A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D.

A Paraphrastical EXPLICATION Of the PROPHESIE OF HOSEA.

CHAP. I.

1, THe word of the Lord that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the daies of Uzzia. Jotham, Ahas, and Hezekiah, Kings of Judah, and ••n the daies of Jero∣boam the son of Joash King of Israel.

2. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea; and the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whor∣dom, departing from the Lord.

3. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, which conceived and bare him a son.

4. And the Lord said unto him, Call his name Jez∣reel: for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the Kingdom of the house of Israel.

5. And it shall come to passe at that day, that I will

break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

6. And she conceived a∣gain, and bare a daughter, and God said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruha∣mah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel: but I will utter∣ly take them away.

7. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battel, by horses, nor by horsemen.

8. Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bare a son.

9. Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

10. Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbred, and it shall come to passe that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

11. Then shall the chil∣dren of Judah, and the children of Israel be ga∣thered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

CHAP. I.

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) 1.1 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) 1.2 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) 1.3 name referred both to Iezreel, the prime City in Israel: and to their glorious title of the (d) 1.4 children of God: which title God would shake, by disseminating, and (e) 1.5 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) 1.6 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) 1.7 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) 1.8 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) 1.9 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) 1.10 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) 1.11 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) 1.12 seed of God, or the sons of the living God, as they were stiled (n) 1.13 before, (whether we under∣stand it of the religious Iews, both of Iudah, and Israel, that (o) 1.14 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.)

CHAP. II.

1. SAy ye unto your bre∣thren, Ammi, and to your sisters, Ru-hamah:

2. Plead with your mo∣ther, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her a∣dulteries from between her breasts;

3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wildernesse, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with th••••st.

4. And I will not have mercy upon her children, for they be the children of whoredoms.

5. For their mother hath played the harlot, she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

6. Therefore behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths.

7. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me then now.

8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multipli∣ed her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

9 Therefore will I re∣turn, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wooll, and my flax, given to cover her nakednesse.

10. And now will I dis∣cover her lewdnesse in the sight of her lovers, and none

shall deliver her out of mine hand.

11. I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast-daies, her new Moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her so∣lemn feasts.

12. And I will destroy her vines, and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lo∣vers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

13. And I will visit upon her the daies of Baalim, wherein she burnt incense to them, and she decked her∣self with her ear-rings, and her jewels, and she went af∣ter her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.

14. Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wildernesse, and speak comfortably unto her.

15.. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope, and she shall sing there as in the daies of her youth, and as in the day, when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

16. And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali:

17. For I will take a∣way the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembred by their name.

18. And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of hea∣ven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword, and the battel out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

19. And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousnesse, and in judgement, and in loving kindnesse, and in mercies.

20. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithful∣nesse, and thou shalt know the Lord.

21. And it shall come to passe in that day, I will

hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth,

22. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel.

23. And I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mer∣cy, and I will say to them which were not my people. Thou art my people, and they shall say, Thou art my God.

CHAP. II.

1. YOu that are of the ten tribes, say to your brethren (those of the tribe of Iudah, and Benjamin) (p) 1.15 Ammi, for, now I acknowledge them for my people. And say to your Sisters (of those two tribes) Ruchamah. For my mercy shall watch over them.

2. And when you have acknowledged their happinesse, then every one of you may think of a quarrel, a just quarrel you have to your own Mother, (i. to all the ten tribes) For, she hath not behaved her self, like my Spouse: Nor shall I answer her with the love of a Husband,(q) 1.16 unlesse she make way for reconciliation of her self, by a clean removal of her filthy pollutions, and of her doting foolish demeanour, in the idle

love, shewed to those imaginarie dieties, that deserve it not.

3. Which she had best to remove, least (by way of requital of her making her self gay for those, her best beloved) I strip her stark, naked, and expose her as bare as ever she was born, to the injury of the weather, in some open wildernesse, or drie land, where I may take that advantage to kill her with very thirst.

4. When this severitie falls upon the Mo∣ther, (the whole nation) the particular chil∣dren have no reason to expect any mercy, being no better then children of an adulterous bed, and most foul Idolatrie.

