Chap, 5. An Expofition upon the Book, ofJ O B. Vert: 20. 349 prophelied ofand defcribed, 1fà. a..4 and in Micah,itis thus ex- preffccl,they[hall beat their fivords into plow-[hares,',rnd their 'pears into pruning hookes. As if he (hould fay, while the fword is abroad in the field, the plow-mares will do little there; For the moli part Juilice is filent in time of war ( the found of the Inter arma f. trumpet anddrum, is too loud for the law ) and when the law lcnt¡egos. hands hili,theplough hands liill;Therefore when the fword is in motion, both are at a fiand, Hence the promife, that Swords frail be beaten into plow(hares, and fpeares into pruning- hooks, that is, with peace, you [hall have bread and wine,which note the abundance ofall other. things. The ancients emblern'd peace by Earsof corne, and Concord by (a Cornucopia ) a borne ofplenty clics are the fruit of peace: And fafety is the priviledge of the Saints in the time of war, In war theyfhall be delivered from the power of the fword. The Hebrew is, They(hall bedeliveredfrom, or out, of the hand of thefword : Sometime in Scripture we read of theface of the fword, which notes the fword comingand approaching to a peo- ple-,And fornetimes we read ofthe mouth ofthefivord, which notes the fword come, devouring and eating up a people ; and here we have the band of thefword, they (hall be delivered out of the Gtadius t!rsnu hand of the[word, which notes ( as we translate) thepower ofthe approhonfus (sr huard Or, that form of fpeaking may be underftood by an el"' eft f; Hypallage, From the hand of thefword, that is, from the fword in t,emr dpfcri the hand, which phrafe importsprefent danger ; when the fword mink d prod is unfheathed and drawn out, when it is in the hand ready to fenils 1,ßs, firike,then theenemy is ready tocharge,and then the Lord deli - 'fi:diceret vers ; He fhall deliver from the fword in the hand, or out of the pugmvaluer handofthe fword. So Pfal 127. 4. Children of thy youth are as for manus glu. arrosves in the band of the mighty, that is, as arrowes ready to be Lys agir n .r Phot. And Pfal. r49. 6. Let the high praires of God be in their d4 ronfrate moesthes, and a two-edged fword in their hands ; noting a6 ual re- vib ntes Venges taken on the enemies ofGod, and atual prailes given to vaber" the name of God, at the fame time. So then, the meaningofthefè words, Heß all deliver thee from thepower ofthefword, or cut of thehand ofthe ¡word, is this, fop- potè thou art in filch a condition that the fwcrds are drawn a= bout thyeares;and'thou art in the midis ofa thoufand:deaths'aaad dangers, in the very heat ofa battelr yet then the Lord God can and willdelivex_theea And:
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