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A46816	Annotations upon the whole book of Isaiah wherein first, all such passages in the text are explained as were thought likely to be questioned by any reader of ordinary capacity : secondly, in many clauses those things are discovered which are needful and useful to be known, and not so easily at the first reading observed : and thirdly, many places that might at first seem to contradict one another are reconciled : intended chiefly for the assistance and information of those that use constantly every day to read some part of the Bible ... / by Arthur Jackson.	Jackson, Arthur, 1593?-1666.	1682 (1682)	Wing J66; ESTC R26071	718,966	616

understand it of a mark or sign whereby some Persons may be distinguished from others Namely That when God intended to destroy the Jews he would have a sign or a mark amongst them whereby they should be known whom God had chosen to be rescued and saved from the common destruction that was coming upon that Nation and that herein there is an allusion to the mark of the Blood of the Paschal Lamb upon the Doors of the Israelies in Egypt whereby they were saved from the Sword of the destroying Angel And by this mark or sign might be meant the profession of the Christian Faith or the Word and Sacraments or a Holy Life and Conversation according to the Rule of the Gospel or that inward Seal of Gods Sanctifying Spirit whereby they should be distinguished from counterfeits see Eph. 1.13 and 2 Tim. 2.19 Or rather Gods appointing them to be saved and his watchful providence over them for their preservation which should be as sure a means of safeguarding them from the common destruction as if there had been a sign or mark set upon them for that end and purpose and I will send those that escape of them that is those of the Jews thus preserved unto the Nations to wit to Preach the Gospel to them to Tarshish Pul and Lud that draw the Bow to Tubal and Javan c. for the understanding whereof we must know 1. That by Tarshish may be meant Tarsus in Cilicia or some other remote place or the Ocean Sea in general and so the meaning might be that they should go forth both by Sea and Land to Preach the Gospel And 2. That under the other particular Nations here mentioned whereof it is commonly thought that some lie East and some West and some North and South all other Nations are comprehended all the World over to the Isles a far off that is the Inhabitants of those remote Countries of whom the Jews had little or no knowledge that have not heard my fame neither have seen my Glory that is that had never heard the report of nor seen the glory of God and of his glorious Works see the Note Cap. 52.15 and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles that is the glorious riches of my Grace in Christ the great things I have done for the Salvation of my People and the destruction of their Enemies Ver. 20. And they shall bring all your Brethren c. The Apostles and other Preachers of the Gospel shall bring in the Converted Gentiles your Brethren as being by Faith made the Children of Abraham for an Offering unto the Lord out of all Nations to wit as a People Consecrate to Gods service according to that of the Apostle Rom. 15.16 that the Offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being Sanctified by the Holy Ghost and again Phil. 2.17 If I be Offered upon the Sacrifice and Service of your Faith I joy and rejoyce with you all and Rom. 12.1 Present your Bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God c. The Heathen that were counted an unclean People being now purified by Faith should be tendred to God as a Holy Sacrifice upon Horses and in Chariots and in Litters and upon Mules and upon swift Beasts which implies both 1. That all possible helps and means should be used to bring them in to believe and joyn themselves to the Church 2. That this should be done with much respect and tender care over them see the Note Chap. 49.22 And 3. That hereby the Gospel should be speedily propagated into many Countries to my holy Mountain Jerusalem saith the Lord that is to the Church of Christ see the Notes Chap. 2.2 3. as the Children of Israel bring an Offering in a clean Vessel into the House of the Lord to wit because these converted Gentiles should be a pure and holy People Ver. 21. And I will also take them for Priests and for Levites saith the Lord c. It is as if he had said Yea some of these Gentiles that were counted so unclean that they might not come into the Temple will I take to be Priests and Levites that is Ministers Pastors and Teachers in my Church Ministers and Deacons say some for that it is not that Spiritual Priest-hood common to all Christians see the Note Ch. 61.6 that is hear meant but that peculiar Office of such as were to be Teachers in the Church as the Priests and Levites were Deut. 33.8 is evident because the promise is only that God would take of them that is some of them for Priests and for Levites whereas in the time of the Law none were imployed in those Holy Callings but those that were of the Tribe of Levi then even Men of all Nations should be set apart to these Holy Services Ver. 22. For as the new Heavens and the new Earth which I will make shall remain before me saith the Lord c. And concerning this promise of new Heavens and a new Earth see the Note Chap. 65.17 so shall your Seed and your Name remain the meaning is that as that new state of the Church should continue unto Eternity even after the World should have an end so should the Seed also of the Church consisting both of Jews and Gentiles and consequently their Name also continue for ever There shall never want a Seed of true