5. For, their Mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath brought shame upon her self, and them: the rather because she hath not sticked to professe it openly, that she would follow the example of her Paramours, (the Assy∣rian, and Egyptian idolaters) that give her, forsooth, a constant supplie of her bread, and her water, and her wool, and her flax, and her oyl, and her drink, and what not? (for, all this she ascribes to their acquaintance, and to the bountie of their gods.)

6. Therefore, saith the Lord, The time shall come, when she shall brag of none of these courtesies received from them. The time, when her way thither shall be hedged in, as with

thorns, and in everie corner, so fenced about, that there will be no evasion from the Assyrian slaverie, to which she shall be led along, in bonds, and triumph.

7. When her quondam-lovers have brought her to those hard embraces, she will then strive to court them, and wooe them, but shall be able to work nothing upon their affections. And find∣ing, by sad experience, that she seeks in vain for what will not be found; she will then fall (if not too late) upon this sad resolution. I will now go, and return to my right Husband. He was the (r) 1.17 first, and he was the (r) 1.18 best. And I have since tasted of no such happinesse, as I ever was sure of, in the fruition of his favour.

8. This she will then say. But she should sooner have taken notice, that I was the true Author of what she called her corn and wine, and oil. And it was I, that gave her that rich plentie of silver, and gold, (s) 1.19 which she thought fitter to bestow in the service of Baal, then in mine.

9. For that unseasonable abuse of what I gave her, I will come to her again, (t) 1.20 with an armie of enemies raised up against her, and by

them I will take away the corn, and the wine, which I had given her, in the right season of them. And when she thinks she is in a fair way of enjoying my wool and my slax (which she would not acknowledge to come from my bountie) (u) 1.21 I will snatch them both so so∣dainly, and so far out of her reach, that she shall not have enough, so much as to cover her na∣kednesse.

10. So shall I give way to the discoverie of her (x) 1.22 follie, and shame, in the open view of them, that she most shamefully doted upon, in the time of her plentie. And neither they, nor any other shall then be able to deliver her out of my hands.

11. There shall I put an end to all her jollity, to all her festival daies, and new Moons, and Sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts; because she looked more to her outward worship in them, then to her inward sanctitie.

12. And then also her vines and her fig-trees shall vanish in a general desolation: which she never dreamed of, when she was wont to boast of them, as of presents bestowed upon her, or made surer for her use, by the benefit of her union with those her unfortunate Lovers. But I that

could not be acknowledged for the true foun∣der of that her happinesse, and the onelie means to preserve it: will now show that I was so, by turning those pleasant vineyards, and other so profitable delights into a rude forest: and when they are so taken from their un∣thankful mouths, the verie beasts of the field shall eat them up (or their rude destructive ene∣mies, that may be described by a parable of wild beasts.)

13. Such will I make my sad visitation of those merry daies, wherein she honoured her Baals, instead of her own Husband; burned her incense to them, and for their sakes, like a proud strumpet, tricked her self up in her gau∣die ornaments her ear-rings, and her jewels. In which garb, she footed it after those her dearest dieties: and thought little of what I deserved, or what I could bring upon her for all this, saith the Lord.

14. For this good behaviour of hers, (y) 1.23 shall not I use her kindlie? conduct her fairly into some solitary wildernesse, in a loving posture? and (in that privacie) accost her in some amorous language, to the solace of her good heart? yes I warrant you.

I will lead her thence to her kind Assyrian (z) 1.24 Adulterers, that shall prune her vines to the purpose. She shall have her fine valley of pleasure turned into a valley of Achor (a dismal place.) And there will I first open (a) 1.25 the way to her new instruction, wherein she shall learn a new lesson, that she never learned before. And (because she hath formerlie been so musicallie merrie, in their sweet companie) Let her there learn to sing her meriments over again, if she can, and trie if her voice will be framed, to as merrie a tune, as ever she warbled out in her younger daies, and equal her merry sits, that she had after her safe deliverie out of Egypt.

