alone Satan spared him verse 15 that by him Job might quickly hear it winde a great whirlwinde verse 19 young men And daughters also Satan by his Commission might have taken away his wife also as well as his children But he left her to vex him shaved his head Did it himself verse 20 or by some other thither Into the womb of our common mother the earth verse 21 whereon he fell ver 20. sinned not Contrary to that of Satan verse 22 He blesseth ver 21. not curseth as Satan said ver 11. earth He hath no power in Heaven chapter II verse 2 no temptation is there skin for skin Any skin for his own though even that of his children chap. I. 19. for his life To save his life and person free sore boiles Satans power verse 7 if God give him leave Curse Hebr. Blesse Either it is an ironical scoffe at Jobs piety verse 9 and patience Or the word beareth two contrary significations as the Hebrew Kadesh Levit. VI. 29. Deut. XXII 9. And with the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines Sacer and sundry others do And so Cursing is here meant as chap. I. 11. and 1 Kings XXI 10. Some conceive that the crime of Blasphemy was so odious and execrable in those dayes that men could not endure to hear it called by the proper name but though they had a word to expresse it by yet they chose rather to understand it by the contrary So a Sodomite and a Whore our English word may haply be rather Hore from Hire as Meretrix from Merces have their names in Hebrew from holinesse being both most unholy Job XXXVI 14. Gen. XXXVIII 21 22. Deut. XXIII 18. and knew him not At first sight verse 12 wept When they came near and knew him Seven dayes The three friends silence for seven dayes and nights is wonderful verse 13 Somewhat like is that Ezek. III. 15 16. See Lam. II. 10. and III. 28. After this Job first breaks off that strange silence chapter III verse 1 and his former pious patience And through infirmity he passionately falls to curse the day and night of his nativity wisheth he had died as soone as he was born much magnifying the state of the dead above his woful life whereof he complaines that it is in being and is so bitter to him conceived i. e. borne or brought forth verse 3 The night of conception is unknown and the man-childe till it be borne Then Eliphaz Here begins the first Onset of Jobs three friends chapter IV verse 1 I will summe them up together Here Eliphaz doth accuse Jobs faintnesse under present miseries glance at his former hypocrisie maintain in the general that no good man was ever so punished shewing the prosperous state of the godly and the plagues of God upon the wicked and by relating a fearful Vision he seeks to humble the excellencies of man and justifie God in his doings above him chap. IV. Moreover he hints that no Saint is so afflicted as Job and he sheweth that the prosperity of the foolish sinner is but momentany adviseth Job to submit his cause to God who doth wonderful things and unsearchable against the evill and for the good and that he despise not the chastening of the Almighty who then shall and will deliver and defend him preserve and prosper him and his chap. V. After Jobs answer to this Then Bildad doth reprove him for it doth justifie God in his judgements and that if Iob will seek to him and be upright God who doth confound the hope of the hypocrite will prosper him and fill his lips with rejoycing chap. VIII After Iobs answer hereupon Then Zophar reproves Iob more then the other did for his former answer as justifying himself more then God shewing that God exacts of him lesse then his iniquity deserved that God and his wayes are unsearchable But if Iob will pray unto him and put away iniquity then his future state shall become secure and glorious chap. XI who can with-hold Hearing such verse 2. 6. and so impatient speeches Is not this This as a touch-stone shewes that formerly they were but counterfeits Thus Eliphaz unwittingly plaies Satans part chap. I. 9 10 11. and II. 5. Remember Give one instance verse 7 if thou canst of any good man perishing by the hand of God as thou art like to do This and many other speeches of Jobs friends we must not take for Scriptural and Canonical truths though some of their speeches be cited elsewhere in Scripture True it is that they said thus though all be not true that they said specialy their false charges against Job and misapplying of things to him chap. XLII 7. Lion Seven names of Lions in Scripture verse 10 Whereof see the Annotations on this text and Buxtorfs Lexicon Now a thing A Vision verse 12 16. or Preparation for the Revelation ensuing Shall The voice speaking verse 17 21. or revelation it self Now Eliphaz might misapply the speech of this Vision as himself and his companions did many other good grounds Loe There is no comparison between Angels and God verse 18 much lesse between man and God Saints wilt thou turne chapter V verse 1 To finde a parallel for thy self that any living Saint was ever so afflicted wrath Impatience in man verse 2 or wrath in God To set up This might serve as an encouragement to Job verse 11 yea in seven From many verse 19 yea from all troubles There are in the words following seven troubles reckoned up thou shalt know Now Promises of Blessings do follow verse 24 a comfortable state and numerous posterity a long life and happy death Loe this Application of all to Job verse 27 to make use of it But Job answered Here I will summe up together his first Answers to each of the three friends chapter VI verse 1 as I did formerly their several first speeches to him Here then He aments the most woful extremity of this misery which God inflicts upon him so that his Complaints are not causelesse he wisheth that God would cut him off and complaineth of the unpitifulnesse of his friends towards him chap. VI. He reneweth the mention and bemoaning of his miseries as insupportable he wisheth death confesseth his sinfulnesse and craveth pardon chap. VII He acknowledgeth man cannot contend with God and that he will not answer God or contend to justifie himself though he were righteous which he is not but makes supplication to his Judge He saith God destroyes the perfect and the wicked that his dayes are few his sorrowes are great that God will not hold him innocent that he cannot answer God yet would willingly speak to him if his rod and terrours were taken away from him chap. IX He will speak to God and say wherfore doest thou so contend with me and search after my sinne Thou knowest I am not wicked Thy hands have made me If I be wicked woe unto me and if I be righteous yet will
the Bible printed in Anno 1651. did come forth Afterwards perusing them I found some differences between those Annotations and these Observations which did minister some occasion of enlarging my first draught chiefly by noting and insisting upon these differences yet rarely naming the said Annotations but leaving rather the full animadverting comparing and judging of them to the judicious Reader Thereafter I committed these to the Presse And after a good progress had been made by it for some reasons not so fit to trouble thee withal I was again induced and over-ruled to enlarge my self yet much more and to descend to very many Particulars by way of Exposition and Explanation in some of the ensuing Books of Scripture much beyond what was my first Proposal and Intendment Which thing I conceive will dim the light and lustre of those choice places and Observations which primarily were my only aime Yet I hope to the Candid Reader These larger additions will not seem altogether impertinent or improfitable as to the speedier understanding of Gods Holy Word Neverthelesse I never undertook or intended to meddle with or mention all the difficult places of Sacred Scripture For them in general I refer thee to the said Great Annotations as the best extant in that kinde Neither do I here touch upon the New Testament save only when and where the Text or the Old Testament doth crave for the quotation of it In this Collection of Observations and Explanations I follow the Order of the Books and Chapters of the Bible And I heartily wish that the holy Text were alwayes before their eyes who shall vouchsafe to read them without which the life of them or of many of them will be lost And the numerous quotations therein used will really appear specially to Divines to be of good concernment to them and who shall have occasion to use them and will take the paines to turne unto them Be pleased not to think that I am too curious or thy self can be too ambitious of knowing any truth revealed in the Scriptures Thou canst not search them too much nor can the Word of God dwell too richly and plentifully in thee Indeed the substantial and essential matters therein must first be known and cared for Yet these may help to bring divers remarkable Places and Passages of Scripture into more common knowledge and familiar notion then I suppose yet they are Such as they are yet now at the last though the Presse much retarded them if they may any wayes make for thy spiritual use and profit that same is the earnest desire of Thy Servant in Christ J. A. A TABLE Of such things as are occasionally discoursed of in this Book But for the maine things the whole Book is a TABLE to it selfe For the larger ANNOTATIONS upon GENESIS the INDEX referres you to the Chapter and Verse A. THe Ark its mansions pag. 76 77 B Baal and Baalim p. 62 63 Of Bethel Gen. 28. 19. Branch taken for the Messias 423 C Covenant how it is new under the Gospel 424 To be cut off to what sins threatned and what it is Gen. ch 17. 14. 21 D Day when it begins p. 1. Gen. 1. 5. Christs Descent into hell in what sense it is to be taken 181 E Egypt 5 Ephod 81 Places of Esay cited in the New Testament 352 Evening diversly taken 12 For ever a phrase diversly taken 40 F Solomons foole who 298 The foure hundred years of Israels bondage how accounted 15 13 H God how he hardens without being the Authour of sin 359 High places 90 91 Hyperbolies much used in Scripture 52 I. Jacob marries Leah at or before the beginning of the fourteen years service 8 Of Jerusalem 50 51 Of imprecations 195 Isreal how foure hundred years strangers and where 5 Israels number when they came into Egypt 9 K Kings of Israel and Judah their names reignes c. 100. to 104 M Hebrew-measures 6 14 Melchizedech who he was Gen. 14. 18. 254 255 Ministers among the Jewes what a liberal maintenance they had 32 N Of Names 3 O Of Oathes 138 Of the Oath with the Gibeonites 50 Oathes are to be kept 435 P Passeover whether Christ kept it on the 〈◊〉 day with the Jewes Passeover when kept by Christ when by the Jews and how the difference of their dayes 〈◊〉 Gen. 1. 5. Of Prophets 80 81 Psalmes their division 172. the musick mentioned in them 173 Psalmes cited in the New Testament 175 176 R Red sea why so called 11 Repentance how a scribed to God 422 S Scribes 129 130 Seven yeares Jacob served for Leaâ— and seven for Rachel when and how Gen. 29. 20. Shâ—kel 16 Shihor 115 Of Christs sitting at his Fathers right hand 251 The Sluggard how described in the Book of the Proverbs 274 275 Sun how it returned ten degrees 389 Of swearing and forswearing 434 435 Gen. 24. 3. Swearing a duty 434 T Temple described 92 to 96 Tempting how ascribed to God how to men ch 22. 1. Of tithes among the Jewes 31 32 V About various readings in Scripture 106 107 Of vowes Gen. 28. 20. Y Yeare when begins 11 12 ANNOTATIONS ON Genesis CHAP. I. Ver. 1. IN the beginning Of the Creation which God created Mark 13. 19. and so in the beginning of the world then not eternal nor the matter of it but God only eternal And this beginning most probably was at the Autumnal Equinoctial or Spring and that for the Ecclesiastical accompt only upon and because of Gods mâ—raculous bringing them out of Egypt at that season of the year from whence Gods people constantly began their year till the change made to the vernal Equinoctial God Elohim in the plural number intimating a plurality not of Gods Exod. 12. 2. 23. 11 16. 34. 22. Lev. 25. 9 10. Deut. 16. 13 c. but therefore of persons in the Deity The word Creators Eccles. 12. 1. hath a singular number viz. El. Gen. 14. 8. and Eloah Job 12. 4. And it signifies Strong Almighties powers Sometimes it is used but improperly to signifie false gods Exod. 20. 3. Angels and Magistrates among men Ps. 8. 5. 82. 1 6. created Bara This word is proper to God and a word in the singular number importing the singular unity of the Deity And that God had no Assistants Co-adjutors or subordinate Agents and Instruments in the work of Creation But the Angels themselves are his Creatures Col. 1. 16. A God and He the Creator of the World are acknowledged in a manner by all Heathen Writers if not by all men the heaven Or heavens and the earth Heaven and Earth here may be taken as a summary proposition of the whole Creation as ch 2. 1. and Exod 20 11. And the rather considering the Hebrew Articles here used ETH and HA as pointing to these now in being And yet as probably and more of the common Chaos and Masse and Stock of both as seeming to be included within the work of the first day and
