Chap.t5. _ An Expofttionupon the Book of J O B. Verf.27. 149 paralel with what thole great voices laid after the feventh Angel had founded ( Revel. r r . is.) The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord,and of his Chrif, and be(hall reignfor ever and ever ; and when this (hall be,faith- David (Pfal.22. 5,ó.) Then all they that be fat upon the Earth, (Meat, andworjhip ; that is, the great ones shalt fubmit to Chrift ; his Kingdom fhall be inl.:rged, and not only the poor, who are defcribed in the latter part of that Verle in the Pfalm, under the name and Notion of fuch , as go down to the duff, but the rich (hall receive the Gofpel. Kings and Queens, perlons of Authority and Wealth , (hall come to the partici- pation of the Grace of Chriti ( Ifa, 6o. 3,1o.) They who have their bellies full of the meat that peritheth , (hail have their Souls full of that meat which endures to everlafting life, (Pfal.q.5.t2.) The rich among the people; What people? The fiefs words of the Verle tells us, he means the Tyrians, who were a wonderful rich people (Ifa.23. 8. Ezek. 27.) and the Tyrians are here put by a Synecdoche for all other Hea- thens; for though Tyre, were a City in the Tribe of Afee (jo(h. 19, 29.) yet it was at that time poffeffed by the Hea- thew. Now, faith the Pfalmiti , The rich among the(epeople ,,shall intreat thy favour : That is, the Churches favour. God will work their hearts to an earnefi defireofadmitfion into the fociety ofthe Saints , and to.live under aprofe(fed fubjedion to the Gofpel of jefus Chri(i, whohave abounded in worldly poflief ions, and hold the world in fubjedion to their power 7hefe rich andfat ones among thepeople (hall intreat thyfavour. This Prophefie was in part-fulfilled (()Wark:3. S.) where we we read of great multitudes from. Tyre and Sidon flocking af- ter Chrifi :..So that it is not riches and fatnefs precifely conC- dred, but the intendingof our skin, or our fiudioufnefs to fill our felves with earthlydelicates , which (hews we have weak . appetites to, or rather a loathingofthe things of Heaven. Secondly, This covering the face with fat, is here prefented by Eliphaz as a caufe oroccafion at leafs of the wicked . mans arming himfelf againft Goda &norumar Hence Obferve. bundant =a That an evil bears turns she hidings of God, into rebellion a- rtoum omnivar:, auateriamfub- gainf birn ; The Jews were thus charged (Deut. 32. r 5.) rntnif(rat, jefurutt,
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