9 Now @ why doſt thou cry out aloud b ? 7 there no Kingc in thee ? is thy counſellor periſhed 4? for pangs
nave taken thee as a woman in travail e,
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| point, q Who would have detained the People of God longer inSl- will, and the: very, Or who would have hindred the rebuilding of the Temple, and it, 0 The $ the Re-cſrabliſhment of the Worſhip of God: proportionably to this their Hand, Type doth the Antitype anſwer, Luke 1. 74, 75. and the Ten 11 © Now y alſo many nations s are gathered apainſ Spoils of Ene thee, that ſay «, Let her be defiled x, and let our eye look tour upon y Zion z. | Thoughts of 7 7.e, Ee long, the time is near at hand. s Many for Number, Lord of all and great for Name, mighty in Power, all that were at that time con- : tederate with, or fendatary to Senacherib King of A{]yria,or elle tothe King of Babylon. tr The preſent Tenſe for the future, in the prophe- tick >tile, to exprels the Certainty and the Nearneſs of the Judgment, The Birth of C they will all of them atſemble, and come up againſt Fudah and Feru/t of the Gu leni, as Senacherib did when he belieged Feruſalem,or as Nebuchadner;s 4—7, 7] did when he took it. # Propole it as their Deſign, hope for it as their France , ts end, and boaſt of it as ealy. x Let us uſe her contemptuouſly, tread 64, her under foot as a common and polluted thing, let us deftroy her with J OV fuch Spite and Scorn as a dcfiled thing deſerveth. So the Phrake, 2 Kings 23. 8. let her be polluted with Blood, and without Reſpect to te! her former Holineſs let us enter, ſack and deftroy her Temple and Pa e: they f f} laces. y With delighting our ſelves in the Ruine, let us feed ouret- Won the cheek vious revengeful Eye. 4 Upon Ferujalem the Royal Palace, and the a This Verſe cred Temple buried in their own Rubbiſh. Others will ha 12 But they a know nor b the thoughts of the LORD, tion how far t] neither underftand they his counſel 4: for he ſhall gather on Fudah anc them ec as the ſheaves into the floor f. : nckatge 4 The gathered confederate Nations, £10n's Enemies. þ Neither _ ba ieak 3 diſcern nor conſider. c The Deſign of the holy, juft, gracious, and Otder 8 -_ be faithful God, who is God of his People, of ./ſracl ; who will humble, BR 4 cit Af but not extirpate ; who will purify by, but not conſume in, the Fur- On nace 3 God's Thoughts to /ſrael is to give him an expefed or: and : _ a The ſame thing in ſomewhat different Phraſe, this Elegancy ever Þ Vheſies, 3 uy % added to confirm the thing foretold. e By his ſecret, juſt and effettu- , ” V. ( al Providence diſpoſing all things to facilitate their gathering cogether the vio] ming. that they ſhall do, and yet God alſo ſhall do it ; he as the firſt Cauics the CE of they as the ſecond z he moves according to his own Pleaſure,they more Daphte a mw as they are ſecond and dependent Agents, they ſhall as a Fire puſg* 00 wprks G ! out the Droſs, or a Wind blow away the Chaff and lighteſt Coſ% a E An which is that God intendeth ; bur they conſult only to extinguii tn ninety fink wn People; to cut them off that they be no more a*Nation, f A pony vary B o_ very intelligible Simily. The Husbandman gathers the Sheaves 10-0 muſt be this ;_ Floor to threſh them ; ſo God gathers, 7. e. in due time he ;1t E- Vol II 608
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* | Arian which had taken all but Feruſatem, and did inveſt Feruſuemn n- |f003 Or Babylonian, which afterward behheged and took Ferujzlem, b, but perhaps to the Slaughter made on the Enemies fack'd tlie City, burnt the Temple, and captivated the People. e Hath 1 in prophetick Stile, cettainly will lay Siege againſt the Inhabitants of that is farther off, indeed running through all Ages of the | Feruſalem, the only People of God at that Time 5 both King, Judges ſhall be finally accompliſh'd in the Ruin of the Anti- | arid Citizens were all encloſed in the Siege. f The proud, ſucceſsful m ; then ſhall that of Zech, 12, 3. be tulfilled, when | and oppreſſive Enemy. g& The King, ſupream Judg. þh Not the ten
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Tribes that adhered to David's Family. i This is a proverbial Speech
Winepreſs of God's Wrath, Rev. 14. 19, 20. aud 1, 45g | expreſſing a very contemptuous Uſage of the Perſon ſpoken of, and
"twas fulfilled partly when Senacherib's General Rabſhekab did fo vilify good Hezekzab, and not content herewith vilified the God of Iſrael 4
will make thine horn Iron 7, and ! will make thy hoofs | {0 as 2 King. 18. 19, &c. and J/z. 37. 23. It was more fully and: lite-
braſs k, and thou ſhalt beat in pieces / many people m:
rally accompliſh'd, when Zedekiah, his Children, his Counſellors, and his Officers of State were moſt barbarouſly uſed by the inſulting Bby-
and 1 will conſecrate » their gain o unto the LORD p, | tonians, > King. 25. 6, 7. 2 Chron. 36. 13, 17, 18, &ce and Fer. 52.6,
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&c, Since all this muft be done againft us, make hafte, © thou proud
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ind their ſubſtance q to * the Lord of the whole
This Imperative may be read in the Future Tenſe, and ſo be an omiſe ; it is however an implicite Promiſe made to the hter of Zion, the Jewiſh Church, Type of the Goſpel Catholick hat she hall be raiſed out of a captive, low and D__—_
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Enemy, and do it, for *twiff end in our deliverance and thy ruine.
in Iſraels : whoſe goings forth have been from of old, f| from + everlaſting t.
Church employed ſucceſsfully, ( more by the Arm of her Redeemer | the Tribe of Fudab, ſtiled therefore Berh-lehem of Fudah, Mar. 2. 5, 6,