66 AN A N T H R 0 P 0 P A T H Y. Book I. his Abomination of Iniquity, as Verfe 14. _Your New-!11oons, and your appoimed Feafts my Soul hateth, which is intimated by theft Phralt:s of human Abhorrence. Something alfo of loofened or disjointed Members, after the Manner of Men is ami– buted to God, as ']er. vi. 8. Be thou inft;·ufted, 0 ']erufa!em, left my Soul be loofmed ~ or disjointed from thee, fo the Hebrew; that is, kit atrcr the Manner of a Me:nber that is broken, or out of Joint, it depart from, or be feparatc from thee, and thou as a £l:range Member be cut off, or divided from me. Ezek. xxiii. 18. She difwJered her Whoredoms, and difeovered her Nakedntft; then nry JYiilzd was, VPl11 disjointed from her. By this Phrafe the Communion of God t with Believers is mo£1: e::cellently exprelfed; for if for their wilful and contumacious Rebel– lions God departs from them, the Head is, as it were, fepamted or plucked off the pu– trilied Members, as the Lord by a like iYletaphor, fpeaks to the wicked Synagogue, ]er. xv. 6. For thot1 haftforfaken me, faith tbe L ord, thatt art gone backward : 'J'herefore will I ftretch out my Hand againft thee, and dt.ftroy thee, I am ·weary with Repenting. Much and great were the Forbearance and Patience of God, before this Delenion, which is indeed the filling the Meafure of Iniquity fpoken of, Gm. xv. 16. Matt. xxiii. 32. To thef" P,·i'cati"oes in Man may be referred DifeafeJ, by which is fignified the Punilh– rnent of Sin, which Chrift bore in our Stead, !fa, liii. 4, 10. fuitable to Hof xiii. 14· 1will ranfom tbem from the Power of the Grave: I will redeem them from Death : 0 Death, I will be thy Plcgues! 0 Grave I will be thy De.ftrufJiou ! Repentance /hall be hid from mine Eyes. Thus he fpeaks with Refpeft to his facerdotal or priel1:1y Office, as Heb. ii. 14. Forafnzucb as the Children are made Partakm of Flejh and Blood, he alfo himfelf took Part of the fame, tbat tbraugh Death he might de.ftroy him that had the Power of Death, that is, the Devil. · (2.) With RefpeCl: to his prophetical Office, 2 'I'im. i. 10. Becaufe by the Cofpel he bath abolifhed DetJth, and bral!ght Life -and Immortality to light: For he £l:rongly defends his Church, fo as that the Gates of Helllhall not preva~l again£1: it, and I Cor. xv. 26.. '!'he !aft Enemy that foal! be deftro;•ed is Death. Here is a moO: cvidmt Symbol of the RefurreCI:ion, as ']tmius and 'l'remelliuJ upon the Place. righrly conclude. Paul upon rhefe Words of liofea, I Cor. xv. 55· thus fpeaks, 0 Death, ·where isthy Sting? 0 Grave, where is thy f/ifJory? &c. Of the fece>nd Sort of Mens Actions, which are afcribed to God, there may a Dif– tinCl:ion be made, viz. fuch as are internal, and fuch as are external. The internal are with RefpeCl: to the diverfe States, Ciccum£l:ances, or Conditions of Men; and fo God is faid to·be a HUSBANDM//Nt,; that is,(jj•necdochical£y) af/iue-dref!er,']ohn'xv. 1. The Reafon of th~ Comparifon follows in the next Ver!es, and is largely expounded, !fa. v. and Matt. xx. &c. Cbri.ft, who is the hypo£l:atical vVifdom of God, and his eternal Son, calls himklf a Workman, when he fpeaks of the Creation, Cant. vii. 1. For by him were all 'J'hings made, and without him was natbing made that was made, Johll i. 3· Col. i. 16, &c. So God is faid to be the BUILDER§ and .lvlaker ofa City, which bath Foundations, lleb. xi. 10. tlut is, the Caufe, Fountain and Author of eternal Life and heavenly Joy. So he is called a JvfAN ofWAR, Exod. xv. 3· from that Almighty Work of his overwhelming and drowning Pharaoh with his Egyptian Ho£1:. Befides in vVars waged amono- Men, he is the chief Gene; a!, and Captain, giving ViC\ory to whom he pleafes, and fc~ttering, rooring, or ddtroying whQn1 he plc::afts. See Pfal. xlvi. and lxxvi, &c. Chri.ft is called a Counfellar, !fa. ix. 6. with Refpect to his mo£1: wife Decree in re£l:oring Salvation, at whofe D1fpofal it was, 1 'l'im. i. 9· Who bath f awd us, and called us witb an baly Calling, not· according to our i-YorkJ, but according to hiJ a<on Purpoje and Gmce which was giwn us in Chrijt ']efus, before the ff/orld begau. Likewife with Ref{>ect to his moft holy Office, in manifdling the Divine Wil! to our Capacities in Order w Salvation, and his Obedience to the Farh~r, &c. The Lord is called a Phyjician, Exod. xv. 26. becaufe he frees Men from all Perils of Souls, and Bodies (which are frequently t Junizu. § ·nx,:h~~ ~ecu ~'t.fHWf')'(;) artiftx f.j conditor. compared
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