of my ſpeaking with him ; the reaſon of the difference is, \T hg. hes to ſuffice, and it ſignifies time. I lee no reaſon to vary from our Tranſlation, ſince or from the time, as the ſame Particle ſignifierh 1 Sam, 18.30. 1 Kings 14.28, Tſz. 28. 19. I ſpake agvinſt him by my Threatnings, I do remember him with the affe&tion and compaſſion of a Father. b My bowels are troubled for him, 15 as much as, I have pitied him ; as the Bowels of Parents are turn- ed and troubled for their Children in Calamities ; therefore faith God. c I will certai-ly ſhew him favour.
21 Set thee up way-marks 4,make thee high heaps e: ſet thine heart towards the high-way, ever the way wh:ic> thou wentelt /: turn again, O virgin of Hrael, turn again to theſe thy cities.
4 The latter part of this Verſe exponds the former. Thou ſhalt (faich God) return again to theſe Cities which thou now leaveſt, therefore take good notice of the way thou goeſt, ſet up fome marks by which thou mayeſt know jc again. e Make thee Pillars, or ſome high heaps of Srone in the way, which thou mayeſt know
Good Will co us, beity the two Pillars of our Faith and Conf. dence in God, which requireth no more than tha: we ſhould be aſſured that the Perſon whom we truſt is ab!eand willins to &5 what we truſt ro him tor. 1 The Particle Ty iremeth better tranſlated, ver. 5. y2t again they ſpall ule, 8&c. m Three things the Prophet here foretelleth, 1. That the Cities which h44 former- ly beg the Havitations of bloody. unjuſt, crue! Men, fhould be- come the Habirations of Men who ſhon!1 do juſtice ro all, 2. That the City which ſtood upon Mount Zn. and had forme: 1s been an habitation of Idolaters, and other unko!tr Perions, ſhould be- -ome a Place, in which Men ſhauld ina Cue and holy inanner ſerve and Worſhip the erue God. 3. That they ſhould be fo tamous both for Juitice and Holineſs, -thar Men would take notice of it and wiſhthem well under that notion ; and upon that account, 35 they had for their fins been mate a Cyrſc and a Proverb, fo 1pon their Reformation they ſhould be for a Blefling. By this we may oblerve tnat thoſe who would be bletted by God and Men ſhou!d be juſt towards Men; and holy towards God, :
24 And there ſhall dwell in Judah it ſelf, and in
all the citics thereot together hushaudmen, and they
again when thou comeft at them. f Mind well the way that the Aſſyrians and the Babylonians carried thee, for thou ſhalt come back the ſame way. g Farther to aſſure them they ſhould return, he calls to them to zurn again, and doubleth his words, tor the farther confirmation of the thing.
22 4 How long wilt thou go about, O thou back- fiding daughter h? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth,a woman ſhall compaſs a man z.
h "That the Jews are here meant by the back{liding daughter 1s out of queſtion 3 but what going about is here intended, 1s not {0 Plain. Some interpret it of their running after Idols; ſome of their ſeeking help from foreign Nations,inftead of applying them- ſelves unto God. Others of their wandring up and down in Cap- tivity. 7 But the greater difficulty 1s about this new thing, Whic the Lord faith he will create in the new Earth, a Woman compaſ- fing a Man. Some by Women underſtand the feeble Perſons that ſhould prevail againſt ſtrong Men. But the two interpretations of this difficult paſſage, which ſeem moſt reaſonably to contend tor preference, are, 1, The Interpretation of thoſe whothink it con- eains a Promlle both of the Fewiſh Church in its time, and of the Goſpel-Church,after the Fewiſh Church's period, prevailing over all 1ts Enemies, whether Temporal or Spiritual ; though, confide- ring the paucity of the Church's Members, with the multitude of its Enemles, and their power, it ſeemed as ſtrangea thing, as for a Woman to prevail againſt a ſtrong and mighty Man. This the learned Author of the Engliſh Annotations, judgeth the true and genuine ſenſe of theſe Words. Others interpret this Woman to be the Virgin Mary, who was to incloſe in her Womb the Lord Je- ſus Chriſt, to whom the converted Fews were to adhere 3 which ſence neither Mr. Calvin, nor our learned Engliſh Annotator ap- rove of. But it being the received fence of many Interpreters, it $ fit we ſhould hear their Reaſons, which are, 1. They urge the Particle "A, tor God, lay they, here gives the Reaſon why the oo ſhould defire to return iato the Country of Fudea, becauſe ” e M-ſſis was to be born ther?- 2. They urge the Term created, the Body of Chriſt being not begotten by Man, but created by God, though of the Fleſh of the Virgin. 3+ They fay this indeed was 2 new thing. It was a new thing for a Virgin to become a
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c{:d for ever, tho' not the Mother of the Divine 'riſt anſwered the Type of Metchiſedec{, withour
that go forth with flocks zz.
n This whole Verte 'is but en Expreſſion of their peaceable State atrer their return, they thould live innocently and peacea- bly. So chap. 33. 22. :
25 For lave ſatiated the weary foul, and I havo repleniſhed every ſorrowful ſoul x,
” I have here 15 of tile faine ſignificacy with I will. as ordina- rily in prophetical Promiſes, which arethe words of 11m who calleth the things that are not as ifchey were, and woutt have his People 100K upon the things which he harh promiſed to be as certain as if they were already done. The words are only a n-0- mile to the ſame ſence as before, that God would give his peop'e abundance of eaſe and plenty, and wipe all tears from their eye,
| 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld ; and my fleep was ſweet unto me o.
c Either this Revelation was madeto Feremzah in a dream,from whence awakening, look'd about him .and he w as very well piea- ſed with his fleep at th2t time, becauſe of the gracious promite3 concerning Fuduh which the Lord had in that Dream revealed to him. Or elle 1n a Vition, upon the fightand hearing of vi 5c! he was as well piealed,asa Manrthat had ſlept quietiv,and had had no
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Judah with the ſeed of man and with the ſec! of beaſt. | |