Part I. : AN ANT H R 0 P 0 P A T H Y. 43 feeketh) the Eyes of the Lord thy God are always t~pon it, from the Begimzing of the rear, even unto the End of the rear- that is, he gracioufly cherifltes, takes care for and de– fends it, 1 Kings ix. 3· 1 have hallowed this Houft which thou haft built, to put m.J' Name there fo1' e-ve~·, a;zd mine Eyes and mine Heart Jhall be there perpetually- that ts, my Prefence and Bieffing fhall be there with you. 2 Chron. xvi. 9· For the Eyes of the Lord run to and ft'o throughout the whole Earth, to jhew himfelfftrong in the Behalf of them whoft Heart is perfefl towards him- and Ezra v. 5· '!'he Eye of their God was upon the Elders of the Jews, &c. that is, they are un<;ler his Care and gracious Proteftion, while they build the Houft of the Lord. Pfalm xxxii. 8. I will guide thee with mine Eye, that is, I will infor':'.'. thee by my Spirit, and will lead thee in a righc..Way. See Pfalm xxxi.v. I?· 1 P~t. 111. I2 •• Ezek. xx. I7· v. II. and vu. 4· Dutt. XXJ<l!.JO. Pfa!nt, l(vai. ,g, Zech. u. 8. 111. 9· and tv. IO. 3· Sometimes the Eyeof God lignifies Divine Wrath and Punifhn:~nt, as A>~1os ix. 4· I will ftt mi11e Eyes upon them for Evzl, and not for Good. And Ifa. 111. 8. 'l'hezr 'l'ongue and their Doings are againft the Lord, to provoke the Eyes of his Glory. EARS are amibnted to God, which denotes not enly his Knowledge of all Things done on Earth, but alfo that he underfrands, approves of, and gives gracious Returps to the Prayers and Applications of his People, Pfal. x. I7· xxxi . 3· lv. I, 2. lxxi. 2. and cxxx. 2. By the Ears of God we are to underfrand that, 2. He knows the Sins of Men, which are faid to cry, and enter into the Ears of the Lord, Jam. v. 4· !fa. v. 9· There is a very cmpbatical Phrafe of the Promife of the Mejjiab, Pfal. xi. 6. Mine Ears* baf/ thou digged; that is, thou hafr marked me as a faithful Servant to thyfelf– by this the moO: perfcfl Ser·vitude and Obedience is noted from the Son (as incarnate or made FJern) to the Father. The Metaphor is taken from a Cufrom amongft the Jews, that the Servant's Ear fl10uld be bored through with an Awl, and ferve for e·ver, unlefs he would be made free the feventh Year, Exod. xxi. 6. Dwt. xv. I7· See Ifa.l. 4, 5· Heb. x. 5· A NOSE is attributed to God, Deut. xxxiii. IO. They (that is, the Levites) fhall put Incenfe before thee, (in the Hebrew) to thy Noft-fome interpret it, to thy Face; that is, before thee, Cha/dee 10,p. The LXX '"""' ~·· · Ezek. viii. I 7· And lo, they put the Branch to their Noft; this is rendered, and lo, they fend a Stench to their Noft,t which the textual Mafora fays fhot1ld be '!IN My Nofe, (viz. God's Noft) which Opinion is taken up by Galatinus, Vatablus, and Schindler. (But the Word tranflated S'l'ENCH ftgnifies alfo, a Branch, fo that the meaning of the Text (as Jerome fays) mufr be this. It was a Cufl:om for Twenty-five Men in the Like– nefs of Idols to hold a Branch to their Nofts, doubtlefs of Palms, ·which ·the Greeks call T" (lO:'"• that it may by thefe be lignified that they worfhip the Idols. See Ez. xv. z. A MOUTH, the Infrrument of Speech is attributed to God; by which his Will, Word, Sentence, Command, &c. is underfrood; as Jojh. ix. '4· I Sam. xv. 24. 2 Kings xxiv. 3· Ifa. xxx. 2, &c. There is a notable Place, Deut. viii. 3· Man doth not live by Bread only, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of the Lord doth Mm• live, that is, as God hath appointed and :idminifrered the Means of livina, whe– ther ordinary or extraordinary, (as that in the Defart was when they were kd with Manna) upon which Place Vatablus :j: fays thus," Some underliand thefe Words offpi– " ritual Life, as if it had been faid, that Souls are not fed by vifible Bread, but by the " Word of God ; which indeed is true in itfelf, but Jvlofts had another Meaning; for whereas no Perfon had Bread, he alludes to the Mannr., which was fent as an ex– traordinary Supply to the People, that it might be received as an evident Trmh in all " Ages, that Man's Life depends not upon Bread or any external Provifion, but upon the good Pleafure and Providence of God, which preferves Nature's Order, and the Creatures Being. So that the Word of God is ilot put for DoCtrine, but the Decree • Mtjfias in dua/i de aurilms fitis loquitur, ad eminer.tiam/piritua/isjutefirrvit:dis & obtdientite notandam. t Et tat ipji mitttmlftetortm ad ua/umfoum. t f<!:idamj~/fo h~c '<Jtrba ad/piritualcm rvitam detorqutttt, ac Ji diEJum ejfit, animas nrm ali 'i1ifi6ili pane, /ed Der 'fltrbo, tjJ rdquultm in fi <utrum, fld alio rtjptxit Mofes, &c. Vatablus in Ioc~ · ~' publi!hed
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