and Happin-ſs, which is more fully promiſed in the following | yenant with you »», .even the * ſure mercies of David ». . _ «1 werieh, and which God, when he ſees fit, will confer upon his : k —_— —— and obediently to my Counſel ; hearing Cm Kon : ceing oft put for obeying, as Deut. 18, 15. 1 Sam. 15. 22, 23. Pſal. 95. \'L. 6.49) I4 In righteouſneſs t ſhalt thou be eſtabliſhed : thou 7, &. {1 Towit, comfortably and happily ; whicR vas Tens p, _ ſhalt be far from OP reflion u, for thou ſhalt not fear x, | of the name of Life. mM 'That everlaſting Covenant of Grace and ,, and from terrour, for it ſhall not come near thee. Peace rg _— ON and = neg Np ongy a I 17. 413 : Tn am ready to make it with every one of you thirſting Gentiles. 7, Dl orb Ent Te per King, | ® Even that Covenant which was made firſt with 4brahom,and then ** doms frequently are, but by Juſtice : Or rather 7 Ro lihe fit of with David, concerning the exhibition of thoſe glorious and ſure the eſtab}ſhment. Thine affairs ſhall be managed with Righte- Mercies or Bleſſings which God hath promiſed ro his People, one ouſneſs, which is the Glory and Felicity of any ſociety, and not and the chief of which Mercies was the giving of Chriſt to die for with oppreſſion, as it follows. Juſtice ſhall be freely $a; mparti- their ſins, and to riſe e—_—_ their juſtification. This Expoſition ally execured.- « Either by A Yet own Governours, or by forreign may reccive light and rength by comparing this place with AFty Powers. x Thou ſhalt neither have any juſt cauſe of fear, nor be | ? = 93s * a yo mentions David rather than Abraham, either Eo - given up to the torment of fear without cauſe. T1. Becauſe theſe romiſes, and eſpecially that great Promiſe, which SM 4 cho! d they ſhall ſure) h ; is the foundation of the reſt, concerning Chriſt and his eternal "7 y Inall iurely gather togetner y, vt | Kingdom, were far more frequently, and expreſly, and fully made - -: Not 74 me 2. whoſoever ſhall gather together a againſt and revealed to David, than they wereto Abraham. Or 2. Becauſe { theeb, ſhall fall for thy ſake c. | David was a more evident and illuſtrious Type of Chriſt than Abra« 7 It is true, there will not want ſome that ſhall combine and | #977 Was, as being raiſed from a mean condition to the higheſt ho- make an attempt againſt thee. z Agthey do this without any ſuch | 20us being made a great and moſt viforious and righteous King, commiſſion from me, -as Semacherib and Nebuchadnezzar had, Iſis. ro. and the firſt King of that Throne upon which the Meſiah was to ir. G, 7. Jer. 25. 9. ſo they ſhall not have my help in it, without Or 3. Becauſe the name of David is nct here pur perſonally for the which all their endeavours will be vain ' and unſaccebful + a King of rhat Name, but patronimically for the Meſſiah who was ro battel, as is manifeſt from the following words, of which kind of | Þ< 2-vi4's Son and Succeſſor, and who is therefore called Danid in gathering this word is uſed Pſal. x 40. 2. and elfeati ere. b Heb. with the prophetical Scriptures, as Fer. 30. 9. Ezek 34. 23, 24- & 374 thee. But ro figh with a man is all one with fehting againſt him. | *®? 25. Hy. 3. 5. as Reheboam upon the ſame account is called Ds« ec For that Reſpe& and Love which I bear to thee. Or, before vid, 1 Kings 12. 16. And this is the more probable, becauſe the next
thee, as this particle is ſometimes uſed, fo as thine Eyes ſhall behold verſe, which hath a manifeſt Relation to this verſe, is confelledly - underſtood of Chriſt.
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