che place of our ſanctuary 5s. s It is much more hard to give an account of theconnexion of theſe words with the former,than of their ſenſe conſidered abſolure- ly in themſelves. Some would have them the words of the People, reckoning up another vain ground of their confidence,becauſe they had amongſt them the Temple of che Lord,which we know was what they mighrily gloried in, Others would have them the words of the Prophet owning his and the good Jews confidence to be only in God, and themſelves to worſhip God-/not in Groves or high places, but only in that place which he had choſen to be worſhip- ped in, even 1n his Sanctuary or Temple, many other Cenjectures there are,but theſe two ſeem to me the moſt probable, * Pſal. 936 132 O LORD! the hope of Ifracir, * all they that 7: forſake thee ſhallbe aſhamed «, and they that depart Iſa r. 28, from me ſball be written in the earth «, becauſe they , (, have forſaken the LORD, the * fountain of living wa- ,, 22. " v&Irs Xx. ; Thatis, he in whom alone the true 1/rael of God can hope. « Thoſe who forſake thy Law, and that rule thou haſt given them whereby ro directrtheir Converſations, firſt or laſt will be aſhamed
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have, as thy Prophet, revealed to them as they Will, ſhall have no portion beyond the Earth which they ſeem ſo fond of. Or their Names and Memories {hall vaniſh, and periſh, and be preſently ex- tinct like words written in Duſt. x Becauſe they bave fortaken thee who art the alone certain relief and comfort of any People,the fountain and original of all that good they can hope for.
14 Heal me, O LORD, and I ſhall be healed ; fave
me, and I ſhall be ſaved : for thou art my praile y.
y Moſt Interpreters here underſtand the Prophet ſpeaking in theſe words to God for himſelf; he repreſents himſelf ro God as a Pers ſon wounded or ſick,either with his ſenſe of Gods diſhonour by the iins of the People, or with their Reproaches or Threatnings, and bezggeth of God ro heal him, he being he, in whoſe hand or power 't was to heal him, and who could certainly do it. The argu- ment is in thoſe words for thou art my praiſe, he whom alone I have reaſon to praiſe for mercies already received, to whom alone I owe all my good things.
15 T Behold, they ſay unto me, Where is the word
of the LORD z ? letit come now #4. ;
z Scoffing at me as if I had threatned them in thy Name without any order or direction from thee, as the Scoffers meiitioned by Perer , ſaid 2 Per. 3. 4. where is the promiſe of his coming. This hath beer. the practice ef all wicked Men hardned in their ſinful courles, and re- ſolved to go on, to put the evil day far from them, and te fcoff at all Denounciationsof Gods Judgments, 1/3. 5. 19. Amos 5. 18- a Daring the Vengeance of God and challenging God to damn them, or to excute the Vengeance with which he threatneth them.
16 As for me, I have not haſtned from being a paſtor | x5cp; + to follow thee b,neither have I deſired the woful day fter they, thou knoweſt c, that which came out of my lips was right before thee d.
b That the words contain the Prophets appeal to God upon ſome reproaches caſt upon him by this wicked people, as if he had thruſt himſelf into the | water ir; Office, is evidenr, and reſonably well agreed bv Interpreters, but they are divided about the ſenſe of the word "INR, which yet always in Scripture ſignifies to make hafte,or
ro urge,or preſs, the ſenſe ſeemeth to be this. Lord! As I did not ſeek the Office of a Propher,ſo when thou wert pleaſed ro call meto irt,T did nordecline to be a Paſtor after thee-. c Neither ( faith he) have I deſired to be a Prophet of theſe ſad Tidings, thoſe woful Miſeries which thou haſt made me thy Meſſenger to foretel- 4 have ſpoken nothing but what was right in thy ſight being what thou commandedſt me to deliver as from thee, and ſo I know was right inthy ſight:
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