verse 8 and with the boughs and branches thereof purging and pruning them and making them fruitful and the smell of thy nose Or nostrils the breath that thence proceedeth shall be sweet odoriferous and grateful to those at least that have their inward senses habitualy and spiritualy exercised causing the lips Hyperbolicaly verse 9 but excellently expressing the vertue and efficacie the power and vigour of the Word and Gospel preached under the similitude of the best wine and the operation of it They that have tasted of the power of the good Word of God and of the world to come cannot forbear to declare and speak of it to â—ll the world Acts IV. 20. and II. 4 11 14. I am my Beloveds The Churches renewed speech and profession verse 10 upon Christs so great commendations of her and affections towards her notwithstanding her former faylings and imperfections She growes up to this confident assurance Come She is emboldened hereupon to these Petitions following verse 11 that he will accompany her to visit the particular Churches that his spirit and care may joyne together to prosper hers for the good of all the Churches She will not now go any way ot do any thing without him and his companie She had lately felt the sorrow and smart of his absence from her of her being without him and his presence She is minded now as Barâ—k was Judg. IV. 8. my loves The fruition of my graces verse 21 the fruits of my faith hope love good works thanksgivings c. She will detaine nothing that is hers from the love and service of Christ but resigne all unto him who is worthy alone to enjoy all The mandrakes See the Annotations on Gen. verse 13 XXX 14. at our gates c. This may seeme to allude to the order of strawing the wedding-house doores with sweet smelling flowers or of laying up of fruits in gate-houses and garners for thee All for Christ. He gives all to them all his offices and efficacies all his merits and graces what he did and suffered was for them and they returne all to him all that they are and have all that they do and suffer all their good works and services as fruits of his owne Graces in them they ascribe and devote unto him Psal. CXV 1. that he may be Ali in All. In this last Chapter the Church proceeds to her dearest wishes for and after Christ How she faine would have him and use him in the three first verses And in the next verse she againe chargeth others not to disturbe or displease him as my brother That she might have more close conjunction and consociation with him chapter VIII verse 1 more intire familiarity and sweetnesse more intimate union and communion with him kisse thee Chap. I. 2. Psal. II. 12. and publikely professe thee notwithstanding any danger yet they should not despise me 2 Sam. VI. 22. not dishearten me from duty and affection but she would bravely sleight all scorning Michols all contumelies and contempts for her conscience sake and Christs sake 〈◊〉 mothers house The universal Church she calls her her mother verse 2 in her universal latitude of al her members yea somtimes comprehending in that notion Christ the head also as v. 5. And so again in the New Testament the whole Church in all her members with her head Christ is called Christ i. e. mystical Christ 1 Cor. XII 12. Thither from without would she bring him with solemnity and joy and there humbly welcome and entertaine his presence with all honour and obedience instruct me The Church would do it instrumentaly and subordinately from God primarily and originaly John VI. 45. Esay LIV. 13. Jer. XXXI 34. of spiced wine Prov. IX 2. This should be her hospitality and kindnesse to Christ nothing too dear for him as he doth the like for her Esay LV. 1 2 3. who is this verse 5 c. Chap. III. 6. Some would have this to be the speech of the Church some of Christ some of the Angels that cometh up Sure whosoever speaks it this is meant of the Church it is she comes up There are continual ascensions in the hearts of Gods people whiles here they are ever aspiring to heaven-ward from the wildernesse Of this world and the tribulations of it of sin and the temptations and miseries of it Leaning For otherwise without him she could not ascend No more then the Vine without its supporter or the Ivy without its Oak And leanes truly not as those Micah III. 11. And leanes wholy and solely upon him utterly unbottomed of her self and of every creature All other are but as Job VI. 17. and VIII 15. and Esay XXXVI 6. I raised thee up c. Some understand these words as spoken by the Church and in answer to Christs question That namely I is she her self and no other even she that raised him up and awoke him from under the apple-tree by her prayers as Psal. XLIV 23. Matth. VIII 25. Esay LXII 7. And there by acts of faith and beleeving on the promise did after a sort conceive bear and bring him forth And that it is she also that in the extreme height