Chap. 2 2. e.rsfn Expofition upon the $oaÄ. of ?. O B. ; 289 full difpenfations ofGod. Thewicked whether high of low, are farre from faluation, but God knowes how to make a d?i$ir;c`bnn between the humbleand the proud, when his wrath m greateft co;;fufions in the world. Humility it is not only a (wet, but a f fegrace, yea afavingGrace;we never gar under the C.',vrrt of gj. od :o much as when we walkhumbly with God ; He vigil/ lave .äbf humble perfon. Verf. 30: He f all deliver the Ifland ofthe Innocent, and it is deliver'd by the purenefs of thine hands. The promife is continued to the man that returns to God, He 'hat' deliver the fl xn:i of the innocent ; or as tome tran it te, the Innocent /hall deliver the Ill end. The fence is the fame ; He /hall deliver the Ifl.nd, thatis, the Inhabitants ofthe 'Eland; All thall be fafe,the Ifland and they that dwell in it.. There is another readingof the Texr,which yet falls in fully and clearly wish this; whereas we read, He 'halldeliver the Iflandofthe Inn,cont,tt may abit noxl- be read, He /hall deliver him that is not Innocent. Now becaufe ram. Pit-C. this may f'erne a very wide difference in the tranflation, we are to Conldor the ground of it, how this can be madeour, that the fame text fhould be. rendred,theInnocerit,and him that is not I.>,no- cent? "fhe reaíon is becaufe the wordwhich we tranflate,1fland, is taken by manyof the HebrewDo&ors,as aifo byother traufla. h1CCrn dirun tors, onely fora negative particle, fignifying not or that which is f ¡a, (e; valet not. So the word is rendred (r Sam. 4.21.) when Phineas his gxod Pi'1non. wifedying in travel! gave the name to her Childe, fhe Paid, He Yifc. fhallbe called Ichabod There is no glory, or, not glory. And again Eg° `rs vete't- ' +b , peo ne. (Pro. 31. 4.) The word is ufed in the fame fence; It i, not forgo ,0.1,eexonee Kings 0 Lemuel, to drinke mine ; /%rang drinke k notfor Princes. ré. Erity; fe14- So here, Thou(halt deliver the neeent, or the not Innocent. And fo InfenJus,tc.de. the whole verle is thus trantlated ; God, becaufe oforfor thepure ua purïtaaC ma. ne(s ofthy hands ,re nonnedam will deliver the nocent, or thole who are io- n;urn tuaratnt nocenté, cent. Whereas we fay, Thou/halt deliver the Ifland of the Irmo- cent, or the Innocent /hall deliver the lHand. to n liberabit, And it le delivered by thepurenefr of thine hands. &tcrc. Eliphaz fpakebefore in the third perfon, here in the fecond ; 'cis probable he did fopurpofely tomake lob ,underftand that he P p meant
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