:f6 0 F A M 'E T 0 N y M y 0 F T ll E ADJu N c T. Book I. 2 Cor. v. 11. Knowing Tov ~-~"the Fear of the Lord, that is, the terrible Judgment of the Lord. An ACTION is put for its Objefl, E xod. xv. 2. '/he T,crd is my Strength and Praife, that is, the God whom I praife, and who is the Scope or Argument of my Song.– The like we have, Pfal. cxviii. I4· expounded, Verfe I5, 16. Jer. xvii. I4· The Pro– phet calls the Lord his Praijc, that is, the ObjeCt of his Praifc anrl Thankfaivino-, for his great Goodnefs. See Deut. xxviii. 8. and xii. 7, &c. 1 Sam. i. 27. And th':Lordgave me my Petition, that is, the Thing I afked. So Job vi. 8. 2 'l'heff. i. I 1. Heb. xi. 13· Afls i. 4· Wait for the Promife of the Father, that is, the Holy Sp1rit promifed by the Father. 6. '!'he Sign is put for the Thing.fignified. JN Nouns, Gen. x!ix. '!'he Sceptrejhall not depart from Judah, that is, the royal Au– . thonty. So !fa. XIV. 5· Zech. x. 11, &c. A 'J'hrone IS alfo put for regal Authority, Pfal. lxxxix. 4· And a Crown or Diadtm, Pfal. lxxxix. 39· Ezek. xxi. 26, &c. Unflion is pot for the Prie(lhood, Numb. xviii. 8. Altars for Divine Worfi1ip, I Kings xix. 10. Pfal. xxiii. 4· '!'by Rod and thy Staff comfort me, that is, thy Care and Love towards me ; for a Rod and Staff were a S1gn of Pafloral Care and Office of the Shepherd to his Flock; this is withall an Anthropopathy, whereby God is reprefented a. a Shepherd, and Things relating to a Shepherd amibuterl to him. Pfal. cxl. ~- 'l'hon haft covered my Head in the Day of Arms, fo the B ebrew, that is, in the Day of Battle and Adverfities which Hqflility brings, the Signs and Inflntments whereof are Arms. Pfal. xliv. 6. For I will not tr4f in my Bow, neither jha/1 my Sword fave me, that is, my military Skill, Fortitude, Prudence or Stratagems, of which the Signs and lnftruments of Exercife were a Bow, and a Sword. To which tlie Di,·ine Scrength and Goodnefs is oppofed, Verfe 7· But thou, ·0 Lord, haft faved 11s from our Enemies. So elfewhere a Sword is put for W Jr and hoflile Violence, E xod. xviii. IO. !fa. i. JO. and ii. 4· 2 s~m. xii. 10. L am. V. 9· Ezek. xxi. 3· 4> 9· &c. in which there is alfo a Metony;ny of the organical or inflrumental Caufe, as before. See other Examples, Pfal. cxliv. 11. and Matth. x. 34, &c. * · Matth. xxiii, 2: '!'he Scribes and the Pharifees fit in Mofes' Chair. The Chair of Mofcs A1etonymically olenotes the Power of Teaching, Judging, and Ruling the Peo– ple, of which it was a Symbol; which Things are <xprelfed by the Name of Mojcs, who was inflruCI:ed by God to teach and govern, and who exercif•d both by the Au– thority of God, and left the Rules in Writing for the Poflerity of the Jews to obferve. The Term to fit alfo aptly notes both; for the public Teachers, for the moft Part fat, Mal/h. xxvi. 55· Luke iv. 20. John viii. 2. Af/s xxii. 3· '!'he Judges alfo Jet in a Chair or'l'ribunal, Exod.xviii. 13· Judg. v. 10. Nfat!b.xxvii . I9 From whence to .fit is pm for Ruling and Judging, Pfal. xxix. 9, IO. and ex. t. (See I Cor. xv. 25.) 2'rheff. ii. 4· And whereas the Priefls, Scribes, and l'harifees fat in the Seat or Chair ofMofes, and did conform to the Way of Teaching, and Gdvernment of the People according to the Rule of the Divine Law given by Mofes. Chrijl, Ver. 3· commands Obedience to them;, but gives a Caution to take heed of their Leaven, that is, their falfc Doflrines, and feigned Traditions, as Mat. xvi. 6, I 2. for that did not belong to the Seat of M ofcs, but to the Seat of the Scornful, or Chair of Peftilence, as Jerome renders it, Pfal. i. 1. the Throne of Iniquity. Pfal. xciv. 20, &c. R om. iii. 30. and xv. ~- Col. iii. I I. The Jews are called theCircumcifion brcaufe that was the Sign whereby they were diflingui!bed from other NAtions ; and the Gentiles .are. called the Ilncircumcifiun, b<caufe it diflinguilbed them from the Jews, Gal. ii. 7• 8. Eph. ii. 11. Rom. ii. z6, 27. and iii. 30. Col. iii. -II, &c. In Verbs, fometimes to hide f , Ggnifies to protefl and put in a fafe Place, fometimes to leave or depart from another, for hiding is a Sign of both. Of the former we have Examples, Jobv. 21. Pjal.xxvii.4, 5· and xxxi. 20, 2 1. ancl lxiv. 2 , 3, &c. where there is allo an Anthropopathy, when rhe SiJeech is of GoJ. Of the latrer we have Ex– amples, Gen. xxxi. 49· When we are hid one from a;~otber, fo the H ebrew, that is, when • Gram. Sllcr. p. 283. t Ahfiondtrt. we
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