rain zz, and It rained not on the earth by the fc of three years and fix months 0.
k Both of Body and Mind, Natural and Moral ; and fo ti, !: were righteous, yet he was not perte&, though an emincnt Prophe: yet buta Man. / With that eflectual, fervent Prayer before-menti. oned. It 15 an Aebrew phraſe, and notes vehemency, as Luke 55,
15. m This is not expreſly mentioned in the Hiltory, but this Apoliile might have 1t by Revelation, or by certain Tradition wel] known 1n his Age. Other paflages of the like nature we micer with in the New Teſtament, which are not in the Old. See 2 1:19, 2.8 ; n Or, the Land, wiz. of the Ten T: ibes. and the places bordering on them, as Sarepra, n Kings 17. 9. Luke g. 25. 25. 0 So Luke 4. 25. 2. How doth this azree-with 1 Kings 12. 1 wherc it 1s ſaid, the Word of the Lord came to El:jah about the this year ? A. Moſt probably it was in the midſt ot the third your trom His connng to Sarepta; and he was by the Brook Cheirtha your, jp, 17. 7. Where the Marzin reads it according to the /elren, ar te end of days, 1. e. the days of a year, as the phraſe is oiten uled, Gy 4. 3. Judges 17.10. So that his time ſpent in both places may we!; make up the three years and fix months.
19 And * he prayed again p.,and thz heaven 9 gaye ©: k- rain, and rhe earth broughr torth her fruit. 6.424
þ After the deſtroying the Prophets of Baal, Bal worſhip «ſp: cially gave occafion to his former Prayer , which he puts up out ©: his Zeal to God's Glory, then laid low by the Tiraelites Tdolatiy: and a defire to have them, by ſome exemplary puniſhment. fer t! Sin, awakened to Repentance. And the deſtruction of the Id0!.rc and retormation of the People, who now acknowledged th: Lo to be God, might give occaſion to this. þ z. e. The Air or Cl...) which had not been for thrce years before.
19 Brerhren * if any of you do err from the whih © 7; and one / convert him 7.
7 The Truth of God revealed 1n the Goſpel, as the complicit it of Faith and Lite ; ſee the Goſpel called the Tuth by way © « nency, Gal. 2.5, 14. and 3. i. and 5.7. Eph. 1. 13. chap and 1 Pet. 1. 22. { Any one, Miniſter or private Belicyc:. may be an Inftrument in the Converſion of others ; tho' 61 by way of Autftority, the other by way of Charity, yet bot}: duty. * Viz. Miniſterially or Inſtrumentally, in ſubordinatin God.. The Work 1s his, Eph. 2. 10. but often is aſcribed to tio 1: ſtruments a&ing under him, and uſing means appointed by him, an. by which he works, A&s 26.18. ;
20 Let him know that he which converts a !!:n. from the errour of his way z ſhall five x a iv! » from death 2, and + ſhall hide a multitude of {ir-.
4 Of his Life and Affons, which 1s contrary to the way ih! | God hath preſcribed. x Men are faid to fave in the ſame war © fe as to convert, viz. Inſtrumentally. y The Soul of him that 1s t!. converted, 1 77m. 4.15, Soul for perſons, as chap. 1.21, 7 Erci nal Death unto which he was haſtening while he continued 1n tic ©: ror of his way, which led him toward deftruttion. F In the ':m
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of his Omniſcience, yet trom the eye of his vindictive Juſtice, 41 ſo as not to bring them forth in Judgment againſt him.
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