and heat of her love and zeal so prayes to him and so professes as is in the two verses following Others under stand all these words as spoken by Christ to the Church whose grace alone did and doth raise up his Church depressed and fallen under the tree of offence after the eating of the forbidden fruit lying in her blood as it is Ezek. XVI 5 6. then and there he said unto her and be the mother of the living as Gen. III. 20. And so they make the rest of the words to be his command to his Church naturaly following as her duty from the consideration of his foresaid benefits to her vouchsafed But yet however the words in the fifth verse be taken I do rather incline to understand the words in the six and seven verses to be the Churches by reason of their masculine idiome She so begging Christs dearest love to her and so professing her own love to him as riding in a Chariot o triumph victorious over all oppositions unconquerable unquenchable And such indeed is the Divine mutual love between Christ and his Church thus exalted to the highest Set me as a seale Have me in precious esteeme verse 6 bear me on thy breast and shoulders as Aaron did the Tribes Exod. XXVIII 11 12 20 21 29 30. Thus she begs to be highly remembered preserved honoured by Christ in his heart dearly cherished and valued by his arme mightily defended strong as death Death conquers all is the King of terrors Job XVIII 14. yet Love as strong as death Jonathan would have died for the love of David and David for Absalom See Rom. XVI 4. Apoc. XII 11. She would not refuse to die for him but shall die if he grant not her desire Wherein the irresistible and undaunted vigour and courage of holy love and
34 35 36. and chap. XXIII 16 22. Iames V. 12. See on Matth. XXIII 16 22. And againe though this maner of Speech The Lord liveth may be taken in a way of a strange asseveration only thus As surely as the Lord liveth As likewise that Gen. XLII 15. 1 Sam. I. 26. and XXV 26. Yet it goeth often in Scripture under the notion and name of an Oath as 1 Sam. XIX 6. Ier. V. 2. and chap. XII 16. And is here forbidden because God would not have his Name once in the mouth of Idolaters as not enduring to be joyned with Idols 2 Cor. VI. 15. Zeph. I. 5. Ezek. XX. 39. Of Oath see more in page 10 52 74. and upon Ier. LI. 14. And of the Maner and Ceremonies in swearing see Gen. XXIV 2. and XLVII 29. and XIV 22. Exod. VI. 8. Exod. XX. 5 15 23. Dan. XII 7. Apoc. X. 5 6. And there are divers Rites and Gestures for it in divers Countries in all ages as the raine chapter VI verse 3 as the later and former Raine in due season is mentioned Levit. XXVI 4. Deut. XXVIII 12. Ezek. XXXIV 26. The First or former Raine and the later Raine are mentioned Deut. XI 14. Jer. V. 24. so called in relation to their husbandry and the order thereof The former raine was in their Seeding time in the eighth moneth part of our October and November requisite for the bringing up of their Seed and thereupon is called the Seeds raine Esay XXX 23. And that moneth is called Bull from the abundance of raine and great showers then requisite and falling as making a Deluge Jer. III. 3. and this former raine is called Yoreh or Moreh from a word that signifieth to poure downe The later raine was in the first moneth Joel II. 23. part of our March and April for the filling of the corne then in the eare and the fitting of it for harvest whence this moneth is called Abib Exod. XIII 4. which signifieth the stalk with the eare of corne Their harvest-time for corne being commonly within the compasse of two moneths half Abib or Nisan all Jair or Zif and half Sivan And hereupon were those two Offerings of corne in the sheaf and of two loaves injoyned at the Beginning and End of harvest Levit. XXIII 10 21. Num. XXVIII 26. Deut. XVI 9 10. See my Annotations on Zech. X. 1. bread of mourners Banquets at Burials chapter IX verse 4 as well as Bridals as of mirth the one so of consolation against mourning the other See Prov. XXXI 6 7. Jer. XVI 7. Ezek. XXIV 17. Matth. IX 23. Memphiâ— verse 6 in the Original Moph And thence with the Greeks and Latines Memphis In Esay and Jermie named Moph Jer. XLIV 1. and XLVI 14 19. Likely now that Grand Cairo the Great Citie See Esay XIX 13. Ezek. XXX 13. Chap. IX 7. and Chap X. 3 4. do shew the miserable state and condition of things in those times Is true liberality of the Body of the Church of Israel in Egypt chapter XI verse 1 And true Mysticaly of the Head of the Church of Christ. Whereupon the Apostle doth allude to this place and alledge it Matth. II. 15. Jacob wept chapter XII verse 4 in wrestling and making Supplication to the Angel though his weeping be not recorded by Moses The names for Lions in Hebrew are very many chapter XIII verse 8 and distinguished in Scripture according to their ages and qualities See the Annotations on Job IV. 10 The like is true for the