29+ VER S E 3 . Pra1;45.133t 4, I 5. Revels. a 6. Luk.a.78. Ma1.4.z. Rotn.13.I2. a Iohn Dm of Youth. ................11 mom...mom ~J. thepreceding. In which relation,there might bee a dou- ble fence conceived in them. Either thus, In the Beauties ofHalineffe, or in Holineffe very beautiful) more than the Aurora or wombe ofthe ?morning, when fhee is ready to bring forth the Sunne. And then it is a notable meta- phor to expreffe the glorious beautie ofGods wayes. Or thus , thy people (hall bee a wiling people from the very ivImbe °fan' morning; that is, from the very firft forming of Chrifi in them,and fhining forth upon them, they (hall rife out of their former nakedneffe and fecu- rity, and (hall adorne themfelves with the beautifull graces of Chrifis Spirit, as with cloathing of wrought gold,and rayment ofneedle-worke,and (hall with glad- neffe and rejoycing with much devotion and willing.. neffe ofheart bee brought unto the King , and prelim themfelves before him as Voluntaries in his fervice. But becaufe the learned conceive that the middle point is oncly a diflinaion for convenient reading, not a disjun- &ion of the fenfe , I (hall therefore ref) in a more recei- ved expofition. Thy Children (hall bee borne in great abundance unto thee by the feed ofthy word , in the wombeoftheChurch , as Toone as the morning,or funne ofrighteoufneffe (hall thine forth upon it. As the dew is borne out()Eche cookmorningaire as out ofawombe, Milling down in innumerable drops upon the earth ; fo thineele& (hall beeborne unto thee,by the preaching of thy word and firil approach of thyheavenly light, in innumerablearmies. And this explication is very futeable to the harmonicofHoly Scripture,whichufeth the fame metaphors to the fame purpofe in other places. The Remnant of'Jacob, faith theProphet, (sail bee in the mid- deft ofmanypeople as a dewfrom theLord. And Chrift is called the Bright-morninglore , and the Day-fpring, and the SmugofRighteor fieffe, and timeofthe Gofpell is called the time of Day , or the approach of Day. So that, from the soothe ofthemortshig,is from the heavenly light 1111111-
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