Part I. P R 0 S 0 P 0 P E 1 A. 95 cerned by the Eyes. And fo they that are born again, are not now acruated by a human and carnal Spirit, but by the Spirit of God who quickens, and governs all Things. See Rom. viii. 22. To this Clafs belong fame Notms, and fome Verbs. I. NOUNS, as when Arrowf are called the Sons of the ff!Jtiver, Lam. iii. '3· be– caufe they lie hid there, as a Child in the Womb, Pfal. cxxvii. 3, 4· So Sparkles are called Sons of bur;zing CMis, Job. v. 7· (for in both Places the Hebrew is fo.) A 'J'ongue is afcribed to Fi1·e (!fa. v. 24.) and Flame, becaufe offome Similitude betwixt a Toncrue and the tapering Flame. See ACls ii. 3· A 'l'ongue is alfo attributed to the Sea, "'yojh. xv. · 2, 5· which is to be underfl:ood of a Bay in Form like a Tongue. So the 'l'ongue of the Egyptia;cSea, lfa. xi. I5· is a certain Bay or River, &c. The (ob– loner) Wedge which :Achan took, is called, in the Hebrew, a 'l'ongue of Gold, Jojh. vii.'; 1. AHand is attributed to a Sword, Job v. 20. To a Flame of Fire, Ifa. xlvii. I4. To Hell, Hof xiii. I4- by which (as in our Tranflation) their Power is imderftood. The Beginning of a Party-way is called the .Mother, and Headof the Way, Ezek. xxi. 21. 2. VERBS, Bread is laid to be gone away, when it is fpent, I Sam. ix. 7· See Rev. · xviii. I4. A City is faid to cry, Ifa. xiv. 31. So is a Stone, Habak. ii. I 1. '!'he Hire of Laborers defrauded, Jam. v. 4· which denotes the Grievoufnefs of the Sin or Pu– nifhment. See Luke xix 40. 'l'o eat, is afcribed tO conf!oning Fire, L evit. x. 2. Job i. 16. Nab. iii. I5· To the deflroying Sword, 2 Sam. ii. 26. !fa. i. 20. Jer. ii. 30. And to a Landor R egion, Numb. xiii. 33· either becaufc being hard it wafted Men's Strength in Tilling, or becaufe of the Unwholefomenefs of the A ir. To heal, cure, 'or revive is put for repairing decayed Buildings, I Chron. xi. 8. 2 Chron. xxiv. I 3· Neh. iv. 2. I Kings xviii. 30. Healing is put for Blejfrng the Land, 2 Cor. vii. I4. Pfal. lx. 3, 4· For making the \Vaters wholfome, 2 Kings ii. 2I, 22. Ezek. xlvii. 8. See more Ex– amples, •Gen. xviii. 10, I4. xxiii. I6. Cant. v. 5· Jer. xxiii. 9· and v..28. &c. 5· Sometimes Kingdolizs, Pr9Vinces and Cities (which are, as it were, incorporate Bodies) are fpoken ol~ as if they were a jingle Perfon, as (1.) The People in general, as Ifa. i. 5, 6. expounded Verfe vii. 8, 9· Deut. xxxiii. 12. Ifa. vii. 20. viii. 8. and xxx. 28. lid. (2.) Of the whole People more fpecially, b~t lefs frequently, Lam. iii. r. Ifa. vii. 20. (3.) Of a whole City theScripturefpeaks as of a Woman, Ifa. xxxii. ix. An evident Example of this Profopopeia you will find, !fa. i. and Lam. ii. See alfo !fa. xxxii. I I. with Verfe 9· Hence the People of the J ews are propofed as a faithlefs and adulterous Woman, Jer. iii. 1, 3, 4· and iv. 30. Ezek. Chap. xvi. and 23. By which the Conjunc– tion of the Church with God is compared to human Wedlock . God himfelf is propofed in this Allegory as the Hufband, the Commonwealth of Ifrael as the Mother, out of which fprung the two Kingdoms of Ifrael and Juda, which are compared with Daughters, (Ezek. xxxii. 2. '!'here were two Women the Daughters of one Mother, Verfe 3· and they committed Whoredoms in Egypt) And when they were efpoufed in a Covenant– way to God, they moft wickedly forfook him, and committed frequent Adulteries, &c. for they are fpiritual Adulteries and Whoredoms which Jehovah [o often reprehends and detefts by his Prophets, when joined by Impenitence, Exod. xxxiv. 15, 16. Deut. xxxi. 16. Judg. ii. I7- !fa. i. 21. and lvii. 3· Nab. iii. 4, &c. !fa. xxiii. I5, 16, I7- (4-l The Name of Mother is attributed to a City, 2 Sam. xx. I 9- by which the chief or metropolitan City is underftood, from whence the reft derive their Original, and owe Subjecrion to, Jof xvii. 16. Numb. xxi. 2 5· Judg. xi. 26. 2 Sam. viii. I . The whole People of God are called Mother, lfa.l. r. Hof ii. 2. Becaufe it begets or ought to beget fpirittl.tl Sons to God. Hence it is tranflared to the heavenly Jerafalem, the New 'Ieflament Church, Gal. iv. 26. . (5·) TheName of Daughter and Virgin, is often attributed to aPeopleor City, either diftinaly or conjunt'l:ly, Pfal. xlv. 12. and cxxxvii. 8. Daughter of Babylon, is put f{Jr the Kingdom of Baby/on, fo Lam. i. 6. and i. 2, &c. Daughter of Sion, for the Peo– ple of the Jews, and hence, Lam. ii. 2. She is called the Daughter of Juda. So Zecb. ix. 9· Ifa. i. 8. x..>2 · xvi. 1. xxxvii . 22 . Jer. iv. n. vi. 2. Micah. iv. 10, 13. Zeph. iii. 10. 14, &c. .So [ht Virgin of Ifrad, ']er. xxxi. 4, 21. Amos v. 2 . Sometimes Jlirgin and Daughter are joined, as !fa. xxiii.12. ~xxvii. 22. xlvii. 1. Jer. x:vi. I'· I. When
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