£ The work before ſpoken of, ſeemeth not after the manner OZ | ſpring, all whoſe verduie and beauty in the winter was concealed men, who do things that are great gradually; nor in an ordinary | in theroot hid in the earth. * And in this the power, proteGtion courſe of nature, whoſe motions alſo bring things by degrees tO | and influence of God for, of, and upon, ſuch as truly ſerve and their perfe&ion, bur you muſt conſider who it 1s that ſpeaketh | qbey him ſhall be made manifeſt and known. » Burt the wicked ſhal ( ſaith the Lord ) now asis the God, fo ishis ſtrength. Again, men | be under a quite contrary diſpenſation, Pſal. 1. 4. As they have may unertake things, and for want of power not bring them to | had a day, which hath been to you the power ef drkneſs ; ſo yeu perte&1on, but ſhall Ido ſuch a thing ? I have by many prophecies thall nave a day, which ſhall be to them 7he power of darkneſs ;as Gods and promiſes ſecured you in the expectation of ſuch a thing, and | hand thall be upon and toward ſuch as fear me, to cover, and bleſs ſhall 1 nor by my providence effe&t ir? that in the ordinary courſe | and influence rhem, fo his indignation ſhall in that day be hand of providence ule to give a birth to Women, to whom [have given- | rowards thoſe of your nation who have declared themiclves the e- | ' a power ro __— hall _ =o Sou n to an, ro PR Pooptc nemies of the Lord. . whom by my prophecies,and promiſes I have made to conceive luch i5 For behold the Lord will come with fire z, and hopes, and expeQations ? þ Nor ſhall Zion once only bring torti, . I x +: j- _ berde ſhall _ on teeming, her womb ſhall not be ſhut, ſhe 112!l e- with gyms _ 6 wharle-wind a, tO render his | very day bring forth more and more children, my preſence {hall be anger with fury 6, and his rebukes o with flames of with my Churchto that end, to the end of the world. . fice. IO Rejoyce ye with Hieruſalem. and be glad with = Here the Prophet Comes more particularly to expound what her, all ye that love her : rejoyce for joy with her, all indignation ſhould be thewed rowards his enemies. 'That is, with ICY Bone terr:ble Judgments, nothing being more terrible, and waſting than | yer at MOUurn } . a; "4 han for friend fire; - or with fire in a proper ſenſe, underſtanding it of the fire with . 5 There 1s nothing more ordinary amongit men, t Jan tor iencs | which enemies uſeto contume places brought under their power. and neighbours, to mect together withtheir friends recovered from | , With a ſudden ſweeping Judgment thar like a whirle-wind ſhall affliction, or brought into aberter Nate, to rejoyce with them, e- deſtroy this people. 6 Wirh fury, that is, with fi = p5 { : ſpecially ſuch friends as in their afligtions have mourned with them oe". "the G id", oncgfhracd þ P y 4 1 eh Ef ; properly taken 1s not in God, c<. 27. 4. but God ſometimes exen Thus Mary, Luk, 7. 40. Went to + hes The ET &h, and Joos | cures juſtice and judgment more ſmartly and ſeverely. « By rebukes f.iends came to rejoice with him, Joo 42.11, 1he Prophet in like man- | he meanspuniſhments,for it is ſfaidGod,will execute them withflames ner calls to all the friends of Hieruſalem, eſpecially ſuch as in the days of fire. They had contemned the rebukes of his law, now God will re of her NE as pany => pln | 10g wy Kay i = o EC bem with fire and; fired: : ” with her, upon the proſpett of her better itate aiter the Bavzlonjb Cap- 7 . . tivity ; or He leaſt - hs time of the Meſſiah ; for though joy and 1 16 ey on, and by his age ras the Lord plead gladneſs be the affe&ion of the Soul chat works upon its union with with ail fleſh e, and the flain of the Lord ſhall be its deſirable obje&, and the deliverance of the people out of Babylon | many ff | ; was not to be for many ygars after this, nor the Mzias to come, for d Thiskind of rebuking is alſo called #a pleading with them, fo he F many years after thar, yet faich being the evidence of thivgs \ threatens to plead againſt Gog with Peſtilence, and blood, Exek. 38. 22/ 4 mot ſeen, there is a rejo)cing of hope, hops giving the Soul an u- | God atficſt p/-ads with ſinners by words, but if he cannor ſo prevail | nion with its obje& hoped for, and theſe things were now preſent | he will plead withthem in a way by which he will overcome, by fire 70 believers who by faith called the things rhar were not as 1t they | peſtilence and blood. e Thus he threatens to do with all nes were;decauſe they had the ſecurity of a divine Revelation for them | or with all the wicked Jews. f To the fire he threatens to add the and they were already exiſtent in rheir neceſſary Cules, Sword,ſo as the {ain of the Lyrd,that is,thoſe whom God ſhould cauſe 11 That you may ſuck and be ſatisfied with the & | to be lain, ſhould be many. * Cha. 65.
breaſt; of her conſolations 7, that you may milk out, | _ 17 * They that ſanctific themſelves,and purifie them- 3, 4. and be delighted with the abundance of ber Glory 7. ſelves in the gardensg, || behind on zree in the midſt þ, |" ofter " + Hieruſalem is here ſet out as the mother of us all, as indeed ſhe | cating {wines fleſh 3, and the abomination &, and another,
was, for out of Zion went forth the law, and the word of the Lord frem | the | mouſe. 1h 7 | = | ( Or, Hieruſalem, ich 2. 3. Chriſt was of the ſeed of Abraham, he was ſent LOR N. e, thall be contumed rogether + {aith the ! aches. ro the loſt Sheep of the heuſe cf Iſrael, and is called Rom. 15. 8. the Mini- -
fter of the Circumciſion ;, they were the Olive, the Branches; the Gen- tiles but a wild Olive, grafted in amongſt them, Rom: 11. 17. we fucked
£ That the Jews might not think that the Judgment threatned concerned only the Heathen, he tells them they concerned them