| OED Pit 1n which no Water was, wherein the Fews muſt have pcriſhed '% and take the Prey out of their Mouth they ſhall neither breathe out,| pq wo Mercy from Chriſt viſited them. = is no Lets F ei S Slaughter, nor a& it with their Hands. p This may poſſibly be ex- though ſome ſay ſo among the Popiſh Commentators. : it;
planatory of the former, but I think it rather is meant of their abo- minable Sacrifices which they offered and feaſted on, ſo the word in Deut. 7. 27. with 26. 1 Kings 11. 5, 7. 2 Kings 23. 13. aud by Hoſ. 9. 10. God wiil puniſh for theſe Sins, Idolatries, and by his de- ſtroying the People and Cities of thoſe Abominations will remove them for ever. q The Remnant, even thar (ſo it might be read; ) it ſo read,it points out that ſmall ſele& Number who eſcape the Sword, and are reſerved to be for God, to worfhip, obey, honour and love him; ſuch a Remnant as Iſa. 4. 3. or as Tja. 17.5. or Tſa. 24. 6, Thoſe few Fews whom God preſerved from the Rageand Cruelty of theſe bloody Idolaters, ſhall be the Lords peculiar ones. r For Reſpe& and Honour which ſhall be given to them, 'tis not ſaid they ſhall be Governours, but they ſhall be as like Governours. s The City for the People, and this one City and Peopte for all the other : All the Phi- lifines ſhall be as Febuſites, Servants to the People of God, or ſlain.
$ And * I wil encamp £ about mine houſe 7 becauſe of the army x, becauſe of him that paſlezh by, and be- cauſz of him that returneth x; and no oppreflor ſhall
paſs through y them any more : for now have I ſeen With mine eyes 2.
s Pitch'd, not the Tents of Travellers and Shepherds, but of an Army ; God in the midſt of his own Hofts, and Angels among them, Guardians too. tf This material Temple; bur as 'tis an Emblem of the Church, # Of the Perſian and Grecian Army, whoſe march lay cither through or nearto Z-dea and Jeruſalem. x Armies are very troubleſom, coſtly and dangerous in all their Marches, the People of God, his City and Temple,ſhall be as gariſon'd and fortified, as if fe- cured by an Hoſt; God will have Angels pitch their Tents round about thoſe that fear the Lord. Fudea was a Thorough-fare ro the Egypri.
his Succefſors, in midſt of whoſe Wars, though rhe Jews ſuffered lomewhat, yet they were mightily defended by their God. y As tormerly, when they had Tngreſs, Egreſs, Regreſs ar their pleaſure, asf Lords of the Soil, and of the People too. x I ever ſaw it, but Bow T manifeſt that I take notice of it purpoſely to redreſs it: I ſee how vilely they uſe my People, they ſhall do ſo no more. I behold, is Pſalm 10, 14. miſchief and ſpite to requite it.
an and Syrian Armies, to the Grecian and Perſian, an unadviſed At- , Z h. tempt to ſtop Pharaoh Necho in his Paſſage through once, coſt Foſrah I4 And the LORD » ſhall be ſeen over them Pp, and. Y "y of l"sLife ; but God will be a Guard to his People, whilſt their Enemies | his arrow 4 ſhall go forth as the lightning 7 : and the ; fi are moving. All this was accompliſhed in the times of 4/exander and Lord GOD & ſhall blow the trumpet 7, and {hall g0 Ut bi
; The Government he overthrown, and perhaps this ; literally was fulfilled when Alexander Mag. took Gaza after tio :
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; and meek or lowly of Mind. m A Beaſt of no State cr Emblem of his outward State.
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' hearhen 7, and his dominion s /bal/ be * from 2 coy *
to ſea 7, and from the river # ever to the ends cf rhe ; Earth Xx. 0 When the Meſſiah comes and ſets up his Kingdom) he will ne&d nc ' exceraal Force, he will do that by the Power of his Spicit z Charicc5 , ©: Warare for other kind of Kings and Kingdoms, but in promoting ; ef 11s own Kingdom, he will make no uſe of ſuch Force. » Eicker literal or typical. 9g Another Inſtrument of War, hut not uſeful t | the Prince of Peace, neither Bow nor Sword broupiit Salvation +; him, nor ſhall they be mentioned in the Day of his Conquett, r Make Peace for them, and then publiſh ir to them ; that on the Croſs, this in the Goſpel; the Gentiles ſhall through him be recon- ciled unto God and one another, Epheſ. 2.17. s How mean fxcyop on the Aſs, yet hath a large Dominion, is King of the Univrerſ., t From the Red Sea, and irom the Arabian Guli, to the Syrlun Soca. u Euphrates utmoſt Bound Eaſt. x To the utmoſt End of Can.ray, toward the Mediterranean Sea 3 a Type of all the World to be the Inheritance of Chriſt, Theſe things promiſed here are of ſpiricual Nature, and be Bleffings of a ſpiritual Kingdom.
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y O Zion and Jeruſalem, thou Jewiſh Church; thefe words are Chritt's words to her, not the Prophet's words to Chritt, though Papiſts would have it fo, to countenance a Linbys Patrum. > Py my Bload, faith Chriſt. a In which thy Covenant is confirmed ; 'tis God's Covenant as made by him, 'ris Zion's Covenant as inade for her, *tis Chriſt's alfo as made in him. 5 I have deliverce and releaſed. Cyrus indeed by his Edi ſent the Fews home, but in this he was Chriſt's Servant, and Chrift was mindtul of the Covenaar, and to perform this, brought them up. c Babylon, compared to 2
12 © Tur yec to the ſtrong hold d, ye priſoners of hope; even to day fdo I declare ha: I will render dou- ble g unto thee :
c The Prophet exhorts the -Fews, both thoſe in B1by/on ſill, and thoſe already in Canaun, to haſten up. d To Feruſulem, ſay ſome, which had been a ſtrong Hold, and which was now to be bui't again, as the high Places of the Earth; or to Chriſt, who is the Salvation and high Tower of his Church. e Captives in Babylon, yer under- a Promilte trom God, and under an Edi& from Cyrus that you ſhall re- turn ; this gives you Hope,this maketh you Priſoners of ExpeRation.
F In this Day of loweſt Diſtreſs, I declare, 9c. g Either mere than
thy Fathers ever received, or double, that is, twice as much Good enjoyed, as ever was thy Evil ſuffered, as Iſa. 40. 2.
13 When I have bent Judah tor me, filled the bow with Ephraim z, and raiſed up thy ſons, O Zion +. againſt thy ſons, O Greece /, and made thee mr 35 the {word of a mighty man 7.
h In the days when Fadab ſhall have recovered Strength and Cou-