Ball - BT770 B3 1637

Godand Chrilt is the onely objeft of true confidence. 129 theironely refuge, and refs under the Ihadowof hiswings. Prat 75.22. For the Lord complaineth often oftheir infidelitie towards Heb.3.x ?. him; and the hitlorie makes mention of their difirufi, murmuring, and rebellion againfl theLord. In the other place the people are praifed, as thofe who retied in the word of the Prophet, before that the promife was effe- 6led : But they leaned not upon the Prophets, as authors of their help; neither had that beene praife-worthy in them, nay, it had beenedetefiable idolatrie. If theywill have the Hebrew prepoution tobe offorce in thofe places, by Mofes and theProphets, weare tounderliand the word Bellar.d9YuJWWf taught by chores and the Prophets from God, as the lib . cap.7. g y ! i Se$.Illud tlertigtu. Chaldee explainethit ; they beleeved in the Wordof the Lord, andin theprophecieof Mofes his le. rvant. The ex- pofition of both textsmay be takenout of' that ofthe Lord to Mofes, Lee, Icomeunto thee ina thicke cloud, that the aK®a,,.o. people may hearswhen Ifpeake with thee, and beleeve thee J°h'S'4g' for ever : that is, that theymay receive thee for a faithfull and trueProphet,andbeleeve in the Word that I Thal make knowne unto them by thee. Andas the Ifraelites are Paid r tor. Yo2. to be baptized intoMofes, that is, into the do nine or Law of Mofes, whereof heewasa Minifier : foare they faid to beleeve in Mofes and the `Prophets, that is, in the Word which they taught from God. They were the infiru- ments and Mini{lers of the Lord, and minilierially the people beleeved in them, that is, in the Word ofthe Lord' publiíhed by them. Of Sion it is faid , the poore of his aray r¢.ÿ$. people (hall tru.ff.in it. The meaning is not, that the faithful! !hall put their trntl in Sion, aswee muri hope in God : but that the inhabitants of Sion (hall dwell in a quiet and fecure place; as the Prophets often affirme, that falvation is in Sion. It may well bee tranflated, Joni 2.32 The poore of his people fha11 betake themfelves unto it , Job X4.5.. as unto a place of prote&ion and refuge by the bief- Pra .104.2 .. lingof God : not as unto the chiefe flay and prop of their foules. They further obje&, that the Apoflie referreth faith K and

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