An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

¹The word is often used for worshipping, it imports likewise any casting down or abasement, because we in the worship of God ought to be exceedingly abased and humbled before him. Psal. 38.6. I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly. So Habak. 3.6. The perpetual hills did bow, that is, the power (for it is conceived to be a continued Allegory) of the great Monarchs, who were as the mountains and hills of the world, bowed under the Lord. The word is used to the same sense (Isa. 49.23.) where the Lord promiseth his people, That Kings shall be their nursing Fathers, and Queens their nursing Mothers, they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet. The Church shall have the honour to be honoured by the Kings and Princes of the world, they being converted shall bow down so low to the Sceptre ⟨p. 247⟩of Jesus Christ, held forth by the Church, as if they would lick up the very dust, and shall employ their power and authority for the good and protection of the Church. The speech of Israel (Gen. 27.29.) in his prophetic blessing upon Jacob, Let thy mothers sons bow down to thee, and of Jacob, in his, upon Judah (Gen. 49.8.) Thy fathers children shall bow down before thee, note greatest honour and subjection to them both.

¹The word is often used for worshipping, it imports likewise any casting down or abasement, because we in the worship of God ought to be exceedingly abased and humbled before him. Psal. 38.6. I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly. So Habak. 3.6. The perpetuall hils did bow, that is, the power (for it is conceived to be a continued Allegory) of the great Monarchs, who were as the mountains and hils of the world, bowed under the Lord. The word is used to the same sense (