Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 338

by Blood, which 1s no proper kindly Nouriſhment for ſuch Cedars, : - , but by Waters which are kindly and proper, and theſe great enough their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees | {tand I : for his own growth, and bs nouriſh others too. up 1n their height, all that drink water : 9 for * they are |0; I. G74 ) * Cen.zs. 3 The cedars > in the * garden of God » could not |2ll delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the carth fon f hide him: the fla-trees 0 were not like his boughs , and (1 the midſt of the children of men, with them that paths " the cheſnut-trees p were not like his branches : nor|down to the pit. "Pj; 1 any 9 tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his 72 All this is deſignedrobe a Warning to Mortals, » 7. e. the E ; beauty. PR, NE Kir:gs, orrich flouriſhing States. o Planted __ 3 l | m Kings the greateſt and moſt magnificent. » Either in the moſt ah —— ws —Yy with Power and Wealth, 3 wn fruptul Gardens, or in Tudah and Iſracl ; not Davida, not Solomon, Je-|thick Boughs the! N "oy oY ROT nn ANODE BUT | TOPS above all the ; gc hoſhaphat or Heeckiah could top and ſhade him. o A meaner ſort of | 61 1tin Hers is ms" This Caution againſt Pride and Self. 4 cl Trees, emblem of leſſer Kings and Kingdoms, tneſe were notlike his' (js —_ eh —_— — that all, eſpecially great Men, and ” Boughs, though they grow to great height and bulk. p The ſame in; pe pombe g = EH's w_ om this Parable-is propounded, ſhould _ another A/lnjimm, Kings, ike Cheſnurt Trees, great when by themſelves, | are Men, : { : r : Tr ce they are Gods, yet by Nature they | A; yet conpared with this Aſjrian, were but as Branches of his Boughs,; ,1Q + 7 M, Y 4 b Jags of God, who cannot die, theſe Gods B Hr all which in 1ſ9:a#'s Words, chap. 10. 7,8.there was ſome truth, though | 1;1e Fig nemmnaies. e Jaid = _—O forgotten like other Men, = more pride in this Speech of the #ſjriar, which the Prophet re-! ng diftinaion B mean Men, for that Death and the Grave make = cle; =_ 7 All ſummed up, none like him in all the Kingdoms of the; you yy" . Be norproud, God will pull down ſuch ; be humble, U fan Vorld. ——_— 4 o o 4 » as I T ; Z © Ihave made him fair » by the multitude s of his bran- Ss. _ —_— —_ _ q In the day when her "es ches : ſo that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden'req the deep us ny, rg mT leet -< 4 ay and ma of God, envied him. | thereof, and the great waters y were ſtayed; how Lo k Wer n Allthis Greatneſs, Wealth and Glory I have given him. s The, Lebanon z to F mourn for hi d Td i Ccauk bc: # Numbers of his Provinces, and multitude of his, Subjedts, high and | field fainted 6 f _ im, and all the trees 4 of the = Whi low, _—_ and ſma])]. R o_ did when they ſaw his greatneſs, or bn or him; ; HH Lion would have envied if they had ſeen it; or 1f there may be 2 ſeemin r The King of 4/hria, the tall Cedar, or the K: _ = neve Juſtifiablenels in wondring at another's Glory, and wiſhing 1t our _ Was like a Man in a Grave,buried in its own __—_ day # Creat here ir might be found. a er % T put the Sea, 3.e- either neighbouring States, or Wo 10 T Therefore thus ſaich the Lord GOD, becauſe rs —_—_ : _— ee rng Part of the World, into mour. BP. oy thou haſt lifted x up thy ſelf in height, and he hath ſhot up | ligences w Fg Ja” em airs, Commerce and friendly Intel. WWF «eq. his w© id. chick ban! 1h; ye - ligences were at a great ſtand. » The great Traffick and Wealth b Y nis top among the tNICK DOUgNsS, an his heart is lifted up | ©; which did flow as great Waters, were ſtaid, and living Rivers ”_ kf oy in his h<zght 5 ; as void of Motion as the Dead Sea, all was out of Courſe. x The 7 _ x Now you ſhall hear the Sin, and the Fall of this great Kingdom Field in which this Cedar grew, 7. e. the whole Kingdom of A/yri I = of Aſſria. 6 Bis mind could not longer bear ſo great Proſperity, he zs All the leſſer Kings, and Pmnces about him. 6 Fell into a ſwound ; 4 lifes up himſelf, and in his Pride forgets God who lifted him up; and at the News, of this great and unparalle'd downfal of this mighty F thee | will caſt him down. You have a Specimen of it in that of 1/2. 10.7, 8, King and Kingdom ; which hath been here in ſacred Hyperbols ſet forth of ch 9. with the reſt ro the 207h werſe, and Iſa: 36.9, 15, 18. this as other | ©2 warn Egypr, and convince it, none can ſtand whom God will caſt Þ beaſt: beſt framed Politics degenerated into Pride and Violence againſt down. Whether there were any portentous ſigns in the Sea, and great F- | Neighbours, Subjects, Friends as well as againſt Enemies. Though Waters, and the Rivets, and among the trees, prefages of this fa, i ini roo much *rwas to deſpiſe Man, yet *twas intolerably more inſolent to and pointed at here, I enquire not. : | | [ef : reproach 4 It is = _— lop, nay cut down this Cedar, as 1/a.