must begin it at the Evening But if we will begin it according to that alledged Alteration we finde in our Saviours time Then we must Begin it in the Morning which later is favoured the more by our Saviours Resurrection very early in the morning Matth. 28. 1 6. Marke 16. 2 6. Luke 24. 1 6. John 20. 1. To the memory and honour of whose Resurrection as the day of Rest was changed so it accords well and suitably seems to require the same change for the beginning of that day agreeing therin with the aforesaid Alteration However the Point Material is That it must comprehend twenty four hours V. 6. Firmament By Firmament here generaly by all is understood whatsoever is to be seene in that vast space above the earth from the surface of it to the uppermost visible Orbs As conceiving and that justly That the Aire or lowest region of it betwixt the Earth and the Clouds were alone too smal a thing for the whole work of the second day In the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters the waters which are under the firmament from the waters which are above the firmament Divers ancient and learned Fathers have conceived hereupon and upon the words of the Psalme 148. 4. That a great or the greatest part of those waters that covered the face of the 〈◊〉 verse 2. were lifted up and spread as an Orbe of waters above and about the highest part of the starry heavens and so there remaine And from those windowes of heaven opened some would fetch the greatest part of those waters in the Deluge that covered all the high hills that were under the whole heaven fifteene cubits upwards Yet all this seemes too weak a foundation whereon to build that Orbe of supercelestial waters For plaine it is that the lowest region of the aire is called heaven and the firmament of heaven even that wherein the winds clouds and fowles do flie verse 20. Jer. 51. 16. Dan. 7. 2 13. And indeed as every part of the water is truly called water so every part of the heaven and firmament may be and is called heaven as well as the whole or the highest parts of it the starry heaven and the third heaven chap 1. verse 14 15 16 17. Gen. 22. 17. 2. Cor. 12. 2. And if such a division were meant as they pretend to where then would be the division betweene the waters of the seas and the watery clouds without which division and the use of it the earth could not bring forth sustenance for Man or Beast And as for the windowes of heaven they are understood of the region of the aire as Psal. 78. 23. Mal. 3. 10. And the same God who rained down fire and brimstone on Sodâ—m and made or multiplyed the widowes oyle 2 Kings 4. 2. V. 8. the firmament heaven All above us so called And the Angels this day most likely were created considering the words of the Lord Job 38. 4 5 6 7. that all the sonnes of God shouted for joy when he laid the foundations of the earth Though Moses mentions not their creation as puposely intending to relate only the creation of things corporal and visible and that haply a having regard therein to the rudiments and weaknesse of that Infant-Church of the Jewes to whom immediately he wrote this History second day Without that approbation And God saw that it was good which yet is doubled on the third day haply because the separation of the waters begun this day was not perfected till the third day And it is once repeated on each of the other four dayes with the addition of very good in the end of all V. 20. and fowle Out of the waters and the ground also chap. 2. 19 V. 26. Let us Intimates a Plurality of Persons in the Unity of the Divine Essence And so pluraly chap. 3. 22. 11. 7. Esay 6. 8. V. 27. created he them Both this day chap. 5. 2. though the maner of her creation be more fully related chap. 2. v. 18 to 23. V. 29. to you it shall be for meat Living things are not here mentioned for meat till after the flood anno mundi 1657. and no more are corne bread drink and other things named which yet no doubt were in use before the flood Cain being a tiller of the ground And â—el being a keeper of sheep was not likely to leave their flesh to be devoured of wilde beasts or to rot either above or under ground And mans body being in a dying condition since the Fall stood in more need of nourishing meats then whiles he abode in Innocencie Neither were the herbs trees ground after the Curse of that vertue and vigour for his nourishment and sustenance as formely It is nothing likely then that man should want so needful a nourishment as flesh or fish for so long a time so many ages of the world because they were not haply so necessary for him in the time of Innocency or not expressed by name for food at the time of his Creation But after the Fall being killed for cloathing and offered in sacrifices to God even by Abel himself It is not to be imagined but that they did eate of the flesh of them as in sacrifices was ever usual And therefore also for those ends and uses the distinction of them into cleane and uncleane was made even before the flood And seven of the Cleane reserved for sacrifice and food whereas two sufficed as in the Uncleane for preservation of Seed Gen. 7. 2. And the words of our Saviour noting the old world for their eating and drinking before the flood came on Matth. 24. 38. implies rather an abuse in the excesse then an abstinence from the use of flesh and other delicacies V. 30. Every green herb for meat But after the Fall of man beasts and birds of prey and fishes eate and devour one another CHAP. II. Ver. 3. BEcause that in it This being alledged as the Reason of the Sabbath Exod. 20. 11. 31. 17. shews it to be here instituted before the Fall And then no doubt but Gods people had more need or the same Ordinance and Help in Religion ever since the Fall And the Rulers Narrative to Moses speech or question Exod. 16. 22 23. seems to me to imply the keeping of the Sabbath by the Jewes before the giving of Manna in the Wildernesse Exod. 16. 5. not appearing to be made known to the people till after the Rulers relation of sin And Gods direction to Moses And apparently it was kept before the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai V. 4. the Lord God Here first the word Jehova is used And after often in this Chapter Gen. 15. 7. 22. 14. 26. 24. 27. 20. 28. 13. and in many places more And therefore Exod. 6. 3. But by my Name Jehova was I not known to them is spoken comparatively not known so fully in making good my promises by answerable effects as now
of the Ark to be fully sufficient to hold whatsoever was required to be contained in it specially if we understand here where no kinde is nominated the sacred cubit V. 18. My Covenant For thy preservation Typifying our spiritual preservation and salvation by Christ from the deluge of Gods wrath 1 Pet 3. 21. Thou Eight in number 1 Pet. 3. 20. V. 19. Two of every sort Paires of every sort And here only the kindes are named the number in chap. 7. v. 2 3. V. 20. Shall come unto thee Of their own accord by my instinct not else so freely as ch 2. 19. V. 22. Thus did Noah By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet moved with feare prepared an Ark to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heire of the righteousness which is by faith Heb. 11. 7. So Exod. 39. 43. and 40. 16. CHAP. VII Verse 1. ANd all thy house Thy children specified v. 13. No doubt but he had more of his family men-servants and maid-servants But they and the Shipwrights all drowned in this generation Called by St. Peter the world of the ungodly 2 Pet 2. 5. V. 2. Of every clean beast Here is the distinction of clean and unclean beasts and fowles in Noahs time and before even soon in all likelihood after the fall of man Long then before Moses time In Moses time the distinction of beasts and fowles clean and unclean for sacrifice was this that of all beasts only Beeves Sheep and Goats were counted clean for sacrifice and of Fowles only the turtle-Doves and Pigeons Levit. 1. And the Sparrow was used in the clensing of the Leper and Leprous house Levit. ch 14. 4 5. But for meat to the Jewes there was a further distinction of clean and unclean beasts fishes fowles and creeping things Lev. 11. The distinction here at the flood is not particularized and therefore we cannot be so certain but guesse only by Moses which were clean which unclean by sevens Not two sevens The use of the seventh is set down for sacrifice ch 8. 20. of other foure likely for meat and of the other two for preservation of seed as is here commanded concerning the unclean beasts and fowle Or more then two of the seven might be for the greater increase of those which were of most use and comfort to mankinde and the rest for present food and for sacrifice V. 10. Were Began to be V. 11. In the second moneth Bull about our October 1 Kings 6. 38. which is the eighth moneth of the yeare according to the Ecclesiastical account first commanded by God to the Jewes at his miraculous bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt Exod. 12. 2. The civil account and the civil yeare even then and still after continuing with them the same beginning as it ever had from the beginning in the moneth Tizri or Ethanim about our September 1 Kings 8. 2. I can see no just cause why we should not follow the civil Account of the yeare here in Noahs time Though the other reckoning of the moneths be most followed in Scripture after the time of the change aforesaid 1 Kings 6. 1537 38. Nehem 2. 1. 6. 15. Esther 2. 16. 3. 7. 9. 15. Zach. 1. 7. 7. 1. V. 17. And the flood was fourty dayes c. It rained so long till the twenty seventh day of the third moneth Chisleu which is the nineth moneth according to the Ecclesiastical Account Zach. 7. 1. and falls in with or about the middle of our December and it prevailed upon the earth 150 dayes v. 24. V. 20. Fifteen cubits upward Above all the high hills that were under the whole Heaven whatsoever we heare true or fabulous by Writers or reports of the height of the hills of Olympus Atlas Athos Caucasus Pike in Tenerif or any other V. 22. Died But yet small charity to judge the Infants and all of them to be damned C ham in the Ark cursed and many out of it in the time of the lingring deluge might repent and be saved though not from the temporal death yet from that which is eternal V. 24. One hundred and fifty days Reckoning from the first day of the raine falling viz. seventeenth day of the second moneth to the seventeenth day of the seventh moneth whereon the Ark rested on the mountaines of Ararat ch 8. 4. are one hundred and fifty dayes Heathens in the deluge of Deucalion shew they had some inckling and hint of this sacred history CHAP. VIII Ver. 1. A Winde To asswage not inrage V. 4. Rested in the seventh moneth Called Nisan by the Chaldees and Abib by the Hebrewes answering to part of our March and April On the seventeenth day About the beginning of our April where ended the one hundred and fifty dayes mountaines of Ararat An hilly tract of land in Armenia the greater not far from the Caspian sea and near to Assyria and Mesopotamia 2 Kings 19. 37. Esay 37. 38. Jer. 51. 27. Some take these for the Gordean or Cordean mountaines Some for the hills of Taurus or Caucusus V. 5. In the tenth moneth on the first day Called Thamus answering the middle of our June beginning still the reckoning from September the beginning of their civil yeare Thus after seventy three dayes since the Ark first rested and two hundred twenty three dayes since the flood first began were the tops of the mountaines seen To determine the gradual abatements of the waters day by day is vain curiosity and foolish presumption upon uncertain grounds V. 6. At the end of fourty dayes After the mountaine-tops were first seen This makes up the number of two hundred sixty three dayes since the flood began and one hundred and thirteen days since the Ark first rested and falls on the eleventh day of their eleventh moneth called Ab and towards the end of our July and not as the great Annotators have it on this place on the eleventh day of the eleventh moneth called Sebat Zach. 1. 7. the same which we call January But to reckon thus were to reckon the yeare according to the Ecclesiastical Account contrary to their own minde set down in their Annotations upon the fourth verse of this same chapter V. 8. A Dove seven dayes after the Raven v. 10. on the eighteenth day of their eleventh moneth about the beginning of our August The sending out of the Dove is mentioned in Dcucalions history V. 9. Found no rest Though the tops of the mountaines were seen fourty seven dayes before V. 10. And again he sent On the twenty fifth of their eleventh moneth called by some Ab about the tenth of our August V. 11. In the evening Spending the day abroad pluck't off Not floating on the waters so now growing trees were discovered The Dove found a place of rest to her feet but not yet food fit for her V. 12. Yet other seven dayes On the second day of the twelfth moneth called Elul
mothers sonnes Cursed Ch. 12. 3. Numb 24 9. The efficacy of the blessing here did not depend upon the intention of Isaac And no more doth the truth and efficacy of the Sacrament depend upon the intention of the Minister V. 33. Trembled As one perplexed astonished between wonder and feare lest he had done amisse Yea and he shall be blessed By that trembling as by a bit and bridle God restraines him from revoking the blessing And recollecting himself he doth now by faith re-establish it Heb. 11. 20. And after more advisedly chap. 28. 3 4. V. 34. Exceeding bitter cry Yet found no place of repentance no way to change his fathers minde to recal what he had done though he sought it carefully with tears Hebr. 12. 17. Prov. 1. 24 28. V. 35. Thy blessing Which I intended thee and by birth-right pertained to thee V. 36. And he said These words shew no true repentance in Esau. he took away Nay Esau sold it and despised it ch 25. 33 34. my blessing Not his then when the birth-right was none of his V. 37. Thy Lord V. 29. and what shall I do As if he should say comparatively all other blessings are nothing V. 39. The fatnesse of the earth Not unlike that v. 28. Mount Seir was such a place Josh. 24. 4. By faith Isaac blessed Esau concerning things to come Hebr. 11. 20. yet Canaan far surpassed Idumea Besides that Canaan was a type of the heavenly Canaan V. 40. And by this sword shalt thou live With warres and troubles defend thy state and countrey Mat. 10. 34. And not enjoy peace as Jacob Deut. 33. 27 28. Esay 2. 4. and shalt serve thy brother In thy posterity Deut. 33. 29. Gen. 25. 23. 2 Sam. 8. 14. 1 Kings 22. 47. Obad. v. 18 19 21. when thou shalt have the dominion Because of Israels sins as in the days of Jehoram 2 Kings 8. 20. 22. 2. break his yoke Of thy servitude 2 Chron. 21. 8. under which thou wast from Davids dayes till then above one hundred yeares Esay 9. 4. 10. 27. Jer. 27. 8 11. Herod was an Idumean V. 41. Hated Spitefully This shewes no true repentance in him 1 John 3. 12 15. This hatred continued in his posterity Obad v. 10 11 12 13 14 18 19 21. said in his heart Afterwards uttered it in words v. 42. are at hand In his wish and opinion Isaac being now blinde and yet he lived fourty foure yeares after V. 42. Comfort himself To receive his birth-right by killing of thee Revenge is sweet to the enraged wicked man yea the very purpose of it And thus they harden their heart in evil against Gods known Will so did Saul against David 1 Sam. 18. 