m Or, open, as when we break open a Store, or Magazine, to ſa- tisfie the wants of the needy : Ir implies Bounty and Liberaliry. A phraſe contrary to that ot ſburting up of the bowels, 1 Joh. 3. £7. n Thy afteCtion, i. e. thy pity and compaſſion, a Metonymy of the Sub- ject, as one that condoles with them in their miſery ; affeQionate- ly, and with delight, Rom. 12. 8. 2 Cor. 9. 7- God loves a chearful Giver, as well asa liberal Giver, not grudgingly, nor of conſtraint, not becauſe thou muſt, bur becauſe thou wilt, not out of neceſfſi- ty, but of Choice : Compaſſion and Mercy in a Work is more than the Work of Mercy it telf ; For this is ſomething only without a man, bur the other is ſomething from within, and of himſelf ; This argues a Sympathy, wbich the other doth nor, all withour this being as nothing, 1 Cr. £3. 3. o Here the Prophet notes the Work that is to be done, as in the former Expreſſion the affeQion, wherein it is to be done,otherwiſe it would be no more than what the Apoſtle James reproves, James 2. 15, 16. and the Pſalmiſt joyns them both rogether, Pſaim 37. 21. And then further it implies a compleat and proportionable anſwering of his wants, that the ſup- ply ani{wer the neceflity, that is, be ſuch as may ſatisfie, not barely keep him from ſtarving. p 1. e. The perſon afflicted with wants. q This is the ſame promiſe, and expreſſed in the ſame fi. gure, as in v.8. See the ſame phraſe opened there. The Hebrews delight to expreſs the ſame things often by a little altering of the Phraſe ; only here it ſeems to be carried roan highez degree : There the 1ighr ſhall break forth, but here Light ſhall be in Objcurity. r In the very darkneſs of the affliftion it ſelf thou ſhalt have comfort, Pſalm 12. 4. There it ſhall be as the morning ſtill increafing, here as the noon-day in its Zenith, and heighr of perfe&ion, which {ſhall be withour ſo much as any ſhadow of afflition.
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