| 16 IT made the nations to ſhake *£ at the ſound of hi _ Fa 10. 33. with 1/a. 37. 36, 38. fall : P | . - - w ” f1 + Heb. '» IT I have therefore delivered p him 9 into the hand|d { _ OO RN Rel! , with cham tht led wi doinz be of the mig! of he: hb elcend into the pit: and all the trees x of Eden, the wh yi Fey the mighty one 7 of the heathen: + he fhall ſurely | choice and beſt of Lebanon , all that drink bn "_—. COR deal with him , I have driven # him out for his wicked-|be comforted & in tl "he - F rink water y, tal Wo Ys OW. 16 nether parts of the Earth, and fi In y prophetick Stile, as ſome think I have, becauſe I wil, for Rt _— — _ of his fall trembled at it, *twas as God of moſt certainly God will deliver. 9 Proud King of 4/jria, who in-|King and Ki e, an aſtoniſhment to them all. » Brought th: s Whi herited all the Vices of his Progenitors more than their Kingdoms, in- beg anc Kingdom, as a dead man to the grave among them, that In heig ous Sardanapalys. r Some ſay Cyrus, rather Arbaces, who firſt | ef m—_ oo _— and buried, All Kings, and particularly the greats or mat ſtrook at the Root of this Cedar, and cut him down ; and well might |e 3 riche called here the choice, and beſt. of Lehanov. / Did c Witl his Man, thou oh no King when he attempted this , be tiled the oy great Power, Riches,jand worldly Glory. z *Tis a Proſopopeis, r1ght : mighty ons of the Heathen, who could bring together four hundred thou- a e ſpeaks of the dead with alluſion to the manner of the living, qu'on a ſand of Medes, Perſians, Babylonians and Arabians, a power ſufficient | p w# 50" to ſee the proud brought, as low as the loweſt, thus tit a 61 a = Aſrian King two Years in his own City and Palace. One, 3% 3s th 0 | thou on _—_— G w he he[d _ mms wichoye Pope of relief , tillat| 17 They aallo went down into b hell with him, unto z. ſhall bi l s end this VIC10us K.ng burnt imſelfwith his Palace. * With | ther that be lain with the ſword : d th h his a M diſgrace for his lewd ſhameleſs Courſes, asa Wite is caſt out by divorce | arm, that dwel g © 01.095 Ahhtere-aat | = water L for Adulttry, Lev. 21.7. So Sardanapalus was caſt out for his effe. 1 welt under his ſhadow in the mid(t of tv Ba plent minacy and may 5 : for *tis reported thfis gave Arbaces firſt Fncou- heathen, this Lis ragement to Jay a Dctign againſt him, who was driven out, as the Pro-| # Either his neighbour Kings and Pr: his map ys words ir, by the breach of two Mile and half widenels, made by | 9wn SubjeQs, hn and es, b nu burhangd pad d”" _— ft : 7 __—y Floods from continual Rains, which the Walls of Nincuch him, and went to thoſe God had {lain for their pride and wickednels | thallbeſ} could not withſtand,ſo God rather than Man did drive this Beaſt out, | His loyal and faithful Subje&s and Friends abroad who having I think * Ch.2g.7, 72 And ſtrangers c, *the terrible d of the nations, have been 5 porn; by him, remembred it, and adhered ro him ts {up ſhould be cut him off e, and have leſt him f : upon the mountains g Port mw Fg = fell, we net and gone down to the pit, whe" Wa thy Bloo and in all the vallies his branches are fallen, and his boughs aſhes, and God plerkanr, hal -” - atom "RE are broken by all the rivers of the land, and all t PO ONE T MA th ar do c and, and all the people] 18 © * To whom & artthou thus like in glory and 1 i the hi - reg re gone down from his ſhadow, and have p_—_ among the trees of Eden ? yet ſhalt thou * i" cover «| © rought down e with the trees of Ed he nethe' BF: give h "EM . , en unto the N bY& net TEA > nn My ele a wr mwanys | __ ey, Berk were = of the earth: thou ſhalt lie F in the midlt 0 To Asa S 4 44. Fu e bd o A 4 p for their Strength and Valour much, bur for their Numbers and Bar- Tn 4 —— with avg: __ by lain win day's F ood and barity more to be dreaded. e Not ſhall, for *twas done before Exe- _— araoh and all his multicude , faith the Lo! eſcrj ' wb c___ Oo the time Hezekia/ was born, and about 240 Years GOD. = TR zefore the deſtruQtion of Fers/e/cm, and the Babyloniſh Captivir *Iht5 - . -: | iry. f Re-| 4 The mightieſt, richeſt and longeſt liv'd Ki re repre: IM, In \ _— - < -rans_5-4 z Asa Tree, that growing onthe | ſented, ſaith God, overthrown and hored : —_— jt oe Gs ; ins, which hang over the Valleys when ir falls, breaks,and its | not pretend to equal, and if not like this, w ag King or Kingdon arl Mrs, the thou like, that thou ſhould'ft be invincible? e who er! thou art oe 0