28. God useth a like speech of himself in an holy sense Ezech. 5. 13. V. 44. A few dayes It proved to be above twenty yeares ch 31. 38. Doubtful whether ever Rebekah saw him again She sent not for Jacob because she saw Esaus rage and malice continue ch 32. 6. V. 45. Both in one day By fighting they might kill each other or if Esau lived they should and would then count him as dead and no better And the Law was such chap. 9. 6. V. 46. Of the daughters of Heth Esaus wives ch 26. 35 34. A wise godly and crafty counsel she conceales from Isaac the hatred of Esau and dangerous discord between his sons CHAP. XXVIII Ver. 1. ANd blessed him Isaac was constant to his first blessing notwithstanding Jacobs craft in getting it Jacob had need of this second blessing to confirme his faith against his future troubles and trials Isaac therefore by his fatherly authority now wittingly and willingly settles it on him again V. 2. Arise go Isaac was not but his fathers servant ch 24. 3 4. 5 6. And he with ten camels c. Jacob here with his staffe in his hand ch 32. 10. and to serve for a wife Hos. 12. 12. thy motheâ—s brother Cousin-germans marry V. 3. A multitude of people Chapter 35. 11. 48. 4. V. 4. The blessing of Abraham His Grandfather who had the Original grant of the blessings both temporal and spiritual earthly and heavenly made over to him and his seed and the blessing chiefly of the promised seed art a stranger Ch. 17. 8. This is to prevent the weakening of his faith by being but a stranger in it still as also his father and Grandfather were unto Abraham By Promise ch 12. 7. and often repeated V. 5. Of Bâ— thuel the Aramite Syrian So Luke translateth the word Luke 4. 27. V. 9. To Ishmael The Ishmaelites for he was dead ch 25. 17. Mahalath Called also Basemath ch 36. 3. sister By the same mother at least if not father Nebaioth Ishmaels eldest sonne ch 25. 13. From him Esau had his sister to wife Ishmael being now dead Esau and she were Cousin-germans two brothers children This Esau did to please his father and strengthen himself by the Ishmaelites against Jacob. And now he hath three wives assoon likely as Jacob had any V. 10. From Beersheba Ch. 26. 23. toward Haran Charran Acts 7. 2. a long journey seven dayes journey in Labans pursuit to Mount Gilead ch 31. 22 23. which Mount stretched through the two tribes and 1 2 beyond Jordan Eastward And now was Jacob seventy five or seventy six yeares old See Annot. on ch 29. 21. V. 11. And he lighted By Gods Providence chap. 32. 10. because the Sun was set And so or for wearinesse he did not reach Luz after called Bethel Though it were hard by v. 19. It is conceived to be near fifty English miles distant from Beer-sheba and from Jerusalem eight miles Northward for his pillowes Hard distresse He went so meanly from his parents or haply stole away in a sort lest Esau should lie in wait for him by the way as he did at his returne ch 32. 6. Abrahams servant went with great state so that Rebekah calls him Lord ch 24. 18. But Jacob with his staffe in his hand ch 32. 10. V. 12. Dreamed A divine dream See Annot. on ch 15. 1. and on ch 20. 3. Ladder Signifying Christ John 1. 51. In his two natures personally united Heaven and earth are as it were joyned together And by him the only Mediatour is man reconciled to God Colos. 1. 20. by him the Angels for our service and the Holy Ghost and his gifts descend down to us and we and our prayers have accesse and ascend unto God And secondarily hereby is signified the Providence of God in governing the world Psal. 113. 5 6. and particularly his provident care over Jacob in his journey going and returning v. 13 15. and 32. 1 2. And both these specially by the Ministery of Angels Psal. 91. 11 12. Heb. 1. 13 14. earth Denoting Christs humanity and his conversing with men Joh. 16. 28. Heaven Denoting his Deity and Mediation or negotiation for men with God Heb. 8. 1. 9. 24. John 14. 6. ascending Coming and going looking
first moneth of the second year of their coming out of Egypt whiles yet they stayed at Mount Sinai Compare together Exod. XL. 2 17. Levit. I. 1. and Chap. XXVII 34. and Num. I. 1. And this was in the 2509 year of the world thus 1656. to the Flood Thence to Abrams birth in the 130 year of Terah 352. Thence to Isaac's birth 100. Thence to Jacob's birth 60. Thence to Jacob's going down into Egypt 130. Thence to the coming out of Egypt 210 and one year after their coming forth in all 2509. And not in the year of the world 2455. or 2514. This Book contains principally the Function and Offices of the Levites And Ceremonials concerning Sacrifices and Feasts Rites and Purifications Delivered by God to Moses out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation when it was newly reared Levit. I. 1. And accordingly is that Levit. XXV 1. to be expounded The moneth of this Book may seeme to be thus spent taken up and subdivided viz 1. Day The Tabernacle Altar and all other things belonging to the Sanctuary reared placed anointed Exod. XL. Levit. VIII The Consecration of Aaron and his sonnes Commanded Exod. XXIX Begun Exod. XL. fully finished Levit. VIII in the space of seven dayes And seven dayes to make an Atonement for the Altar and sanctifie it Exod. XXIX 37. 8. Day The Princes Offerings of six Waggons and twelve Oxen for carriage and service of the Tabernacle Their Offerings at the Dedication of the Altar each Prince on his day which so continued twelve dayes Num. VII And likely during that time of twelve dayes Moses received from the Lord out of the Tabernacle of the Congregation those Lawes for Sacrifices and Offerings Levit. Ch. I VII 8. Day The Consecration of Aaron and his sonnes being ended Aaron doth first Sacrifice Levit. IX In the sacrifices and offerings Levitically are considerable Principally and more Generally The Persons Offerer or Bringer Lev. 1. 4. and 3. 2. and 7. 30. Sacrificer Priests Lev. 1. 6. 2 Chron. 29. 24. Now wine or strong drink When c. Lev. 10. 9. Levites in some part and in some cases 2 Chron. 29. 34. and ch 35. 11 14. Place Lev. 17. 3. 9. Deut. 12. 5 14. and ch 16 5 6. Fire Came down from Heaven Lev 19. 24. See further 1 Kings 18. 38. 1 Chron. 21. 26. 2 Chron. 7. 1. Must never be suffered to go out Lev. 6. 12 13. notwithstanding their journeys in the wildernesse Numb 4 13. Fat in Sacrifices alwayes to be burnt and what fat Lev. 3. 16 17. Other cases when Not to be eaten Leviticus 7. 23 25. To be eaten Leviticus 7. 23 25. Nehemiah 8. 10. To be used otherwise Liviticus 7. 24. Oile Lâ—viticus 2. and 14. Exod. 29. Ezra 7. 22. Salt Levit. 2. 13. Ezek. 43. 24. Mar. 9. 49. Ezra 6. 9. and 7. 22. Blood Never to be eaten Gen. 9. 4. Lev. 7. 26 27. and 17. 10 14. 1 Sam. 14. 13. Deut. 12. 16 23 24 25. In sacrifices Sprinkled sometimes Before the vail of the Sanctuary and upon the hornes of the Altar of incense Lev. 4. 6 7 17 18. Upon the hornes of the Altar of burnt-offerings Lev. 4. 25 30. 34. Round about upon the Altar of Burnt-offering Lev. 1. 5 11. and 3 2 8 13. and 7 2. Wrung out at the side of the Altar Lev. 1 15. and 5. 9. Poured out at the side of the Altar or at the bottome of the Altar Leviticus 4 7 18. 25 30 34 and 8 15. Particularly The Kindes and sorts of them Burnt-offering or Holocaust Lev. 1. Matter of Cattel Herd Oxen or Bullocks Males Flock Sheep Males Goates Males Fowle Tuttle-Doves Young Pigeons Manner and Law of it Lev. 1 and ch 6. 9 13. and ch 7. 8. Numb 10. 10. and ch 15. 5 8 11 12. Meat-offering Lev. 2. Matter of Fine flower No Honey Leaven v. 11. Oile No Honey Leaven v. 11. Incense No Honey Leaven v. 11. Salt No Honey Leaven v. 11. Or of first-fruits in the eare No Honey Leaven v. 11. No Honey Manner and Law of it Lev. 2. and ch 6. 14 18. and 7. 9 10 and 10. 12 13. Numb 15. 1 16. and 18. 9 10. Drink-offering Matter wine Manner Measure and Law of it Lev 23. 13 18 37. Numb 6. 15 17 and ch 15. 5 7 10 24. and ch 28. 7 31. and ch 29. 6 11 39. 1 Chron. 9. 29. and 29. 21. 2 Chron. 29. 35. Ezra 7. 17. Ezek 45. 17. Jer. 44. 17. 2 Kings 16. 13 15. Deut. 32 38. Ezra 7. 12. Meat and drink-offerings ever joyned together Numb 16. 35 12. And joyned almost to all other sacrifices Numb 6. 15 17. 1 Chron. 21. 23. and 29. 21. 1 Kings 8. 64. Ezra 7. 17. 2 Chron. 29. 35 Peace-offerings Or Gratulatory of Thanksgiving Lev. 3. Matter of Herd Oxe or Bullock male or female Flock Lambe male or female Goate male or female Manner and Law of it Lev. 3. and ch 7. 11 34. and 10. 14 15. and ch 22. 23 29 30. Numb 10. 10. touching the wave-breast and heave-shoulder See Lev. 7. 30 34. Sin-offering of ignorance Lev. 4. Of the High-Priest the matter and manner of it Lev. 4. 1 12. and 6. 30. and 10. 16 17 18. Whole Congregation the matter and manner of it Lev. 4. 13 21. and 6. 30. Numb 15. 22 26. Ruler the matter a male and manner of it Lev. 4. 22 26. and ch 6. 25 29. Vulgar the matter a female and manner of it Lev. 4. 27 35. and 6 25 29. Num. 15. 27 28. and 18 9 10 Trespasse-offering for sins of Ignorance Lev. 5. in Divers things ch 51 13. And therein after confession both the matter female and manner of it Holy things Lev. 5. 15 -19 by Diminution or Sacriledge matter and manner of it adding the fifth part with thy estimation Otherwise matter and manner of it with thy estimation Knowledg by Weaknesse in divers cases with the matter a Ram and manner of it Lev. 6. 1. 8. Numb 5. 6 7 8. adding a fifth part with thy estimation Presumption there is no sacrifice for it but death Num. 15. 30 36. As the sin-offering is so is the trespasse-offering there is one law for them Lev. 7. 1 7. And in some things they are hardly distinguishable And the trespasse-offering seems to be for the greater offences Times wherin several sorts of them were to beused And so some were Voluntary free-will-offerings At pleasure as many times the whole burnt-offerings and peace-offerings See those at the Deduction of the Ark 1 Kings 8. 5. 2 Sam. 6. 13 17. Dedication of the Temple 1 Kings 8. 63. Walls of Jerusalem Nehem. 12. 43. Upon voluntary Promise by Vow Lev. 22. 23. and Deut. 12. 17 26. and 23. 21. See here the Law of the Nazarites Numb 6. Injoyned upon Fixt Times Daily morning and evening Exod. 29 38. Numb 28. 3 8 Weekly on the Sabbath-day Numb 28. 9 10. Monethly on the first day Numb 28. 11 15. and 10. 10.
2 Dead things Job now makes a more majestical discourse of Gods infinite power and knowledge verse 5 seene in the works of creation and administration then Bildad had done so that his speech was impertinent and needlesse crooked Serpent Some understand this of the Orbs verse 13 or of a fiery Meteor called the flying Dragon or of the Whale God liveth He further asserts and clears his own innocencie against hypocrisie chapter XXVII verse 2 to ver 11. These words are in the forme of an oath will he delight himself Even in times of adversity verse 10 The hypocrite cannot But Job doth so I will teach you Even that which you so much insist upon verse 11 and I confesse that is Gods judgements upon the wicked and his turning their blessings into curses many times to the end of this Chapter Surely Job shewes how far mans wisdome goes chapter XXVIII verse 1 in natural things He instanceth in his digging in mines searching minerals and finding out gold and precious things to ver 12. But where shall Wisdome He puts a period to humane wisdome verse 12 implying that it is not able to finde out a reason of Gods proceedings in his various dispensations prospering some good and bad and crossing others of both sorts And he shewes that this wisdome cannot be found any where ver 13 14. nor gotten by any price ver 15 19. by any living man ver 20 21. But is proper to God who alone hath it and teacheth man a more humble wisdome the best for him ver 23 28. Mereover In this Chapter Job wisheth for his former prosperity chapter XXIX which he sets forth at large and his own upright and pious behaviour in it But now Job bemoaneth his present misery chapter XXX verse 1 which is so much the greater by considering such a Fall from such an height of prosperity to such a depth of misery This misery he sets forth by injuries received from others even most base people in words to ver 10. in deeds to ver 16. by describing his own grief and paine by reason of his soares to ver 19. by Gods rough handling of him to ver 25. by lamenting his woful estate and the sad effects of it though not so deserved as he conceives to the end of the chapter I made In this Chapter Job most of all doth clear his innocencie chapter XXXI verse 1 and the uprightnesse of his former life Implying thereby that these extraordinary plagues and punishments came not upon him for his extraordinary sins or hypocrisie as his three friends would needs have it He clears himself in many main particulars That he was clear from fornication and Adultery ver 1 12. from ill dealing with his servants ver 13 14 15. from unmercifulnesse to the poore or wronging the widow 16 23. from trusting in riches ver 24 25. from Idolatry ver 26 27 28. from desire of Revenge ver 29 30. or unkindnesse to strangers or hiding his own sins ver 32 33. or provoking and wronging others ver 34 37. or detaining other mens lands or the hirelings wages ver 38 39 40. And he annexeth several solemne imprecations against himself if all the premises were not so in truth or my mouth hath kissed my hand Kissing the Idols was Idolatry verse 27 1 King XIX 18. Hos. XIII 2. The Sunne and Moone being at such a distance could not be kissed therefore Idolaters used to put their hand to their mouth in a way and signe of their idolatrous Kissing and worshipping of them Oh that we had of his flesh The flesh of him that hated Job verse 31 Jobs domesticks provoked him to take revenge on his hating enemies professing themselves could not be satisfied no not though they had eaten them up quick Yet Job free from any revenge of Job are ended Which he had with his three friends verse 40 of Elihu Elihu chapter XXXII verse 2 the Buzite descended of Buz the sonne of Nachor Abrahams brother Gen. XXII 20 21. who had been present all the while taking occasion of the silence now on all hands used and being partly offended at some things passed on either side He begins his speech yet modestly excusing the necessity of it And he continues it in six Chapters He speaks to Jobs friends by way of Preface most for Attention chap. XXXII