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ber, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified [atoned] towards thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord.

90. (20) Isa. xlvii. 11, Therefore[speaking of wicked and

insolent

Babylon]

shall evil come upon thee, thou shalt not know whence it riseth and mischief

shall fall upon thee, thou shalt not be able

EFFECT [of this negative atonement] calamity and suffer

ing.

MEANS. No means that they could use. No counsels, no inchantments or sorceries, which their astrologers, star-ga

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to put it off [to zers, &c. could use,

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should save them

from evil, ver. 12,

&c.

EFFECT. Acceptance of the service and worship of the people, as if they had been regularly purified; and probably deliverance from some bodily distemper inflicted; for it is said, ver. 20, That the Lord healed the people.

MEANS. The prayers of king He

zekiah.

EFFECT. Exemption from destruc

tion.

MEAN. The divine compassion.

passion,

forgave,

[atoned] their ini

quity, and destroyed them not. 94. (24) Jer. xviii. 23, Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsels against me to slay me, give [atone] not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin

EFFECT [of this negative atonement] destruction. Let their

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men be put to death, let their young men be slain.

from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. 95. (25) Isa. xxviii. 18, And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, [atoned] and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down

by it.

MEANS. God's denying his mercy, and executing his justice.

EFFECT. Ye shall not be safe, as ye presume, ver. 5, but my judgments shall overtake you.

MEANS. God's atoning, blotting out, smearing over, cancelling their covenant with death, i. e. he would bring death. upon them, notwithstanding their secu

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96. (26) Exod. xxi. 29, 30, If an ox, when the owner knew he was wont to push with his horn, shall kill a manthe owner shall be put to death. 30, If there be laid on him sum of money [atonement money] then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid upon him.

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97. (27) Exod. xxx. 12, When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, after their number; then shall they give every man ɔ a ransom [an atonement] for his soul, that there be no plague. amongst them, &c.

rity, and the means

they had used to save themselves.

EFFECT. Exemption from death.

MEAN. Sum of money paid.

See No. 1.

98. (28) Job xxxiii. 24. When God visits man with bodily diseases, so that (ver. 22,) his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. (Ver. 23,) If there be a messen

ger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: [which he ought to follow.] (Ver. 24,) Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, [or, then he shall have compassion upon him, and say,] Deliver him from going down into the pit, I have found a ransom [an atonement.]Ver. 25,) His flesh shall be fresher than a child's, &c.

Which Dr. Patrick paraphraseth thus, (ver. 23.) 'If 'then there come a divine messenger unto him; a rare 'person, that can 'expound the mind 'of God, and per'suade the sick man

'to repent, and a'mend his life: (ver. 24.) He shall be'seech God to be ' gracious unto him, saying, Spare him, 'good Lord, and res

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cue him from go'ing down into the 'grave: let it satisfy 'thee that thou hast

'corrected him, and 'that I have found 'him a penitent.' Then his flesh, &c.

EFFECT. Being saved from death, and restored to life.

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