236 Peace· witJ God:, &c. State JH~ [,itv( founcla ranfom, HiJ jlejh fha/1 be frejher than a: cbi ld 'J, hejh-a.ft return to the dap of his youth-. f!ejhaU: pray tt nto God, and he jha!J be favourable unto him,,andhtr jha/1 fee h~J face with jay . T'he proper phyfician for this. p.ttient, is a meffinger, an- if'Jte'rpPtf.er, V€f .. 23. that is, as fome exp.oGtars not w~thour gr-ound underftanq it, the great PhyGci ?o J ejuJ f:hrifi, whom 'Job. had called his Redeemer, ch ap, ,x ix ·:: 5. He is a mdfeoger, the mdfenger of the co– 't'e·nan t of peaceJ Jl.-1a!. ii i). 1. who comes feafocably to t-he . flck m ~ n. He · is an Inter prt;ter, the gre'at interpreter of God 's counfels of IO\' C to fin oers, Jr;hn 1 1 B:. One am6ng a thoufand, eveo tbe chief am1Jng t en· thoujand, C ant. v•. 10 . One chojen out oTthe people, . Pi~!. Jxxx1x l 29. Oae to whom t.~e Lord ha.thgiven tle -1-ongue of 'the learned,– fiJ fpeak a: <um:dJn foajin to him that iJ.. wear:J, lfa .L4· s,· 6 · lt is he that is wi th him by his -; pirit, now, to convince him· f?.{ ri.ght~IJtt[nefi , John xvi. 8 a~·· he was with him before, to convmce (Jf)in and judgmen t . His wor k now is, to fu ew unto him his upr'ightnejJ, or his tighteoufoefs, i , e. the i_nter - · p reter Chrilt his righ(eoufnefs ; which is the only r-ighteouf– nefs arifing fwm the p ~ ying of a raofom, and upon which a; fioner is ddi-verea'fro.m goin_E; d.o·wn.to the pi~, ver.• 24 . .,,nd thus Cbrill: 1s la id 1.0 declare God'J nc:me; Pf.d. xxii 22 . · and to preaeh righteoufmjl , Pfal ·xl 9· . rbe ph·rafe is r~mark~Me: it is not to {hew lmto tht- man, .bat unto man , his Tighteoufnefs; \vhich not' obtcu.rely intimates, that he IS more than a' man-, who {hews or :ieclareth this righteoufnefs, Compare . AtJ.t-?J IV 1 ~ . He tha~ f ormeth the moun tai nf., . and createth the rwi:nd, and d~:clare.th u'nto.man what:iJ f.i..s; thought. ·, r here feerns _to be in it a fw.eet aliUfi ur. to tbe n·rlf declarat-ion of t-his righreoufnefs unto man ; or. as the word is. un t<l 1danrafter the fall , while lle l<~v under terror from appreh~ nfio·;) s cf the wr.ath of God: which declaration· was m01.de bv the ~df~ nger, t.he h >t.erpreter, · n~mely, the eternal 'V\~ O;R'D of tbe Son of God, eall ed ,· 'The voice of t he Lord: God· (,en. ii i. S..md .by him ~ ppeuing ·, probably : in·. human flupe •. Now, while he 1 hy his ~piri_t, is the predcher'– of righ i:e t~ufnefs to the man, it is fuppofed th r. muJ h)l·hold.' on the offered righr.eoufnefs; whenmpo~ the tanfom ' is, ap– plied' ro him, ~nd he is delivend Jrom g()ing down I~ t he t -it :. foe God hath.a.tanfu.ni fqr hlm.... 1h1s i:i. inumate to' ' h1m ::,
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