To Job himself after a like Preface in four several Orations wherein he repeats divers of Jobs sayings yet with some strainings of some of them and gathering Collections out of them and so thereupon blaming him and answering them ch XXXIII XXXIV and XXXV And in the XXXVI and XXXVII chapters He seeks to allay Iobs Complaints of God with a magnificent setting out of Gods justice mercy power glory and wisdome which Iob seemed to obscure by his bitter complaining of Gods harsh proceeding with him Elihu speaks more uprightly and wisely in this cause then Iobs three friends had done As appears in that he stopt Iobs mouth that he answers nothing though he gave him liberty three or four times to speak And God himself blames not him at all as he doth the other three friends God thrusteth him down God by his judgements on him verse 13 gives sentence on our side that Iob is an hypocrite and wicked man though none but God can thrust him down from his own immovable confidence which God may haply do by the efficacie of his words in the mouth of Elihu As in a like sense Ioseph speaks Gen. XLI 16. And Daniel chap. II. 28. They were amazed Thus Elihu speaks of Iobs friends verse 15 turning his speech to some other persons wherefore Iob Now Elihu speaks to Iob. chapter XXXIII verse 1 And after a Preface first used ver 1 7. He falls close to his work in that which followeth surely thou Here Elihu begins to charge Iob with undiscreet speeches verse 8 touching himself and touching God ver 9 10 11. I am clean This chardge seems gathered out of chap. X. 7. and chap. verse 9 XVI 17. and XXIII 10 11. and XXVII 5. And yet elsewhere Iob acknowledged his sinfulnesse Behold verse 10 he findes This seemes gathered out of chap. IX 17. and XIII 24 27. and XIV 16 17. and XVI 9. and XIX 11. Behold verse 12 in this Elihu's Confutation from Gods greatnesse giving not account of any of his actions ver 12 13. And therefore Iobs expressions against God were too unsavoury and irreverent And from mans weaknesse not apprehending Gods wayes of revealing his minde and will nor Gods aime and end in his proceedings with man the issue effects and fruits of his chastisements which he sets down in particulars ver 14 28. And summes up all together ver 29 30. And makes a Conclusion and application of this his first speech to Iob ver 31 32 33. Furthermore Elihu's second speech to Iob chapter XXXIV verse 1 in this Chapter wherein the Preface is ver 1 4. Iob hath said His charge against Iob and the
1 King X. 11. He arken Matth. XVII 5. Rom. X. 17. verse 10 O daughter John I. 13. Apoc. XXI 9 10. forget also Luke IX 23. and XIV 26. Matth. X. 37. As Abraham did Gen. XII 1. and Ruth chap. I. 16 17. So shall Upon these termes verse 11 more and more greatly desire This true in Solomon But Christ loves his Spouse first 1 John IV. 10. Loves her in her blood Ezek. XVI 6. thy Lord 1 Pet. III. 6. Judg. XIX 26. And that no common or vulgar person In the highest degree is Christ so to his Spouse the Church even her Lord and God Worship thou him Pharaohs daughter was with civil worship to do it to Solomon with civil reverent incurvation and adoration The Church to Christ with religious worship of Tyre Of this Citie verse 12 see the Annotations on Amos I. 9. This rich Merchant-Citie the prime Mart for traffick should bring to Solomons Spouse gifts and nuptial presents And much more Tyre and all Heathen Nations should bring themselves and their Gifts with all offices of submission and subjection to the Spouse of Christ Esay XLIX 23. and LXVI 12. Psal. LXXXVII 4. the rich Esay LX. 3 10 11 16. glorious within 1 Pet. II. 4 5. verse 13 Not Helen without and Hecuba within This true in Solomons Spouse partly But in Christs Spouse true altogether by her bridegroomes donation and operation Ephes. V. 27. brought With pompe verse 14 joy and jubilation of needle-work As formerly costly for matter so here curious for Art and work As the like Exod. XXVIII 6 8 15 39. with gladnesse As is fit in marriage solemnities verse 15 they be brought The Spouse first the Virgins and brides maids following and waiting on her Cant. IV. 8. Apoc. XIX 7 8 9. 2 Cor. XI 2. palace As the wise Virgins Matt. XXV 10. thy children We read not that Pharaoh's daughter had any child by Solomon verse 16 But this is abundantly verified in the Church the Spouse of Christ Esay XLIX 18 21. and LIV. 1 2 3. Heb. II. 13. I will Saith the Psalmist by himself verse 17 and by informing others so to do thy Name The name of the Bridegroome therefore By my example as well as for all the reasons foregoing in this Psalme praise thee Christ the Bridegroome for ever and ever whereas Solomon by his foul fall worthily merited and inherited shame and dispraise present help Deliverer chapter XLVI verse 1 or Assistant will not we fear Though a natural fear as Prov. XIV 16. and XXII 3. verse 2 Matth. VIII 26. yet not a godlesse and faithlesse fear Here faith triumphs over such a fear though the earth Hyperbolical expressions usualy intimating the fearful alterations of States and Polities or the most dreadful dangers a river Alluding to that of Kidron Gihon verse 4 and Shiloah intending chiefly that Ezek. XLVII 1. Joel III. 18. Apoc. XXII 1. Or the meaning of this seemes best expounded in the next verse and in the two verses following He maketh Esay XLV 7. Amos III. 6. Psal. LXXVI 3. verse 9 Exalted Esay XXXIII 9 10. and XXX 15. verse 10 O clap A signe of joyful acclamation used at the coronation of Kings 2 Kings XI chapter XLVII verse 1 12. and upon other joyous occasions Ezek. XXV 6. See Psal. XCVIII 8. Esay LV. 12. Psal. LXVI 1. The Psalmist exhorteth all people to sing Praises unto God ver 1. 7. A thing usual in the Psalmes For the Lord Reasons from Gods nature and properties verse 2 appliable also to Christ terrible to the wicked his enemies and a great King above all earthly Kings Mal. I. 14. Matt. XXVIII 18. He shall subdue The Jewes enemies verse 3 And he had done so the Canaanites and others And he will do so the Churches enemies Christ will call the Nations and bring them into subjection under him and his Church Ezek. XX. 37. He shall choose He did choose Canaan for his people Israel Psal. LXXVIII 55. verse 4 And will choose and prepare that heavenly Canaan that inheritance incorruptible 1 Pet. I. 4. for all that beleeve and hope in him for us The Jewes seeming here to include the Gentiles as called by Christ into the same communion of the Covenant for grace and glory John X. 16. Eph. II. 14. the excellencie of Jacob High and glorious excellencie whereby Jacobs posterity excelled Ezek. XXIV 21. Amos VI. 8. and VIII 7. Nahum II. 2. viz. the Temple Priesthood c. all those most excellent and precious promises and blessings made in Christ unto Iacob and his posterity God is gone up When the Ark was carried from Kiriathjearim to the house of Obed Edom verse 5 thence to the Citie of David thence by Solomon into the Oracle 1 Chron. XIII 8. and XV. 28. and 2 Chron. V. 13. Spiritualy and mysticaly when Christ ascended with triumph into heaven See Eph. IV. 8. Col. II. 15. the King of all the earth The universal Kingdome of God and of Christ. verse 7 So again verse 8. Differing from earthly Kings with understanding 1 Cor. XIV 15. The word Maschil is here used for Psalme which is the Title of sundry Psalmes signifying an instructing Psalme Thereby to instruct your selves and others of the Kingdome of God and Christ and of your duty of throne of his holinesse Psal. IX 4. Apoc. IV. 2. The Princes The voluntary verse 8 bounteous Princes and people subject themselves to this King of the God of Abraham His spiritual seed Luke III. 8. verse 9 John VIII 33. c. Rom. IV. 16 17. Sheilds He is the great Shield Gen. XV. 1. Psal. V. 12. and XVIII 35. the great conqueror and protector of all And Magistrates Sheilds under him Hos. IV. 18. Psal. LXXXIX 18. greatly exalted Psal. XCVII 9. A Song and Psalme chapter XLVIII Wherein both voice and instrument were used the voice began and the instrument after And where the Inscription is a Psalme and Song there likely the instrument began and the voice followed Of the former sort are as this Psalme to Psal. LXVI LXXXIII CVIII Of the later are Psal. LXVII LXVIII LXXV LXXXVII and XCII whole earth Or Land of Judea verse 2 As Exod. X. 15. and most likely Matth. XXVII 45. the sides of the North The Temple on Mount Moriah and the City of Jerusalem joyned North to Mount Sion Moriah is the North part of Sion So Esay XIV 13. the Kings were assembled The Philistian Princes 2 Sam. V. or those verse 4 in the dayes of Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. XX. or of Ezekiah 2 Kings XVIII Upon some of which occasions this Psalme seemes to be composed and inspired Psal. XLVI 6. marvailed and were troubled At Sions beauty verse 5 and at her strength and their own overthrow Thou breakest As in a Shipwrack verse 6 so thou didst break them As 2 Sam. V. 20. Tarshish See the Observations on 1 Kings X. 22. East wind See Ezek. XVII 10. and XIX 12. Hos. XII 1. and Ch. XIII 15. Jonah
XII 37. But that where Jacob built booths Gen. XXXIII 5. Afterward a Citie in the Tribe of Gad upon the river Jabbok East of Jordan justly destroyed by Gideon Judg. VIII But repaired after Gilead is mine Thus David triumphs in having verse 7 or in assurance to have upon Gods word and promise these utmost bounds and Tribes of Judea beyond Jordan though they stood longest out for Ishbosheth Sauls sonne Moab is my washpot I can and will use it to base offices verse 8 as to wash my feet use it as a conquered Nation in servile and abject condition See 2 Sam. 2. VIII Psal. CVIII 9. Over Edom Trample it under foot or use it to base offices See Matt. III. 11. as to pull off my shooe to wipe my shooe or as Sapores the Persian used Valerian the Romand Emperour or Temerlan the Scythian used Bajazeth the Turk or Pope Alexander the third used Frederik the Emperour and Pope Caelestine the third did to Henry the Emperour bring it to a base and ignominious subjection triumph thou An ironical apostrophe or bitter mock to Philistia or the Philistines in the West border of Palestine And divers such ironies are in Scripture See the Observations on Amos IV. 4. who will The answer is in the two next verses verse 9 Through God Davids wish verse 12 and confidence See 1 Chron. XIX 13. From the end of the earth Of Judea chapter LXI verse 2 being now likely driven thither by Saul or Absalom rather 2 Sam. XVII 24. prolong In this likely David hath a principal eye to Christ. verse 6 once chapter LXII verse 11 twice See the like Job XL. 5. mercie verse 12 for thou renderest Even reward it self is of mercie in the wildernesse of Judah chapter LXIII 1 Sam. XXII 5. and XXIII 14 15. Thus Davids Psalmes are not set down in this Book according to the Order of time and occasions wherein and whereupon they were made and inspired seene thee in the Sanctuary Davids desires to the Sanctuary verse 2 and to Gods Ordinances therein Psal. XXVII 4. and LXV 4. meditate Davids night-meditations verse 6 my soul followeth hard after thee 1 Cor. VI. 17. verse 8 Phil. III. 13 14. that sweareth by him Swearing here taken for the whole worship of God verse 11 Deut. VI. 13. Esay XLV 23. and LXV 16. Of Swearing see the Observations on Hos. IV. 15. O thou that hearest prayer chapter LXV verse 2 to thee An heavenly incouragement to Prayer choosest verse 4 and causest God 's free grace not mans free will Thou visitest the earth This Psalme may seeme composed after some year of famine verse 9 with the river of God The raine Deut. XI 10 11. submit Though feignedly and falsely chapter LXVI verse 3 Psal. XVIII 44. 1 Sam. XXII 45. As the faithfull shall obey God willingly and sincerely with the incense of rams Meaning their fat which was burned on the Altar verse 15 or incense with it as in Peace-Offerings Levit. II. 1 2 16. and VI. 15. If I regard John IX 31. verse 18 James IV. 3. Job XXVII 8 9. Prov. I. 28 29. Esay I. 15. Micah III. 4. Ezek. VIII 18. Prov. XV. 29. He that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law his prayer is abomination Prov. XXVIII 9. David penned by inspiration this Psalme chapter LXVIII It seemes after his victories over the Philistines and other neighbouring enemies and upon the occasion of that publick joyful solemnity in bringing the Arke into the Citie of David 2 Sam. VI. 1 Chron. XIII XIV XV. chapters It consists most of Praises and Prophesies Let God These words Moses used verse 1 Num. X. 35 at the removing of the Arke and Tabernacle from Mount Sinai And may be taken as a Prayer or a Prediction or an assertion of what is done when God thus ariseth arise To help his to scatter his enemies See Psal. III. 7. and X. 12. and LIX 5. extol him that rideth upon the heavens Verse 33. Psal. XVIII 10. Deut. XXXIII 26. Esay 19. 1. some translate thus verse 4 make an high-way for him prepare it as Esay XL. 3 4. Matth. III. 2. Luke I. 76. as Matth. XXI 8. And thus was done Or thus him that rideth in the Deserts that is as he did in the Wildernesse of Arabia before his Arke and people verse 7. This variety of interpretation is of small concernment Jah Some would have it the contract of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if not of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to signifie the strong God Jah is used again ver 18. God is called also by the Heathens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Jove or Jupiter that is Iah-father deemed by Varro to be the God of the Jewes This is the proper name of God Esay XLII 8. Exod. VI. 3. 2 Chron. VI. 33. Acts XVII 23 25 28. Psal. LXXXIII 18. See more in the Observations on Esay XXVI 4. habitation Of heaven verse 5 and of his Sanctuary 1. â—ings VIII 30 38 39. solitarie in families Senselesse here is the Popish text verse 6 throughout the verse and foolish is Bellarmines interpretation and application See Exod. I. 21. Psal. CXIII 9. Ruth IV. 11. a dry land Without fountains of waters or showers of raine A special judgement in those hot countries when thou wentest forth Iudg. verse 7 V. 4 5. Gods praise in bringing his people out of Egypt in giving them the possession of Canaan in destroying the Kings their enemies verse 7 13. The earth shook Ezod verse 8 XIX 18. Iudg. V. 4. Psal. CXIV and CIV 32. Heb. XII 18. Sinai An hill of a great height Of Sinai see more in the Observations on Exod. II. 11. and on XIX 3. a plentiful raine God did blesse his inheritance of the Land of Canaan which he gave to them verse 9 with raine and all temporal blessings which was an argument for their praising of him And specially as the inheritance of Canaan and all temporal promises and earthly blessings to them were shadowes and types intimations and pledges of spiritual blessings and eternal life in heaven Heb. XI 13 16 and 26. Iohn V. 39. gave the word The occasion verse 11 it was his doing he ministred the matter and speech unto them in the glad tidings of victories As Psal. CXVIII 23. of those that published it The word here is of the feminine gender and so may be understood of maids and women entertaining and publishing these good newes of victories with Songs and melody As Exod. XV. 20. Judg. V. 11. and XI 34. 1 Sam. XVIII 6. Or of men as the feminine is used for a masculine in Koheleth Eccl. I. 1. Such publishers as 2 Sam. XVIII 19. did flee Deut. verse 12 XXVIII 7. As Exod. XIV 25 27. Josh. X. 11 16. Judg. V. 19 22. and VIII 12. 2 Sam. V. 25. And in this verse again the Popish text scarce bears any sense and their interpretations are suitable though ye
