2. When the wicked or false Speech of another is related, a true Sentence, Observ. 2 or Word of the holy Spirit is intermixed, as 1 Kings 21.10. the words of Jezebel, writing to the Citizens of Jezreel are thus related; Set two Men, Sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, &c. the words (Sons of Belial) are not Jezebel's, who would fain destroy Naboth by a colour and pretext of Right and Justice; but they are the words of the holy Spirit, which Exegetically and according to Truth, describe those suborned Wretches that would testify against the innocent, as Ver. 13, &c. Isa. 28.15. Because ye have said, We have made a Covenant with Death, and with Hell, are we at Agreement; when the overflowing Scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us, 1for we have made Lies our Refuge, and under Falsehood have we hid our selves. It was not they that called it Lies and Falsehood, but the Prophet so entitles their Hope. The words of the false Prophets are hereby to be understood, who lyingly advised them to hope well: Isa. 30.10. Which say to the Seers, see not; and unto the Prophets, prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy Deceits: It is not those Unbelievers, but the holy Spirit that calls those Visions which they sought for, Delusions, for such indeed they were,2 &c. Brentius upon Isa. 44. thus speaks of this Scripture-way of Expression, and brings more Examples. 'Tis usual for ingenious Men to paint out Impiety of words in colours, and obtrude it upon Men as true Piety. But the holy Spirit acknowledges not, nor owns, such things as are framed and pretended to cloak and excuse Impiety; but sees (because there is nothing invisible to him) into the most private recesses of the Mind; and judges according to what he finds in the very secrets of the Heart. Deut. 29.19. the ⟨p. 10⟩wicked blesses himself in his Heart, saying, I shall have Peace tho I walk in the stubbornness of my Heart, to add Drunkenness to Thirst.— Who would be so impudent as publicly to say that his ways are wicked, and that he would persevere in them: See Psal. 14.1. Isa. 28.15. & 44.17. Jer. 18.12. the holy Spirit recites the words of the wicked, not the words of their Mouths, but the words of their Hearts: For the ungodly do not call their own Ways evil, but in regard they are really so, the Spirit so calls them as his own Sentence.
2. When the wicked or false Speech of another is related, a true Sentence, Observ. 2 or Word of the holy Spirit is intermix'd, as 1 Kings 21.10. the words of Jezebel, writing to the Citizens of Jezreel are thus related; Set two Men, Sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, &c. the words (Sons of Belial) are not Jezebel's, who would fain destroy Naboth by a colour and pretext of Right and Justice; but they are the words of the holy Spirit, which Exegetically and according to Truth, describe those suborn'd Wretches that would testify against the innocent, as Ver. 13, &c. Isa. 28.15. Because ye have said, We have made a Covenant with Death, and with Hell, are we at Agreement; when the overflowing Scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us, 1for we have made Lies our Refuge, and under Falshood have we hid our selves. It was not they that called it Lies and Falshood, but the Prophet so intitles their Hope. The words of the false Prophets are hereby to be understood, who lyingly advised them to hope well: Isa. 30.10. Which say to the Seers, see not; and unto the Prophets, prophesy not unto us right things; speak unto us smooth things, prophesy Deceits: It is not those Unbelievers, but the holy Spirit that calls those Visions which they sought for, Delusions, for such indeed they were,2 &c. Brentius upon Isa. 44. thus speaks of this Scripture-way of Expression, and brings more Examples. 'Tis usual for ingenious Men to paint out Impiety of words in colours, and obtrude it upon Men as true Piety. But the holy Spirit acknowleges not, nor owns, such things as are framed and pretended to cloak and excuse Impiety; but sees (because there is nothing invisible to him) into the most private recesses of the Mind; and judges according to what he finds in the very secrets of the Heart. Deut. 29.19. the ⟨p. 10⟩wicked blesses himself in his Heart, saying, I shall have Peace tho I walk in the stubbornness of my Heart, to add Drunkenness to Thirst.— Who would be so impudent as publickly to say that his ways are wicked, and that he would persevere in them: See
- 1R. Kimhi in Loc.
- 2Pag. 360. Usitatum est, quod ingeniosi Homines, &c.Pag. 360. Ʋsitatum est, quod ingeniosi Homines, &c.