16. But alas, in that sad time, her mouth will not rellish those sweet, and merry ditties: nor will she have any mind to her old language of Baal. Though it signifie a Husband, yet (because it is the name of her Idol too) I can tell her, she will then be so warie, as rather to use the terms of (b) 1.26 Ishi, then Baali, in the ordi∣narie salutations of a Husband.

17. For, I will teach her mouth to leave her wonted names of Baalim. They shall have small comfort in the use of that name hereafter, which

so much abused it heretofore.

18. After the amendment, which shall at∣tend this alteration, I will make a league, and covenant in their behalf, and such as shall tend to their good. It shall be a covenant with the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the aire, and the creeping things of the earth. And then (for a covenant with men too) I will put as clear an end to their former wars, and dissentions, as if, in their sight, I should break the bow, and the sword, and all the instruments of battel. And they shall quietly take their rest, without any fear of danger.

19. I will adde this too, by way of a kind Apostrophe to my people. If thou wilt keep thy faith with me, for the time to come, though thou hast gone a whoring after other gods, yet will I espouse thee to my self again for ever. And that espousal shall be made by my (c) 1.27 goodnesse, and by * 1.28 moderation of my judgements, and that in loving kindnesse, and in much mercy.

20. And it shall be faithfullie done, with full resolution of keeping all promises, on my behalf: and, by that, thou shalt know me to be Iehovah, (i. that he, to whom thou art espoused, is the powerful God, that ever doth

reallie make good, what he hath said, which is the chief notion, and reason of the name of Iehovah.)

V. 21, & 22. Then shall there be as much plentie of corn, and wine, and oil, and all necessaries, as can be desired by my people Israel, which shall now have the name of (d) 1.29 Jezreel, as being (e) 1.30 a holy seed, and a Mother-Church. And no blessing that can come from heaven, or earth, shall be dutifullie asked, in her behalf, but it shall be as readilie granted.

23. And I will (f) 1.31 disseminate and disperse her far abroad in the earth, with happie en∣largement like seed, that is cast about with expectation of a large increase) And as I will therein make good the best notion of Iezreel, so, in great mercy, I will change the names of (g) 1.32 Loruchamah, and Loammi into Ruchamah, and Ammi. For, she shall tast of my mercy, and be my people, and resume the priviledge of cal∣ling me her God.

CHAP. III.

1. THen said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman (beloved of her friend, yet an adulteresse) according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

2. So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an Homer of barley, and an half Homer of bar∣ley.

3. And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many dayes, thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man, so will I also be for thee.

4. For the children of Is∣rael shall abide many daies without a King, and with∣out a Prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an i∣mage, and without an E∣phod, and without a Tera∣phim.

5. Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their kings; and shall fear the Lord, and his goodnesse in the lat∣ter dayes.

CHAP. III.

AFter this, it pleased God to injoyn me once again to (h) 1.33 love a woman, that had been dearly affected by her dearest friend, her hus∣band:

and yet had been false to him in no lesse a fault than whoredom. And this was another typicall expression, how great love God had shewed to the children of Israel: who most ungratefully neglecting him, cast their affection upon strange gods for love of those stagons of wine, (which being offered to such false Gods, were then tasted with pleasure, by their Idolaters.

2. Conformable to this divine command (the custome of the Jewes being to purchase their wives with mony, or money-worth) I procured such a wife, at the set price of fifteen pieces of silver, and a Homer, and a half of barley.

3. And I agreed with her, that she should live a good while, as a widow, forsaking the love of all others, reserving her self all that while for me: as I would reserve my self for her.

4. For, this was also a type of the (i) 1.34 chil∣dren of Israel, that should expect my wonted favourable protection for many dayes abiding in the mean while,(k) 1.35 without a King (of their own nation) and a peculiar Prince of their own.

Nay it was a figure of more than so: that they should not onely want their former way of Polity, and Government of the common∣wealth: but the wonted liberty also of those Ecclesiasticall rites, and customes, which they had used before in their sacrifices, (l) 1.36 and pil∣lars, and Ephod, and Teraphim, (in all which they took themselves to make sufficient expres∣sion of their love, and service unto me.)

