f This by a Proſopopeeia is ſpoken 1n the Perſon of the Church, wherein ſhe doth thankfully acknowledge God's kindneſs to her in the forementioned promile, expreſſed here in the greatneſs of her aff=-&tion with reference both to her preſent deliverance from Ba?2y- bon and to.the happineſs of her Goſpel-ſtate. g Or becauſe of the Lord, or of the goodvels ofthe Lord rowards me. an uſual form of gratulation. » Sam, 2. I. and Had. 3. 18. and Luke 1, 47. or thus, I will not rejo7ce ſo much in my deliverance, as in the Lord. þ This clauie is to the ſame purpoſe, ſave only the varies the 'expreſſion, g. d. YealI doit with my who'e Soul. 7 Witch Salvation, as with a garment, fo in the next with righteouſneſs, as with a Robe, the the meaning is the Salvation that wzod will work for me, will ren- der me as bcautifu!, and conſiderable, as they are, that are clothed with the richeſt garments, as Bridegrooms uſually are, and Brides with th-ir Jewels, or as venerable, as Kings 1n their Princely Robes, my Sack-cloth will now be turned into Robes, or I ſhall be compaſſ.d «bour with glory, as garments do compaſs the body. & 3. e. Either with the fruits, and effeRts of his Love, and many Favours to the Church, in which ſenſe Righteouſneſs is raken, Pſal. 312. 3, 4, 9. compar'd with 2 Co-. 9. 9. and ch. 51. 6,8. ſheſhould ſee the Righteouſneſs of God in fulfilling all theſe promiſes. Or that Righteouſneſs of Chriſt imputed to us, which we are ſaid to pur on, Rom. 13. 14. or thoſe graces imparted to us, and atted in an holy Ute.
x 1*For as the earth bringeth forth her bud.and as the
garden cauſerh the things that are ſown in it to ſpring forth 1: fo the Lord GOD will cauſe righteouſneſs »
and praiſe » to ſpring forth before ali Nations 0.
I By this and tne other Metapher he ſhewsnot only the reviving of the bleſſings of the Church atrer they had been as it were dead in the winicr of afflition, bur the great plenty, and abundance of bl-flings that ſhould break forth ; that which had been asa wil- derncſs, ſhall be as a Paradiſe, pointing at the effeQts of his grace, and bounty. m 3. e. His great work of Salvation ſhall break out and appear. » As the natural produ&, and fruit ofit,his own glo- Iy being the Principal end of making his Righteouinels to appear
- and maniteit it ſelf. o Theſe things will not be done in a Corner, bur will beemin<nt'y con'picucus in the fighr of allthe world, for which purpole thoſe Hymns penned by the godly will ever be famous in the Churches of Chriſt to all ages, as of Moſes, Hannah, Mary, Ze-
- chary, Simeon, &C. : CS Ay bm. | 4 Prayer of the Watchmen fer the Church in confidence” of God's Gracious De- | fiens and Promiſes to it, 1 12. OR Zions p ſake will I not hold my peace, 9 and FÞ for Jeruſalems fake I will not reſt, until the righ- teouſnels r thereof go forth as brightneſs 5, and the fal-
vation thereof as a lamp that burneth 7.
p Yiz. The Churches ſake, S!0n, and Feruſalem being both put for the Church, H-b. 12. 22. q Theſe ſeem ro be the words of the Pro- pher ſtrongly reſvIving, notwithitand:ng all difficulties, to ſolicit God for the Churches happineſs, and conſtantly excite to the be- Jief of it by h:s Preaching, though it were Jong ere ir came, for Taiah lived near 200 yea's before this was accompliſhed ; but his Prophecy lived, an: the tenour of 1t was continued by other Pro- phers, whom the Lord ſtirred up to b- ſtilleſtabliſhing his p:ople till
* this Salvation was wrought ; his meaning might be, as long as he lived, he would never hol! his peace; orhe might include himſelf
' among thoje,who ſhou!d be then alive,as Pauldoth among the other
' Saints. 1 The. 4. 17 we which are alve. Thus may we alto include God ſpeaking theſe words as ſome would have it,viz. By the mouth of 1/a/ab,and other of his holy Prophets,that never held'their Peace,
_ rill they ſaw this bleſſed tate of rhe Church appear. r With re- reference to the Batylon;ans, underſtand it of the Righteouſneſs of
, Ged, who hath promiſed his People deliverance, and he muſt be
' Righteous, and ſo underſtand Salvation before ; or rather, the Vin- dicating of his People's cauſe in the Eyes of the Nations by the ruin .of the Babylonians ; he will ſhew that his People have a Righteous cauſe : or with reference to the Church, till Chriſt, who is her Righteouſneſs hall appear and be manifeſted in the Goſpe].sClearing
_ wp their miſerable, and dark eſtate which the Church might be ſup- poſed to be in before Chriſt's coming, with much joy, and happi- neſs. 5 And to that purpoſe is ſet up where it may be ſeen con-
*rinually, to ſignifie. how eminently conſpicuous this proſperous eſtate of the Church ſhould be among the Nations, and as it may particularly relate to revealing of Chriſt unto the World.
2Allthe Gentiles ſhall ſee thy righteouſneſs «, and all kings x thy glory : and * thou ſhalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD ſhall name jy. "u See what is ſaid inthe foregoing veſe, ſome read thy Juſ# One, wiz. Jeſus Chriſt. x Thoſe that were wont to ſcorn thee, ſhall now be taken with the admiration of thy Glory. y Not the ſeed of Abraham, or the Children of Iſrael, but of God ; that whereas they were by nature the Children of Wrath, now by Grace they hall be the Children of God . Or, another Name, as it is ſaid of Tongues. Compare Mark. 16. 17. with 47s 2. 4. Or, a Naame, the honour
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whereof ſhall make them famous, as Ger. 11. 4. they ſhall be called Chriſtizus, Or, The Church ſhall be more renowned than ever,both in reſpe@ of her condition, and fo called Hephzibah, and of her Ree. ©. lation, and ſo called Beulah,and this new name the Lord gives them accordingly, ver. 4. | |
Thou ſhalt alſo be a * crown of glory z in the « hand of the LORD a,and a of thy God.