variety of the names of gold See the Annotattons on Job XXVIII 15 19. I did know thee Owne thee as Psal. I. ult verse 5 Exod. III. 7. Deut. XXXIV 10. Psal. XXXI 7. and XXXVII 18. and CXLII 4. Matth. VII 23. Rom. VII 15. As for that place Acts XXIII 5. Most likely it is that Paul did not know Ananias to be High Priest he being so long absent from Ierusalem and the High Priest being so often changed in those times Joel JOEL Preacheth to Iudah And by the Matter and Argument of his Book as well as by the Ranck wherein we finde him placed He seemes to Prophesie when Hosea did in the dayes of King Uzziah Yet some assigne to him a later time upon those passages chap. III. 1 9. He declareth a dreadful judgement of Famine brought upon them by a Drought and Vermine Exhorts to true Mourning Fasting and Repenting with Promises thereupon of abundant Blessings Temporal and Spiritual upon themselves and of Gods dreadful judgements and revenge upon their enemies The Armie and Camp described chap. II. is not of the Assyrians or Babylonians But of those Vermine Gods Hoast named chap. I. 4. The Valley of Jehoshaphat is not the place for the General judgement in the end of the world at Christs second coming But serves only to note out thus much That Gods judgements upon the enemies of his Church shall be visibly in her sight and before her eyes as the Valley of Jehoshaphat was nigh the walls and in the sight of Jerusalem weepe betweene the Porch and the Altar The Porch of the Temple chapter II verse 17 and the Altar of Burnt-offering in the Priests Court or inner Court where they stood to minister and officiate See Ezra X. 1. and 1 Macc. VII 38. Visions By them God of old did speak to man verse 28 and reveale his will unto him Job XXXIII 15. Particularly to his Prophets Num. XII 6. Hos. XII 10. Ezek. VII 26. So to Abraham to Jacob to Samuel 1 Sam. III. 1 15. to Esay Ezekiel and others whence Judea is called the Valley of Vision Esay XXII 1. And so to Daniel to Peter Acts X. 19. and to Paul Acts XVI 9. and XVIII 9. 2 Cor. XII 1. Yea to Balaam Num. XXIV 4. And to Nebuchadnezzar Dan. II. 28. See my Annotations on Ezek. I. 1. This whole Text And so on to the end of this Chapter is cited by Saint Peter Acts II. 16 21. and applied to his present time the Beginning of the Gospel the time immediately preceding the destruction of the Jewish Politie their Citie and Temple as being fulfilled and compleated then and there He shewes that both this effusion of the Spirit And likewise those wonders shewed in heaven and in earth so particularly mentioned had their accomplishment before that terrible day of their destruction by Vespasian and Titus about fourty years after their crucifying of our Saviour which said great and terrible day our Saviour likewise foretels and gives the dreadful signes the forerunners of it very largely in the twenty fourth Chapter of Saint Matthew as may be gathered more specialy out of ver 33 34. Vainly therefore is this pouring out of the Spirit applied to our times so farre advanced toward the end of the world to patronize our New Lights and pretended Divine illuminations our extraordinary Gifts and Inspirations poured now by the Spirit on all sorts of Christians young and old sonnes and daughters even to the sleighting and
Iehoshaphat 2 Chron XVII 6. and XX. 33 1 King XXII 43 The meaning is They took away those High places which were for Idols and strange gods not those which were for Gods worship or they laboured in the Reformation of these later also but through the peoples waywardnesse could not therein fully prevaile In the Reformation of Manasseh upon his Repentance it is said That neverthelesse the people did sacrifice still in the High places yet unto the Lord their God only 2 Chron XXXIII 17 But zealous Hezekiah and Iosiah went through-stitch with all Gibeon The Tabernacle was never at any one of the Cities of the Levites verse 4 except here at Gibeon only Askeâ— Gods proffer to Solomon verse 5 in that night after he had offered up those numerous Sacrifices at Gibeon 2 Chron. I. 7. And his large Petition thereupon for Wisdome 1 King III. 6 7 8 9. And Gods ample Grant thereunto and further Largesse partly added partly upon Condition promised ver 11 12 13 14. were transacted all whiles Solomon was asleep as appears by ver 5. and 15. Though in this same History 2 Chron. I. 7 12. of Sleep or Dreame there is no mention made at all a little childe In that sleep Solomon calls himself a little childe verse 7 And a little before that David testifies the like of him 1 Chron. XXII 5. and chap. XXI 1. with an eye had to his grear charge at that age not unlike to that Jer. I. 6. Yet then David calls him a Wise-man 1 King II. 9. even before that wonderful increase of wisdome added to him after Davids death And then Solomon being indeed about seventeen years old had Rehoboam his son as appears by the age of Rehoboam at the beginning of his reigne 1 King XIV 21. 