Chap. 19. AnExpofition upon the Bookof J O B. Verf. 25. 323 ditors tooke their children for their debts, as appeares by the pitiful! complaint of the widdow to the Prophet Elifha ( z Kings 4. I. ) In allufion to which the Lord challenges the ?ewes to name his creditors (if they could) to whom he had fold them : As if he had faid, Iam not in debt to any. man or Nation 'of men, that Ifhould need (as you fometimes doe ) to fell my chil- dren tofree myfelfe ; no, foryour iniquities(as it followes) yeuhave foldyour felver. Now when God fetcheth his people backe a- :gaine, and delivers them from that captivity or mifery into which either he fels them, or they fell themfelves ( though in- deed he never fels them, till they fell themselves) then he is call'd a Redeemer, (ter. 15.21.) Iwill redeeme thee out of the hand ofthe terrible. And in'l fal. 13o. 7. With thee there es plen- teous redemption ; That is, with thee there are many redempti- ons, thoumultiplyeft deliverancesas fait as our troubles multi- ply. ore ftriftly to redeeme, and the Title Redeemer, is applyed to Jefus Chrift To whom alto, I conceive, we may particu- larly apply all thofe works of redemption, which in theOld Teftament are afcribed to God. For he was God the Redeemer from the beginning, long before he was God manifested in the flfn, And all the Redemptions ofhis Church and people from temporali afi&ion, as well as from eternal) damnation, doe properlybelong to him. It rvai ( faith God) by the blood of thy Covenant, that is, by the blond of Christ, with whom God made the Covenant in ourbehalfe, that Godfent forth the prifo- ners ; that is, the captivated Jewel, out of thepit wherein mat no water ; that is, their difconfolate {fate in Babylon, Zech. 9. r In this finer fenfe the word Redeemer, fuites Chrift fully b ayxessus for God lignifies one that is neer to us in confanguinity, one of roximxr mexe, our blond, bone ofour bone,and flefh ofour flefh. Hence an an- cient 7heerlo,;o: Tranflator renders here; I know that my kinfman,or he that Redhrere rff is 'mere to me liveth. And loch were under a fpeciall obligation aerere((ry vin to redeeme. As appeares Ruth 3. 12. andCh: 4th4, 5. where the dreare abquid cafe is let downe between Boas, and the other kinfinen. Boas vct a rnrque vel al:eneFo was a kinfman and had right to redeeme, yet becaufe there was fjrore jure Fro- a neartrkinfman, he would not meddle but upon his refu- finquirarss. fall, As ifbehad laid, you have the firi right, and may make Redernpiroris et ufe ofyour priviledge if you pleafe ; Ifthou wilt redeeme it re- Fero neapux,cr "e n T t z dame ti, a,
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