have lien among the pots A promise and consolation for the future verse 13 ministring more arguments of praising God Though in the times of Heli and Saul ye have lien in black darknesse of afflictions as a Skullion lies in a Campe or Leaguer among pots as the wings of a Dove Shining and bright When the Almighty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 14 the alsufficient scattered Dispersed discomfited vanquished the Kings by his powerful presence that they did flee apace verse 12. Or when he shall so do so continuing and amplifying the former Promise Kings His and their enemies in Canaan in it In thy inheritance wherein thy Congregation did dwell it was white An embleme of prosperity and joy shall be black no more as verse 13. but joyous and prosperous or white with the dead bones of the scattered slaughtered enemies Salmon Judg. IX 48. A Mountain nigh Shechem and Samaria in the tribe of Ephraim not farre from Iordan likely snow was much upon it as the hill of Bashan Of Bashan verse 15 see the Annotations on Micah VII 14. The hill of Sion doth equal yea excell it by reason of all its spiritual prerogatives and priviledges as verse 16. Or thus the Hill of Bashan is an hill of God i. e. a most excellent hill for so the Hebrews expresse the most excellent things See the Observations on Ionah III. 3. and on 1 Sam. XIV 15. It is an high hill All this is true yet falls short of the hill of Sion as it is in the next verse Why leap ye Insult proudly verse 16 vaunt it above the hill of Sion dwell Psal. LXXXVII 1 2. and CXXXII 13 14. This doth infinitely advance this humble hill of Sion above you for ever And not flit with his Ark and Tabernacle from place to place as formerly The Chariots Gods glory in Sion by the multitudes of his ministring Angels verse 17 Heb. XII 22. as it was in Sinai when he gave the fiery Law Deut. XXXIII 2. Gal. III. 19. Acts VII 53. Or rather these words may have a direct relation to the glorious maner of Christs Ascention with the attendance of infinite Angels Angels appeared and ministred at his Incarnation Luke II. 9 13. Heb. I. 6. And why not so or more at his Ascention into the highest heavens See Acts I. 10. well might the Angels then sing that song Apoc. V. 11 12. We read of a Charet of fire and horses of fire at the rapture of Elias And of a mountain full of horses and Charets of fire round about Eliseus in his defense And why not these Angels here to attend our Saviours triumphant Ascention set down in the next verse Thou hast ascended Literaly and typicaly true verse 18 after a sort in Gods dealing with David But without any type it is Mysticaly most trâ—e and most verified in Christ and his Ascention into Heaven And so David here turns his speech to Christ himself Whereunto the Apostle doth apply it Ephes. IV. 8. Ascended in his humane nature properly In Eph. IV. 8 9 10. He is said to descend which being understood of his Divine nature is spoken improperly But Christ being God and Man in one person That one Person without dissolving it by reason of the Union of both natures in it admits properly and truly of such speeches as containe the Proprieties of either Nature the natures themselvs their properties neverthelesse remaining ever realy distinguished The person then of Christ without the conversion of the one Nature into the other in proper speech did ascend in his Humanity by the power of his Deity localy from mount Olivet into that third heaven of Paul which our Saviour cals his Fathers house Iohn XIV 2. above these visible heavens Eph. IV. 10. Our Saviours humane Nature then is contained in Heaven Acts III. 21. is not in the Popish hoasts and much lesse every where according to the Ubiquitarian fancie Though a time was when Christ in his body was in the grave in his soul in Paradise in his Divine nature or Deity every where yet without dissolving the Unity of his Person captivity captive Lead and taken them captives or a multitude of captives subdued thine enemies unto thee made them thy captives Judg. V. 12. Not leading the Fathers out of Limbus Patrum but captiving the World and the Flesh Sinne and Satan Death and Damnation which otherwise held Gods people in captivity and slavery Col. I. 15. received gifts for men Taken gifts for them i. e. receiving gave as the phrase is Exod. XXV 2. And in divers other places taking is used for giving 1 King III. 24 and XVII 10. Judg. XIV 2. And giving is sometimes used for taking as Gen. XLII 30. What the chief of the Gifts were are specified Ephes. IV. 11 12. rebellious also Even the most averse and rebellious of them that God might dwell in them as Soul made a Paul Tit. III. 3 4 5. dwell in them Jah in them not they dwell in the Church Blessed David blesseth God verse 19 as it may seeme for the fruits and benefits of Christs Ascention which do follow loadeth us With those gifts and blessings which Christ received for us verse 18. and unto God the Lord Here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath the points of Elohim verse 20 not of Adonai And so still when 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Adonai are joyned together lest otherwise Adonai should be twise read But where Adonai is not conjoyned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath the pricks of Adonai more often then of Elohim Or Jehovi here may be used as a more pathetical kinde of expression as in Gen. XV. 2 8. Deut. III. 24. issues from death As 1 Cor. X. 13. But God This seemes to be the fruit and powerful effect of Christs Ascention verse 21 upon his enemies The Lord said Num. verse 22 XXI 34. and Exod. XIV 13 14. i. e. as I did from Og King of Bashan and from Pharaoh at the red sea Thus he recals to their memories these two great victories and to strengthen their faith for like victories over their enemies in Davids dayes or in times of future extremities thy foot may be dipped So great should the slaughter of them be verse 23 When God takes publike vengeance and executes his judgements upon his enemies the godly who execute the same may therein rejoyce and say as Jehu did 2 Kings IX 10 36. thy goings In the procedure of the verse verse 24 the Prophet goeth from the second person to the third person So Gen. XLIX 9. And it is very frequent with the Hebrews to passe from one person to another Thy goings then and thy doings thy wayes and administrations i. e. when God marched out of Egypt through the Wildernesse before his people or when David brought the Ark into Jerusalem The singers All sorts verse 25 in their rancks praised God damzels As Exod. XV. 20 21. Iudg. V. 1. and Chap. XI 34. 1 Sam. XVIII 9 7. Blesse ye
bones Davids verse 7 and his followers they are in such like present danger when he was in the cave Psal LVII 1 Sam. XXIV 4. The later part of this prayer seemes chapter CXLII as spoken in the cave Yet it all might be composed after his deliverance out of it As that Prayer Jonah II. prison This Cave verse 7 wherein I am shut up as in a close prison faithfulnesse chapter CXLIII verse 1 For performance of thy faithful and true promises made to me righteousnesse To maintaine and defend a righteous cause Enter not Though my cause be just verse 2 yet my person is sinful and unjust not able to abide thy judgement Rom. III. 20. So Job XXII 4. and XIV 3. Gal. II. 16. no man living Heb. not all living i. e. not any living As Mat. XXIV 22. 1 John II. 21. 2 Pet. I. 20. Psal. LXXVI 5. is desolate Or wondrously amazed verse 4 upheld only by Gods power cause me The work is Gods verse 8 He the actor of it And therefore to him he lifts up his soul. So verse 10. good lead me Or verse 10 by thy good Spirit lead me Thus prayer-wise or shall lead me spoken in way of assurance of David It seemes composed after he came to the crown chapter CXLIV verse 3 and had got some victories over his enemies and yet other enemies were ready to invade him 2 Sam. V. VIII what is man Psal. VIII 5. Job VII 17. Heb. II. 6. Bow the heavens Shew thy self present on earth verse 5 for my help and my foes ruine who are like mountains in comparison of other men 1 Sam. XXII 10. a right hand of falshood Though they shake hands verse 8 yet they keep not promise whose God is the Lord This is opposed to all the other worldly wealth verse 15 as farre more then over-poising it all of praise His Hymne chapter CXLV And the whole book in Hebrew is called the book of Hymnes or Praises This is an Alphabetical Psalme Only the letter Nun is wanting See the Observations on Psal. XXV 1. and on the beginning of the book of Psalmes over all his works Or verse 9 towards upholdeth all that fall Psal. verse 14 CXLVI 8. all whom he in his goodnesse knows are to be upholden without whom and his goodnes none are upholden But some fall and never rise wait upon thee Psal CIV verse 15 27. 28. in truth This in Prayer requireth sincerity verse 18 without hypocrisie faith repentance earnestnes and constancie the desire Or will We pray that Gods will may be done verse 19 Matth. VI. 10 Here he doth his servants will So he honoureth them that honour him 1 Sam. II. 30. And their will agrees with his 1 John V. 14. Praise ye the Lord Heb. chapter CXLVI verse 1 Halelu-jah And thus do begin and end likewise the rest of the Psalmes that follow In the Greek it is Alleluia Apoc. XIX 1. Halelu-jah is in Psal. CIV and CVI. and CXXXV and in many others which executeth judgement Who succours and relieves all verse 7 in and according to their several necessities He it is that doth it But that when and how in his wisdome and goodnesse it seemeth to him best out-casts Deut. chapter CXLVII verse 2 XXX 4. telleth the number Esay XL. verse 4 26. though to man they are innumerable Ier. XXXIII 22. at least in common opinion and of him indeed cannot be all seene The number of the stars is counted by ancient Astronomers And all within and without their several Constellations in their several magnitudes are reduced by all much under the number of two thousand Yet their number in Scripture-phrase is marshaled with the sands of the sea as innumerable Which is spoken according to vulgar opinions and apprehensions as that of the Sunne and Moone Gen. I 16. And divers other things are in Scripture in like sort spoken of And yet the innumerable multitude of them appears the more in our times Wherein Galileus and others after him by their new instruments and Tubi Optici have made such strange discoveries of many many numbers of them never seene before young ravens Iob XXXVIII verse 9 41. Psal. CIV 27 28. Matth. VI. 26. fat of wheat Psal. verse 14 LXXXI 16. Deut. XXXII 14. runneth Psal. verse 15 XXXIII 9. snow like wooll accordingly the phrase is verse 16. 17. 19. fleeces of snow his yce like morsels Frost or frozen hailstones his word unto Jacob This is singular mercie and peculiar to his Church farre beyond all those formerly mentioned for which his Church is so bound to praise him stars of light Job XXXVIII chapter CXLVIII verse 3 7. havens of heavens The heaven of heavens is the highest heaven verse 4 called the third heaven 2 Cor. 2. XII The sky where the starres are is the second heaven And the aire under it and next us is the first heaven In the upper part whereof are the waters here mentioned For this Text and Gen. I 6 7. yeeld not a sure foundation whereon to build an Orbe of supercelestial waters above the starry heavens nor from the windowes of that Orbe came the waters in Noahs flood But from the lowest region of the aire called Heaven and the firmament of Heaven wherein the winds clouds and fowles do flie and do divide between the sea-waters and the watery clouds which moysten the earth and make it bring forth fruit for the sustenance of man and beast See Gen. I. 20. Jer. LI. 16. Dan. VII 2 13. Psal. LXXVIII 23. Mal. III. 10. a decree Statute verse 6 Rule and Ordinance whereby every creature is bound to his set time place and function Job XIV 5. and XXVI 10. and XXXVIII 33. Jer. XXXI 35. and XXXIII 25. the horne of his people Psal. verse 14 LXXV 10. the power glory and Kingdome of his people and Church and that by Christ who is the horne of salvation Luke I. 69. him that made him Heb. chapter CXLIX verse 2 his makers Likely relating to the Trinity of persons as Gen. I. 26. and III. 22. and XI 7. Job XXXV 10. Eccles. XII 1. Esay VI. 8. LIV. 5. King Christ of whom King David was a Type As Mat. XXI 5. Cant. I. 4 upon their beds Night and day verse 5 Psal. LXIII 6. Job XXXV 10. and a two-edged sword Heb. verse 9 two-mouthed This chiefly at least aimes at the spiritual sword Ephes. VI. 17. Heb. IV. 12. Apoc. I. 16. which is the Word of God coming out of Christs mouth To execute vengeance upon the heathen Chiefly in and by the power and preaching of the Gospel verse 7 2 Cor. X. 4 5 6 8. See Esay XLI 15 16. John XVI 8 9. To binder their Kings Psal. verse 8 II. 2 3 9 10. Esay XLV 14. Mark VI. 20. Acts XXIV 25. Apoc. XXI 24. Matth. XVI 19. the judgement written This may have reference to that Law verse 6 Deut. VII 1 2. Or to the exact rule of Gods Word without any addition or diminution Deut.
