Chap. 36. 4nExpofition upon the Book of J o Verf. 32. 419_ to ru{h upon, to invade, to affaulr, or to charge, as an enemy is ánr «'Q charged in baud ; and it fgniles, by a Metaphor, ro intercede, H:nc U 6z to make prayer or fupplication for another, t hrich i:, as it werea peP oc,, rrerst, coming between man and man. An Interceflo- cometh between fc: pe 'u 'ur- two parties, the party Offending, and the party oiiend d, he in- ren.err? z,<imt terpofeth_himfeif to make up the breach, or to take t,p the diffe rence, that if poilible a reconciliation mayb mane. Toe Latino Í,s to Drug word which we tranflate Latinely to intercede, is of the-fame fig- meta-, nificancy; and this Hebrew word is often fo réndred (. er. 7. i 6.) `Dray mot for this people, nor make interce'ffion to me ; that is, thou (halt not come between me and this people to {top orday me, that I break not out into wrath, or from pouring out my wrath upon them. In other Scriptures it is tried to noteanaa of interceflion between man and man (Gen. 2 3:8.) as alto an aec of addrefs by prayer and intreaty, whether towards God or man, ( job at. is. Ruth a. z'6.) And becaufe the word properly notes meeting another with à kind of violence, it intimates with what a holyviolence, withwhat.flrength, earpefinefs, and ferven- cy of fpirir,we ought tomeet God,either in prayer for our felves, or hen we come as interceffors, and fland-before him in the be- half of others, whether Perfons, Nations, or Churches. Many Interpreters (as I (hail f}Dewafterward) take the word in this fence here for an Intercelhor, onfor a perfon that prayeth and inrercedeth for another. We, in our tranflation, expound it of a thing, and that thing of. a Cloud that istrerpofeth or corneth between us and the Light. He commandeth the light not to rhino, by the Cloned that cometh between, or, by the Clotcd that paffeth be- tween su and the light oftheSun: Hence,note ; Fì;tl, 7he6e.,ß andfweetefi mercies we have in this world,, mayrichlymeet with aflop. Whenwe have the Light, a Cloud may faoncome between the Light and us Which as it is trueof thenatural Light andCloud,, fo of that which is Light in a figure,ottr snort comfortable enjoy- ments anri 'har which is a Cloud in a figure, croublefome and affi. `live Pr vidences. There is no light, of what kind foever it is, but there maybe a Cloud to intercept ir, and come between us and that ; even the light of the favour of God, the light of H h h his
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