; _ Z 1.e., Either worſhip the Lord: For the Name of God is pur for ;. God himſelf, as hath been often ſhewed, and Fear is pur for his ! Worſhip. Or, make his Nime renowned. # To wit, the weſt- ern part of the World. & Or the glorious God. c To wit, the eaſtern partsof the World: The jumm is the whole Word, either a Synecdoche of the part for the whole: Or,if you divide the World through the Poles, the one half will be Eaſt, and the other-Weſt, and ſo compriſeth the whole World. Ir ſhall fear and worſhip | God, and make his Name renowned, laying aſide their Idolatries : | Whether you refer it to the deliverance of his People out of Baby. lon, when they ſha!l hear how God tath executed vengeance on his enemics; Or, to the Redemption by Chrift, and his calling of ' the Gentiles, Malachy 1. 11. d Either againſt the Babylonians, as ſome underſtano it, and ſo it is probably meant of Cyrus, who thall come like a violent Flood, againſt whom there is no head to be ' made: Him God would ftir up againſt the Babylonians for the de- ' liveranc: of the Jews. Or, againit his own People, and ſo it may have either 1. A more particular refpe& to Jeruſalem, when Sen= nacherib cams up againſt it, which tuits well with what God faith i; of him, Chapter 8. 7, 8. Or. 2. More general, at what tine ſo. ever the Devil, or his inſtruments ſhall make violent irraptions us | pon the Church, Revel :2 15. for powerful Enemies invading a Councrey are oft compar:.d toa River. Sec on Chapter 18. 2. Ir is an alluſion to the overflowing of Euphrates, which by its violent in- undations was wont to do much hurt and damage tothe Babylonians. e And here again, if it be taken in the firſt ſcnie, viz. againſt the . Babylenians, then the meaning is, God himſelf ſhall as it were car- | ry the Standard in the midſt of Cyres his Army, the Medes and Perſe. | ans, and that with a great deal of fory, intimated here by the Spiric
of the Lord ; For Spirit is often uſed among the Hebrews for the { Paſſions of the Soul, as Anger, Wrath, Fury, &c. Or, as a violent Blaſt or gale of Wind fhall help foreward the Violence of the Tor- rent, and if ſo, then Him, by an Enallage of the Number, which is frequent, is pur for Th-m, Bur if in either of the other two
of the Lord, as with a Blaſt, only ſhall puff him away, which wax made god, Iſaiah 37. 7, 36, 37. Or, with more general refe= rence to the violence of enemies againſt the Church; Then the meaning is, God ſhall wiake known himſelf ro take their part and defend them, Pſalm 6. 3,4, 5- and cauſe the Enemies to give back, or put them to flight, as in the margin, Iſaiah 17. 12, 13. 14. and that without Power,burt by his Spirit alone, as eaſie as by a pefFof wind, Zech. 4. 6. Again, if you take this (as fome Learned Men do) in a ſpiritual ſenſe, then it notes the ſuddenneſs of the Goſpels ſpreading it ſelf by the Spirir in the Miniſtry of the Apoſtles and Evageliſts, bearing down like a Flood, all that oppoſes it, the Lord Jeſus Chrift being lifted up 1n ir as a Banner or Enſign; But this ſenſe, though rrue, ſeems to be more forced, and as ir relates ro temporal deliverances, more genuine and natural: However che Prophet being about to fpeak of the Spiritual Deliverances, and State of the Church by Chriſt, he {ecms to ſlide, as it were, into ir by ſuch plain Allufions, and Types, being to ſpeak of it inore di-
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