Chap. 31. /in Fxpo.fitiou upen ehe B.ke f J 0 K. Vcrf. 3 t. 641 WWI. That God was only thus filled or fati fled with che fa- crifices of that formal and hypocritical! people, appeares plaine ly from the words which follow in the fame verfe, I delight not in the bleed ofbullock!, &c. In the prefect text it imports fining co fatisfaaion ; The men of 7.b! Tabernacle could not be fatisficd without the fief of his enemies, ob complainedof his friendsfevtrity or cruelty rather to him. Idle in this language ( Chap. 19, 25 22.) Have pity up:n me, have pity upon me, 0ye myfriend!, for the hand of god bath tou- chedme ; And it feemes, they had more then touched him, for it follows; Why dueyeeperfecate note as 9,d, and are rot lati.tfitd ith ny flefh In what fence 74., friends were not fatisfied with his flefh, kathbeen {hewed in the expofiiion upon that Chapter, and in what fence the men ofhis tabernacle fayd, theycould not be fatisfied without the flefh of his enemies, bath, been fhewed the prefent expofition, whichwe may recolle& into this briefe Par;tphrafe. As if 7,4 had fad,/never fought revenge upan mine enemies,though I had thofe mere note who ceafed not to urge me to it. The men of my tabernacle, my truflieft fervants and enefl intimate acquaintance were foenraged at my wrong, that they pr fer'd their fervice to right me, and if Ihadbut given the word, or held up my finger, they wouldhave done it to thefull. Ineedednot to hire affaf. finale!, nor bribe any with premrfei or reward, to undertake my quarrel ; I had cone to appearefor me_unask:d andundefired a yea I had much adoe to quiet theirfpirits,and command them to hold their hands, when I heard them cryingout,0 that we had of his fl/h, we -cannot befatkfied. From this Interpretation Of the text, as it imports the incite- ment or provocationwhich 766 had from the men ofbh taberna- c1e; whether friends or fervancs to avenge himfelfe by their hands upon chore that hated him, or had done him wrong. We may °Verve ; meat men feldeme want fa.Cka bout them as are ready io prove e and fet.them on ta doe efpecially to potere.out revengrs up- on their advtrfaries. As Satan is never,wanci rig to fii: re up- that p,ffion himfelfe, fo he feldome wants Inftturnents to doe it. David was a holy and a good man, and he,no donbt,tuade the belt chOrce hecould n n n both '
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