An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Here's the second mercy. As if he had said, The Lord would not have given thee a bare deliverance out of evil, but thou shouldst bave received abundance of good; thou shouldst not only have room enough, but comfort enough; That which should be set on thy Table, should be full of fatness.

Here's the second mercy. As if he had said, The Lord would not have given thee a bare deliverance out of evil, but thou should'st bave received abundance of good; thou shouldst not only have roome enough, but comfort enough; That which should be set on thy Table, should be full of fatness.

Some render, That which resteth, or abideth on thy Table; that is, thy meat, and thy drink, thy wine, and thy oil, that which thou feedest upon, should be of the best and most nourishing, not bare commons, not ordinary fare, but ⟨p. 286⟩Full of fatness.

Some render, That which resteth, or abideth on thy Table; that is, thy meat, and thy drink, thy wine, and thy oyle, that which thou feedest upon, should be of the best and most nourishing, not bare commons, not ordinary fare, but ⟨p. 286⟩Full of fatness.

Fatness is put in Scripture to express the best of things; if often signifieth the best of spiritual things, (Psal. 36.8.) They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. The house of God is the Church of God, and, God keeps a good house, there are fat things, and they who worship and wait upon him, they shall have abundance of them, their full satisfaction: the fatness of Gods house, is the riches of Grace, the best of Gospel-Ordinances and promises, the best of Gospel-comforts and mercies, these are the fatness of the house of God; these are the things which the Apostle intended while he told the Gentiles, (