I am God Almightie] See Annot. on Chap. 17. 1. multiply] (Chap. 8. 17. &9. 1. &28. 3. &48. 4.) Multiplication is a blessing often promised by God in favour to man; it is an ungratefull part in many to murmure at his blessing; a wicked part, to prevent it by abortion, a devillish part to destroy the increase, and to make prodigall wast of mankinde, as ambitious warriers doe, who make no more scruple of slaying of a multitude of men, then a reaper to cut down a field of corne. Kings shall come] In the promises of God touching the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, we are to understand a spirituall posteritie, as well as a carnall; so those are Abrahams children that are true beleevers as he was, Galatians 3:7. And godly livers doing such works as he did, John 8:39. and these, as sonnes of Abraham, shall be received into happy rest, and repose in Abrahams bosome, Luke 16:22. Taking the Prophesie in this as well as in the other sense we may conceive it fulfilled literally and spiritually; literally in David, in Solomon, in Rehoboam, &c. who lineally descended from the loynes of Jacob; and spiritually in those Kings of the Gentiles, who first became beleeving sonnes of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and then nursing fathers of the Christian Church, Isaiah 49:23.