Chap. g. 4i Expefitlrr upin the ,Book of 3 0 B. Verf. 20. it adeliverancefrom trouble, whilewe are 11 trouble. Thus far of the general promife. Now Eliphaz goes on to particulars in The 20 verfe, &c. As ifhe had laid, Lealt thou lhouldetl think, I deal onel:y in general notions, that I may more eafily elude and deceive thee.Therefore Dalolitt ve rfä I will now give intiance in the point, and name what troubles I fur'" anlvcy,¡a- mean r I will find thee to particulars, and ,reckon tip the l`áu3 greateft outward evils, the molt pinching ftraites that befall the tons of men, or the children ofGod, and out ofall tilde, affirme The Lordwill deliver thee. Vert. 20. In famine he(hall redeeme thee from death, and in war from thepower of tkefword. Than (halt be hid from the [courge of the tongue, &c. Fa- 1`iedimereefa mine leads the Vane of thin great Army of Evils, here mate, berm.: alte- red up. rizs pÓtefiare He/hall redeem.] But what is it to redeemfrom Famine ? To i k po ¡sto pre- . redeem properly is, to take a man out of the power of another, by `eons áiß? dnér® price or bygreat power ; Redemption is an at of fpecial favour, fonttuas,rd f,; and it notesa fpecial diftinttion by favour. When God threat- ciendum libetú nod Pharaoh and his people with fwarmes of flies, and promifed caw-Awn that his own people (hould be free, l will fever in that day, the Red' mlzbe. Land of Go(hen, in which my people dwell, that no fwarms of ravtt ex angu- Fles (hallbe there, verf, 22. This adof divine difcrimination, is lJ,fervitute, called redemption in the next verfe. And I will put a divifion &e. ( Heb. a Redemption ) between my people and thy people ; That is,thofe Armies ofdies, which invade thy people, (hall not med- dle with my people. To fee one peri(h with, and our felves faved from the fword, is redemption in war. To fee others launger- flarved, and our felves [till fed,is redemption from fam ne,th,tntgh our felves were never in the hands,or between the teeth offamine. A people divided from tee troubles of others, are redeemed from thofe troubles. Such redemption as our Saviour (-peaks of,Mat.24: 40, 41. Tavo fhall be in the field, the one (-hall be taken, the other left , two women (hall be a grinding in the Mill;theone taken, the o- ther left; InFamine. 1 Famine is the want ofbread, and bread is the flay anddaffof life ( Lev. 26.. 26. Ifa. 3. x. Pfal, 105. 16. ) when this'flay is gone, our lives fall quickly or flip away. When this flair is broken, the thread of life breaks too. Alan goes by the l'y bread 345
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