2 Chron. XII 13. Harlots The King knew not likely verse 16 that the women were Harlots haply open Inne-keepers and close Harlots sonne of Nathan chapter IV verse 5 The Prophet Nathans two sons highly honoured and advanced by Solomon Spake Solomon chosen by God to be King verse 32 1 Chron. XXVIII 5. and XXIX 1. and chap. XXII 9 10 spake three thousand Proverbs And he spake of all Trees 1 King IV. 32 33. Not that the Text saith he writ them or of them And his Songs were one thousand and five Hiram Hiram chapter V verse 1 or Huram King of Tyre and Sidon too ver 6. having Lebanon in his possession Both father and son of that name 2 Chron II. 3 13. And again Hiram the workman father and sonne at the same time of the said Kings both it seemes of the same name likewise 1 King VII 13 14. 2 Chron. II. 14. and IV. 11. and both wrought to Solomon 2 Chron. IV. 16. The sonnes mother was of Dan 2 Chron. II. 14. His father of Naphtali though inhabiting in Tyre 1 King VII 14. The House of the Lord This House chapter IV verse 1 called the Temple ver 3. the Throne of Gods glory Jer. XIV 21. a Glorious high throne Jer. XVII 12. our Holy and Beautiful House where our fathers praised thee Esay XLVI 11. the Beauty of Holinesse 1 Chron XVI 29. was built in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah or Sion on the Threshing-floore of Araunah or Ornan the Jebusite 2 Chron. III. 1. 1 Chron. XXII 1. Very wonderful riches acquired and laid up and other preparations made by David and others towards the building of the Temple 2 Sam. VIII 11 12. 1 Chron. XXII 14. and ch XXIX And the Patterne or Platforme of it given to David by the Spirit 1 Chron. XXVIII 21. he set down in writing particularly and gave it to his sonne 1 Chron. XXVIII 11 18. This was such like an help as Moses had Exod. XXV 40. The Preparations for the second Temple were very small Huge stones and costly and precious stones used in Solomons Buildings 1 King VII 9 12. and chap. X. 2 10 11. 1 Chron. XXIX 2 8. 2 Chron. III. 6. The Brazen Altar for Sacrifice was in the Court next the Temple in the open aire The Lavers likewise in that Court between the Brazen Altar and the Temple fixt and placed before the Temple in the inmost Court viz. five Bases and Lavers upon them on the right hand and five on the left as one was to go from the East into the Temple To wash in them such things as they Offered for the Burnt-offerings and Sacrifices The great molten Sea standing on twelve Oxen or Brazen Buls which were by and beside not under the Bases and Lavers as the word is rendered Jer. LII 20. This Sea was placed on the right hand or North-side over against the South For the Priests to wash in 2 Chron. IV. 6 10. In most other places in Scripture the Right hand is taken for the South and the Left hand for the North as supposing a mans posture with his face towards the East Going on from the East towards the West and passing by the Altar Lavers and Sea Entrance was so made into the Porch of the Temple This Porch being the entrance and East-end of the Temple was in length twenty Cubits from North to South In breadth ten Cubits from East to West and in height as high as the Temple and thrice as high above it one hundred and twenty Cubits in all 1 King VI. 3. 2 Chron. III 4. In the middle betweene the walls not joyning to the walls stood on each side of the entrance or Porch the two Pillars of Jachin on the right hand and Boaz on the left eighteen sacred Cubits apiece high 1 King VII 15. or thirty five common Cubits besides the Basis or Pedestal of one Cubit 2 Chron. III. 15. Although some would have this thirty five to be the number arising from the height of both Pillars or the shafts of them And a Chapiter on the top of each five sacred Cubits high 1 King VII 16. 2 Chron. III. 15. to a part whereof are assigned three Cubits 2 King XXV 17. And they being four fingers thick of brasse and hollow within Jer. LII 21. a line of twelve sacred Cubits did compasse either of the Pillars about 1 King VII 15. Some divide the Pillars into five parts or rather into six thus a square Table on the bottome a Rundle or round Basis upon that the shaft and maine body of the Pillars round and above that a square Border upon which the Pomegranates were a Head or Chapiter or Belly and a Crowne or Powel both round All the three parts above the Shaft are called by the name of Chapiter and are said to be five Cubits high 1 King VII 16. Jer. LII 22. And the four Cubits 1 King VII 19. is to be understood of some parts of them And the thâ—ee Cubits 2 King XXV 17. of the other or the four Cubits relate to the Lilie-work and the three Cubits to the Net-work The whole Chapiters had Nets of Checker-work and wreaths of Chain-work seven on either 1 King VII 17.
