unto the LORD, ſaying ?, © Whar he prayed for, the Matter of his Prayer in the follow- ing Verſes will inform us : but it ſhould ſeem by it, that he :was not withour his perplexities ; though he yielded an abſolute Obe- dience to God's command, yet he prayeth for a clearer Revelation of his meaning in thisthing. 17 Ah Lord GOD, behold, thou haſt made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and ſtretched *Gen» 18: out arm, andthere *is nothing || too hard for thee «. 14.Ver:27- «u He beginneth his Prayer with a Recognition of Gods Omni- Luk; 1.37- potency, and the infiniteneſs of his Power, which was ſhewed 1n | 2r, hid his ficſt making the Heaven and the Earth, as we read Gen, 1. Pſal. from thee. 146. 6. God himſelf uſed this inſtance to confirm his Peoples Faith in his ability to do what he pleaſed,Chap.+7.5..It is obſervable that the Servants of God in Holy Writ, uſed in their Prayers to | give God ſuch Names, as might help to confirm their Faich as to what they asked, Nothingcan further be neceſſary to confirm our | Faith that we thal have whar we ask,than for 1s to be perſwadedthatr | the Perſon is able to do it, and alſo willing. The Proph:rt Leginneth ; with a Declaration of his Faith in God as to the firſt, then goes on to the ſecond. 18 Thou ſheweſt loving kindneſs unto thouſands,ard recompenſeſt the iniquity of the fathers into the bolom of their children after them w, the great, the mighty
God, th: LORD of boſts 3s his name. | w This is the Name which God gave himſelf, Exod. 34. 7. Den. 5. 9, Io, and of this Jatter clauſe declarative of the Vengeance of God in puniſhing Children for their Parents f.:s,are many inſtances in Scripture, Joſ. 7. 24. 1 Sam. 2. 33: 34- I Kings 14. 10. 11. and 21» 24- 19 Great in counſel x, and mighty in work y, ( for thine * eyes are upon allthe ways of the ſons of men * to give every one according to his ways, and accor-
* Job 3+-ding to the fruit of his doings z. )
op + x Who doſt nothing but in infinite Wiſdom, as if thou hadſt
ON 33-3): aken counſe] upon it, and art mighty in thy Works of Provi-
pos arg dence, by which thou governeſt the World. z. Whoſe Eyes run
Sn 9507: co and fro the Earth, beholding the evil and the good ; ſo that
TI all things are naked before thee, and thou art not a meer curious
and idle ſpe&ator of Mens Aftions, bur lookefi upon them for that end, that thou might=ſt reward or puniſh them, according as thou ſceſt their ations good or bad in thy ſight.
20 Which haſt ſet ſigns and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day , and in Iſrael b, and a- moneſt other men c, and haſt made chee a , name as at this day. po IE
s Who didſt Wonders of Juſtice in the Land of Fgyp. ſuch as are remembred and made matrers of aſtoniſhing Diſcourſe even to this day, 6 and wroughteſt Wonders of Mercy in Iſrael, bringing them out of Egypr through the Red Sea, raining them down Man- 28 and 2uails from Heaven, and ferching Water out of the Rock for them, &*c. c And haſt done alſo many wondrous Works in other places, by which thou haſt made thy ſelf a Glorious Name.
21 And haſt brought forth chy people Ifrael,*out of the land of Egypt with ſigns, and with wonders, and with aſtrong hand, and with a ſtretched out arm, and
with great terror 4.
4 _ The Hiſtory of this we have in the 11 or 12 firſt Chapters of Exodus. God ſent 10 Plagues upon Egyps one after another, before Pharaoh would let them go, and when he purſued after them, divided the Red Sea for them, that rhey might paſs through, and then brought the Waters back upon the Egyptians, purſuing afcer them through the Sea, : WE 55
22 And haſt given them this land which thou didft Gvear unto their Fathers to give them /a land flowing with milk and honey m. I
1 God owneth this Oath, Ezod. 6.8. » That is abounding with all neceſſary things, and all pleaſant things. Canaan.is often thus deſcribed, Exod. 3s 8, 17- and 13. 5. and 33. 3, Lev. 20, 24. Numb. 14. $8. and 16. 53. 14+ Devt. 6. 3. and I 9. Oc,
23 And they came in and poſſeſſed ir », but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law o, they have done nothing at all that thou commandeſi them to do p : therefore chou haſt cauſed all this evilto
come upon them 9. | 2 In s © former 9 he acknowledged God's Goodneſs, here
he owns his Truth and Faithfulneſs, in ſo conduQting this People by his Providence, that they came into the promiſed Land and poſſeſſed it. o Having acknowledged Gods Power, Omniſcience, Goodneſs, Truth and F 2ithfulneſs, he comes to own his Juſtice, confeſſing that this People for whom God had done ſo much, had very ill requitted him, not ebey:ng his wvozce, which he expounds by wor walking in his law ; for the Law was God's Voice to them. p This he aggravatech by ſaying they had done nothing of what he. had commanded, not breaking ſome particular Law, but the whole Law of God. q Therefore God was righteous in bringing this Sword, Peſtilence and Famine upon them.
24 Behold the || mounts 7, they are come unto the
city totake it 5,and che cityis given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight againſt it :,becauſe of rhe ſword,
*Bx:6: 6: 2 Sam; 7. 23.1Ch I7: 21,
fOr, EZne gines of
M 1 4 H. Chap. XX
# The word ſignifies Ramparts, or rather Battering Rams, Er- gines of War which thoſe Nations uſed ro batter Walls, or to ſhoot great Stones into places beſizged. 5 They zre already Befieging Hieruſalem, and have been for ſome time, £ Ard the City is even ready to be taken and cannot ho'd out. « So many diily arc kiiled either with the Sword of the Enemy, or by Famine for wart of Proviſion, or by the Peſtilence, w Thou art juſt, and righteous in all this, and haſt done bur according to what thou threatned & to do, to a finfull People that would not obey thy Voice.
25 And thou haſt ſaid unto me, O Lord GOD, Buy thee the field for money,and take witneſſes : || for the City 15 given into the hands of the Chaldeans x.