Part i. ciF A METONYMY oF THE Ao;uNcT 2J '!'he END or lafl: time is put for Reward, which is wont to be given when one has done his \\'ork, as Prcv. xxiii. 18. and xxiv. I4, 20. Jer. xxix. 1 I. So 1Pet. i. 9 . Receivi11g the +o n>.i!)y, the End ofJOUr ~Faith, even the Salvation ofyour Souls, which the Syriac renders Reward, or Retribution. But this Reward given by God is not a Debt but of free Grace and Mercy, becaufe a merited Reward or Wages mutt bear Prop~rtion to the Service done; but no Service of ours can bear Proportion to ever– lafl:ing Life and Happinefs; fo that It necetranly follows, that the Reward 1s purely of Grace. PEAS'!' is put for the Sacrifice, \vhich is offered upon the Fea.ft-Day, as Exod. xxiii. 1 s. ']'hou jhalt not offer the Blood of my Sacrifice with leavened Bread, neither jhall the ·• ·Fat of my Fea.ft remai;z zmtil the Nlorning, that is, the Fat of the Lamb to be facrificed, or of the Sacrifice of my Feafl:, as Junius and 'l'remellius render it. As alfo the Chaldee. So !fa. xxix. 8. Let, them kiU [Fea.fts,] that is, as we tranOate it, Sacrifices. See Mal. ii. 3.--Pja!. cxv111. 27. Bznd the [Fea.ft] fo the Hebrew, w1th Cords, even unto the Horm ofthe Altar, that is, the Sacrifice of the Fealt or Ftll:ivaiDay, &c. '!'he PASSOVER is put fot the Lamb which was dairi and eaten on that Fefiival in Memorial of the Deliverance from Egypt, Exod. xii. 21. And kill the PaJJover, that is, thePafcha!Lamb. zChron.xxx.17. Nlarkxiv. 12, 14. Matth.xxvi. 17, 18, '9· Luke Xxii. 8, r 1, 13, IS• SUMMER is put for Sur,zmer Fruit, !fa. xvl. 9· Jer. xi. I b. Amos viii. I. :i Sam. xvi. 2. For in thefc Places the Hebrew is only Summer. HARVES'f is put for Fruit gathered in the Time of Harvelt, Exod. xxiii. ro. Deut, xxiv. '9· !fa. xvi. 9· Joel. iii. ,g, It is o!Jo p-ut for the Reaper, !fa. xvii. 5· which we tranOate Harvefi-man. 4· '!'he Opinion of Men is put for the Thing itfelf. J N Holy Scripwres fometimes Things are named and defcribed according to Appear– ance or Men's Opinion (tpatYOf.J.fiiW) xaJ xaTa doEciv) arrd nor, c~1et TO ElllafJ xaJ ttA?J9EJet11) as they are, in their owll Nature. This happens. (1.) ln fingle Words, as Nouns and Verbs. (2.) ln a conjuhtl: Phrafe. In Nouns, 1 Sam. xxviii. 14, 15, 16, 20. That Diabolical jpetlrum or Apparition taifed by the Witch of Endot in the Likenefs of Samuel, is called Samuel, becaufe he falfely gave out that he was Samuel, and the deluded SpeCtators thought him fo. Hana– niah is called a Prophet, Jer. xxviii. I, 5, 10. nor that he was truly fo, but fo reputed. It is faid, Ezek. xxi. :; . I will tut offfrom thee the Righteous and the Wicked, whereby Righteous are meant Perfons that were only fo in Appearance, having an external Form: of Righteoufnefs which begat the good Opinion of Men, but with Relpeft to God's No– tice that knows the inward Frame of the Heart, to be unjound, that is, to be unrighte– ous, Mt<tth. viii. 12. The Jews are called the Children of the Kingdom, becaufe they feemed to be fuch, and Chrift lays, Matth. ix. I 3. I am not come to call the Righteous, (viz. fuch as are fo in their own Eyes), but Sinners to Repentance. Lukexviii; 9· Rom, x:z, 3, &c. Luke ii. 48. Jofeph is faid to be the Father ofJefus (and Verfe 41. he is faid to be his Parent) becaufe he was thought to be fo by Men which is expreffiy faid Luke iii. 23. See ]ohn vi. 42.-1 Cor. i. 2 I. It pleafed God by the Foolijhnejs of Preaching to Jave them that believe-Verfe 25. Becaufe the Foolijhnejs of God is wifer than Men, &c. Where Preacbing of the Gofpel, &c. is called Foolijhnejs, not that it was really (o, but becaufe the worldly Wife reputed it fo, as Verfe 18. viz. To teach Salvation by tbe Crojs, to Jeek Life in Dellth, and Glor;; in Dijgra:e, which the carnal Worldling thought Folly, as Verfe 23. 'l'h~
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