of heaven heareth not But jears at it chapter XIII Keepeth his mouth God hath set a double guard of lips verse 1 and teeth verse 3 before this gate yet unlesse God himself keep the watch all will be lost Psal. CXLI 3. and CXXVII 1. See chap. XII 13. and chap. XVIII 21. and chap. XXI 23. diligent Affection without endeavour is like Rachel verse 4 beautiful but barren we must work as well as will and wish and 2 Cor. VIII do as well as desire performe as well as promise loathsome Stinks as it were above ground verse 5 And cometh to shame by his lying The ransome Jer. XLI 8. heareth not rebuke As a man not worth the chiding verse 8 not considerable having nothing to lose the lamp of the wicked As a candle verse 9 Job XVIII 5 6. and ends in a snuff Eccles. VII 6. wisdome Meeknesse of wisdome verse 10 wisdome peaceable James III. 13 17. Hope deferred Many lie long languishing at Hopes Hospital verse 12 as he at the poole of Bethesda The Law Chap. verse 14 XIV verse 15 27. good understanding Both gaineth favour as in Joseph Daniel and others And favour or grace gaineth a good understanding or good successe chap. III. 4. Psal. CXI 10. is hard Harsh rough 2 Tim. III. 3 4. Tit. III. 3. prudent man Observes seasons verse 16 and circumstances deports himself with discretion Amos V. 13. his folly By his headstrong verse 17 headlong exorbitances a wicked messinger Chap. XXVI 6. is sweet Specialy in spiritual things verse 19 abomination To be pulled from their evil lusts and sinful courses walketh Converseth verse 20 is a constant companion companion 1 Cor. XV. 33. which Saint Paul takes out of Menander the Poët pursueth Hard at heeles verse 21 Sinne and Punishment are linked together with chains of adamant repayed By God a liberal paymaster to his child Personal goodnesse is profitable to posterity verse 22 1 Kings XV. 4. Exod. XXXIV 7. where the Hebrew word Nâ—tser keepeth hath a great N. to note likely the greatnesse of Gods mercie to the good mans posterity Wealth As Nabals was for David Hamans for Mordecai the Canaanites for the Israelites Job XXVII 16 17. Though this be not so alwayes and universaly Psal. XVII 14. want of judgement In tillage verse 23 or managing and husbanding what is gotten hateth his sonne As it proves in the issue verse 24 As we see in Eli to his sonnes and in David to his Absalom and Adonijah See chap. XXIII 13. and XIX 18. And thus we are said to will and do many things which properly and directly we do not so but because we do such things whereupon the other will follow So chap. VIII 36. and chap. XVII 19. Matth. XXVI 12. John XII 7. Luke XI 48. Ezek. XVIII 31. and XXXIII 11. Psal. CVI. 24. satisfying With contentation verse 25 be it more or lesse verse 6 seeketh As a coward seeketh his adversarie chapter XIV in hope not to finde him is easie Chap. I. 20. and chap. VIII 1 17. a mock at sinne These dance with the Devil verse 9 Chap. X. 23. 2 Thes. II. 12. 2 Pet. II. 13. favour From God or a complacencie in their righteous dealing or gains them favour among themselves not intermeddle 1 Pet. verse 10 I. 8. Phil. IV. 7. 2 Cor. V. 4. It is an hansel of heaven The cock on the dunghil knows not the worth of this jewel seemeth Chap. verse 12 XVI 25. Sinne comes cloathed with a shew of Reason Exod. I. 10. And thereupon we willingly deceive our own hearts James I. 26. as Micah Iudg. XVII 13. and Ier. VII 4. And self-delusion is an epidemical disease and deadly even in laughter Some frothy and flashy mirth the wicked may have verse 13 but there is a snare or cord in their sinne which strangles their mirth that they rejoyce in the face not in the heart 2 Cor. V. 12. Esth. V. 13 heavinesse Iob XXI 12 13. Luke 6. 25. Eccles. II. 2. filled with his own wayes have made a match with mischief verse 14 and shall have enough of it hath sold himself to wickednesse and shall be sure of his payment from himself 1 Tim. VI. 6. Heb. X. 34. Psal. XIX 11. Goodness is its own reward in hand and in hope The simple beleeveth As Ieroboam that old baby verse 15 looketh well Looks before he leaps tries before he trusts 1 Iohn IV. 1. Ephes. V. 15. feareth verse 16 and departeth Feareth the judgements whiles they hang in the threatnings counts them not words so much as thunderbolts Hab. III. 16. The evil bow The worst cannot but think well of them verse 19 and do homage to the image of God stamped upon the natures and practises of the good and righteous his neighbour Poor neighbour verse 21 and needy that devise evil That plot and plough it verse 22 dig and delve it are they not heavenly wide utterly out labour That is honest verse 23 not that whereby they do wickedly with both hands earnestly talk of the lips Great talkers are commonly do-littles is their riches For God gives them wisdome to use them well verse 24 fools Rich fools Riches to them is as a sword put into a mad mans hand strong confidence Dan. verse 26 III. verse 28 17. 2 Kings XVIII 5. multitude of people Which wars waste and consume See 2 Sam. XXIV slow to anger Anger may rush into a wise mans bosome verse 29 not rest there Eccles. VII 9. Iames I. 19 20. exalteth Proclaims it aloud verse 30 sets it on the theater A sound heart Well freed from passions and perturbations holds out long envie A corroding disease it is an hel-hag that feeds upon its own marrow bones and strongest parts it is as rust is to iron as the viper It both sinnes and is punished together so quick and speedy justice accompanies it Iob V. 2. his maker 1 Sam. verse 31 II. 7. A poor mans livelihood is his life Luke VIII 43. honoureth him That is honoureth God God so takes it chap. III. 8. And God honours him Matth. XXV 34. c. driven away Being arrested by the Serjeant death verse 32 in the Devils name and so hurried away and hurled into hell hath hope Death to them is as the valley of Achor Iustus etiam dum exspirat sperat in the heart Is not vainglorious verse 33 sets not forth his good parts and practises a sunning to be seene and cried up in the midst of fools Their zeal must be seene 2 Kings X. 16. Their pietie must be shored up with popularitie a reproach Sinnes are the snuffs of our candlesticks verse 34 and threaten the removal of it and will render us a reproach and a taunt Deut. XXVIII 37. Ier. XXV 9. Ezek. V. 14 15. a wise servant So to Joseph by Pharaoh verse 35 so to Daniel by Darius And much more is the favour of the King of Kings to his servants Matth. XXIV 45 46 47. and XXV 21 23. his wrath So
wherein severity ought to cast the scale And this Kings best do when they sit in the throne themselves and leave not all alwayes to Judges under them my heart clean The Pharisee verse 9 and Popish Justitiarie saith it Not Paul Rom. VII 15. 1 Cor. IV. 4 nor Iob chap. IX 30 31. and XIV 4. nor David Psal. CXXX 3. and LI. 5 Eccles. VII 20. 1 John I. 8. a childe Is or should be known by his doings verse 11 early shewes his inclination and how he is like to prove afterwards and from his childhood it self should be a plaine dealer without any hypocrisie eare Exod. IV. 11. Psal. XCIV 9. Therefore he sees hypocrites and all and will punish Yea he makes and opens the spiritual eare and eye 1 Cor. II. 9 10. sleep Chap. verse 13 XIX 15. open Be vigilant and diligent chap. XII 11. and XXVIII 19. the lips of knowledge Chap. verse 15 V. 2. Psal. XLV 3. Cant. V. 1. John VII 46. is sweet Chap. IX 17. but afterwards Job XX. verse 17 15 after the meale comes the reckoning we must not think to dine with the Devil and afterwards to sup with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdome of heaven Every purpose Deliberate oft ere thou resolve once verse 18 Take Counsel Esay XXX 1. Psal. CXIX 24. See chap. XV. 22. and XXIV 6. warre Chap. XXIV 6. be neither timorous nor temerarious Ahab or Jehoshaphat rather in this might have been a good president to Josiah 1 Kings XXII 5. 2 Chron. XXXV 22. tale-bearer Chap. verse 19 XI 13. Meddle not with such Curseth Chap. verse 20 XXX 17. Exod. XXI 17. Levit. XX. 9. Matth. XV. 4. lamp Chap. XXIV 20. gotten hastily Chap. verse 21 XIII 11. and X. 2. and XXVIII 20. I will recompence Chap. verse 22 XXIV 29. Deut. XXXII 35. Rom. XII 17 19. 1 Thes. V. 15. 1 Pet. III. 9. Wait It belongs to him This is the way to be even with him that wrongs thee yea to be above him divers weights Verse 10. verse 23 not good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mans goings Chap. verse 24 XVI 1 9. and chap. III. 6. Psal. XXXVII 23. Jer. X. 23. a snare As the fish that swallows the hook verse 25 Against Sacriledge Acts XIX 37. Rom. II. 22. Let Princes and all look to this make inquirie How the vow may be made void candle The minde and conscience is such verse 27 Matth. VI. 23. 1 Cor. II. 11. It is Gods Spy and Mans overseer a kinde of middle thing betwixt God and Man Our God as well as Moses was Pharaohs God and Aarons God Exod. IV. 16. and VII 1. the King Chap. verse 28 XXIX 14. Psal. CI. 1. Yet this rule is not without all exception as in our late King of blessed and bleeding memorie and in many others gray head Chap. verse 29 XVI 31. clenseth Corrections beat out corruptions verse 30 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nocumenta documenta chap. X. 13. The Kings heart Jer. chapter XXI verse 1 X. 23. Ezek. XXI 19 20 21. Though never so absolute is ruled yet and over-ruled by him who is higher then the highest Yea to do his will though unwitting to the King then Sacrifice To obey is better then sacrifice verse 3 God will have mercie and not sacrifice Mark XII 33. Heathens could see and say so much See Esay I. 11. Hos. VI. 6. Micah VI. 7. the plowing Whether they plot verse 4 or plough Tit. I. 15. As a plague-sore will render the richest robe infectious Even their Prayer is sinne diligent Chap. verse 5 X. 4. and chap. XII 24. hastie Rashly make more hast then good speed to be rich treasures Chap. verse 6 X. 2. and chap. XI 4. and chap. XIII 11. and chap. XX. 21. So in Achan Joshuah that could stay the Sunne in his course could not stay him from fingering those accursed treasures The robberie Robbing and spoyling others verse 7 by briberie wrong judgement and wrong dealing a brawling woman Verse 19. verse 9 chap. XXV 24. and chap. XIX 13. and XXVII 15. desireth evil Evil to all verse 10 but to himself findes no favour Whether he sink or swim is no part of his care Psal. LXIX 26. 2 Tim. III. 3. wisely considereth That it shall be overthrown verse 12 and so envies not at their present prosperitie but makes their destruction his instruction Esay XXVI 11. 1 Cor. X. 11. Psal. LII 6. not be heard Of God verse 13 or man Matth. XVIII 30. Esay LVIII 7 9. A gift Chap. verse 14 XVII 8. and chap. XVIII 16. and XIX 6. This Abigael knew well 1 Sam. XXV It is joy Psal. CIX verse 15 162. Rom. VII 22. workers Jer IX 5. Psal. VII 14. Esay V. 18. wandereth He cannot wander so farre as to misse of hell verse 16 Prov. II. 18. Esay L. 11. in that Congregation-house of Gehenna-gyants where is punishment without pitie miserie without mercie sorrow without succour crying without comfort mischief without measure loveth pleasure Luke XVI verse 17 13. a ransome Chap. verse 18 XI 8. God causing that to fall upon the wicked which was intended against the righteous spendeth it up Foolishly lavisheth it verse 20 1 Pet. IV. 3 4. Whereas it should be husbanded thriftily for necessity and honest affluence and comfortable livelihood followeth after Though not overtake it verse 21 si faciat etiamsi non perficiat though he cannot open the door yet if he lift at the latch be an active apprentise though not yet his crafts-master A wise man scaleth Prudence is better then Puissance verse 22 Eccles. VII 19. and IX 15 16. Prov. XXIV 5. 2 Sam. XX. 16 21 22. Proud Chap. verse 24 XIII 10. and chap. XV. 25. giveth Chap. verse 26 XI 25. and chap. XXII 9. Esay LVIII 7. Psal. CXII 9. 2. Cor. IX 9. Deut. XV. 10. Matth. XIX 21 22. Rom. XII S. Eccles. XI 2. Ephes. IV. 28. See on Prov. XIX 17. heareth What he witnesseth verse 28 against the Lord The arme of humane policie as Jeroboams in that case shrinks up presently verse 30 The horse Though so serviceable verse 31 Job XXXIX 19 25. Yet avails not Psal. XXXIII 17. A good name Eccles. chapter XXII verse 1 VII 1. See the Observations there Omnia si perdas famam servare memento meet together Chap. verse 2 XXIX 13. Have mutual need one of another Deut. XV. 11. Matth. XXVI 11. And meet many times as travellers in the mid-way by an alteration and exchange of their conditions Luke I. 53. foreseeth Eccles. verse 3 II. 14. and X. 2. looks before he leaps sees a tempest in the clouds and seeks seasonable shelter under the hollow of Gods hand passeth on Pusheth on without fear or wit desperately into danger chap. XIV 16. and XXVII 12. These after-wits and post-masters may prove prudent but too late farre from them From those thornes and snares verse 5 from the miseries and misdemeanours too of the froward man Traine up a childe Young Saints verse 6 old
