(1.) The Subjects which are called upon, These are all the ends of the earth; even the Gentiles, in all quarters of the world, whose Vocation is here ⟨p. 41⟩foretold; The poor souls whose natural Distance from the Church of God, and whose moral Distance from the Love of God was exceeding deplorable. (2.) The Object propounded for these to converse withal. This by that Expression Me, is determined to be the Lord Himself. But who? Truly, it is God the Saviour, it is the Lord Jesus Christ; a Devotion to whom should come instead of the Homage which men had bin wont to yield unto their other Images of God, and Deliverance by whom is the Antitype of what the Lords people had of old by other •• viours. To confirm this Interpretation, I find the Chaldee Paraphrase rendering this Me, by My Word; using the Term of [Meemar] which belongs to the 2nd Person in the adorable Trinity. (3.) The Act to be applied hereunto: This is to Look; namely with an Eye of faith & of repentance. In this Clause, there seems to be an Allusion to the Looks that the ancient Israelites had bin wont to give unto the Brazen Serpent; which, if that great Reformer Hezekiah had not made mere brass of it, might, for ought I know be still abused to vain & vile Superstitions among 'em. (4.) The End of the Whole. Tis said, Be ye saved; and the intent of that is Double, it is both, be desirous that ye may be saved, & it is, be assured that ye shall be saved. The two fold End (both finis Operis, and finis Operantis) both the Design, & the Event is to be Salvation. Salvation ⟨p. 42⟩SALVATION—but what a Word is That It is a word that does contain more than any man can conceive.
(1.) The Subjects which are call'd upon, These are all the ends of the earth; even the Gentiles, in all quarters of the world, whose Vocation is here ⟨p. 41⟩foretold; The poor souls whose natural Distanse from the Church of God, and whose moral Distance from the Love of God was exceeding deplorable. (2.) The Object propounded for these to converse withal. This by that Expression Me, is determined to be the Lord Himself. But who? Truly, it is God the Saviour, it is the Lord Jesus Christ; a Devotion to whom should come instead of the Homage which men had bin wont to yeild unto their other Images of God, and Deliverance by whom is the Antitype of what the Lords people had of old by other •• viours. To confirm this Interpretation, I find the Chaldee Paraphrase rendring this Me, by My Word; using the Term of [Meemar] which belongs to the 2nd Person in the adorable Trinity. (3.) The Act to be applyed hereunto: This is to Look; namely with an Eye of faith & of repentance. In this Clause, there seems to be an Allusion to the Looks that the ancient Israelites had bin wont to give unto the Brazen Serpent; which, if that great Reformer Hezekiah had not made meer brass of it, might, for ought I know be still abus'd to vain & vile Superstitions among 'em. (4.) The End of the Whole. Tis said, Be ye saved; and the intent of that is Double, it is both, be desireous that ye may be saved, & it is, be assured that ye shall be saved. The two fold End (both finis Operis, and finis Operantis) both the Design, & the Event is to be Salvation. Salvation ⟨p. 42⟩SALVATION—but what a Word is That It is a word that does contain more than any man can conceive.