5. After which time expired, the children, of Israel should return by repentance, and seek for a reconciliation with their God, whom they had so much offended, and apply themselves to Zorobabel of the line of David, whom they should account as their King, and then should they live in the fear of the Lord, and acknow∣ledge his great goodnesse, and mercy toward them, in the latter dayes.

CHAP. IIII.

1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversie with the inha∣bitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mer∣cy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

2. By swearing, and ly∣ing, and killing, and steal∣ing, and committing adul∣tery, they break out, and blood toucheth bloud.

3. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

4. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another; for this people are as they that strive with the Priest.

5. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall also fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

6. My people are destroy∣ed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also re∣ject thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

7. As they were increased so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

8. They eat up the sinne of my people, and they set their heart on their ini∣quity.

9. And there shall be like people, like Priest: and I will punish them for their waies, and reward them their doings.

10. For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase, because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

11. Whoredome, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.

12. My people ask coun∣sell at their stocks, and their staffe declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredomes hath caused them to erre, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

13. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountaines, and burn incense upon the hils under oakes, and pop∣lars, and elmes, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters

shall commit whoredome, and your Spouses shall com∣mit adultery.

14. I will not punish your daughters when they com∣mit whoredom, nor your Spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with wh••res, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand, shall fall.

15. Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Iudah offend, and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

16. For Israel slideth back, as a back-sliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

17. Ephraim is joyned to idols: let him alone.

18. Their drink is sowre: they have committed whore∣dom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

19. The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed be∣cause of their sacrifices.

CHAP. IIII.

1. IN the latter dayes it will be so. But will you hear, what is to be said for the pre∣sent. Hear the word of the Lord, ye Children of Is∣rael: for, the Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the land: because there is none of that truth and mercy, and knowledge of God, in the land, which they pretend to, and so no true Acts of Piety.

2. But rather by swearing falsly, and as falsly

(m) 1.37 denying that which is committed to their trust, by murder, and theft, and adultery, they have (n) 1.38 violently, and impudently broke tho∣row all good lawes. And therefore, by way of punishment, they shall be suffered, so long to goe on in the current of those disorders, till among the greatest of them, that should have kept the people within their bounds, one (o) 1.39 murder shall break out after another, and (p) 1.40 other sinnes of a high nature, that deserve death, and effusion of blood, come on so thick, and frequent, that you may say, they are one contiguous to another.

3. Whereupon (though they would not mourn for this increase of sinne, yet) the earth it self, seeming to put on her (q) 1.41 mour∣ning-weeds (for the destruction of her fruit) shall be as an introduction to their own sor∣row, for the just increase of their calamities, which shall come so hot and thick upon them, (those especially by Tiglath-peleser, and Sal∣menasser) that the inbabitants of the land shall (r) 1.42 faint under that grief, and perplexity, which must then be suffered. For, amongst

other miseries, such an universall want shall there be of food, and nourishment: and (by the effusion of much blood) such a corruption of the air, and waters, that (together with those distressed inhabitants) the very beasts of the field, and the fowles of the aire, and the fish∣es of their ponds near the sea shall, many of them, be taken away, in that common cala∣mity.

4. In all this,(s) 1.43 certainly it will be to little purpose for any man to admonish another; whose sinnes have contributed much to this publick misery. Therefore he were as good let it alone. For, this thy people are most of them past cure, like those spoken of in the Law, that will neither hearken to (t) 1.44 Prince, nor Priest, unlesse it be to give them as good as they bring, when they are reproved, or cor∣rected for their faults.