and humbled himself and suffered even to death and so was made a little lower then the Angels But now hereby he is crowned with glory and honour Yet this dignity here is not ascribed to his Humanity singly in it self considered but in supposito as it hypostaticaly subsists in the Person of the Sonne of God And this Dignity is not an elevation and exaltation of the Humanity of our Saviour into the Majesty and essential properties and prerogatives of the Divine-nature and so to have a parity of Dignity with it an equality in all points realy communicated to the Humanity in it self as the Ubiquitaries contend and plead for and which they referre not to the Person only but to the very Humane nature also in the Person of the Sonne of God But this Dignity of Christs Humanity is that which is next in degree under God and the Father above that of the Angels and all creatures Heb. I. 3 4. Ephes. I. 20 21 22 23. given to him in time after his Ascention as a consequent and reward of his exinanition and passion Phil. II. ult Heb. II. 9. Luke XXIV 26. This Dignity Saint Paul declares 1 Cor. XV. 25. and Saint Peter Acts V. 31. and X. 42. Iohn V. 27. In summe then as Christ emptied himself and subjected himself to the Father not in regard of his Divine nature but in regard of his Person God-man and that only out of his Voluntary dispensation So out of the same his voluntary dispensation it is that he exercises this office of Mediation in both natures And here after his Ascention not before in the Personal Union of both Natures he receives this Dignity of sitting on the Fathers right hand his Person reigning so in both natures It is not then the Humanity in it self singly taken that sits on the right hand of God but the Humanity of that Person that sits at the right hand of God as in the Incarnation it came to passe not that the Humanity became God but that the Humanity became then the Humanity of God And Christ now sitting at the right hand of God doth reigne every where even as Man also though his Humanity be not every where as a King doth in his Kingdom though his body be not every where as the Head in the Body though the Head be not every where as the Sun in the firmament enlightens heats cherisheth quickeneth things below though the Sun remaine in its own place above until 1 Cor. XV. 14 25 28. Not yet that the Son shal then leave off all Rule and Reigne and be subject to the Father simply But that then he shall leave off his Office of Mediation having then overcome his enemies and fully gathered his Church he shall not thenceforth use those meanes and actings which formerly he did the whole work being then finished then shall he leave off the administration of that delegation which he had formerly freely undertaken there being then no more need of it But thenceforth shall he reigne together with the Father to all eternity Dan. VII 14. Luke I. 23. In a sense not unlike is this particle untill used Psal. CXXIII 2. Matth. ult ult Gen. XXVIII 15. what is affirmed of the time past is not denied for the time to come I make I God the Father Not excluding God the Sonne For the same action is attributed to him 1 Cor. XV. 25. Iohn XVI 33 Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa thine enemies The Devill John XIV 30. 1 Cor. XV. 24. The World John XVI 33. and XV. 18. Antichrist and all wicked men Luke XIX 27. Not but that these are the enemies of God and the Father also John V. 23. And so both are joyned together Psal. II. 2. yet more immediately and directly enemies to Christ the Sonne who came into the world to destroy the works of the Devil 1 John II. 8. enemies to his Kingdome and his inheritance Matth. XXI 38. thy foot-stoole All utterly subdued and put under thy feete 1 Cor. XV. 14. As Iudg. I. 7. Psal. XLVII 3. and Psal. XVIII 39 40. 1 Kings V. 3. Iosh. X. 24. 25. Thus did Sapor the Persian King Tamerlane the Scythian and Pope Alexander the fourth to the Emperour Frederick the first This Conquest was made by Christs Resurrection and Ascention Col. II. 15. Ephes. IV. 8. Iohn XII 3. and chap. XVI 11. 33. They touch not Christs person now as they did when he was upon earth They have not power over his mystical body and true members to domineer over them subdue them or deadly destroy them yet they have power to bite and bruise their heel and so to persecute Christ in his members Acts IX 4. and ch XXII 7. Zech. II. 8. And so the victory is not yet fully compleat Rom. XVI 20. And this makes for Christs greater glory and his childrens good But at the last day in the end of the world all the enemies shall be altogether utterly subdued and destroyed and punished everlastingly 1 Cor. XV. 25 28. Matth. XXV 41 c. The Lord shall send The Prophet David here turnes his speech to his Lord and Sonne and speaks here of Iehovah what he shall do to and for him the rod of thy strength Thy royal Scepter or Shepherds staffe thy Kingdome and the Dominion thereof Ier. XLVIII 