Chan. 18. e/in ..xpoftion upon the Tooker of J o .IZ. Verf. 16. fume them. Asit fpeakes perfe& mercy when both roote and branch profper. (2King. 19. 30. ) And that remnant that f1,.0 efcaoe of the hotsfe of fudah Jba1l -gaine tare root downward, and bearefruit upward ; So it fhewes the comploatneffeof a judge- ment, when there fnall be neither roote nor branch. The bran- ches ofman, are whatfoever man puts forth, to (hew his excel- lency or verrues, his pompe and fplendour by. Some interpret branches for children. So they arecalled, rfal. 127. Thy children fball be as Olive brancher, &c. And then his branches (hall be cut off, is, his children and pofteritie (hall be cut off. This alto argues the greatneffe ofthe judgement. Others by branches, underftand his aleffres aced, or thework he had begun, and put forth : The motions and puttings forth ofa mans ipirit in at-lions, are like ehe branchesof a tree : The thoughts of man in the Hebrew are expreffed by a word which lignifies the boughs of a tree : the fruits which our thoughts fhoot,bloffome, and bring forth, are our actions. Thus as the wicked mans root, his plots aid deli gnes (hall be fpoyled below fo the branches which fhoot out from him into a&ion , (hall be broken off; and God will fay to this man, as aria to theFigge- tree, ( blat. 21. 19.) Neverfruitgrow on thee more. The rootfball' be dryed up beneath, and the branches fhai!be cut ofabove: Some underftand thismoxe literal] y, his root andhis 'branch es, that is, his trees (hall beare no fruit, . or he !ball be deprived of their fruit ; the eftate which he bath abroad in the feild,his lands, and woods, his Gardens and plantations fhall be defrayed i ac- cording to that ( Dent. 2.8. 16. ) Curled f .art thou'be in thefield that. is, thy cattell (hail mifcarry, thy corne and fruits (half wi- ther or as we may apply that-of theProphet ifaialy( which is fpoken (f conceive ). ofshe generall confumption which fhould come urea that people and their poferitie) to this particular judgement of fpoyling all thehopes of fruit in the feild.(Cirap: 5. 24. ) Tiuerefone as the fire devoureth thefiubble; andthe flame con- fumeth,the chaff', ro their root;,hall be rotterznes, and their irlofome jhall goe up as dull. The mote, is fruit (inpotentia remeta) at a elifiance, the bloffome is fruit.( enpot entia,presenta) at next doore, or the immediate antecedent of fruit ; the Prophet to (hew that thee was nohope offruit retraining, fbewes"that,both .their re- moteacid,neereít hopeoffrtait, f aouist,be rel ao ed<:: Henm brihi?'tmnperíe bit ë rebtu, irn pii, pPrrbtt quo lotti (rcdix j et quocjlerninet. ram*.
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