For the first, This Scripture is 1 Chron. 26. 22. and Psal. 105. 15. it is the same in both places. 1. They both speak of times before ever there had been any Kings of Israel. 2. The Anointing here is apparently meant of the people of God, of the Church, of the Saints; God gives here a charge, that none, no not Kings should touch them to do them any hurt. It is not here meant that people should not touch Kings that are anointed, but that Kings should not touch people that are Gods Anointed. The Church of God being separated from the world to God, being consecrated to God, Gods sanctified ones are here called Gods anointed: and that it is meant of people, it is plain if you consider this Scripture, from the 12. ver. to this 15. ver. When they were but few in number, and strangers in the Land, when they went from one Nation to another, ⟨p. 37⟩from one Kingdom to another people, he suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he reproved Kings for their sakes, saying, Touch not mine Anointed: To whom did he say it? he said it even to Kings: Whom should they not touch? Not them that were few in number, that went from one country to another; them for whose sakes Kings were reproved, he said that these anointed ones must not be touched: though the Kings and people of the world thought them to be but ordinary ones, yet God accounts them his anointed ones, and will not have them touched; but if Kings shall meddle with them to do them any hurt, he will reprove them for their sakes. You may see how God reproved that King Nebuchadnezzar, for their sakes, Jer. 50. 17. This Nebuchadnezzar hath broken their bones; observe the expression, This Nebuchadnezzar: he makes but a [This] of Nebuchadnezzar a great King, when he comes to reprove him for the sake of his anointed ones: and mark further how the reproof is, when their inheritance is but touched, Jer. 12. 17. Thus saith the Lord against all the evil neighbours that touch the inheritance, &c. Behold I will pluck them out of the Land; If they do but touch my peoples inheritance, I will pluck them out of the Land. And Isa. 10. 27. all this care of God over his people is laid upon their anointment, The burden shall be taken off their shoulder, and the yoke from their neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
For the first, This Scripture is 1 Chron. 26. 22. and Psal. 105. 15. it is the same in both places. 1. They both speak of times before ever there had been any Kings of Israel. 2. The Anointing here is apparently meant of the people of God, of the Church, of the Saints; God gives here a charge, that none, no not Kings should touch them to doe them any hurt. It is not here meant that people should not touch Kings that are anointed, but that Kings should not touch people that are Gods Anointed. The Church of God being separated from the world to God, being consecrated to God, Gods sanctified ones are here called Gods anointed: and that it is meant of people, it is plain if you consider this Scripture, from the 12. ver. to this 15. ver. When they were but few in number, and strangers in the Land, when they went from one Nation to another, ⟨p. 37⟩from one Kingdom to another people, he suffered no man to doe them wrong, yea, he reproved Kings for their sakes, saying, Touch not mine Anointed: To whom did he say it? he said it even to Kings: Whom should they not touch? Not them that were few in number, that went from one countrey to another; them for whose sakes Kings were reproved, he said that these anointed ones must not be touched: though the Kings and people of the world thought them to be but ordinary ones, yet God accounts them his anointed ones, and will not have them touched; but if Kings shall meddle with them to doe them any hurt, he will reprove thē for their sakes. You may see how God reproved that King Nebuchadnezar, for their sakes, Jer. 50. 17. This Nebuchadnezar hath broken their bones; observe the expression, This Nebuchadnezar: he makes but a [This] of Nebuchadnezar a great King, when he comes to reprove him for the sake of his anointed ones: and mark further how the reproofe is, when their inheritance is but touched, Jer. 12. 17. Thus saith the Lord against all the evill neighbours that touch the inheritance, &c. Behold I will pluck them out of the Land; If they do but touch my peoples inheritance, I will pluck them out of the Land. And Isa. 10. 27. all this care of God over his people is laid upon their anointment, The burden shall be taken off their shoulder, and the yoake from their neck, and the yoake shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
