i5.6 Chap. o. An Ex p o I tionu p on the Bbo o f J'o 13. WerC, t Thus old Babylon and Chaldea are terrified, Ifa. 47. I. Come- down andfit in theduft, 0 virgin daughter of Babylon, ate. Why- fo ? Babylon had let fo long upon a throne, that (he knew not how to think of fitting ni the.dull, yet the muff ; for verfe 3..d., will take vengeance, and Iwill not meet-thee asa man : How then ? Lwill meet thee as if -1 were a beaer, or Lyon, Thou {halt finds no kindeofhumanity at all fromme, not only- notthe. kindnef fes and mercies of a God, but not fo much as the kindefs and`° mercy ofa man: Thus-the Lord met with that literall Bàbylon, and foot lafi he will meet with myffical Babylon. And as he will''x be to all his proud enemies,adeft roying.and devouring Lyon : fo he appearethoften. to his own people, he faith even to Jerufalem, and toZion, I will not meet you as a mane when yoteare carnall and walka: men. The ufual dealings, of God with his people are full of- compafion, In meafure,(peokpeck) when itJhiioteth (or when thou fendeffit) forth, thou 'wilt debate with it, Ilefayetlihis rough-winde in the day.ef.the, Eaft-winde I.fa. 27_. 8:: He will nor bluffer againft, and form his people, when theirenemies fora againft them;he.alfo meafures outtheiratfliC ions,and marks what is fit and proportionate to their firength, and, for their good, as a Phyfitian meafures. and. weighsall the ingredients, which he . mingles in.a' potion for his ticklPatient : fo the next words inti- mate,By this ther.eforefhall the iniquity ofJacob bepurged,and this isall thefruit to take away hisfin.Yet atanother timehe affliEteth without meafure, as ifhe intended to kill rather then to cure,and take away their lives, rather then to take away, their fins. I grant hisgreatetl afifionsare as exactly--meafured and weighed as the leaif.Ged knowsro an hairs breadth,the length and bredth, and to a graine the weight and burden ofthe longeft, broadef1-, and weigh deft afflidion: but when he astiLdsgrealy, heisfaid toafflict without . meafure, becaufe things immeafurable, or; which cannot eaGly-bemeafured, are very great. And ifever the Lord afflicted any of his(in this fenfe)without n eafure,furelyhe afflicted lab fo, who thus cries out, Thou buntef me-like afierce 3211I !yon. ?trsdir,lfcer Andagain tbaußhewefl thy feltmarvellous (or avonderfull upon mee) eliguantifper emirates tarnen- Again. ¡bairn redis, We render it as an.Adverb ; - others, as a Verb, 7hdu returneft; &c. and(be:veil thyfelfsionderrfitlyupon me; The fence is the fame in both_
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