Particularly for that Scripture, even now cited, Isa. 33. 14. If we consult the Context, the occasion of bringing in that horrid out-cry, who among us, &c. (as Interpreters agree) was that the Prophet had set forth, in the Verses before, that most wonderful and prodigious slaughter of the King of Assyria's Host, when an hundred fourscore and five thousand (as 2 Kings 19. 15.) were in one Night destroyed by an Angel. And thereupon, the Prophet in this Passage is to be understood, either to have related what an impression of dread this so unparalleled a Judgment had made upon, and struck the Hearts of the Hypocrites in Zion with: As that which had made them to cry out thereupon, Oh how then shall we dwell with everlasting burnings? That is, with God Himself. For they may well be supposed to have reasoned thus with themselves; ⟨p. 51⟩if one Angel that is but a ministering Spirit to God, is able to blast and consume such a Multitude in one Night; how shall we have to do with God Himself, who is that infinite immense devouring Fire, and all those Angels but as Sparks, and his Ministers. And so according to this meaning, themselves are brought in, speaking by the Prophet, as the Men of Bethshemesh did upon the like Judgment, 1 Sam. 6. 20. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? Or else those Words may be supposed to have been the Prophets own Meditation and use of Instruction, deduced from that example; which he uttereth, as fore-warning the Sinners in Zion to consider, That if God be so terrible in the Judgments he executes by others, his Angels, who are Flames of Fire; how will you endure to dwell with God Himself, and have immediately to do with him for ever, who is a devouring Fire and everlasting Burnings? &c. And our Saviour's Speech is not remote, from this of Isaiah, when, speaking of Hell, it is the Fire prepared for [Hypocrites] (says he) Mat. 24. 51. Even as here, Isaiah professeth to speak this of and unto the [Hypocrites in Zion] as the Persons above all other forewarned, when Hell is threatened. Again, as in Isaiah, ⟨p. 52⟩God himself is called the devouring and everlasting Fire, so here in the Text, his Wrath is termed fiery Indignation [devouring.] And the Word translated Adversaries here, falls out also to be a Word deciphering Hypocrites or false Professors, [Greek or Hebrew] under-hand Enemies.
Particularly for that Scripture, even now cited, Isa. 33. 14. If we consult the Context, the occasion of bringing in that horrid out-cry, who among us, &c. (as Interpreters agree) was that the Prophet had set forth, in the Verses before, that most wonderful and prodigious slaughter of the King of Assyria's Host, when an hundred forescore and five thousand (as 2 Kings 19. 15.) were in one Night destroyed by an Angel. And thereupon, the Prophet in this Passage is to be understood, either to have related what an impression of dread this so unparallel'd a Judgment had made upon, and struck the Hearts of the Hypocrites in Sion with: As that which had made them to cry out thereupon, Oh how then shall we dwell with everlasting burnings? That is, with God Himself. For they may well be supposed to have reasoned thus with themselves; ⟨p. 51⟩if one Angel that is but a ministring Spirit to God, is able to blast and consume such a Multitude in one Night; how shall we have to do with God Himself, who is that infinite immense devouring Fire, and all those Angels but as Sparks, and his Ministers. And so according to this meaning, themselves are brought in, speaking by the Prophet, as the Men of Bethshemesh did upon the like Judgment, 1 Sam. 6. 20. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? Or else those Words may be supposed to have been the Prophets own Meditation and use of Instruction, deduced from that example; which he uttereth, as fore-warning the Sinners in Sion to consider, That if God be so terrible in the Judgments he executes by others, his Angels, who are Flames of Fire; how will you endure to dwell with God Himself, and have immediately to do with him for ever, who is a devouring Fire and everlasting Burnings? &c. And our Saviour's Speech is not remote, from this of Isaiah, when, speaking of Hell, it is the Fire prepared for [Hypocrites] (says he) Mat. 24. 51. Even as here, Isaiah professeth to speak this of and unto the [Hypocrites in Sion] as the Persons above all other forewarned, when Hell is threatned. Again, as in Isaiah, ⟨p. 52⟩God himself is called the devouring and everlasting Fire, so here in the Text, his Wrath is termed fiery Indignation [devouring.] And the Word translated Adversaries here, falls out also to be a Word decyphering Hypocrites or false Professors, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 under-hand Enemies.
