Chap.2g. (.,ln Expofition upon the Book of Jo Verf. 13. 523 DOE doing thisgood, thisbleiled work, the deliverance of thole who are ready to !mid,. This Magitirates fhuuld doe by their' power, breaking the jaws of the wicked (as we fh:ii fee 'Pt' did) who vex and over-power the innocent. And this infeiiors lliould doe either by tedifying or pctitionin; for them to the Migittrare. Flow noble and famous a '',,work was that of Efther, who vet cured h'er own perifhing, to petition the King , when the jugs wer e ready to pe.itli through the malicious fuggejtions of Haman, (Eft. 7. 3, 4, ) If Ihave foundfavour in thy fight 0 King, and ifit pleafe the King, let my life be givenme at my petition, and mypellc at my requeft ; for we are fild, I and my people: to be eleftroyed to be flaw; and to peri fh, &c. Such aI o was that nßî of E6ed- Mclecb the Ethe-p:as, in petitioning for the deliverance of Jere- miah tñ Prophet, who upon (Inc :accufations was cad into the Dungeoc, and there ready to peri(b, or as char. good Eunuch told the Kits; like to dye for huno,er (jer. 38. 7, 8, 9.) Flow were." the children of Ifraelbecome (aa the Lord calls them for their dc- eIersre wailtings, AIM 9, 7.) Ai children of the Ethilia:ís, how black and fwarrhy did they look, with wrath and choler, while they coty P opher to be cad into the Dungeon ? And how like',,.trae Ifraelite indeed, in whom there ù no guile, did this Ethiopiar.<lcok, while in pity and compafsiton to the perilhing P? o^hec,he ob anned his releafe f:otn that (linkingmiry dungeon? Bac abave`all bieffed,foc ever blasted (hall that work of the Lords f ::v ace ,nd mercy calied, who by one a& laved m1 lions of Hæcdivmatca 1o,, t` << au verlafting p°rifhing(foh, 3,16,)God fo loved theworld, tenrrae lgregd_ t,'at rc.,gat.e hi only begotten son,that whofsever beleiveth on him rim et puhlice, tnl ht not perifil, brut'-have everlaftinglife ; nor is the Lord for - ,Jervarenuitoi, asten occidere gatfu1 colave poor ones final temporal perifhiàg (Pfal. 9, r r.) inrerdijac ere The fihhiing of the pr, f ner comes before him, and according to the in epotenria greatreffe of his potter, he preferveth thole that are appointed to eft,Fetentia a; á)e. Thirdly, Obferve; It is the du y of thole that have been delivered cat of a perifhirg condition, to Rife their deliverers. It is their duty co bids their deliverers , both as to blelle im, plyes thankfulrefs to them , and prayer for them. Deliverance fromp:tithing is the flronge(+ obligation to thankfgiving ; if ÿevet X x x 2 we
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