17. Ezek. XIX 4 11. thy royal power which shall be strong to overpower all the strength of the world opposing it Rom. I. 16. And this is his Word and Gospel not any temporal armes or power out of Zion There began the promulgation and thence sprang the Propagation of the Gospel and of Christs Kingdome which wondrously subdued all the world Ps. II. 6 8. Esay II. 2 3. Mich. IV. 2. rule thou in the midst of thine enemies Here is the successe of Christs Kingdome even among his enemies He and his Church Militant in this world shall still have enemies Matth. X. 6. Yet he shall rule and reigne in the midst of them in despight of them and that with all confidence and boldnesse Thy people As by right of Creation so chiefly here verse 3 by right of Redemption Here is the successe of Christs Kingdome among his subjects shall be willing Their first property to be prompt ready devout chearfully obedient 1 Pet. II. 9. freely led thereto by Gods free Spirit Psal. LI. 12. Rom. VIII 14. Psal. LIV. 6. 2 Cor. IX 7. As Iudg. V. 9. Nehem. XI 2. Acts II. 41. Made such by Christ of unwilling to be so willing Iohn VI. 44. Psal. CXIX 10 11. 108. and in many other places of that Psalme Esay ELIX 18. and LV. 5. and LX. 4. in the day of thy power When by the powerful preaching of thy Gospel thou shalt rule in the midst of thine enemies and powerfully convert thy people to so willing an obedience unto thee The word here translated Power signifies also an armie and may relate to Christs mustering of his people as armies in the dayes of their
He at thy right hand ready to assist thee O Christ as Psal. XVI 8. and CIX 31. Shall strike through Kings Psal. II. 2 4 5. even the highest Powers and Potentates that oppose Christ and his Kingdome 2 Cor. X. 5. In the day of his wrath the time appointed in Gods wisdome the time of his just will so to punish them with plagues temporal eternal in this life in that to come 1 Thes. I. 9 10. Not that Christ the Lord shall be exempted from this powerful conquest and overthrow of his enemies the Sonne being in all things coequal consubstantial with the Father And so the Act coming from the Father by the Sonne But in this speech relation is had to Christ as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God and Man as the King Mediatour and receiving his Office from the Father He shall judge The Lord at thy right hand shall execute judgements and punishments verse 6 among the heathen Psal. II. 1. Acts IV. 27. all his enemies whatsoever he shall fill the places with the dead bodies All places with the carkases of the slaine See Jer. XVI 4. A figurative and poetical expression of an huge slaughter such as was that of the Jewes at the final destruction of Jerusalem after the death of our Saviour he shall wound the head in many countries Wound or strike through Head for heads collectively Psal. LXVIII 21. in many or great countries See that Apoc. XX. 9 10. He Christ the Lord. verse 7 Thus the Prophet passeth from the Father to the Sonne The Father acteth by the Sonne the Sonne from the Father shall drink of the brook in the way In pursuing the victory over his enemies he shall do as Gideons souldiers did Judg. VII 7. admit of no delaies which occasioned that interdict adjuration and curse of Saul 1 Sam. XIV 24. Or rather these words seeme to have relation to Christs state of Humiliation and the rather because of that opposition thereunto in the words following And so here we have Christs exinanition and exaltation his passion and resurrection whereby he was brought to sit at the right hand of the Father verse 1. drink In passing through this valley of tears in this world he shall drink deeply of the cup of sorrowes the waters floods and torrents of afflictions and miseries should overtake and encompasse him if not overwhelme and drowne him Psal. LXXXVIII 7. 17. See Jer. XXV 15 16. and chap. XLIX 12. Matth. XX. 22. John XVIII 11. Matth. XXVI 39. in the way Of this life the way of doing his fathers will for the work of mans redemption Phil. II. 7 8. He hid for the time the luster and beams of his Divine Majesty that it might not hinder the sufferings and death of his Humanity 1 Cor. II. 8. Matth. XVII 9. therefore Thus Christ came from his humiliation to his exaltation from his Priesthood to his Kingdome Therefore here notes not a Merit preceding in Christ meriting for himself this exaltation or his glorie either in body or soul his life eternal All necessarily followed upon that hypostatical Union which he could not merit to himself All Christ did was to merit for us The particle here notes the consequence or sequel and order the means and manner how he came to this exaltation shal he lift up the head Be exalted sit at Gods right hand See for the phrase Psal. III. 3. and XXVII 6. Jer. LII 31. Lam. II. 10. sublimi feriet sydera vertice Praise This is one of the Alphabetical Psalmes chapter CXI verse 1 And so is the next Psalme Thereby to help memory and to mark out the excellency of these Psalmes See the Observations on the beginning of the Book of Psalmes wonderful works In Egypt verse 4. 