believers in this Church but they shall continue for ever even as the Bliss or Happiness of their new Estate shall be Ver. 23. And it shall come to pass that from one new Moon unto another and from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord. That is all Nations both Jews and Gentiles see the Note Psal 40.5 It is therefore spoken concerning the days of the Gospel when all legal Festivals were to cease and so the meaning is only that in those days the People of God should constantly attend the Worship and Service of God in their Church-Assemblies as it is said they did Acts 2.42 46. only this is expressed in terms borrowed from the solemn meetings of Gods People under the Law as before Ver. 21. where the Ministers of the Gospel are termed Priests and Levites and so frequently in other places Ver. 24. And they shall go forth c. Having spoken in the foregoing Verses of the great good which God would do for his faithful Servants yea and that unto Eternity here the Prophet returns again to denounce Judgments both Temporal and Eternal against those wicked and ungodly wretches whom he had before theatned Ver. 15 16. and promiseth that his faithful Servants should be Eye-witnesses of it And accordingly I conceive that those Words and they shall go forth and lock upon the Carcases of the Men that have transgressed against me may be meant 1. Of the faithful that should escape being slaughtered in that general havock that was made amongst the Jews by the Chaldeans when they surprized Jerusalem and plundered and burnt both their City and Temple to wit that they should go forth out of Jerusalem being to be carried away Captives and should with their Eyes behold as they went along the Carcases of their Idolatrous Brethren lying in great heaps unburied according to what is before noted upon Chap. 34.3 rotted and so full of of crawling Vermine Worms and Maggots and not fit therefore to be removed and carried away but only to be burnt up with Fire and this I judge the more probable because it is clear that these Idolatrous Jews were those that he had before threatened Ver. 16 17. Or 2. Of the Jews that were sent home by Cyrus to their own Land to wit that they should go out of Babylon and see the Carcases of the Babylonians slain by the Persians lying unburied in such a manner as is before said Or 3. of the Saints and Servants of God in the days of the Gospel brought in from among the Gentiles of whom indeed he had spoken in the foregoing Verses to wit that they having been brought into some straits by their Enemies should after they had recovered their Liberty again go forth and look upon that woful spectacle of the Carcases of their Enemies lying in such a rueful and horrid manner as was before described But now withall we must know that many learned Expositors do understand this very probably I conceive of any notable judgments of God which the Righteous should see executed upon wicked ungodly wretches for their Idolatries profaneness and contempt of the Gospel Only these judgments and executions of divine Vengeance upon wicked Men are figuratively set forth by way of resembling them to that dreadful spectacle of a company of dead Corps that lye rotting and stinking above ground full of crawling Worms and so putrified that there was no touching them they were only fit to be burnt with Fire and yet because of their multitude and putrifaction were like to be very long burning ere they would be consumed And they shall go forth and look upon upon the Carcases of the Men that have transgressed against me for their Worm shal not die neither shall their Fire be quenched And indeed this figurative description of the judgments and vengeance of God upon wicked Men is therefore the fitter 1. Because wicked and ungodly Men void of all Grace and Spiritual Life are no better than the stinking Carcases of Men dead whilst they live 1. Tim. 5.6 Let the dead bury their dead saith our Saviour Math. 8.22 And 2. because a main part of that vengeance which God pours forth upon wicked Men consists in those affrightments and terrours of conscience wherewith they are usually tortured as with a Worm alway gnawing on their Hearts and a Fire alway burning within their bosoms partly here in this World but especially afterwards in Hell to all Eternity for hereto doth our Saviour expresly apply this passage of our Prophet Mark 9.43 44. As for the last Clause and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh it may be understood both of their being loathed here in this World by all flesh that is all People that should behold the sad discovery of Gods wrath against them in that horrid condition wherein they lay and likewise especially of their being abhorred by all that shall be Eye-witnesses of their extream and unspeakable misery at the day of Judgment FINIS

their own disobedience and rebellions against that great God that had done this they began to think how dangrous it was for them that must enjoy constant communion with a God that was so zealous of his glory so severe against sinners and so continually ready to break forth in his wrath as a consuming fire to devour them here yea and to punish them with everlasting burnings in hell heareafter who among us say they shall dwell with that devouring fire c. But I rather think that this is intended concerning the terrors wherewith these sinners in Zion should be surprised upon the marching of the Assyrians against Jerusalem Yet withall this must be added that the fire wherewith these wicked wretches profess themselves to be so exceedingly frighted was not simply the Assyrian Army as concluding that they would come and burn the City Jerusalem and lay all waste before them