that ſhould live ungodly, to deter them from the imitation of the .
Sins of thoſe that had ſo miſerably periſhed. The word may be rendred a Tjpe, (as it is Heb. 8.5. and 9. 23.) viz, Of Hell Fire, which 1s to be the puniſhment of wicked Men at the -laſt Day; Fude 7. implies as much. As the deliverance of the 17aelites out ,of Egypt, was 4 kind of Type. of the deliverance of all God's Peo- ple to the end of the VVorld, ſo the ſubverfion of theſe Cities was ſo memorable an inſtance of Divine Vengeance, that the Scripture frequently alludes to it, as a Type or Pattern, when it ſpeaks of the general Deſtruction of the VVicked of the VVorld.
7 And * delivered juſt Lot, vexed 7 with the filthy
converſation of the wicked /.
ry. Grievouſly afflited or wearied. { Unjuſt, Lawleſs, (under- ſtand Men) ſuch as had no reſpe& to Law or Juſtice; in oppoſition to Lot, whom he calls juſt and righteous.
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in * ſeeing and hearing 7, vexed z his righteous ſoul from day to day with heir unlawful deeds.)
# Their wickedneſs was ſo open and ſhameleſs, that he not only heard the report of it, but ſaw them commit it, J/a. 3. 9. u Gr. Tormented, 7. e. extreamly afflicted and troubled his own Soul, pro- voking himſelf to godly Sorrow at the fight and fame of their un- lawful deeds. His Grief was .voluntary, and he ative in it ; the like 1s faid of Chriſt, on occafion of Lazarus his Death, Fob 11. 33. where the Margin reads, he troubled himſelf.
9 * The Lord knoweth x how to deliver the godly y out of temptations =, and to reſerve a the unjuſt un- to the day of judgment to be puniſhed.
x According to the common Rule, that words of Knowledge in Scripture can note affe&ions, as Pſal. 1. ult. God's knowing here implies not only his Infinite Wiſdom, whereby he is never at a loſs, but knows all the various ways whereby the Godly may be deliver- ed ; but likewiſe his love and good-will to them, whereby he 1s ready to do it, hath a Heart for it; ſo the words taken, Eccl.4.13. Am. 3. 10. the Text reads, will no more be admoniſhed, the Mar- gin, knows not, (9c. y Thoſe that walk in the Steps of Juſt Lot and Noah, who was perfe in his Generation ; this concludes what the Apoſtle began, v. 4. The ſum is, If God ſpared neither wicked Angels, nor wicked Men, deſtroying the,old World and Sodom, but delivercd Lot and Noah, righteous rf: he ſtill hath Wiſdom, Power and Will, to deliver other g Men, and puniſh other wicked Men. xz AfffiQtions, James I. 2, 12. a The Greek, word is in the Preſent Tenſe, which may be underftood, either, 1. AS put for the Future, and then the ſence is as in our Tranſlation, that though God many times lets the wicked alone in this World, ſo that they eſcape preſent Puniſhmment, yet they ſhall not eſcape fu- ture Torment; they are a while ſpared, but never pardoned ; and when free from Temporal Evils, are reſerved for Eternal Ven-
geance. Or, 2, It may be underſtood as in the Preſent v_ whic
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