Obfervat. .... Vaas .. 6. becaufe done by their ihfiigation and connivance: As A as 2.. 23. Whom by 'Wic~ed hands ye httve takpJ ani ~-ain: And verf. 36. Thu u [efm Whom)()1/J 'havecrucified. So 1 Thef.rJ.t;. Thty,kjll– ed the Lord {efm. Do,npt flattei.\Fhyfelt, becauf€ thou art not the immediate Executioner: Je:;::.abel was pumfhe.cHQr.Naboths death, though the Judges and faHe witnd:fes were the next Agents, 1 King. I 3. 2 3• Beware how you provoke others ·to blood, the guile will fall upon your own Confciences : God looketh upon the Inftigators as the Principals: Ahab did evil in the fight ofthe Lord, 'Whom Je– ~abef his .'Wjfe prbvob_trf,!e IGng. u. z;. ·rwas a'forry Anfwer tharof the 1 Priefis to {iledZI,S(e thou to it, Mat.27-4- they had need fee to it too, fince 'twas by their plot and confpiracy. Andkjlled J This is added to thew, that oppreffion will proceed as far as·dea~h; wickednefs knoweth no bounds and limits ; as 'alfo . to Chew (he reafon why mifedes weve coming upon them. Note, ' . Wbe-n opprtffiMgoeth iU Jotn:u blood, God will furelj ttzk.£ ven– geance. He m.1kfth inquifitionfor blood, P[al.9. Andblood is one of the crying fins, Gen+1 o.· The blood of an ordinary man cryeth for vs;ngeanc~ , as tfiat of the Gibeonices r~ac .were of che race of Cana'tm; therefore .is that clattfe,interferced; ~ 8am.2 ~ ,z. NQ.w the Gibeonires Wt're not ofthe childrenof Ifrael, lmt oft1he r-emnant tiJ the AmoriteJ. _Much more the blood of the·Saints, which is pr'e– cious in Gods eyes; much more the blood of Chrrft, which is the cafe here. · The juft,J it cNK.cJ.JOY. le may be put indefinitely for any juH: per• {on, as Jfai.57·I· The.righteoits per ijh,&c. Bm qecaufe the ApofHe fpeaketh in the fingular number,and with an Article, therefore fome undedhnd it of{ohn the Baptifi, others o~ Stepl;en with more pro– bability, whom the Jews fioned ;" others with mofi probability of our Lord Jefus Chrifi. Becaufe I ihongly incline to this,I fhall pro– duce my Reafons. I . J efL!s Chrifi is elfewt1ere by wayof empha~ fis caUed chat juf1 One, :r J'lx.cJ.Jov, A a. 22.l4. a. There ft.:e:mech eo be a direcl: parallel place to this, ACl-3-14. Batye denyed the hrJ!y Qne, and the J aft, anddcfiredamurthercr to begranted unto you. 3.. This was the great relfon and caufe of Judgments on the Jews, 1. Thef.z. I 5, I 6. which is the [cope and argument of this place) and indeed the Te~t t;unn.:th that way mofi flue!ltly. 4· The illation of the next Verfe, or perfw.afion eo patient hope, doth mofi fwe~tly arife from this Confideration ; the for~er"part of the Verfe holdmg · . . forth
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