as they had done wherever they came but the wrath of God who upon this ground is indeed called a consuming fire see the Note Deut. 4.24 breaking forth and clearly discovering it self in this invasion of the Assyrians and their carrying all before them with unresistable violence which as it had before consumed the Ten Tribes and at this time a great part of the land of Judea so their guilty consciences made them apprehend it would now likewise devour them in Jerusalem and would never leave burning till all was consumed by it who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire who amongst us shall dwell with everlasting burnings And indeed it is evident that by everlasting burnings here the fire of Hell cannot be meant because in the following verse it is said that the righteous man shall without fear dwell with this fire He that walketh righteously c. It was I say the wrath and vengeance of God in the fury of the Assyrians which these sinners feared would be a consuming fire to them And observable it is that in this their complaint they charge all their danger upon Gods extream severity and not upon themselves Ver. 15. He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppression that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes c. That is that rejecteth them with loathing and detestation that stoppeth his ears from hea●ing of blood that is that will not endure to hear any motion made of any violence or injury to be offered to the life or livelyhood of his brethren see the Note Chap. 1.15 and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil that is from the sight of any thing that should entice him to evil or that is so far from doing evil himself that he cannot endure to see others do it This is the answer that is returned to that doleful exclamation of the wicked distrustful hypocrites amongst the Jews in the foregoing verse Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire c. Why saith the Prophet He that walketh righteously c. He that will live a holy righteous life may safely dwell with God though he be a consuming fire to wicked ungodly wretches And thus he gives them to understand that if the wrath of God were so terrible to them they must charge it upon their own wickedness not upon Gods severity A good and a righteous man needs not fear it Ver 16. He shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks c. That is Such a man shall be as safe and as fearless as if he dwelt in some impregnable Fort built upon inaccessible Rocks the Church of God shall be as munitions of Rocks to him bread shall be given him his waters shall be sure that is he shall not want meat and drink nor any thing necessary for the support of his life no not in the time when Jerusalem shall be besieged by the Assyrians Ver. 17. Thine eyes c. This is a farther promise made to the righteous man of whom the Prophet had spoken in the two foregoing verses Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty that is Hezekiah Though he may be for a time in a very sad and forlorn condition as he was indeed when the Assyrians had wasted the greatest part of his Kingdom and he was glad to crouch to an insolent Tyrant and beg Conditions of Peace of him 2 Kings 18.14 and yet could not prevail but was only abused and scorned by him and at last besieged by his Forces in the City Jerusalem and when upon this occasion he went up to the Temple to implore Gods help having rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth 2 Kings 19.1 yet shall he afterwards Reign in greater Majesty and Glory than ever he did formerly to wit after God had so miraculously destroyed the Assyrian Army after which it is said that many brought presents to Hezekiah so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth 2 Chron. 32.23 they that is thine eyes shall behold the land that is very far off The meaning is that the time should come when they should no longer be cooped up in Jerusalem because the besiegers being all destroyed they might safely and securely go abroad whither they would and travel peaceably into the remotest parts of the land yea if their occasions did so require into foreign Countries Many learned Expositors do otherwise I know understand this last clause as 1. that they should see Embassadors come to Hezekiah from a far Country to wit the Babylonians for which see the Note 2 Kings 20.12 Or 2. that they should see Hezekiah's Kingdom enlarged by the bringing of foreign Countries under his Dominion Or 3. that the Fame of Hezekiah should be carried into Countries a far off But the words of the Text will very hardly bear either of these Expositions And so likewise that which others say that in this whole verse the Prophet speaks to Shebna of whom mention was made before Chap 22.15 telling him that he should see Hezekiah whom he slighted and despised Reigning in great Majesty and Glory and that himself should be banished or carried away Captive into a land a far off it no way suits with the tenor of that which the Prophet is speaking of in this place That which others say is far more probable to wit that under the type of Hezekiah the seeing of Christ in his Glory is here promised to the faithful Though for a time he should live in a low and despised condition and should at last be hanged up between two Thieves upon the Cross when that was fully verified Chap. 53.2 he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him yet afterwards the eyes of his Servants should see this their King in his Beauty and Glory to wit when as the only begotten Son of God he rose triumphantly out of the Grave and ascended into Heaven but especially when he shall come again at the last day in exceeding great