Therefore it shall (u) 1.45 not be long, before I lay thee low enough, for this height of stubborness, and rebellion. And the false Prophet, that hath deceived thee, shall bear thee company in that punishment, which shall suddenly come upon you, like a misfortune, that comes in the (x) 1.46 night,

(when men neither look for it, nor know how to prevent it.) And thy Mother (thy whole nation) will I then out off from this place (by the hand of the Assyrian)

6. And yet indeed, it is not I that so cut them off, but their own folly, and impiety. For I must tell thee plainly (oh Israel, and thou especially, whosoever thou art, that art a Priest in Israel) thou hast made no regard of the knowledge of me, and my lawes; therefore will I have as little regard of thee, or thy ser∣vice, or those Priests of thine, (whose lips should have preserved that knowledge) Thou hast forgotten the custody of the law of thy God, which should have been most dear unto thee. Therefore will I, in the very successions of the Priesthood, forget the care of thy children, which are dearer in thine eye, than any thing else.

7. They have given me cause enough to say so. For,(y) 1.47 as they increased in number, and dignity, so did they increase in sinne, (which was no better, than turning their glory into shame) Therefore I will requite them in the same way, and make that now to be their shame, which they value as the greatest glory, that can happen to them. (So that they shall be asha∣med

to think of that honour of the Priest∣hood, that once they had.) Miserum est fuisse.

8. For they that were in that honour, forgat themselves, and instead of reproving the sins of the people, they rather fed themselves upon the increase of those sins: having thence such plenty of their sinne-offerings, and oblations, that helped to furnish out their table, as they (z) 1.48 heartily wished to have it, by what meanes soever.

9. Therefore, as they were alike guilty of sin: the Priest and the people: so shall a punishment answerable to their sin, fall upon them both a∣like, when in my just visitation of their wicked waies, I shall return them the fruit of their own works.

10. Then they (that fed so lustily, and highly before, at their full tables) shall find so little to feed on, that they will not be able to fill themselves with the coursest fare. And when their enemies, in the siege of Samaria, have brought such a famine upon this adulterous generation: their adulterous seed shall not be so strong, and numerous, as to beat them a∣way. And all this will come upon them, be∣cause they forlook that, which might have kept them close unto the Lord.

11. But, how could they keep close to him, or to his precepts, when they su••••ered their dear whoredom, and their sweet wine to steale away their hearts.

12. It is not for nothing, that I made spe∣ciall mention of their whoredoms, and spiri∣tuall fornications. For, my people, (unworthy of that name) proceeded so far in them as to fetch their intelligence from their poor (a) 1.49 wood∣en Oracles, and out of (b) 1.50 little sticks (after the Chaldie device of making lots) they took their new way of information. Thus the spi∣rit of whoredoms, or rather their spirituall whoredoms, and the example of those Idola∣ters, that they conversed withall, led them into grosse errours, while they wandred from their own God, to goe a w••oring after other gods.

13. When (directly against their own law) they made choice of the tops of mountaines, wherein to sacrifice, and offer incense: or else they did it under oakes and poplars, and elmes, for the welcome benefit of the shade. Therefore will I punish one kind of whoredom with a∣nother, the spirituall with the carnall: and suffer your wives and daughters to be guilty of whoredom against your selves, as you have been against me, oh Israel!

14. Nor will I take present punishment upon your wives and daughters for such offences, but wink at them, as if I saw not, how they goe on in the practise of those sins. Because you that are Fathers, and Husbands showed them the way by your own example in your many diversions, and private walks into shady groves, with no better company than harlots to partake of your idolatrous sacrifice. And into these sins and these punishments may that people easily fall, that will not hold to the knowledge of the true God.

15. But, though you of the ten tribes will run far into the guilt of spiritual and carnall whore∣dom: yet let the house of Judah and Benjamin take heed of following so bad an example. Do not you of those two tribes undertake any walks or pilgrimages to Galgala, or Bethel. That of Bethel indeed hath a specious name as if it were the house of God: but whatsoever it hath been, it is now rather a (c) 1.51 Beth-aven i.e. a house of Vanity or of an Idoll, which is no better than Vanity. Learn not you to goe thither, nor (as they do there) to swear by their calves under the name of Jehovah, whom they think they may worship in such images, and repre∣sentations.

In that sense to swear [as the Lord liveth] will be such an oath, as he will not like.

