For S. John's day.
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For the Reasons mentioned, ob∣serve how aptly the Portions of the Wicked (let them be never so fat or fair, like Esau's here) are termed Rods to plague oft∣times both themselves and others, as Divers's Portion did: But the Portion of the Godly is stiled a Lot and a pleasant one, as David's 16 Psal. 6. or a Cup of Blessing indeed, like Jacob's; and of abun∣dance, like Benjamin's Gin. 33.11. Gen. 44.2.
The suddain change in the expression of God, from the second Person to the third: As it is an elegancy in the Original, so it may note, such shall not know God (in the second Person of the Trinity) as a Saviour, but at a far greater distance as a Judge; Hib. 10.38, 39. who draw back, and turn aside (per∣verting their way which is already crooked, Prov. 14.2.) to more depraved Obliquities, and desperate Apo∣stacy, after a profession of the right way: But they shall be tortured with Hypocrites and Unbelievers, while he shall be kept (like Israel, Gen. 32.) in perfect Peace, whose Mind is stayed on God, Isa. 26.3. to the greater vexation of those Edomites, who perhaps sometime persecuted him.