s OF A METONYMY OF THE CAUSI!:. Book !. ~nd xx. 20. and xxii. 9· N umb. xiv. 33· Ezek. xxiii. 35, 49~ and xviii. 20. and other Places. WORK is put for its R eward, Lev. xix. 13. ['I'he Work ofhim that is hired] fo the Hebrew, jhall not abide with thee all Night, until the Moming. Jer. xxii. 13. Rev. xiv. I 3· 'That they may re.ft from their Labors, and their Works .follow them. Sometimes it is put for the Merit of the Work, R.om. xi. 6. And if by Grace, then it is no .more of W•r-ks ; otherwife Grace is no more Grace. But if it be of Works, then it is no mort Grace; otherwife Work is no more Work, here Grace and Work, that is to fay, Merit, are oppofed to each other. DIVINA'l'ION or Augury oop is put for the Price and Reward of it, Numb. xxii. 7.' 'And, 'The Divinations c·;~op were in their Hands, that is, as in our Tranfiation, the .Rewards of Divination, which were to be given to Balaam. L abor ;, put for the Profit or Fruit it produces, Deut. xxviii. 33· All thy Labors jhall a Natio11 which thou knowe.ft not, eat up. Pfal. Jxxviii. 46. He gave their L abor unto the Locufl. Pfal. cv. 44· 'They inherited the Labor of the People. Pfal. cxxviii. 2. For thou jhalt eat the Labor of thine Hands. Prov. v. 10. Eccl. ii. '9· Ifa. xlv. •4· Jer. iii. 24. 'Ezek.xxiii. 29. HUN'TING is put for Venifon, got by Hunting, Gen. xxv. 28. And lfaac loved Efau becaufe he did eat of his Hunting, that is, his Venilon. See Gen. xxvii. 3· So much of Nouns, there are fame Metonymies in Verbs, as Vctbs of Knowing, and fuch as betoken Af[eftion or OperatiQn, of which kind arc, Verbs that fignify to know, which befides the bare 'l''""'• or knowing, denote the Motions, AffeCtions and EffeCts, that are joined with Knowledge, as Pfal. xc. 11. Who knoweth the Power of thine Anger? that is, who confiders, or regards the Power of ·thine Anger? fo as to awake .from the Sleep of Sin, and ferioufiy to repent? Ifrael doth not know, &c. Ifa. i. 3· that is, conlfders nor, nor takes Notice of the Bleffings the Lord gave it. Jer. viii. 7· Luke xix. 41. John viii. 43• Why do ye not know my Speech, that is, approve it, and with a faithful Affent receive it? The Anfwer of Chrift (giv– ing the Reafon of this) follows, viz. Evm becaufe ye cannot hear my Words, that is, fo ·underO:and them, as to embrace and clofe with them, for rhrough the Devil's blinding of you, and your wilful Choice, ye are of your Father the Devil, and the Lujls of yaur Fatherye will do. 'l'o KNOW, is put for Approbation, as R.om. vii. 15. For that which I do, I [know not] that is, as our Tranilation harh it, allow not, R.e·v. ii. 24. But unto you I fay, and unto the re.ft in 'Thyatira, as many as have not this Doflrine, and which have not known the Depths qf Satan (that is, have not approved of his Snares and deep Temptations). To be CONSCIOUS fignifies more than barely to know, which differ as much as Knowledge and Confcience, as Pfal. xxxv. 11. Falfe Witnejjes did rife up, aud they <"jl:ed me 'Things that I knew not, that is, of which I am not confcious to myfelf, as Pfal. li. 3· becu,~tfe I know mine Iniquities, and my Sin is e·ver before me. Where the Prophet includes the ·Terror of Confcience, and ferious Contrition. 2 Cor. v. 21. It is faid, He (that is, Gad ·the Father) bath made him, (that is Chrift) to be Sin for us, who knt"<IJ 110 Sin, that is, who was not guilty of any Sin, for he was moft perfeCtly holy, and without Sin-fo 'that he was made Sin in this Senfe, viz. the Father imputed our Sins to him accord– ing to Ifa. Jiii. 6. and the Lord harh laid on him the Iniquity of us all, or hath made the Iniquities of us all to meet on him, &c. 'To Know is put for Ejlimation, or Judgment of any Thing with RefpeCt to its Value or Worth, as 2 Cor. v. 16. Henceforth know we no Matt after the Flejh, that is, we do not value or cfteem any Man for external Things, as Riches, Poverty, Honor, Dif– grace, legal Privileges, &c.-after which follows, Yea, thougb we have known Chri.ft ·after the Flejh, )'el now hencefortb we kno·w him, (viz. that way ) no more; he !peaks of the Eftimation of Chrift carnally or in a flelhly Way, viz. in that Stare of Humility, 'wherein he was placed during his fojourning here-for in that RelpeCl: we !hall know him no more, but in his State of Exaltation, Grace and Glory, we fual! know, that is, ~alue,
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