16. As for thee, oh Israel, that wouldst be dealing with such cattle (with calves instead of a Dietie) the time is coming on, when (to requite thy many walks to them) thy self (k) 1.52 shall wander about like a silly calf. And thou shalt be (l) 1.53 fed where thou mayest have room e∣nough indeed; as much as sheep delight to have, that would ever be feeding in large meadowes, though to the hazard of loosing themselves. So shall your lot fall into spacious places. (But it shall be in the Assyrians grounds, and there will be little comfort of your feeding at large, in that place.)

17. This is the punishment of Ephraim, that beares the name of the ten tribes and is so vio∣lently addicted to Idols, and so incurably sick of that maladie, that it is in vain to perswade him any more against it. Therefore let him alone oh Iudah, leave him to his own wayes.

18, Such a drink offering as they pour out to their Gods, hath lost his best savour, and is not worth the drinking: because it tastes strong of

idolatry, the worst kind of whoredoms. Though (f) 1.54 their great ones come merrily to it, and they that should be like bucklers to keep the people off, do rather love to say, (g) 1.55 Bring hi∣ther our Idols. They were as good have said, Bring hither our shame.

19. Therefore shall Ephraim be as swiftly (h) 1.56 carried away into a remote nation (of the Assyrian) as if he had been taken up upon the wings of the wind. And then with shame shall they think of those sacrifices that have pur∣chased so sad a reward for them, in that dis∣mall place.

CHAP. V.

1. Hear ye this, O Priests, and hearken ye house of Israel, and give ye ear, O house of the King: for judgement is towards you, because ye have been a snare on M••zpah, and a net spred upon Tabor.

2. And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me:

for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.

4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

5 And the pride of Isra∣el doth testifie to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their ini∣quity: Iudah also shall fall with them.

6. They shall go with their flocks, and with their berds to seek the Lord: but they shall not find him, he hath withdrawn himself from them.

7. They have dealt trea∣cherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children, now shall a moneth devour them with their portions.

8. Blow ye the cornet in Gibea, & the trumpet in Ra∣mah; cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.

9. Ephraim shall be de∣solate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israell have I made known that which shall surely be.

10. The Princes of Iu∣dah were like them that re∣move the bound: therefore I will poure out my wrath upon them like water.

11. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgement: because he willingly walk∣ed after the commandment.

12. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth: and to the house of Iudah as rottennesse.

13. When Ephraim saw his sicknesse, and Iudah saw his wound: then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Iareb; yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

14. For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Iudah: I, even I, will tear and go away: I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

15. I will goe and re∣turn to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

CHAP. V.

1. YOu that call your selves Priests in Is∣rael, and passe under that name among your Countriemen, I have somewhat more for you to hear. And it will concern all you of the house of Israel, to listen to it: and you speci∣ally of King Menahem's Court. For there is a (i) 1.57 just punishment readie to fall upon you, because you have been a snare to the house of Iudah, who, by your example, have been as easilie seduced, as birds are taken in nets, and gins, about the woody Mountains of Mizpah, and Tabor: which are famous for that art of fowling, and ensnaring of those crea∣tures.

2. And no wonder, if others were misled by their example: for, these (k) 1.58 Apostates decli∣ning from the true wayes of my service, (l) 1.59 went profoundlie to work in their butchering (for no better term deserve their so much sa∣crificing to idols.) But I will (m) 1.60 find a way of

correction, that shall meet with them all, in a slaughter of men, not of beasts.

3. I know these, and other faults in those of the ten tribes, nor can any of their offences be concealed from me. I observe how Ephraim goes still forward in his spiritual fornication, and all Israel is defiled after their ex∣ample.

4. They will not frame their actions towards a way of conversion unto their God. For, the spirit of that kind of whordom is in the middest of them, and they have no mind to know the Lord.

5. Which proud, and obstinate demeanour of Israel doth testifie to their faces, what they are. Therefore their own iniquitie shall ruine those ten tribes, (under the Assyrian) And Judah shall, not long after, fall into the like miserie (under the Egyptians and Caldaeans.)

