•. God hath his Saints in the World; as evil and degenerate as the World is grown, yet there are some Holy Men in it. It is true there is none so holy here as to live without sin; but there are some that are so pure, as to be undefiled in God's eye and esteem, Numb. 23.21. God hath seen no iniquity in Jacob. Psal. 119.1. Blessed are the undefiled: The Word used in our Text, for Saints signifies properly one that is precious, kind, bountiful and merciful. The Substantive is most commonly used for Mercy, or pity; and this Word in our Text is Translated Merciful, Isai. 57.1. and so divers read it here, his merciful ones: others read it, his beneficent ones, much to the same purpose: But the Septuagint for the most part translate the Word by [Greek or Hebrew] which signifies a Saint or an Holy one, and so they do in this place, Hence, as some observe, the Posterity of Jonadab, the Son of Rechab, were, by reason of their strictness or severity of Life, called Hassidim, which is the Word used in the Text.
•. God hath his Saints in the World; as evil and degenerate as the World is grown, yet there are some Holy Men in it. It is true there is none so holy here as to live without sin; but there are some that are so pure, as to be undefiled in God's eye and esteem, Numb. 23.21. God hath seen no iniquity in Jacob. Psal. 119.1. Blessed are the undefiled: The Word used in our Text, for Saints signifies properly one that is precious, kind, bountiful and merciful. The Substantive is most commonly used for Mercy, or pity; and this Word in our Text is Translated Merciful, Isai. 57.1. and so divers read it here, his merciful ones: others read it, his beneficent ones, much to the same purpose: But the Septuagint for the most part translate the Word by 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 which signifies a Saint or an Holy one, and so they do in this place, Hence, as some observe, the Posterity of Ionadab, the Son of Rechab, were, by reason of their strictness or severity of Life, called Hassidim, which is the Word used in the Text.