in Scripture The words Not of Solomon verse 1 For his words end with the former Chapter of Agur Not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture But seemes a man famous for wisdome either in Solomons or Hezekiah's time Prophesie Or instruction for so largely is the word Prophesie many times taken Or Collectanies gathered out of wise Agurs sayings and proverbial sentences then extant or well-known and here added to Solomons Proverbs as being of like argument and consorting with them Ithiel and Ucal Some take these names for Christ for his goodnesse and power But with lesse straining they rather seeme to be the names of Agurs schollers or friends here instructed by him more brutish Agur begins in all humilitie verse 2 so deeply abasing and vilifying himself knowing his losse by his fall in Adam 1 Cor. II. 14. Psal. VII 3 22. Job XXXII 8. and chap. XI verse 12. That flesh and blood in natures schoole could not reveal saving mysteries unto him neither learned Not of himself but from God verse 3 Gal. I. 1. James I. 17. of the holy Holy God and holy Angels Dan. IV. 13. and VIII 13. or holy and heavenly things who hath ascended The difficultie great verse 4 the impossibility evident to humane wisdome who can or hath done it but the Sonne of man John III. 13. And the Angels Ministers to him John I. 51. No man hath seene God at any time the only begotten Sonne which is in the bosome of the Father he hath declared him John I. 18. and declared heaven Rom. X. 6 7. Heavenly wisdome by man of himself is not attainable Job XXVIII Chapter See Esay XL. 12. winde Psal. CIV 3. and CXXXV 7. Matth. VIII 26 27. waters Job XXXVIII 8 11. Psal. CIV 3 6 13. Esay XL. 12. earth I. Job XXXVIII 4 5 6. Esay XL. 12. what is his Name Job XI 7 8 9. Judg. XIII 17 18. Exod. III. 13 14 15. Matth. XI 27. John VI. 46. Esay LIII 8. The Sonne is like the Father John XIV 7 8 9. Heb. I. 3. if thou cast None can word of God Psal. XII 6. verse 5 and XVIII 30. and XIX 8. and CXIX 140. sheild Gen. XV. 1. 2 Sam. XXII 31. Adde thou not Deut. IV. 2. Apoc. XXII 18 19. verse 6 Against the blasphemous speeches of Papists concerning Scripture And their additions to it So adding as it were to Gods will and abasing his coyne Two things Two special ones mentioned in the next verse verse 7 deny me not With importunitie he reinforceth and followeth his request verse 7 so Psal. XXVII 4. Gen. XXXII 26. Luke XI 8. Matth. XV. 23. She came for a cure and a cure she would have And God calls for and delights in such importunities that so he may abound in his bounteous grants unto us John XVI 24. He would have us smite five or six times 2 Kings XIV 18 19. And he as Naaman would then force two talents upon us grant above all we ask or think vanitie and lies Those lying vanities of sinne verse 8 from the damning and domineering power and punishment of it from the sting and staine the crime and curse of it neither povertie nor riches Both are naturaly attended encumbered and burdened with many inconveniences Yet sanctified both to the childe of God Mediocrite a sufficiencie without superfluitie is the estate that is most easily managed Matth. VI. 11. 1 Tim. VI. 8. Tuta me media vehat Vita decurrens via Lest I be full Deut. XXXII 15. 1 Tim. VI. 17. And so verse 9 as the Moon at the ful then and then only suffer they the Eclipse of grace by the interposition of the earth and come to say Pharaoh-like Who is the Lord as if they with their Mammon were pettie-gods of and within themselves or lest I be poor Stealth upon necessitie is lesse then adulterie Prov. VI. 30. Yet a sinne alwayes Exod. XX. 15. Ephes. IV. 28. name of my God This he grieves at more then his own shame burning in the hand whipping hanging Accuse not Rom. XIV 4. and II. 1. Matth. VII 1. Eccles. VII 21 22. Tit. III. 1 2 3. verse 10 lest The harme of the servants ill wishes fall upon thee Here begin his Quaternions of some things Moral verse 11 of some things Natural yet intended for Moral use which he pursueth six times over in the rest of the Chapter that curseth their father A cursed crew a bastardly brood verse 17. and chap. XX. 20. Levit. XX. 9. Exod. XXI 17. Matth. XV. 4. Deut. XXI 18 21. are pure As the Puritanes Novatians Donatists verse 12 Catharists of old Matth. XIX 20. Hos. XII 8. Esay LXV 5. Papists that pretend to works of Supererogation And yet welter in wickednesse O how lofty Chap. VI. 17. and chap. XVI verse 13 5 18. and chap. XXI 4. Esay II. 11 12 17. and V. 15. and X. 33. Job XXXIII 17. Ps. CI. 5. whose teeth Psal. LII 4. and LVII 4. Job XXIX 17. verse 14 The horseleach Hath two forks in her tongue verse 15 whereby she first pricketh the flesh and then sucketh the blood Such is the covetous extortioner and oppressor of the poor never satisfied No more then Pharaoh's leane kine with a maid That yet pretends so to be verse 19 as appears in the next verse and that with impudencie enough Incerta sunt virginis aut corruptae indicia for a servant when Chap. XIX 10. verse 22 Asperius nihil est humili cùm surgit in altum little Deus est maximus in minimis verse 24 exceeding wise Job XII 1. The Ants Chap. VI. 6 7. verse 25 Conies Psal. CIV 18. verse 26 Locusts Joel II. 4 5 7 8. verse 27 Those Apoc. IX 11. have their King Abaddon Comely A comlinesse of carriage belongs to us verse 29 Phil. I. 27. So Neh. VI. 7. No rising up Eccles. VIII 2 4. verse 31 in lifting up thy self Against the King verse 32 verse 31. Eccles. VIII 3. and chap. X. 20. Exod. XXII 28. Or in any evil matter then stop and silence thy self as Job XL. 4 5. and chap. XLII 6. and chap. XXI 5. so the forcing of wrath Chap. XV. 1. Reiterated provocations extort strife James III. 16. Patientia laesa furor fit verse 33 Here are the words of Bathsheba chapter XXXI the mother of Solomon taught him likely when he was young against the time wherein he should be King And when he was King recorded here and registred by him He is called here Lemuel verse 1. And by his mother Lemoel verse 4. as tender mothers do often use to make loving changes in their childrens names And here she warnes him chiefly against women though he made ill use of this warning And against wine And from the tenth verse to the end she elegantly describes the vertues of a worthy wife as a patterne for his choise beginning every verse thereof with a several letter of the Hebrew Alphabet in order Lemuel Verse 4. Lemoel verse 1 It seemes to signifie of God God
by fresh praises and vowes of love To which she makes a brief Reply by desiring to be made fit for those Praises and future affections by the work of his Spirit and that he may come to enjoy them in her faire Christ here interchangeably seemes chapter IV verse 1 as it were rapt and ravished and altogether enamoured with his beautiful Bride sets her forth in all her parts in her eyes haire teeth lips temples neck and breasts in that fairnesse and comelinesse which indeed he himself hath put upon her Ezek XVI 14. no spot in thee Ephes. V. 26 27. Apoc. XIV 5. verse 7 Not such as Jude ver 12. and Deut. XXXII 5. no Leopard-spots none that God will so account though in many things we offend all James III. 2. Shenir and Hermon Deut. III. 9. 1 Chron. V. 23. verse 8 Of Hermon see the Observations on Psal. LXXXIX 12. a fountaine sealed For preservation from pollution verse 12 and for the excellencie of it John IV. 14. a fountaine c. Or Oh fountaine c. verse 15 For some make this the Churches speech to Christ acknowledging that for all she is or hath the entire praise belongs to him alone is derived from him Psalme LXXXVII 7. John XV. 5. Esay XXVI 12. Hos. XIV 8. Psalme CXV 1. Awake The Church prayes verse 16 and accordingly beleeves that these windes the besomes of the world may ever blow to the good of the garden Christs Church for her fruitfulnesse that Christ may come and reap the pleasant fruits thereof 1 Cor. IX 7. He and she make both one mystical Christ 1 Cor. XII 12. Christ pleaseth to grant the request of his Church and cometh and accepteth her entertainment yea and bringeth his friends with him and feasteth them vers 1. But this kindnesse it seemes is not so well improved by her as it deserved but she is surprized by another fit of drowsie negligence and tepidity and so she is brought into a fresh danger of losing him who after much patient waiting knocking and calling upon her and her unkinde answer thereunto becomes angry and being not received when he tendered himself departs displeased and is hardly reconciled though she testifie much care and importunity in seeking him and therein suffereth losses and wounds for his sake And chargeth others to tell him that she is sick of love I am come chapter V verse 1 c. Christ so readily answers and grants the Churches Prayer Psal. CXLV 19. and XX. 4. and XXXII 5. and XXXIV 15. Esay LXV 24. Dan. IX 20 23. She seeks not him in vaine Esay XLV 19. eate O friends The holy Angels or Saints on earth rather Esay XLI 8. John XV. 14. James II. 23. abundantly Ephes. V. 16. I sleep verse 2 but c. The Churches infirmity As Matth. XXV 5. and XXVI 41. she lets fall the watch of the Lord and so sinnes away her inward peace as David did Psal. LI. It is the voice c. She soone hears the first call and knock as being half awake awake in the hidden man of the heart Knocketh Apoc. III. 20. Micah VI. 9. my locks with the drops Thus Christ stands bare-headed as with cap in hand and that in foul weather too suing wooing and begging admittance and yet must go look another lodging I have put off my coate Luke XI verse 3 7. A silly excuse and yet worse then so in seeking to mend one fault by making another Thus the flesh is both weak and wayward But it is to be served as Paul doth 1 Cor. IX 27. And as he adviseth others Rom. VI. 12. how Why easily enough It had beene no such great matter Sinne and shifting came into the world together Look to that Heb. XII 25. and chap. II. 3. Lest refusing this Call they hear that Command Matth. XXV 41. by the hole Christ herewith is offended and gone verse 4 ver 6. Seemes minded as Mark XIV 41. and Ezek. III. 27. Yet even then he leaves a sweet remembrance behinde him my bowels She had no rest in her spirit her bowels earned towards him her heart asked and quaked for the unkindnesse she had offered him she sorrowed according to God or as God would have it 2 Cor. VII 9. I rose up She better bethinks her self verse 5 she starts and stirs and she leaves her bed of carnal security would mend her former fore-thought negligence dropped with myrrhe Testimonies and tokens of his sweetnesse left behinde him where his hand had beene with a secret instinct to attract her as the Loadstone doth the Needle that did whet edge steele her affections towards him and wrought her to that resolution Hos. II. 7. I opened Better late then never verse 6 was gone She had presumed too much of his patience and abused it Micah III. 4. she hoped here but missed of it my soul failed Psal. XXX 7. she suffers now she may thank her self for it I sought him She goes not to bed againe but seeks him with all her might seeks and calls and gives not over This is the guise of the godly Esay XXVI 9. I could not finde him She was so justly dealt withal Esay LIX 1 2. And this is the Churches soarest affliction whereof they bitterly complaine Lam. III. 8 44. Job XXX 20. Hab. I. 2. A spiritual desertion is a kinde of Hell it self to a godly soul. This sense of Losse they count heavier then the sense of Paine And indeed the tears of Hell are not sufficient to bewaile the Losse of Heaven The Watchmen Now she will seek him through thick and thin verse 7 by night it self without delay among the Watchmen and midst of dangers Nothing shall stay her she is at no rest without him See chap. III. 3. they smote me Even these Watchmen Ezek. XXXIII 2 6 7. smote her with the tongue of just reproof and rebuke out of Gods Word for her former fault and sloathful neglect of duty I charge you See chap. II. 7. verse 8 and chap. III. 5. But here her charge varies Tell him and what shall ye tell him as the Hebrew hath it Like that phrase in Hos. IX 14 sick of love Chap. II. 5. What is thy beloved verse 9 c. And they double the demand And that by reason of her so extraordinary charging them if not swearing and adjuring of them Some singular thing then was in the man and in the matter They question likely not as utterly ignorant of Christ but that they might hear the Church what she had to say to him and by her discourse they might better their knowledge 1 Pet. I. 12. My beloved verse 10 c. The Churches large character of Christ to them she describes him and his particular praises in his several parts in sundry Similies but no hyperbolies for Christ admits of no hyperbolie he is altogether matchlesse and incomparable She describes his colour head locks eyes cheeks lips hands belly legges countenance mouth and that he is altogether
after chap. XXXVIII 5. 2 Kings XXI 1. 2 Chron. XXXIII 1. As the Sun stood still at Joshuah's Prayer and the Moone likewise and consequently with them the whole frame of the Heavenly Bodies and their Motions about a whole day Josh. X. 12 13. So upon Ezekiah's choise the Sunne went back and consequently the other Celestial Bodies with it ten degrees in the Heavens that the Chaldeans took notice of the wonder 2 Chron. XXXII 31. as well as in the Sun-dial of Ahaz chap. XXXVIII 8. Making that miraculous anomalie of time in obedience to their Creators will Esaiah his going naked without his upper raiment or Prophetical rough garment as that 2 Kings I. 8. Zech. XIII 4. Matth. III. 4. and bare-foot though but three dayes like to that Ezek. IV. 4 5 6. yet was a three yeares Prophetick signe that Egypt and Ethiopia by that time should be led into captivity naked and bare by the King of Assyria chap. XX. 3 4. The 185000. were slaine by the Angel in the Camp of Sennacharib not after their returne from the Ethiopians but in that very next night after the message and promise sent from God by Esay to Hezekiah Esay XXXVII 21 35. And slaine either before Jerusalem in the Camp that Rabshakeh brought thither and in his returne to the King at Libna left there Esay XXXVI 2. Or in Sennacharib's Camp before Libna where himself was so drawing near to Jerusalem chapter XXXVII 8 9. 14 33 36. 2 Kings XIX 8 32 35 36. 2 Chron. XXXII 9. If not in both Camps The Vision chapter I verse 1 One of those meanes whereby God in those times imparted his minde and word to his Prophets Of Isaiah Heb. Jeshajahu In other places Jeshajah In the Greek Esaias whence our English Esay and Esaiah It signifies Gods salvation saw Hence the Prophets of old called Seers Judah and Jerusalem Chiefly and mainly Though likely in a relation to them he prophesied also concerning and against other neighbouring Nations Hezekiah Heb. Jechizkijahu Micah I. 1. Jechizkijah sometimes Chizkijahu and Chezkijah Greek Ezekias Likely Esay died in the latter end of his reigne and was not sawn in sunder in the reigne of Manasseh as commonly out of Heb. XI 37. but groundlessely it is conceived Heare verse 2 c. His first Sermon in this first chapter And if so Then we must understand the desolations herein mentioned to be Propheticaly denounced for they seeme to have relation to Ahaz his time O heavens See Deut. XXXII 1. and XXX 19. and IV. 26. See Micah VI. 1 2. Israel The common name of Gods people verse 3 yet meaning hereby Judah and Jerusalem your countrey c. Spoken Propheticaly as was said if this were his first Sermon and Prophecie See chap. IX 12. 2 Chron. XXVIII 5 17 18. Heare verse 10 c. Thus wicked they were likely in King Uzziah's time upon thee Or rather verse 25 unto thee as the work-man turnes his hand to the work I will once more set upon the reforming and new moulding of thee So mitigating that direful doome in the former verse as at the first Fulfilled in the times of Hezekiah verse 26 and Josiah and after the returne from the Babylonish captivity in Zerubbabel Joshua Nehemiah and others oaks Trees set apart and used for idolatrous services verse 29 gardens Where they practised Idolatry as well as in Groves and Woods strong Strong Idols as ye esteeme them The word verse 31 c. A second Sermon to the end of the IV. chap. in the last dayes Micah IV. chapter II verse 1 1 2 3. the dayes of the Messias and of the Gospel verse 2 all Nations The Gentiles He will teach us verse 3 c. The Messias will And so ver 4. Nation shall not verse 4 c. Such shall be the peaceable meek disposition among themselves which the Gospel shall bring them to Acts IV. 32. Though the wicked will rise up in war with fire and sword against them Mat. X. 21 22. Luke XII 49 53. O house of Jacob verse 5 let us Provokes the Jewes so to do by the example of those Gentiles Therefore thou hast forsaken verse 6 c. A sad charge against the present people for their grievous manifold sinnes whereby God is brought to desert them and proceed in fierce wrath against them boweth down To their Idols in their Idol-worship verse 9 And therefore God will bow them down and humble them by his judgements ver 11. forgive them not Spoken by way of imprecation if not rather as a meere prediction or denunciation that God would now at length without further delay proceed most severely to punish them without sparing Enter into verse 10 c. So foretelling what sorry shifts they should be then driven to though to small or no purpose verse 19. and 21. Cedars of Lebanon Not any verse 13 not all their strongest hopes and helps shall any whit availe them against the wrath of the Lord when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth when he comes to make a terrible earthquake in the State for their hainous and hideous sins to the moles His most precious Idols verse 20 in whom he trusted seeing no help or hope in them he shall cast them away with indignation and disdaine into the vilest and filthiest holes and corners chap. I. 29. Cease ye from man Seeing no humane help verse 24 no might or height will availe against the Lord therefore cease to put any confidence in frail man Psal. CXLVI 3 4. Ier. XVII 5 6. Psal. LXXVI 7. For chapter III verse 1 behold c. God will take away the stay and the staff of man and of other creature-comforts and supports one and other children In age verse 4 or men of childish dispositions Oppressed Which followes of none verse 5 or of evil government I will not verse 7 c. Men will refuse publike imployment to undertake the care and cure of the State and to be Rulers in it being so full of confusion so perplexed and perilous as theirs then should be is ruined And therefore for their extreme obstinacie and impudencie verse 8 as the words following do declare Say ye A consolation to the small companie of the Godly among them verse 10 in those calamitous times As for my people Proceeds on to declare the confusion and disorders of the times verse 12 that even boyes and women persons so qualified abused them and domineered over them The Lord He riseth up to plead and judge for his people verse 13 against those cruel oppressors Moreover verse 16 c. Comes from the Men to the Women tinckling ornaments Divers names following in this wardrobe of Women verse 18 are of conjectural rather then certaine and sure signification to us at this day glasses Looking-glasses verse 23 of bright brasse or steele or like mettal Exod. XXXVIII 8. Of glasse properly so called we finde no certaine mention in the Old Testament girdle Girding verse 24 The word is
