deſtroy-him, and leave'him to periſh in his own ways, yet of my meer Mercy, and for my own Namts ſake, I will piry them, and them from their fins, and bring them out of their troubles. c Or, to wit, | the copulatiye Conjun&ion being put expolitiveiy, & it is frequently: : 4. To -thoſe who are humbled under God's Hifd,-thar mourn, in Sion, Iſaiah G1. 2, 3. for their own and others fins, Ezekiel 9.4. and for the Calamities of God's Church and Peo- 'E e,>faiah-66. 10. - | ; *Pro.is.r. ®329*Ierexre'e * the fruit of the lips; peace f, peace g _—. E. i .that is far off, . and to him that is near þ, faith | ; LORD, and I will heal him. £0: I wvill by: my. Almighty power, and in a wonderful manner duce- f Either 2. Praiſe or Thankſgiving, which is called 2he itrof our dips, Hoſ,14-2. Heb.13.15. and Peace: Or, rather 2. That Peace whictr is not-wrought by Men's hands, but only by God's Eips: or Werd, Peace with God, and in a man's own'Conſcience, which God hath-promiſed-to. his People, and which he Hath publi- ſhed andoffered to all fortsof Men by the preaching ofthe Prophets, ind eſpecially 'of the Apoſtles; as may be gathered both from the Obje&!of:this Peace iv the following words, and'by the excluſion of all: wicked men*from-rthe Peace, v. 20, 21. g The doubling of the'word ſignifies -the certainty and abundance of this Peace. hk To thei Gentiles who'are far from God, and from Salvation, 4s 2.38, 59, - Eb; 23512, &c.- as well as to the Jews, who are called » people near unto God, Palm 148: 14. - - : ---20%Ptir- the wicked are like the troubled ſea, when it 2 "+ Eannor reſt, whole waters caſt up mire and dirt z. E © Theit minds are” re{flefs, being perpetually hurried and tor- mented with their own Jafts and paſſions, and with the horrour of their guilc, and the" dread of rhe Divine Vengeance : due unto them, and' readie to come upon them. ; 2 * There i5n0 peace, ſaith my God, tothe wicked &. « & Though they may kave as great a ſhare of Proſperity as the : oe of Men have, as appears from Pſalm 37. 35- and 73. 3, &c. Ec:1. 4; and 9. 1- yet tlicy have no ſhare in this Inward, and Spititaal and Everlaſting Peace, oy . CERAP ELYSLL bi i Tews. byporrife :- In their Fafts, 1———5, A true Faft ateſcrivea, The Jews by RE to Godlneſs, 4 —; 2. To the keeping of the
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» Sabbath, 13, 14. ; IM - 48cb.wizh { Ry Þ aloud's, ſpare not b, lifc up thy voice like a thethroas, trumpet, and ſhew my people their tranſgreflion, and the houſe of Jacob. their ſins.
a The prophet having im the foregoing Chapter noted and cett- ſarcd divers grols miſcarciages of the Jews, proceeds upon the ſame
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: Fer. 6.13. and 8: 10. Bur this is not mentioned excluſively , as t0,0ther ſins, bur Synecdochically ſo as to comprehend all thole |
Moreand more, as was ſaid of 4baz, and obſtinately perſiſted in | . | YOu, but attively ſuch as are very grievous and burdenſome to o«
enter into the Ears ef God, which is a c-ying fin, whether it pro» %: | ceed from unmercifulneſs, Exod, 22. 25, 26, 27. Which ſometimes en- h
' creaſeth to rage, 2 Chr. 28. g.or from injuſtice,, chi 5. 7. or from fraud
| and deceit, James 5. 4+ The Scripture doth frequently expreſs what-
| by crying, Gen. 18. 20, 21. Jon. I, 2+
Savjz& in this Chapter, and in God's nameexpoſtulares with them
493 Ww e 4. H , Chap. LV11I. for other miſlemeanours. 6 Forbear not to ſpeak whatſoever I command thee for the conviEion of this people. 2 Yet they ſeek me daily c, and delight ro know my ways d, as a nation that did righteouſneſs e, ar.d for- look not the | ordidance of their God f: they ask of me the ordinances of juſtice g; they take delight þ in {Heb judge approaching to God Z. | "rad e They coverall their wickedneſs with a profeſſion of Religion, )©": from time to time reſorting to my houſe, prete: dine to ask Countel me of me, and to deſire and jeck my Favour and Biefling, & Either 1, They ſeem to delight in it: Vor men are oft ſaid in Scriprure to be, or do, that which they ſeem or prot-1sto be, or do, as Mor. 13. 12. That which he hath, is thus cxplained in Luke 8. 18. That which he jeemeth to have, and Rome. 7+ 9. I was alive, i, e. I falſly thoughr my ſelf to be alive. See allo Phite 3. 9. Or 2. They re- ally delight; for this is evident, that there are many men who take {ome pleaſure in the knowing of God's Will and Word, and yet do not conform their Lives to it. e As if they were a Righ- tcous and Godly People. f Asif they were not guilty of any Apo« ſtacy trom God. or neglect of, or diſobedience to God's Precepts. £ As it they delired and reſolved to obſerve them. h Of which ſee the ſecond note upon this Verſe. #i In coming to my Temple to hear my Word, and to offer Sacrifices. 3 Wherefore have we faſted,/ay they,and thou ſecſt not k ? wherefore have we afflicted our ſoul 1, and thou takeſt [Or,hing; no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your faſt »», ye whroith find pleafure », and exact all your ||+ labours 0. 6 ms k& They complain of hard uſage trom God, that although they wy. prayed, and faited, and kept the reſt of God's Ordinances, al} which f Heb, are iynecdochically comprehended under the title of Fafing, all their gricf. labour was loit, and God neither regarded nor delivered them. Defrauded and pinched our Appctites with faſting, of which this Phraſe is uſed, Levit. 16. 29. and 23. 27, 29. m In thoſe ſo- lemn days of faſting which I have appointed ; Or, in thoſe times when I have called you by the courſe of my Providence, and coun= ſis of my Prophets, unto faſting, and weeping and mourning, &Cc. Iſa. 22. 12. » Either 1. You indulge your ſelves in ſenſuality, asthey did 1/a. 22. 13. But this doth not agree with that affifing of their Souls which they now profeſſed, and which God acknowledgeth, veries. Or rather 2. You purſue and fatisfie your own Jufſts : though, you abſtain from bodily food, you do not mortific your own (i1ntul concupiſcences, and when you are reſtrained from out= ward atts, yet even then your thoughts and affeCtions are ſet upon, and working toward thoſe things which gratifie your fleſhly Jncli- nations and worldly Intereſts. o Your money got by your labour, and Jent to others either for their need, or your own advantage :
| For Labour is oft put for Wealth, as Deut. 28. 33. 1/a. 45. 14, C&Cc.
Lieb, Tur griefs, not paſſively, thoſe things which are grievous to