Part I. AN ANTHROPOPATHY. ss ~ur L ikenefs or Image, &c. and Chap. ii. I 8. And the Lord(aid, It is no~__good that the Man jhould be alone, I will make him an Help-meet for htm, and Gen. 111. 22. And t~e L ord GodJaid, Behold! the Man is becqme as one of us, &c. Gen. XI. 6. And the Lord fattl Behold! the People is otte, and ha'Ve o11e Language-go, let us go down, and there confounti their Language. By this deliberate Way ofExpreflion, the Decrees of the Holy Trinity, and their effdl:ua] Powe.r of Operauon are noted, Pfal. u. 7· I wtl! declare the Decree, the Lord Jaid unto me, thou art my Son, this Day have I begotten .thee-ajk of me and 1 will give thee the Heathen for thine Inheritance. Pfal. ex. 1. '!'he LordJaid unto my L_ord, fit thou at my right Hand, &c. Thefe Phrafes !igmfiy the mofl: holy and mofl: efficacious . Difcernin<> and Efficiency of God's Will. ' To this 0 Speaking of the Father anfwers the Hearing attributed to Chrifl, John viii. '26, 40. and xv. 15. and to the Holy Spirit, Johnxvi. '3· For this Caufe (among others) the Son of God is called the Word, >-oy&, for by him a Manifefl:ation of the internal Speech of the Holy Trinity (that is their Divin~.; Decrees) for Man's Salvation is made unto us, John i. r, 13, I4, &c. So much of Speech in general. More particularly Rebuking or Chiding is attributed tD God, by which its real EffeCl:, or Defl:ruftion is noted, ofwhich you may fee Examples, Pfal.xviii. I5- 2Sam. xxil. 16. Where 'l'empefls, Earthquakes, &c. are faid to be at God's Rebukes, and Pfal. civ. 7· that at his Rebuke the Waters fled, that is, were fepa– ted from the Earth, Gm. i. 2. , 'l'o Rebuke, in proper Speaking, two Things are requifite, ( 1.) That thot which is reprehenfible, may be checked. (2.) That it may be correCl:ed or amended; thefe may be aptly applied to God's treating Word, for when he faid, L et the Waters under the Heaven be gathered together into om Place, and let the dry Land appear. In the firfl: the indigefted ConfuCian of Things is reprehended, and in the fecond they are corretl:ed, and rightly difpofed of into their proper Places. Mufculus on this Place annexes this marginal Note-that it is att in·vincib!e Argummt of Chrijl's Divinity, that at his Rebuke the Winds and Seas were obedient, Mark iv. 39· Luke viii. 24. See Pfal. ix. 5· lxxvi. 6. and lxviii. 30. Ifa. xvii. IJ. Zech. iii. 2. Rebuke !ignifies Defl:rucrion, Deut. xxviii. 20. CALLING, when afcribed to God fignifies its real Produ{i: or Effect, as 2/(ingsviii. 1. '!'he Lord bath calledforaFamine, and it jhalt alfo come upon the Landfor feven Years, Pfal. cv. 16. Rom. iv. 7· God's COMMANDING inanimate or irrational Creatures denotes a Di– rection for fame certain Work to be done or omitted, as Ifa. v. 6. I wilt alfo command the Clouds, that they rain no more upon it. See Ifa. xlv. I2. ANSWERING is attributed to God, when he is faid to anfwer Men's Prayers, 2 Sam.· vii. 9· Pfal. iii. 4, 5· Ifa. lviii. 8, &c. It!yricus fays, that in hearing God anfwers in a threefold Manner. (r.) By the very hearing, for every Man that prays earnefl:ly, requefl:s that. (2.) By fome Tefl:imony of his Spirit, that we are heard. (3.) By granting the Petition, which is the mofl: real and apparent Anfwer. Contrary to this, is God's SILENCE, wh~his People pray, by which his Delay in tomfomng and helping them is noted, as Pfal. xxviii. 1. Unto thee, 0 Lord do I cry– be not deaftoward me, &c. So Pjat. lxxxiii. 1. And God is faid to anfwer when he takes Pleafures in Man, Ecct. v. 20. and ix. 7· The Lord· is faid to be a WITNESS, when .he declares the Truth of a Thing in Fact, or juftly punifhes Lyars, I Sam. xii. 5· Jer. xlii. 5· Mal. iii. 5, &c. '!'he Lord bath bem a fVitnefs betwem thee and the Wife of thy Youth, Mal. ii. I4. that is, to join them in an individual Society of Life. . A judicial Inquijition, which inflicts Revenge and Punifhment upon the Guilty is noted ~n thefe Texts, Gen. ix. 5· Jojh. xxii. 23. Pfal. ix. I2. and x. t4, IS· The Metaphor IS taken from the Cufl:om of Judges, who by the Examination and weighing of Tefl:imonies firft inquire, into the Cafe, and then proceed to Sentence. ' By
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