That dare attemptit, or canjuſtly do it. o Mine Acculſers and Enemies. þ Shall pine away in their iniquity, as God threatned, Lev. 26.39 ſhall be cut off and conſumed by a ſe-ret curſe andJudgrent of God, which is compared to aMoth,Hoſ, 5.12whie:ſt I ſhall ſurvive and flouriſh,and thepleaſure of God [hal preſper in my hands.2s is ſaid 1ſa.< 3.10. 10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD 9, $F that obeyeth the voice ofhis ſervant 7, that walketh *Cch: 58.8, * darkneſs /; and hath no light z ? let him truſt in the L20- & 59 name of the LORD, and ſtay upon his God «.
_ g ie now turneth his Speech from the unbelievipg and rebellious Jews to thoſe of them who were or ſhould be pious. y Of the ſame perſon of whom he hath hitherto ſpoken, of Chriſt, who 1s callec Gods Servant, Iſa. $2. 13. and $53. 11. partly by way of eminency, and partly to intimate that although he was God, yet he ſhould take upon bimſelf the form of a Servant, as is ſaid, Phil, 2. 7, He hereby fignifics that the Grace of God. and the comfort here following be= Iongeth to none but to thoſe that hear and believe this great Prophet
" of the Church; which alſo was declared by Moſes, Deut. 18 15,
compared with 4s 3. 22, 23; ſ Not in fin, which isoft called.dark-
neſs, as walking in darkneſs is put for living in wickedneſs. 1 7obn 1,
6. but in miſery, which alſo frequently cometh under the name cf
darkneſs: that liveth in a moſt diſconſolate andcalamitous condition,
together with great deſpondency or dejettion of Spirit, # Nocom: fort nor hope left, « Let him fix his Faith and Hope in the Name te. in the moſt excellent and amiable nature, and infinite perfeRions,and eſpecially in the free Grace, and Mercy,and Faithfulneſs, of the Lord declared in his word, and in his propriety or intereſt in God.who by tie mediation of this Servant is reconciled to himand made bisGod
11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire x, that com- paſs your ſelves about y with ſparks z : walk in the light
of your fire, * and in the ſparks that ye have kind!led 4 This ſhall ye have of mine hand,ye ſhall lie down in
ſorrow b.
'x That you may enjoy the light and comfort of fit, as it is ex- plained in the following words. You that rejet the light which God hath ſet up, and refuſe the counſel of his Servant, and ſeck for Com- fort, and Safety, and the Knowledge of Goes Mind, and the enjoy- ment of: hisfavour by your own inventions; which was the common errour of the Jews in all Apes, and eſpecially. in the days of the Meſſiah, when they refuſed him and that way of Righteouſneſs and Saivation which he appointed, and reſted upon their own Traditions and devices, going about to eſtabliſh their own Righteouſneſs, and not ſub- mizting unto the Righteouſneſs of God, as is expreſſed Rom. xo, 3. yIn
= 4 *Fob 9.39-
> þ © Geavouring to warm and refreſh your ſelves on all ſides. 4 Or rather with Firebrands, as this very word is fitly rendred, Prov. 26. 18,
4 which is better than ſparks or fames which is there put in the mar- oF gent, becauſe firebrands only, and not ſparks or flames,are capable of
bein; thrown >y one man at another. And this word isno where elſe uſed in Scripture. He mentions fire-brands, either to imply that theſe fires yeilded more ſmoak than heat or light : or becauſe theſe
" were the uſual materialsof a fire. « Uſe your utmoſt endeavours to et cowfort and ſatisfation from theſe devices, b This ſhall be rhe fruit of all, through my juſt judgment, that in ſtead of that comfort and ſecurity which you expe by theſe means, you ſhall receive no- thing but vexation and miſcry, which ſhall purſue you both living and dying : for this word, which 1s here rendred ie down, is frequent- ly uſcd for dying, asGen, 47+ 30. Job 21, 26, and elſewhere, Or it is a metaphor froma man that lying down on his Bed for reſt and
\ eaſe meets with nothing but trouble and pain, as Job complain'd,
Chap, 7« 13, 14,
CHAP, LI.
Abraham our Pattern fo truſt in Chrift « in his Promiſes, and righteous Salvation : this is conftant, but men are Tranſitory, 1=n——8, 4 Prayer of the Godly in Aflifion, g, 11. The Lords Anſwer, 3 2,— 7, He bewalleth Jeruſalem, 18, ——20, The bitter Cup taken from her, and given #0 ber Enemies, 21, 23,
Earken to me,ye thatfollow after righteouſneſs 4,
| ye that ſeek the LORD: look unto the rock
» Were: pbence ye are || hewn, and to the hole of the pit by Wares hence ye are || digged c.
a Now he turneth his Speech again to the believing and godly Jews 6That make it your chief care and buſineſs toſeck' favour and help from God. c Conſider the ſtate of Abraham and Sarah, when they procreated 1ſzac, from whom Jacob and all of you ſpravg : For ſo he explains the Metaphor in the next verſe, He comparcth the Bodies
| the earth beneath: for
a. Chap.
of Abranvam and Sarah unfoa Feck, or Pit, or Quarry out of which ſtones are hewed or digged, thereby implying tiat God in fome ſort aQually did that which Chriſt ſaid he was able to do, Mat; 3. c even of ſtones to raiſe up Children unto Abraham; it being then as impoſſible by the courſe of rature for. Abraham and Sarah in that age toprocreat a Child, as it is to hew a living Child out of a Rock, or to dig one out of a Pit of Stone.
2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you; for I called him 4 alone e, and bleſſed
him, and encreaſed him f.