1 Not in that great day before mentioned, but in the day when | Annotations upon the Text, It may be more material to co = God ſhould deliver the Seed of Facob our of Troxble, m God | fider whether the Prophet's meaning be, there was none would threatens to break the Yoke of the King of Babylon, that is, to do it, or there was none could do ic, or there was none ſhould break that power of his, which for 70 Years he ſhould exerciſe in | do it, that is, whom God would admit at preſent to doit, as he keeping the Fews under. #2 And he would break the Bonds in| elſewhere faich, though Noh, Dani?! and Fob, and though Avfes which they ſhould be kept. o And forreign Nations ſhould no and Samuel ſtood betore him, they ſhould {ave noae bur their own more ſerve themſelves upon the Fews. Souls. The Prophet's defign doubtlels was to larisfie this Peop'e,
9. But they ſhall ſerve the LORD rheir God; hat there was no preſent Remedy for them, but Patience, though
- Poon” peg | fome would in charity plead for them, and though their talſe _ David their King p, whom I will raiſe UP Unto Prophets might promile a Cure; yec in veiy deed God would them p.
admit now of no Flea for them, and all means that could be uted
p Who is here meant by David is not well agreed. Somethink; for their more ſpeedy Reſtauration, would prove no healing Me- this Promiſe was fulfilled in the Rule of Zorobabe!, and thoſe af-| dicines, but like Medicines rhat make the Patients worle, and ter the Captivity of Babylon, of the Family of David, who ruled' irritate, iaſtead of allaying the Diſtemper,
over the Fews, though not uader the Style of Kings : Others think . K that Chriſt is intended as in the other Parallel Prophecies, Ezek.' 14+ Allthy lovers have forgotten thee 6 : they ſeek
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FAINT Chap. 0.0.06 + Heb. 6. Ask ye now, and ſee whether a Man doth tra- A Male. yail with Child ? wherefore do Iſce every Man with * Cup. 1j; Hands 0a his Loins, Fas a Woman in 1 ravall f, 4. 31+ 4" nd all Faces are turned into Paleneſs g ?
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: \The Voice which I hear, is not the Voice of Women, but of Men, and thole the ſtroageſt and ſtouteſt Men, yer 1t 15a Voice like the Voice of Women in Travail, roaring out through their Vains,aad che Foltuce I ſee the generality of Men are in,is like the poſture of Women in Travail, who hold their Hands upon their Loias, hoping: thereby to abare their Paln. | Was Ic ever heard that Males had the Pains that uſe to attend Child-bearing Women 2 g And all Meas Saces look as it they had the TelMow-Faundice ; or
all Interpreters ſeem agree.| that the Propher's Scope is to bring their uneafie thoughts toa reſt, aud make ch+m reſt latiszed vil, ere Providence of Gd ; for there was no Refiltance of the Will of God, which he metaphorically exprefſzth under the Nation of 062 miſerably and 1acurably wounded, whom no Phyſician or Chirur- g20n could heal, aad for whom there was no effectual Bliilter ; buc concerning the particular lence? of the H-brews Words, much is critically ſaid, which I conceive not my Wat k to repear, nor i5 {t of mach moment to us to know, whether the Word more p:ro- perly ſignifizs healing Medicines, or Courſes of Cure, or Plaiil:rs ;
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34+ 23. and 37.22, Hof. 3. 5- and thatthe Deliverance here pro- miled was fpiricual ; and indeed unlels we fo underſtand it, it will be hard to aſlign a time when the Promiſe of the former and this Verſe was made good, for upon the return from che Captivity to the Coming of Chriſt,and trom his time to this day, other Nations have ſerved themſelves upon the Fews, and they have been in perpetual Servitude, firſt to the Perſians, then to the Grecians, then to the Romans, in Servitude to whom they wereat the Com- ing of Chriſt, and ſoon after miſerably. ſubdued by them, and fiace that time almoſt all Nations have ſerved themſelves of the F-ws. Either therefore this Prophecy mult be underſtood in a ſpi- Ticual ſence of the Kingdom of Chriſt, under which the Fems that received him were ſpiritually free: Or elſe there isa time yet to come, when this Ancient People of God ſhall be reſtored to a turther Civil Liberty than'they have enjoyed ever ſince the Cap. tivicy of Babylon, and be more full converted to Chriſt, than they yetare; towards which ſence many Texts of Scripture, beſides
this, look; particularly Kom. 11. 25, 26, * la.4i- 40. © Therefore * fear thou not, O iy Servant - 33.&4445: Jacob 7, faith the LORD, neither be diſmayed, O Cxtt © lracl; forlo, I will fave thee from afar, and thy
| TA), 46. wag I Y 28, Secd from the Land of their Captivity /, and Jacob {hall return, and ſhall be in Reſt and Quiet, and none {ſhall make him atraid r.
r You that are my Servants, and the Poſterity of Facob, tho' your Captivity be Threeſcore and Ten Years, yet be not afraid that I have quite forgotten you, or my Promiſe made to your Fa- thers. {For I will affure you, that though I have for your Sins lent you afar off, yet you are not beyond the reach of my ſaving
Arm. z You ſhall return out of the Captivity of Bebylon, and be |
at reſt, asthey were for 150 Years during the time of the Perſian Monarchy. A ſhort Hiſtory of which we have in the Books of Exra and Nehemiah.
11, For I am with thee, ſaith the LORD to ſave
*Amos thee: * though I make a full end of all Nations whi-
9.8. ther I have ſcattered thee, yet will I not make a full
* Pſal.6.1, end of thee w: butl will corre&t thee *in meaſure *#; Chap. 1e.and will not leave thee altogether unpuniſhed y.
34 & 46. u To ſave thee, with a Temporal Salvation, and Deliverance,
23, and thoſe of thee who are Iſraelites indeed with a ſpiritual, and
eternal Salvation; buc the ficſt is what is here principally intended,
w God puts a difference betwixt the Chaſtiſements of his People,
and the Puniſhmenc of their Enemies ; the Jatter he deſtroyeth
With an Utter, and total Deſtruion, to make an End of them ;
bur he chaſtens his People like a Father for their profic, and will
not bring them to utter ruine. x He corrects them in meaſure:
The Hebrew word tigniheth in judgment ; that is,not in Equity only,
but in Wiſdom, or with Moderation, whereas he is ſaid to puniſh
his Enemies ln Fury. There are many Texts of Scripture that men-
t10n this difference which God puts berwixt his puniſhing his Peo-
— 2" panithing their Enemies, Iſa, 26, 14, 19. & 27+ 7,8.