Chap. 23. An Expnftion IfP.M the Bookdf J O B. Verf. g. 365 hand, in our North, God h irh beenat worke indeed ! Moreover, we find thatMount Sion (which was not onely an eminent part of the literal( ferufalem,but a figure alto of the my - fticall /erufalem, or whole Church of Godunder the Gofpel ( Heb. 12. 22. ) This Mount Sian (I fay ) is Geographically de- fcribed inour Northerly fcituation ( Pf. 48. 2, 3.) Beautiful,' for fcituation, the joyof the whole earth is Mount Sian ; on the fides of the North, the City of the great King. God tff knowne inber palla- cesfor a refuge. As if hehad laid, in Sion, on the fides of the NorthGodworketh wonderfully, as it followes expreffely (y 4, 5,) for lo the Kings were of ernbled.,they pallred by togetker,theyfaro it, and fo they marveiled, they were troubledand hafted away :. that is,Kings confpiring againft the Church were fo terrified with the evidences ofGods power working mightily there, that they fled away, or as another Scripture phrafeth it, They cameone way and returnedfeven.And in this forme of fpeech is both the then yeru- falem,and the Church ever Linceexpreffed,in that boaft which the KingofBabylon(whowas a typeofall theenem:es ofthe Church clothedwith mighty power and foveraignty) m,kesagainft her,_ (Ifa. 14. r 3.) I willfit alto (that is, ere& my throne) sopa n the Mount of the Congregation on thefides ofthe North. Mount Sron was called the Mount of the Congregation,becaufe there the peo- ple of God the ?ewes were famoufly known to congregate often together, and this (faith that proudboafler) on the fries ofthe North. And to compleat this notionof the workings of God in and from the North, Chrift himfelfe rz laid to be raifed one cf the North,For fo fome expound that Scripture (Ifa. 41.2.5 ) I have railed up one out ofthe 7rrh, andhe /ball comefrom the rifzng of the Sun fhald he call upon myname, &c. This prophecy (I fay ) fomeexpound ofChrift, who (hall gather his dïfperfed and de. fpifed ones from all quarters of the world. Thegreateft works of God that ever weredone, Chrift did them ; and therefore the North, may jufly be called the place where he worketh, feeing he railed Chrift fromthence. Secondly, As the words are read thus ; On the left hand while he worketh ; as if lobhad fàid, I look after God on the left hand or in the North, even in the time while he is working, or doing great things, and yet I cannot behold.hiru. Gbferve;;at=
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