and lamentation, m Rachel is here brought in, having been buried near that place, as if ſhe were riſen up from the Grave, and lamen- ted the Jewiſh Nation which came out of her Loins (tor ſo Benja- mm aid. which was one of the two Tribes that made the Kingdom of Fudah) all the People of which Tribe are properly enough cal- ied her Children. Rachel here fignifieth all the Berjamitiſh Wo- men who deſcended from Rachel, n And like a paflionate Wo- man the retuſed all Arguments of Comfort, becaule her Children either were ro: ablolutely.being ſlain by: the Peſtilence the Famine.
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and the Sword of the King of Babylon, or were no longer her
{ſpoken of Chap.28, and 29.ſhould come upon them,and They ſhould call them to mind among all the Nations, whither the Lord had dri- ven them; if they return'd unto the Lord their God, and obeyed his woice, according to all that he commanded them, they an4 their children, with all rh:ir h-art, and with their ſoul, That then the Lord their God would turn their Captivity, and have come paſſion on them, 8c. Now faith Ephraim after I was turrs1, atter God had changed our Hearts, we repented and changed our Practices. x After that God had inſtructed us, eittier by his Pro- phers, or by Briars and Thorns, by our Affflidtions, or by iis Holy Spirit, we {mote upon our Thighs 10 Teſtimony ofour Sorrows and
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ags of a Min they ſay were as well out of Fulez as init, this
- Sins, uaderſtanding that L did but bear the juſt Puniſhment} was in Fudza only. s. The Word tranſlated /Foman 1n Scriptures — "which [had Jong ago committed in the Time of my | they lay always ſiznihes a particular individual Woman, waich
Wantonneſs,Rebellion,and Diſobedience to God : This is exprel-| could be no other than the Virgin.
6. They ſay the whole
ſed by the Term Tvut!, hecaule ordinarily Men and Women's| Co:text refers to benefits coming by Chriſt, therefore he muſt {ot e : " P
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heir time of Wanconnels ; Perſons ordinarily grow1ng certataly be the Man here intended. 7. They urge that this Pro- Hore conſiderate and ſober as years increaſe upon them. Thus the | phecy follows, ver- 15. which Math, 2. 8. | cet erelleth tha:Gol would prepare thisPeople for mercy} Evangeliſt to Herod's Murder of the Infants upon the Birth of
13 applied by the
inthe next Verles he ſheweth how ready God's ear would be to | Chritt. But on the other ſide it is objeCted tha: the Verb JNAD is
hear.
- for ſince I ſpake againit him, I do carneſtly re- * therefore my bowels are |
member him {till 2- *1 l -ronbled for him, I will ſurely have mercy upon
him, faich the LORD. -———_—_ > Interpreters run into a very great variety 1n their Explicatt- ans of this Text. That which ſeemerh to be the caule of it, 8 that amongſt the Hebrews ,affirmativeInterrogations are notes of the _ hement denial of the thing, as to which the queſtion is propound- ed which leads ſome to interpret theſe words into a denial, that Etbraim was his dear $on,0r a pleaſant Chil4,and denying the truth of his profefled Repentance. But certainly this 1s quite contrary to the whole ſcope of the Prophet. The Reverend Author of the Enzliſh Annotations hatn obſerved, that the afirmarive {nterroga- rion ſome times in ſcripture doth imply a Negative, or the nega tive particle is \uppreſled and 1 is puc tor RY; lo that 1s E- phraim my dear Son, here is the lame with, 1s not Ephraim my dear Son? He gives for Inſtances, 1S.4m. 2. 27, 28. Where, did I? Plainly is the ſame with, did I not ? So Fob 20, 4. where we have ſupplied Nor, Knoweſt thou w9t? &7c. SO Chap. 3+ 6. Where Haji zhou ſven ? Is the lame with, Haſt thou nor ſezn. SO ETtk, 20. 30. Amos 6. 2. $9 that tho' the Particle prefixed 7, be an athrimative Particle, yet it is often put for 1777 Halo, and fignifiech Negative- 1y, the Negative being ſuppreſſed and to be underſtood. I have alſo ſometimes thought that even here it may be fairly enoug? interpreted,Is Ephraim now become my dear Son ? Is he a pleafant
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. never uſed in Scripture to ſiznine ſuch an incompaſſinz, 2, That 20 Is Ephraim my dear ſon? »5 hea plcaſant child jthe Word tranſlated a man, tignifving 2 ſtrong Man, oth not Pros
perly agree to an Infant in the Mother's Belly, But it is a=ain replied, that this 1s not the oaly Word in Scripture, that is but
once read in the ſame fence. 2. That the Word figniticth any {n-
compaſling, and may be properly applied to the Virgin's Womb incompatling an Infant. And for the Word tranſlated Mar, they lay it is applied toa new born Infant, Feb 3. 3. Ifa. 9. 6. That it is applied to God, Deut. 10. 17. and to Chriſt, zach, 13. 7
compared with Matth. 26. 31. Ina Matter wherein to many jear- ned Mer-are divided, it is enough for me to give their Ovinione and Reaſons, leaving my Reader to his own Judgment, in a Mar. ter wherein neither his Faith nor Holineſs ar much concerne3 : for the Queſtion is not concerning thething, whether Chriſt was incompaſſed in the Womb of a Woman, which is plain enouzh from other Scriptures, but only whether that be the ſenſe of che Phraſe here.
23 Thus ſaith the LORD of hoſts the God of [ſrael &, As yet / they ſhall uſe this ſpeech in the land of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I fall bring again thelr captivity, Ihe LORD bleſs thee, O ka- bitation of juſtice, 2d mount of holineſs 2.
k Theſe Prophecies of the Reſtauration of the Z-ws, are very ordinarily prefaced with thele two Attributes of God.the one of which aflerts his Power to Go the thing promiled ; for what car- not be done by the Lord ot Hoſts ? The other afferting his Goog- neſs or Good Will to this People, becaule he is their Go&. rela-
Child ? Is his heart turned fo is mine. @ For fince I ſpeak 42 7-/E [red to them, 1n Covenant with them : Ability and Love, or
him, or with him, or of him, I do earneſtly remember him, 27 m2 middei dabberi. Ar. Montanus tranflateth it, from the ſufficiency