5. meat Manna and Quails Covenant Though they by their sinnes often and grievously provoked him heathen Canaanites verse 6 Praise chapter CXII verse 1 See the former Psalme wealth See the Observations on Psal. XXXVII 1. verse 3 light in darknesse Esay LVIII 10. Job XI 17. Psal. XXXVII 6. verse 4 of evil tydings Prov. I. 33. Otherwise is it with the wicked verse 7 Jer. XLIX 23. gnash with his teeth See that Luke XIII verse 10 28. who humbleth himself to behold Psal. chapter CXIII verse 6 CXXXVIII 6. and CXXXIX 1 c. Job XXXIV 21 22. Prov. V. 21. Jer. XVI 17. contrary to that Psal. LXXIII 11. and LXIV 6. and XCIV 7 10. Job XXII 12 13. He raiseth 1 Sam. II. 8. verse 7 mountains skipped Sinai chapter CXIV verse 4 Horeb quaked and shaked Exod. XIX 18. Hab. III. 6 10. Psal LXVIII 8. Their idols are Not like unto our God chapter CXV verse 4 verse 3. are like unto them As much without sense and reason verse 8 as blocks and stones their help Theirs that trust in him or one person verse 9 put for another which is not unusual hath he given To their use verse 16 in this world Or the earth also is the Lords which he hath given to the children of men The dead praise not Psal. verse 17 VI. 5. and XXX 9. and LXXXVIII 10 11 12. Esay XXXVIII 18. I love This may seeme to be Davids Psalme chapter CXVI verse 1 upon his new coming to the Kingdome Therefore The experience of Gods hearing our prayers verse 2 doth hearten us to pray the more Pains of hell The sorrowes and straits of death verse 3 and the grave Psal. XVIII 5 6. Gratious The issue and effect of Prayer verse 5 thy rest Thy quiet comfortable estate in God without trouble of conscience verse 7 and that because of Gods goodnesse and good dealing towards thee I beleeved 2 Cor. verse 10 IV. 13. upon consideration of the Premises his Faith thus triumphed notwithstanding his afflictions I was greatly afflicted The Hebrew word here hath an Active forme but in a Passive signification As sometimes an Hebrew word in a Passive forme is of an Active signification See Esay XXI 10. and chap. XXV 9. and LIII 7. and Ezek XIV 4 7. haste verse 11 All men are liers Even the Prophets as Samuel that promised to me the Kingdome Yea all men in comparison of God unable to help in time of need Rom. III. 4. cup of salvations Used in the Israelites Peace-offerings of Thanksgivings verse 13 and in the Meat-offerings joyned to them and to their whole-burnt offerings and used in their holy Feasts 1 Chron. XVI 1 2 3 whence that seemes to be Luke XXII 17. vowes Made in mine adversity verse 14 Of vowes see the Annotations on Jonah I. 16. Pretious Psal. LXXII verse 15 14. which God shewes in preserving my life from death in the midst of all mine enemies Praise The Apostle alledgeth this to prove Gods mercy to the Gentiles chapter CXVII verse 1 that they should therefore glorifie him O give thanks This may seeme to be Davids Psalme chapter CXVIII verse 1 and likely inspired and composed upon his returne from his last victory over the Ammonites 2 Sam.
to the Nations for them bring or send in the Israelies that are in captivity with them or sojourne among them This typicaly and chiefly relates to the calling home of the elect of them to Christ wheresover dispersed some at one time some at another and also the maine body of the residue in his own appointed season Acts II. 41. and IV. 4. and XXI 20. Rom. XI 5 25 26. 2 Cor. III. 16. The envie also of Ephraim That had beene between them verse 13 and Judah since the rent of the Kingdomes by Jeroboam the Ephraimite 1 Kings XII was to cease when united either to other in Christ Ezek XXXVII 16. Jer. III. 18. and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off In the time of the Messias the obstinate enemies of the Church of God shall by Christ be destroyed see chap. LX. 12. But they shall flie verse 14 c. They shall subdue these inveterate enemies the enemies of the spiritual Kingdome of Christ hereby typified the tongue of the Egyptian sea verse 15 The Prophet here promiseth from God a removal of all impediments that might hinder the Jewes in this their returne into their land This their returne shadowing out the reducing of people to the obedience of Christ and his spiritual Kingdome By this tongue there is meant the red-sea which is like a tongue the river Nilus in the seven streames By which as by so many mouths it emptieth it self into the Sea To make way for the Jewes returne from her into their own land The meaning is that no impediment or obstacle should be so great that might hinder those who were to be brought home to Christ and his Church out of all quarters but it should be removed an high way The same meaning for Assyria