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1. THe word of the Lord, which was (made known) to Hosea, the son of Beeri in the daies of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah; and in the daies of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, King of Israel.
2. When first it pleased God, to deliver his
word by Hosea: this it was which he said to that Prophet, (a) Go and take to thy self a wo∣man, that hath lived long in whoredom: and take her children too, that have been born to her, in that time. The fittest type of the children of Israel, that have lived long in spiritual whore∣doms against their Lord Iehovah.
3. And accordingly the Prophet went, and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, (which, in the very (b) names, signifies the deficiencie of that people; and that the two Houses of Iudah, and Israel, were like two baskets of dry figs: in which there were but very few worth the keeping.) This Gomer conceived, and bare a son to the Prophet.
4. The Prophet also had a command from the Lord, to call the name of his son, Jezreel, (which (c) name referred both to Iezreel, the prime City in Israel: and to their glorious title of the (d) children of God: which title God would shake, by disseminating, and (e) scattering them in forreign Nations, where those undeserved titles should serve them in little stead.) And this, intimated in that name, was to begin with a fore-running punshiment,
which the Prophet had command to ex∣presse in these, or the like terms, That as a re∣venge of the innocent blood, shed by Iehu (f) in Iezreel, God would shortlie send his vi∣sitations upon the house of Jehu, by such a way, as should not be much unlike that bloody slaugh∣ter, that Jehu had made in Jezreel, upon the house of Ahab. And that one effect of these heavy visitations should be this, That the king∣dom of the house of Israel, should cease to be any longer, in the house of Iehu, (that King∣dom being thence translated to Sallum, of another stock from Zacharias, whom he suc∣ceeded.)
5. And this was further added, concerning that time, That God would then break the strength of Israel, by those civil (g) wars, that should most appear in the valley of Jezreel.
6. After this, Gomer conceaved again, and bare a daughter, which by the like divine command, had the name of Lo-ruchamah. A name, that carried in it (h) the sad doom, concerning the house of Israel, which God would be so far from sheltring any longer, under his merciful protection, that he would utterly remove them out of that good land.
7. While, in the mean time, he would gra∣tiously defend the house of Judah, in such a way, as should visibly appear to be the mira∣culous work of the Lord their God: no strength in the arm of man, nor any Art, or Instruments of war being ever able to atchieve so great, and sodain a deliverie, as they should have, from the mighty Host of Senacherib, the King of Assyria.
8. Now, after Gomer had weaned Lo-rucha∣mah, she conceived a third time, and bare a son.
9. And God commanded the Prophet, to give that son the name of Lo-ammi. Which name implied, that they (i) should be no longer his people, to enjoy any further happinesse under his service: they should rather be the unhap∣py people and slaves of the Assyrian. And God would no longer make his provident pro∣tection, to speak him their God, as he had done.
10. Yet should it come to passe, that when the children of Israel had increased into mul∣titudes, like the sand of the sea, which is capa∣ble of no number, then (k) instead of their name Lo-ammi (wherein God disclaimed many of them from being so much as his people) they
should have the high title of (l) the sons of the living God.
11. And then should the children of Judah, and the children of Israel (so much divided before) make one Congregation, under one head, and Governour, (which was to be accomplish∣ed by Zerobabel, in the letter; and by Christ, in the mystery) For, then should begin the great day of Jezreel, that is, of the (m) seed of God, or the sons of the living God, as they were stiled (n) before, (whether we under∣stand it of the religious Iews, both of Iudah, and Israel, that (o) returned out of the capti∣vity: or of the devout Christians after them, that are the true holy seed, and the true Israel of God, and were delivered from a greater bondage.)
Quid hîc inimicum fidei Christianae, si m••retrix, relictâ fornicatione in caslam conjujem commutet••? (ut Aug. contra Faustum Manichaeu••a disputaus.)
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 deficiens 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 du••e massae ficuum aridarum. Jer. 24. 1.
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4 Reg. 10. Vide R. Kimchi & Lyranum.
Sic Jonathan •• Kimchicitatus.
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Which answers 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in the best sense. vide V. 4.
Vide V. 4.
V. 10.
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