648 Chap. 34. An Expefrtion upon the Boob,of J o Vert. 20. to the captivity. There's peffilence, and (word, and famine and captivity ready at the call of God to take away a provoking people. Secondly , Note. To pajfe away, or to be put te ourflight, is a grievous judge- ment. To flee from the face of the purfuer, to run for our lives, who knows the trouble and terror of ir,but they that have been in it -? what amercy is it thatour dwellings are continued co us %chat we abide inour places, that we neither die in a moment, are not fur- priz'd by midnight- feares, but ref quietly in our beds , though feares at midnight have been ready to furprize us. What amer- cy is it, that we are not palling away, running;fleeing into the wil derneffe, as the poore Churches of God have done in feverall ages ? So much of Judgement upon the people in that three-fold no- tion ofit. We have here allo Judgement uponPrinces. ind'themighty 'ha'Ibe taken away without hand. Not only the many, but the mighty faall feele the Judgements of God ; For as 'tis fayd inthe former verfe, Heaccepteth not the perfent of Princes, norregardetto the rich more then the poore ; The mighty and the meaneff ofmen are alike to God, when they are alike in finning againff God : If they doe evill alike,they (hall fuf fer evill alike ; God acceptethno maris perf®n. Themighty fhall betakenaway. -1°7t,í fortis The word rendred,,mighty, taken plurally, is ufed in Scripture rob045excel- to denote not only mighty men, but any creature that excells ire lou itudit might. And therefd.e according to the exigence of the place, it Abir m inge- lignifies fometirnes Angelis, who being fpirrts,exceedall flefh in mere forte fig- might. The people of Ifrael in the wildernels°did eat Angels .n:¡irat. food ( Pfal: 78. 5.) the food of the Abirims, of the m:ghty or flreng ones : And as it is applyed to Angelis who exceed the ftrongeft men in f rength, fo it is applyed to any fort of ffrong beaffs, to the horde (7er: 47.3.) toBulls, (Ifa: 34.7. Ter: so. Pfal: 22.13. Pfal 68. 31.) Thus the word rifeth above man to Angelis, and falls belowman to the beaffs ofthe earth here e
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