which certainly 43 intended here, and the ſynonymous Term: are here multiplied, to imicate the extremity and length of theſe Troubles And this Paſſage may well allude to the Day of Judgment, and the Calamities which ſhall precede that day. þ Thick Darkneſs does un- doubredly imply, as the gradual Approach, ſo the diſmal Efe&Rs of God's Judgments and the Fews Miſeries. See this Word nſed 2 Sam. 22. 10. with 12,13, 14, 15, 16. and Pſa). 18.9, 11. It was ſuch Terror with which God gave the Law, and in ſuch he will puniſh the Tranſgrefſors of his Law. # As the Morning ſpreads it. ſelf ſuddenly over all the Hemiſphere, and as it firft ſpreads it {lf upon the high Mounrans, (o ſhould the approaching Calamities overtake this People. & This ſeems more dire&ly to intend the Babylonians rather than Lo- cuſts, yet both are numerous, as the Word imports, Hebr. ſee chap. I. Ver. 6, let. 7, u,x. 1 Bold to attempt, and mighty in ſtrength to execute, both true of Aſſyrians, or Babylonizns, or the Locuits, m Lo- cuſts, Emblem of the warlike Nations ; and the ſpoil done by both are here deſcribed the greateſt that ever yet were known, and of the Aſſyrian or Babylonian Spoil made in Fudea, the Hiſtory doth aſcer- _ this. z If ever the like be, it ſhall not be in many Ages to me.
3 A fireodevoureth p before them q, and behind them
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0 Either the heat of the Sun, vehementer than uſual ; or the Lo- cuſts, or Chaldeans and Babylonians reſembled by Locufts, as Fire ſhall devour. -pUtterly conſume and eat up. q That People, ver. 2. let. &, 7. r What is left behind them is as burnt with a Flame, all that the Lo- cufts leave behind them is as that which the Flame hath ſcorch'd, dried and turned into Char-coal z or all the Chaldeans and Babylonians leave behind them, is ( as is cuſtomary with the barbarous Invaders ) ſet on Fire ; and what they cannot eat or carry away, they deftroy with Fire. s *Tis every where a moſt fruitful and pleaſant Land where they have not yet come. This is expreft in that proverbial Speech, as the Garden of Eden, ſee Iſa. 51. 3. Exek. 36. 35. t But where-ever
a flame burneth 7 : the Jand #s as the * garden of Eden be- *Gen-2.3; fore them s, and behind them a deſolate wilderneſs t, yea, ——_
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theſe Locufts, or the Armies they ſignify, come, all is turn'd into moſt deſolate Wilderneſs. # Nothing that was for Beauty and Pleaſure, nor any thing tor neceſſity and ſupport of Life.
4 The * appearance of them 7s as the appearance of *Rev.9. 7:
horſes .x, and as horſemen, ſo ſhall they run y.
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20 The beaſts þ of the field * cry # alſo unto thee &: jor the rivers of waters are dried up 1, and the fire hath
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bid, ver. 18. let. x © The wilder Sort, that rove about many diles ſeeking their Livelihood, find no Suftenance, they look up to 0d, and cry to him z theſe Creatures that can better ſhift tor them- ſelves, yet can make no good ſhift ; they utter their Complaints in their ſad Tones, they have a Voice to cry, as well as an Eye to look to God, k Who only canft open thy Hand and fill them, learn ye brutiſh among Men, look and cry to God: And again, have pity O God, many of thy linleſs Creatures periſh without Relief, hear them, hough thou ſhouldſt not hear Men. 7 Mott extream and tedious EDrought which hath dried up the Rivers themſelves, there is no rink for the Cattke, they muſt periſh without help, unleſs thou O God ſend a plentiful and fruitful Rain. m Vid. this explain'd above ver, 1g. let. c, d, ee