6. Then shall they think to make their atone∣ment, by bringing their stocks, and their herds to be offered in sacrifice unto the Lord. * 1.61 But, that way of seeking their peace with God, will not then prove the way to find it. They will rather find, that he hath (n) 1.62 withdrawn himself from them, and will by no means admit of those former waies of accesse.

7. And so he might well do, because of their unlawful accesse to women of other Nati∣ons, whom they were commanded not to marry, which was a great offence against God, and a means to furnish them with strange children, that he will not own. Now therefore will he suffer souldiers of a strange nation (o) 1.63 in a short time by their monethlie payments and exactions, to devour them, and that sub∣stance, which he had allotted, and laid out, as a peculiar portion to themselves.

8. Nor will I longer defer the calling of that armie, saith the Lord. Come on,(p) 1.64 and let your trumpets and cornets give notice of your near approach. Let the sound of them be heard in Gibeah, and Ramah (within the portion of Benjamin, and not many miles from the Citie of Ierusalem) Let them shout aloud at (q) 1.65 Be∣thaven, and that pincheth close upon thy back, O Benjamin. So near is that place unto thee.

9. And if this fall upon Judah. How will Ephraim be laid desolate in the day of his cor∣rection? (under the army of Salmanasser) when I shall show my (r) 1.66 constant resolution of accom∣plishing all that, which I had foretold to be coming upon Israel.

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10. Nor, while they are so punished in Is∣rael, may the Princes of Iudah think to escape. For, many of them have often passed those bounds, that I set them. Therefore I will poure my anger upon them, like water (that will be kept in no bounds, and ever breaks out violent∣lie, and in great abundance.)

11. And while I resolve of Iudah's punish∣ment, I forget not the faults of Ephraim, and Israel: speciallie how the people there have been crushed and oppressed by the power of their great ones, and the iniquitie of their Courts of Iustice. (s) 1.67 My justice suffering that punish∣ment to fall upon them, because they had a readier inclination to walk after the edicts and dictates of men, then after that which I justlie commanded.

12. Therefore as the moth eats and con∣sumes the garment, and rottenness the flesh: so will I for these offences cause both Ephraim and Iudah to be consumed, and eaten out of their own homes. And neither their own, nor other Princes shall be able to relieve them.

13. They may remember the time, when Ephraim perceiving his sicknesse, and Judah feeling his wound, that troubled him:(t) 1.68 E∣phraim

applied himself to the Assyrian, (send∣ing presents to Pul) and (u) 1.69 Judah made his addresses to Tiglathpelezer, that he would be his good King (x) 1.70 Jareb, i. his Protector, and (x) 1.71 avenger of his cause. But, all this while, he, that was so wooed, and humbly sent to, could not heal the disease, that they were sick of: nor cure those wounds, that put them to their pain and trouble.

14. For, to what end is it to seek favour, and succour of men, saith the Lord, when I resolve in my revenge, to be as a Panther sodainly to rush upon Ephraim, and as a Lion violentlie to fall upon the house of Judah? When (y) 1.72 I my felf prove like these fierce creatures that first come abroad to tear in pieces, and then return again into their dens to dispose of their prey: who shall then be able to rescue that, which I have so taken away?

15. But I will retire my self from these sons of men, into heaven, my proper place: (z) 1.73 till by repentance they acknowledge their guilt, and seek after my love and favour, which I know they will do (a) 1.74 with all speed, and diligence, when the smart of their affliction hath wrought the right cure upon them.

CHAP. VI.

1. COme, and let us re∣turn unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heael us: he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2. After two daies will he revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain; as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

5. Therefore have I hewed them by the Prophets: I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth.

6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more the•• burnt offerings.

7. But, they like men, have transgressed the Covenant: there they have dealt trea∣cherously against me.

8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniqui∣ty, and is polluted with blood.

9. And as troups of rob∣bers wait for a man, so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse.

10. I have seen an hor∣rible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whore∣dom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11. Also, O Iudah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the capti∣vity of my people.

CHAP. VI.