like fathers unto the sins of the fathers also either enhauncing or lengthening the judgements to make their sufferings the more exemplarie that men may observe how execution of vengeance though delayed for a time yet at length falleth with a full storme on the race of the wicked 1 Sam. III. 12. Lam. V. 7. Matth. XXIII 32 35 36. 1 Thes. II. 15 16. a blessing in it The little liquor in the cluster argued life and sap to be in the plant verse 8 and so hope of recovery to become fruitful againe not destroy them all A Remnant still reserved and saved ver 9. for the propagating of the Church Jer. XXX 11. Amos. IX 8. Sharon Under Libanus verse 10 1 Chron. XXVII 29. valley of Achor Neere Jericho that prepare a table for that troope Feasts verse 11 for their troope of idols pointed at as it were with the finger in contempt by the Prophet here Some by this troope understand the hoast of heaven Some one particular Star as Jupiter that furnish the drink-offering Heb. that fill mixture i. e. wine Apoc. XIV 10. Psal. LXXV 8. Prov. IX 2. strong wine is in these places meant without mixture of water For they would not offer such to their Idols though in their ordinary drinking they did mix it for themselves behold A strange alteration verse 13 four times repeated by another name Verse 16. verse 15 chap. LXII 2 4 12. as being in another state and condition then you or they formerly Such a name as should be used not in Cursing but in Blessing See Hos. I. 6 9. and II. 1 23. Rom IX 26. 1 Pet. II. 10. I create new heavens A further more strange alteration verse 17 Make as it were a new world Their change shall be such that coming suddenly out of such adversity into such prosperity they shall seeme to be in a new in another world But this is chiefly applyable to the times of the Gospel under Christ in a spiritual sense in regard of those plentiful endowments of spiritual graces that therein should abound John I. 16 17 Acts II. 17 33. Heb. IX 9 12. And hereunto is this change applied chap. LXVI 22. 2 Cor. V. 17. begun here to be perfected in heaven 2 Pet. III. 13. Apoc. XXI 1 5. and the former Jer. III. 16. 1 Cor. II. 9. 2 Cor. III. 7 10. But be ye glad Gods speech verse 18 as chap. III. 10. and XXX 10. the childe He that was once a childe verse 20 None among them young or old should be taken away by untimely death but should live to the utmost course of nature wont usualy to be attained verse 22. but the sinner Such among them as remained still unreformed unrefined unreclaimed though he live never so long shall at length prove a cursed wretch as the dayes of a tree As the Oake verse 22 and Elme before they call Chap. LVIII verse 24 9. Psal. XXXII 5. Dan. X. 12. and IX 20 23. Luke XV. 18 20. Acts X. 44. and XI 15. John XIV 13 14. and XV. 7 16. and XVI 23 24 26. The wolf and the lamb Such as had beene of a wolvish disposition formerly verse 25 should now be thus transformed All shall be harmlesse ch XI 6 9. Another Sermon chapter LXVI like the former and that as in matter so also in many expressions agreeing with it The heaven in my throne Cited Acts VII verse 1 48 49 50. See Psalme CIII 19. Matth. V. 34. where is the House That ye have or should or can build unto me when as I fill heaven and earth with my presence Jer. XXIII 24 See 1 Kings VIII 27. Acts XVII 14 25. And this is to take off their minds from the Temple of Jerusalem wherein they over-much trusted and gloried Jer. VII 4. place of my rest Psal. CXXXII 8 14. Not but that he can well be without them as he was also before they were He needs no house to receive him nor service of man to be done to him Psal. XVI 2. and L. 10 11. He needs not these things as their idols do contrite spirit John IV. verse 2 21 23 24. God looks to him more then to his material Temple Psal. XXXIV 18. and CXXXVIII 6. He that killeth an Oxe For sacrifice verse 3 As in the Temple so in their Sacrifices the Jewes much confided and boasted 2 Chron. XIII 10 11. But when they rested in these outward things and exercises without any grace and goodnesse in the soul and with much filthinesse and wickednesse in their hearts and lives God loaths their persons and their sacrifices chap. I. 11 14. Prov. XV. 8. and XXI 27. Jer. VI. 20. and VII 21 22 23. Amos V. 21 22 23. Micah VI. 6 7. Ezek. XX. 39. blessed an idol With a Present or oblation Gen. XXXIII 10. and XLIII 11. I also will choose An implication of a Retaliation verse 4 As chap. LXV 12. Levit. XXVI 27 28. Psal. XVIII 26. Jer. XXXIV 17. their delusions Passively or objectively their illusions or mockages that they shall be exposed and subject unto As they have made choice of such wayes and courses as please not me so will I make choice of such things for them as they shall finde small pleasure in their fears Prov. X. 24. that cast you out Either by unjust Censure under pretence of a legal proceeding verse 5 or that shun you as persons so polluted and defiled that there is no dealing with you without being defiled by you See John IX 34. and XVI 2. See chap. LXV 5. Lam. IV. 15. Niddui a word of this root is the lowest degree of Excommunication in the Jewish Church for my Names sake For your loyalty to me As Matth. X. 22. Let the Lord be glorified Spoken in way of derision Let him manifest his might and majesty in doing some remarkable matter for you if ye be so dear to him as ye deeme your selves to be Thus jearing their trust and confidence in God As chap. V. 19. Psal. XXII 7 8. Matth. XXVII 43. 2 Pet. III. 3 4. but he shall appear The answer to that jear A voice Esay breaks out into these words verse 6 as if in a Prophetical rapture he heard the noise and voice Like that chap. XIII 4. Jer. L. 22 28. and LI. 54. A voice of noise of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple by the Chaldeans or by the Romanes from the Temple To control their vaine confidence in it as implying how little relief or safeguard they should then receive from it Lam. II. 20. to his enemies Most likely the obstinately wicked amongst the Jewes verse V. 14. chap. LXV 6 7 and I. 24. Before she travelled A prophecie of the strange sudden verse 7 and unexpected restitution of the Church and the dilatation of it into all parts This may relate to the delivery out of Babylon by Cyrus done at an instant by his Proclamation not with so much ado as that was out of Egypt Here Zion is like the Hebrew
thereby that they had not charged Job unjustly seeing him lie under such judgements as God did not inflict but upon ungodly men And here he deals not with him by exhortation and promises as there he did but seemes also to imply and threaten these judgements to Job as unavoidable by him the first-borne of death The most terrible kinde of death verse 13 that carrieth the principality above all other kinds of death as the first-borne doth above all the brethren And yet death it self in what kinde soever is called in the next verse the King of terrors How long Here Job again blames his friends chapter XIX verse 2 ver 2 3. And be it By a fresh commemoration of his miseries verse 4 wherein he chargeth God still too heavily he moves them rather to a Compassion and Commiseration of him to verse 23. skin of my teeth Of my lips verse 20 or gums rather Oh that my words Fearing to finde little comfort in his friends verse 23 he betakes himself to God and comforts himself in an assured expectation of a joyful Resurrection But ye Job admonisheth his friends to be well advised of their ill dealing with him verse 28 and to fear Gods wrath seeing the root of right and Religion is in Job and will be found so in the end that the triumphing of the wicked is but short Being driven from that part of their argument chapter XX verse 5 That God did not use to give prosperity to wicked men Zophar now insisteth upon this That though it be so Yet their Prosperity is but for a moment or short and ruine and destruction shall befall them And this he pursues to the end of the chapter sweet in his mouth Zophar seemes to insist upon this similitude verse 12 to verse 23. bow of steele Of the Bow verse 24 see the Annotations on Zech. IX 13. and chap. X. 4. Here is mentioned a Bow of steele And so Psal. XVIII 34. such it seemes were in use Wherefore do the wicked live Job overthrowes Zophars assertion of the short prosperity of wicked men in this world chapter XXI and their sudden downfal verse 7 and shewes their flourishing estate in themselves ver 7. in their children ver 8. in their families ver 9. in their wealth ver 10. in their pleasures ver 11 12. in their life and death ver 13. yea though they were notoriously wicked men ver 14 15. yet their counsell and course is farre from Job ver 16. And he shewes that God doth oftentimes break off their prosperity and plagueth them verse 17 21. And that God deals both wayes thus diversly with them out of his unsearchable wisdome whereunto we cannot reach verse 22 26. He concludes with an application of the premises to his own case relating their false doome of him and his upon their false grounds ver 27 28. And refelling the same by the testimony of passengers themselves and their better judgement that many wicked men live and die prosperously and peaceably 29 33. Then Eliphaz Here begins the third Onset chapter XXII verse 1 by Eliphaz and Bildad only Wherein being convinced by Job of the falshood of their grand plea and position Eliphaz now doth charge him home with particular sinnes tells him the justification of himself and his righteousnesse cannot be profitable to God and Exhorts him to Repentance with Promises of Mercie chap. 22. And Bildad having little more to say Concludes with this That neither Job nor any man can be justified with God And therefore Job should not contend with God as if he had done him some wrong in afflicting him more then was fitting chap. 25. And Job in his Replies longeth yet to appear and plead before God in confidence of his mercie He asserts his innocency against Eliphaz and promiseth to himself an happy issue though for the present God do seeme to him inexorable He shewes that God often winketh at many grosse wickednesses committed by ungodly men which God punisheth not in this world but suffers them still to prosper and flourish chap. XXIII and XXIV And checking Bildads impertinencies He speaks more magnificently of God Power and Wisdom then Bildad had done chap. XXVI And seeing his three friends at a Non-Plus He goes on the more confidently to maintaine his Cause and clear his own innocencie against hypocrisie He acknowledgeth that Gods judgements light on ungodly men in this world and that their Blessings are turned into Curses though not alwayes chap. XXVII And this by Gods wonderful wisdome which passeth mans deepest wisdome and is unsearchable and carrieth things farre above the reach of the wisest men whose highest wisdome is to Fear the Lord chap. XXVIII And Job it seemes after some intermission of speech finding his friends still silent goes on And in his last speech bemoanes himself and excuseth his impatience by his great fall from so great prosperity chap. XXIX to so great misery chap. XXX And for conclusion He stands upon the clearing of his own integrity much more then before And that by a solemne Protestation of his uprightnesse and piety in sundry several duties without any grosse wickednesse committed by him chap. XXXI for fear of thee Lest thy wickednesse should hurt him verse 4 or thy fear of him and pietie could help him Is not He chargeth Job home and in particulars verse 5 But falsely old way Haply relating to the time of the Flood verse 15 By the purenesse of thine hands God will not only do good to thee verse 30 but to others also for thy sake but he is not there I cannot so see and finde him chapter XXIII verse 8 that I might reason with him in one minde To lay load on me verse 13 that is appointed for me In his infinite wisdom verse 14 and irresistible will he will not cease afflicting me till all be done cut off By death verse 17 Gods Executioner Why Why may not God hide his times of punishing the wicked chapter XXIV verse 1 even from the knowledge of the godly themselves that they could never observe that he punisheth many ungodly men according to their deeds in this world The wicked make ill use of this as thinking God sees not or cares not yet God Calls them not to account for their foolish sinful actions verse 12 the way of the Vineyards He walketh not in those wayes where men use to travel to their work verse 18 lest he should be seene and taken He evil intreateth The oppressor doth so in this verse 21 and in what followeth Yet some understand it of God and his judgements upon the wicked in this verse and in those also that follow eares of corne The not pronouncing this word rightly did cost so many Ephramites their lives verse 24 Judg. XII 6. peace in his high places chapter XXV verse 2 In and above the heavens No Angel doth or dare question or complain of his proceedings much lesse should Job How Job ironicaly taunts Bildad chapter XXVI verse