Isaias — Chapter 62

True Preachers and Pastours cease not from preaching the truth, for anie threats, terrour, or torment. The word of God is not tied. 2.Tim. 2.

new name, whichthe mouth of our Lord shal name, 3, And thou fualt be a crowne of glorie in 4} the hand of our Lord , & the diademe of aking- dome inthe hand of thy God,4,Thou fhalt no more be called, Forfaken; & thy land fhal no more be called, Defolate:bur thou fhalt be called; My wilin her,and thy land imhabired, becaufe ic hath wel pleafed our Lord in thee: & thy land shal be inhabited.s.For the yong man fhal dwel with the virgin , and thy children shal dwel in thee.And the bridegrome fha] reioyce vpon the the bride,& thy God fhal reioyce vpon thee.6.(6) Vpon. thy wals,lerufalem,] haue appointed watch-men , al the day,and a] the night , tor euer they shal not holdtheir peace. You that remember our Lord, hold nor your peace,7, & giuenot filence to him,vntil he eftablifh, and vntil he make Terufalem the prayfe in the earth, 8. Our Lord hath {worne by his right hand, and by the arme of his {trength: If I shal giue thy wheate any more to be meate for thine enemies: and if the ftrange children fha] drinkethy wine , wherein thou haft laboured. 9. Becaufe they thar sha] gather it together, shal eate it,and shal prayfe the Lord: and they that carie it together,shal drinke it inmy hojie courts. 10. Pafle ye, pafle ye through the gares,prepare a way torthe people , make the iour- ney plaine, & picke vp the itones,& lift vp the figne to the peoples.11 Be- hold our Lord hath made heard inthe ends of the earth,tel the daughter of Sion: Behold thy Sauiour commeth : behold his reward is with him,and his worke before him.12, And they shal cal chem, The holie people,the redecmed ot our Lord, But thou shalt be called, Acitie fought ior,and not Forfaken. Cua. 4 4 Mat, at. Zach, 9, oA poc. { 39. y. Ky. Exod. I4ne Dew.16. Barer. q Irie; where is thy zele, and chy ftrength , the multitude of thy OF IS ATE. 525 CHuoar. LATIIL Chriff 1s deferibed asa ifforious: conquerour,afcenaing into heanen with triumph, embrued with bleud 7. For al whole benefites the Prophet rendreth thankes:10. . expoftulating she peoples ingratitude, that prouo ed God to wrat. H 0 fa) isthisthat commeth from Edom, with !(4)§ pionyre. » died garments from Bofra, this beautiful one in Hietar.ezleft. HW hisrobe, going in -he multitude of his ftrength: ¢. -- fupvofeth I that fpeake iuftice,and am a defender to faue. this to be the 2,Why then is thy clothing red,and thy garmé:s graven cf as theirs thac tread inthe wine-preffe ? 3.1 haue ford cof Ane -roden the preffe aione,and of the Gentilsthere is igels, admiring nota man with me:I haue troden them in my ‘Chrifts beasty furie,and haue trodenthé downe in my wrath:& ‘0 D¢ foexce!- their bloud is {prinkled vpon my garments , & I haue {tayned al my ray- ran - or tebe ment. 4.Forthe day ofreuenge is in my hart , the yeare of my redem- ihe is embrew- ptionis come, 5. I looked about ,& there was noheiper : I fought, and ‘ed with bloud there was-none to ayde:.and myne arine hath {aued,and myne indigna- afcending tioa it-felf hath holpen'me.6.And I hauetroden downe the peoples in m from Euom furie,and haue inebriated them in mine indignation , and haue drawen bw pica figni- their ftrength downetothe ground, 7. Ewil remember the mercies or jat} hon Beg our Lord, the prayfe of our L ord for al things , that our Lord hath ren- ( a vualied citie dred to vs ,and tor the multitude of the good things to the houfe of !“e”hrou ven) Ifrael, which he hath giuenthem according to hisindulgence, and ac- 7 at is. from cording to the multitude of his mereies, 8, And he fayd: But yerismy helen. into people,children that denie not: and he isbecome their Sauiour, 9. Ina] triumphane . their tribulation he was nottroubled , and (6) the Angel of his face iabloudie vi- faued them : in his loue , and in his indulgence he redeemed them, and Fs barethem, and lifted them vp al the daies of the world.10,But they pro- (@)The Angel. uokedto wrath, and atflicted the {piric of his holie one : and he was ve a “ on turned to be their enemie, and he conqueredthem, 13, And he remem which (edech bred the dayes of the world of Moyfes , and of his people: Where is he ‘before the fice that brought them out ot :he fea, with the Paltours of his focke:Where ° fGod; Casitt’ is hethat put inthe middes of him the fpirit of -his-holie one? 12. H teftifving tha: - ron ay «=: Fle jalfothe partu-! chat brought out Moyies tothe right hand by the arme of his maieftie. jcular guar- that diuided the waters before them, that he might make to himfelf an diansdoe ak} euerlafling name, 13.He that brought them our throughthe depths, asap [“2¥es fee the horfe in the defere that {tumbled nox, 14. Asthe beattthar goeth down face of his Fa- in the plaine fielde, the {pirit of our Lord wastheir conductour: fo did fh ther.Mar.it. thou bring thy people thurthoumighteft make thee aname of glorie, 16, Attend from heauen,and looke trom thy holie habitation, & or thy elc- elc Sif 2 bowels “c) Godis neuer the canfe uf er. ‘our or hardnes f rare:but by induleene not punishing, fin- ‘Nners harden their ourne harts: foS:Te rom, ‘The Iewes ‘Tuppofed that dfor their fin- “526 THE PROPHECTE bowels,and of thy mercics?they haue held backe themfelues coward me. ; 16,Fo:thou art. our fa:her, and” Abraham hath not.knowen vs, and Tiracl hath been ignorat of vs:cthou,o Lord, art our Father,our Redeemer, from the beginning is thy name,17. (¢) Why haft thou made vserre,o Lora, fromthy wayes: haft thou hardned ourhart, that we feared not thee? Rerurne tor thy feruanis,the tribes of thine inheritance, 18,.As no- thing haue they poflefled thy holie people : our enemies haue troden downe thy fanctification.19.We are become as inthe beginning, when thou diditnot rule over vs,neither was thy name inuocated vpon, vs ANNOTATION &, Crap. LXII

The Church is perpetually visible in her watch-men, the Pastours & Governers thereof.