verse 16 as in the former verse for Egypt in that day chapter XII verse 1 Of thy returne home thou shalt say And sing these or the like Hymnes of Praise composed by the Prophet as set formes or as directories to them or both So 1 Chron. XVI 7 35 36. in that day A preface or passage into a new forme verse 4 another ditty and this in way of exhortation to others to do the like Babylon Here begin Prophecies chapter XIII verse 1 purposely against forreign States And first against Babylon that should be their principal enemy The Inscription of this Sermon is here in the first words Of Burden See Jer. XXIII 33 36. Of Babylon see my Observations on Dan. IV. 30. Of her Fall see Jer. L. and LI. And this seemes to be the seventh Sermon Lift ye up a banner To summon those that were to be imployed against Babylon verse 2 nobles The great Peeres of Babylon my sanctified ones Set apart to this service verse 3 ver 17. Jer. LI. 27 28. a far countrey Media and Persia. verse 5 whole land Of Chaldea Howle ye Babylonians their faces shall be as flames Lam. IV. verse 6 8. and V. 10. Ezek. XX. verse 8 47. Yet this here seemes to be for fear of evil yet to come See therefore that Jer. XXX 5 6. Joel II. 6. Nahum II. 10. Yet the Original word seemes to incline to the faces of Lybians or tawny-moores the stars All shall be so full of horror and terror verse 10 that the heavenly bodies may seem to have lost their light no glimps of comfort shall appeare Ophir See the Observations on 1 King verse 12 X. 11. shake the heavens I will cause them to be in such confusion and distraction verse 13 as if heaven it self were falling upon their heads and the earth moving or removing from under their feet And it shall be Babylon turne to his owne people Babylon shall be forsaken by her hired forces and confederates verse 14 found Medes and Persians Medes verse 15 Under the conduct of Cyrus and Darius verse 17 overthrew Sodom verse 19 This utter devastation of Babylon was not at once but began at the conquest of it by Cyrus and in the succeeding ages was consummated It shall never be inhabited Jer. LI. 26 verse 20. 22. 29 43. and her time is near to come Esay in vision seeth the judgements as if presently approaching or this may be taken as spoken to and for them that then should be living in the time of the captivity of the LXX years For the Lord The reason of the hastening of the destruction of Babylon chapter XIV verse 1 which is Gods mercie and compassion towards his people the deliverance of whom depended upon Babylons destruction strangers shall be joyned See the like ch 5. XLIV and LVI 3. and LX. 3. Esther VIII 17. Psal. XLVII 8 9. This partly accomplished at their returne from Babylon but more in the Kingdome of Christ by the Ministery of the Gospel possesse them These Proselites and Converts verse 2 take them captive c. Partly verified in the time of the Maccabees literaly but most of all spiritualy by the means and ministery of the Apostles and Preachers subduing them to the obedience of Christs Scepter this Proverb Or by-word verse 4 or taunting speech Here the Prophet continues the denunciation of the destruction of Babylon the King i. e. the Kingdome O Lucifer Meaning the Babylonian verse 12 the mount of the Congregation Mount Sion verse 13 or mount Moriah being in the North-side of Jerusalem 2 Chron. III. 1. Psal. XLVIII 2. that opened not the house of his prisoners But kept them LXX verse 17 years in captivity Prepare slaughter Esay speaks to the Medes and Persians verse 21. 23. 25. for the bitterne See chap. XIII 21 22. that I will break the Assyrian in my land Rather as in breaking the Assyrian in my land Sennacheribs overthrow it seemes was before this And it is brought in as an argument and example to prove that as God had done that one so he would as certainly do the other that is overthrow Babylon in its time In the yeare that King Ahaz died Here begins another Sermon verse 28 or Prophecie And might well be the beginning of another Chapter Chap. VI. did beare the date of the death of Uzziah This of the death of Ahaz Palestina Meaning here the Westerne part of Jury that was inhabited by the Philistines verse 29 Of the Philistines see my Annotations on Zech. IX 6. The Babylonians were the greatest enemies to the Jews farthest off The Philistines were their greatest enemies nearest at hand because the rod c. This is meant of King Uzziah who prevailed much in his wars against them 2 Chron. XXVI 6 7. But in Ahaz his reigne the state and strength of the Jews was much weakened whereat the Philistines did much rejoyce But Esay biddeth them not to be overjoyed for it should not last long a cockatrice Ezekiah 2 Kings XVIII 8. and his fruit shall be a fiery flying Serpent The Serpents fruit shoul be a cockatrice yea more then so a fiery flying Serpent And the first-borne of the poore The extremely poore verse 30 as