o That is, I will exceedingly multiply them, both with Men and with Cattle,they are 26's laid waſte.their Men 216 de219ved, or gone into other lands, their proficable Beaſts are deftroyed, and kill'd up, but it ſhall nor be fo always. { will azain plant them, and there ſhall be as great plenty of eirher, as if they were ſown. The multiplying both of Men and of Beaſts in Na- tions is God's Bleſling,
watched over them to * pluck up and to break down and to throw dowe, and to deſtroy, and to ati? :
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27 @ Behold, the days come, ſaith the LOR D. * that * I will ſow the houſe of Iſracl and the honi> of ©*
28. And it ſhall come to paſs, 5-7 like as Thave , fo will I watch over them to build aud toplany fark
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p Nothing can produce 1n God & change of Countels, Purpoſes and Decrees, for ie 's not asa Man that he ſhould ye or repent, he is the God that cHangeth ner, but Men's Reformation may produce in him 2 cnange of Providential Diſpenſations, God 1s here ler out as a Man that i5 vindicative,and his vindicativeNature prompts him co watch a;l opportunities of doing hurt to the Perton a- gainlt whom it 1s ſer. There is no fury nor revenge in God ; but what he doth 15 Jullice ; but here an angry God is tet out as ta- king al! opportunities to puniſh ſinners, as if he had watched tor them, whereas he never ſlumbercth cor ſleepeth : But the time of their Reformation, and his Favour being come, God promi- ſeth to be as diligent to do them good, which is here expreft by the metaphorical notions of planting and building thein, as he was before to execute his Juſtice upon them.
29 In thoſe days they ſhall ſay no more; The fa- thers hare caten a ſowre grape, and the childrens teeth are ſet on cdge g.
a Thet is, we are puniſhed for our Fathers Sins, which yet God may juſtly do and none queſtionech the Juſtice of Man 1n the caſe, depriving Children of their patrimonial Lftares for their Parents Treaſons, no more than God threatneth in the Second Commandment. God indeed, Exch. 18. 2. feemeth diſpleated at theiruſe of this Proverb; but the realon is, be:aule they fo uſed Ir as to acquiir themſelves, intimating they were guiltleſs, and {uffered only for the Sins oftheir Parents, whereas that was tale; etherwiſe the puniſhment of Children for the Sins of their Pa- rents, was no more than God had threatned, Exod. 20. 5. and 34. 7. Chap. 15. 4+ Bur faith God, your Captivity fhall,as to you, expiate your Parents Guilt paſt, and you ſhall no more lay lo.
309 But cvery one ſhall dyc for his own 1niquity, every man that cateth the ſower grape, his teeth ſhall be ſet on eaze r,
» But yer (faith God) you muſt not think that Sinners ſhall eſcape my vengeance, but if Men commit Iniquity they ſhall die. No Man's Tezth ſhali be ſer oa edge, but his only, who hath eaten the ſowre Grapso.
31 A Behold. * the days come, ſaith the LORD, I will make a new covenant with the houſe of
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33 But. this ſhall be the covenant that I will make with the houſe of [fracl mw, Afrer thoſe days, faith the
LORD, *will put my law in their inward parts, and write It in their hearts x, and will be their God, and they ſhall be my People y.
w That is, with thole Iſraelites zndeed, who ſhall be without Guile, (as Chriſt ſaith of Nathanael, Fobn 1. 47.) with thoſe whoare (as the Apoſtle ſaith, Kom. 2. 29.) Fews inwardly, by
Grace of God, phet's defign here istoexprels ti.e difference betwixt the Law and the Goſpel. The firſt ſheweth Duty, the latter bringeth'along with it the grace of Regeneration, by which the heart is changed, fitted, and inabled for, and unto Duty. All under the time of the Law
[fracl, and with the houſe of Judah /.
{ Tie Apdoſtle's application of this, Heb. 8. 8, 9, 10+ puts us out of doubr, that this Promiſe referred to the Goſpel-rimes. It was not only made with the Fews, bur all thoſe who ſhould be ingiaffed into that O/7ve ; but 1t is faid ro be made with them, e1- ther as thoſe twa Terms fig::1fhe the whole Church with whom that Covenant was made, (they being the whole Church which God had upon the Earth at that time) or becauſe they were the only people that had broken the firſt Covenant, the Gentiles be- ing Strangers at that time to the Covenant of Promiſe, Eph. 2. 12. Covenants being uſually renewed upon one Parties violation of them, or becanſe it was at firfl made with the Fews, tho” it con. cernedalſo thoſe that were afar off, even as many as the Lord ſhould call, Affts 2. 39. Neither 15 called the New Covenant, becaule it was asto the Subſtance new, (for it was made with Abraham, Gen. 17. 7. and with the Fews, Deut. 26. 17, 18. And is was then confirmed by the Blood of Chriſt, though not actually ſhed, yet as he was the Lamb ſlain from the beginning of the World whole Blood was typified by the Blood of the Paſchal Lamb, and of al) thole living creatures killed tor Sacrifice,) but upon many other Accounts thus enumerated by Divines. 1. Becaule it was new in the notion of a Teſtament, not confirmed by the aftual Death of Chriſt till Goſy+]-Times. 2. Becauſe it was revealed and preached after a new manner, more fully and particutariy, plain- Iy and clearly, 3. Bzcaule it had no fuch mixture of Promiles of temporal Bleſſings, as it had when firſt made with the Jews, 4+ Nor was the Ceremonial Law any part of it, as jt was to the F-we, who were obliged to approve themlielves God's People b: + obſeryance of that. 5. It was inthe Publication extended bath to Fews and Gentiles, which the former was not. 6. In re-
"4 of the efficacy of the Spirit attending the Publication of it, 2 3 much tuller and larger manner, with the diſtribution of its ":.{ts and Graces, inabling Souls to fulfil it. See more in the Kr z/ifh Annotations upon this Subject.
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