# Iſa. 13, VICE bring the day that thou haſt] called,and they i : y — ape no ho. __ &c. Jer. {hall be like untro me f. : _ ac 5 = - —_ EY DACK 13S ! L,0C LING SOLES © Fog 45. &C. c The Nations contignous to me, E215t, &c. thole that before 'IOrC The eilcmy ”, and he burnec 2ZAUUL Jacod lite a 1 Or, pro- courted me, as pretended Friends have been no ſtrangers to my | flaming fire, w/c devourerh round about 2. 6/aim:d. bitrer afflictions, that have brought forth ſighs from me. d But g That 1s, the beauty and ſtrength of 1ſrael, to Horn {igniferh there is none of them can or will comiort me, bur give me over [by an uſual Meraphor in Scripture, P/4!. 75. 4. Jer. 4%. 25, 2 as in a deſperate cafe. e The Edomites, Ohad. 1, &c. and Moabites |the Horn being much the Beaury ot the Bea??, as allo that Mem- and other Heathen Nations, with whom I have had hoſtility,thev |her by which the Beaft puts torch its frength in aTſwultinz i:s ; are glad at the great miſery that hath betallen me. f But thou halt | Advertary. þ Either God hath drawn back his &3itance . which declared thy pleaſure for their deſtruction alſo, and haſt by Me |he was wont to give the Jews again{t their Enemies : Or I{rael, proclaimed it, Fer. 4.9. and 50. and thou ſhalc in that day bring jthrough God 5s leaving of them, hath drawn back his right hands chem into as ſad a condition as the Church of the Jews are now |hut jt ſeems rather to be underſtood of God's weaning the Ir- in. As they ſeldom in theml(elves tec] thole Miſeries, which they |elites riahet hand, fo as they were not able to hold chem up (25 have felt and compaſſionate in others: So Men hardly eſcape their |before) apainſt cheir Enemies. 7Goil had contumed them, no: in own ſhare at laſt in thoſe evils, which they have rejoyced to fee {this or thar part, bit round abour, as 4 fre fiezing -1y honſe, or brought upon God's People. heap of combuſtible matrer at once on all {ife-
22 Let all their wickedneſs come before thee : and | 4 He hzth bear his bow like any caemy - he Food do unto them, as thou haſt done unto me tor all my |with his right hand as an adverſary 4, and flew + all 4 e7,6, tranſgreſſions - for my lighs are many, and my heart | that were pleaſaur ro the eve !, in the tabernacle of | is faint g. the davghter of Zion: he poured out: his jus:
g.This Verſe is another Prophetical Curſe or Imprecation,ſeve ry like fire me ral of which we meet with in Holy Writ, Pſal. 10g. 6,7,8,9- and k That is, God, (wha by their fins thev h14 provoted arr 137. 8. Fer. 11.20. and 18. 23, and In many other Texts, which made their Enemy ) behaved hintelt as an Enemy, bendige would incline us to think that our Saviour's Precept, Mfr. 5. 44- Bow, and firetching our h's rizht hand, Land few their your to pray tor thole that perſecute us, back'd by his own Example, | qqeq. and Moiiens who were oloatant oo look 15m mn And nt Luke 23. 34. and Stephen s, AAs 7. 60. 15 either to be interpreted \ vrought Judgments 1508 them like fire, which devounrs without of praying for the forgiven:ſs of their fins, (we ought to deſire | ,n- Yoni ain, theeternal Condemnation of none :) or to be reſtrained to ſuch as j _.. The LOWS, encmy.- he hath Coatlee are Our perſonal Enemies.not the commonEnemies of the Church | d "I Ro. _ 7 ou of God. Our Saviour's Precept moſt certainly is not tobe ſoin-| ed up [irael, he hath twallowed up ail her placs terpreted, that we may lawfully pray tor ſuch evils to the im-| he hath deſtroyed his ſtrong holds, and hath tacreat placable Enemies of the Church, and the People of Godas may | cd in the daughter of Judah mournias and lincate- reſtrain and weaken their hands, and pur them our of a capacity | tjgn y, 3 M ns Lords Hs E _— —_ by ny n See Ver. 2, geveral pathetical expreitons ſhgniving the { N2
| on 5, anc £0 denre no evIt againit enem out or Pri- ithings properly intimaring the dialect of Mourners,whote p33 3:1 vate revenge or malice, but only out of Love to God, and Zeal |j\fars them not to {peak accordins to Art, bu: freauenly now for his Glory ; but tor their outward Proſperity in their Courles fay the Co things _=_ oh q -eufethodarewm cm. of Enmity we cught no more to pray, than againſt their eternal 4 : 12 xv ouiatyine DF I ring "0 ea: 7 ? 5 ; | 6: And he hath violently * taken away his | tabcr- Salvation ; for this were ta beg of God to encourage his Enemies "= oc Art re Ears 7 : / 1 their enmity againſt him. And though Jeremiah were a preater nacle », asf it were of a garden; he hath deſtroyed Nis, | Prophet than any of us can pretend to be, and had revelations of | places of the aſſembly p : the LORD hath canied thy particular future Contingences which we have not ; yet every one{{glemn feaſts, and ſabbaths ro be forgotten in Zion 4 may Prophefie a ruine to the Enemies of God's Church and Peo- | hath deſviſed in the indionario! oa ws le, and ſuch "aye me agsr 7 6 "{and hath dcipiſed in the 1udignation of his anger 50 pie, and asrejoyce in their ruine; God never ufing a Rod a- |} . oe gainſt his People, which he doth not at laſt burn, nor ever coun- | 4125 and the prielt 5, Ds tenancing Inhumanity in any, but much lefs when it is rooted in | © The word tranſlated Tabernaelo (tay ſome) ſignifies an he tg a malice againſt himſelf, and his intereſt in the World. or fence, and they would have it nere fo trauflaced, and to cio Phraſe ſhould denote God's withdrawing his Protection from c!:g CHAP II i Fews, but it15 no where to tranfliced, Ie1s another word uſed, : Pſal. 80. 12, -_ 89. 40. _—_—_— judicious Interpreters thin , ; : | that the word here ſigntheth the Terple, and the rather beca.:! *m CS nos che _ 174] Frans Cauſes 3 and | what tolloweth. p By the places of 192 Afj-mviy My be 22ders Te row and Repentanc: + p As 700 £9 true S0r- ſtood the Synagogues. q By the King and the Pric!t ave moan 4 OO E, 6 Jervens Fran, 16, SIR Perſons of great Rank and Eminency, tho' it is thought
I OW hath the LORD covered the daughter 4 of Zion with acloud in his anger a, aud caſt _ from heaven to the earth the daughter of
racl b, and remembred not his footftool in the day of his anger c !
a It hath been formerly obſerv'd that great States and Kingdoms are often 1n Scripture expreſſed under the notion of Daughters, Pjal. 137. 8. Iſ4.47. i ,5. Lament. 4.21, 22.Jer. 46. 11: Iſa. 10, 32+ te meaning 1s, How hath God obſcured all the beauty and ROTY Of the Church and Scate of the Fews. b That is, thrown