1. ANd when they so resolve to seek me by repentance, (as I said they would do in that affliction) they may do it, in these words, which I shall now set down to their hands. Come let us seek a remedie of all our troubles, by returning unto the Lord. For no raging Lions could have thus torn and distressed us, but by his permission: and nothing but his mercie can find a way to relieve us. It is he that gave strength to the hand, which hath smitten, and wounded us, and none but his hand can bind up our wounds, and apply that unto them, which is their certain cure.

2. Indeed our case is rather like theirs, that are killed outright, then onely wounded: and the day of our Countries calamities may be counted the day of her death, and a ceasing quite to be, what she was before. Yet such is the power of our God, that if he suffer us to lie two daies in the grave of this miserie he can make the third day, the joyful day of our resurrection to our former state, and livelyhood: and so the figure of a greater day, that he shall comfort us, and all his servants withal, in his due time: so this quickning and reviving us

out of our miserie here, shall be as a pledge, and assurance, that one day we shall come to live for ever in his sight, and hear no more of his diversions, and retirements from his chosen people.

3. And if we will use our best endeavours, and presse on more, and more toward the know∣ledge and service of God, we shall soon know, that the morning of that happy day begins to dawn. For his ready help shall appear like the joyful morning, that speaks the approach of a clear day. Or like the welcom rain: (b) 1.75 the latter and the former rain, that prophesie a merrie day unto the Earth. (c) 1.76

When the Montains shall skip, like Rams, and the little hills like young sheep. (d) 1.77 And the vallies shall stand so thick with corn, that they shall laugh and sing.

4. Now when they have used this form of accesse to me, then will I answer them in this manner. Alas! what good can I do to you of Ephraim, or to you of Judah? while you con∣tinue in that wicked state wherein you are, and frame not your selves to live well, but onely by fits, and starts. For there is no more assurance of your (e) 1.78 goodnesse then there is of the morn∣ing-cloud,

or the earlie dew, that vanish away, as soon as the Sun begins to look upon them. (Thus you make not up your day, and how can you hope for mine?)

5. That is the reason of the sad daies, wherein I wounded you with those judgements, that I sent my Prophets to foretel: and as good as killed you with threats out of my holy word, and the mouth of my messengers, that I sent unto you. In which sad time (as I called them) my Iustice in those heavy judgements that I brought upon you, is as clear as the light of the day, (fully deserved by you, and yet clearlie fore∣told by me, that you might seek to avoid them by a better course of life.)

6. For (f) 1.79 goodnesse, and holinesse of life is the sacrifice, with which I am best appeased: and it is not the number of your burnt-offerings, that I look after, but the zealous ardour of a good heart, that desires nothing more then to know me, as I have revealed my self in my holie word.

7. But what care have they taken for this goodnesse, and this knowledge, that have vio∣lated my Covenant as their old Father Adam did in Paradise? (who was therefore turned out of that pleasant place: as their punishment

is to be turned out of their pleasant and fruit∣ful land. And good reason: for,) * 1.80 It was not enough for them to sin there against me: (to sin in Adam) but I shall instance in their own actual sins, and begin first with them of Gilead.

8. Gilead is a City wholy fraught with (g) 1.81 makers of idols. And their bloody hands are as deep in crueltie too. If you will follow their footsteps, to find them out, in that sin, you may (h) 1.82 trace them all the way by that blood, which they shed in such abundance, that I was content to appoint more Cities of Refuge be∣yond Iordan (considering the space of ground) then there was on this side.

9. And this will hold true, not onely of the common people, which usually add murder to their theft, and robberie: but of their Priests too, that should be their guides to bet∣ter courses, and yet do as much harm to the souls of men, as others do to their bodies or estates. For, there shall you have combinations of idolatrous priests of Ieroboams new religion, that have their set meetings to little better pur∣pose, then those famous companies of troopers, and theeves, that wait for any man, that passes

by the high way to Sichem, there to rob, and slay. For, such (i) 1.83 villanie is their work: they have little other, imployment.

10. From whence (as an effect of this) I have seen a most horrid thing in Israel, idola∣trie spread over the whole ten tribes by Ieroboam of the tribe of Ephraim: and so all Israel polluted with that spiritual adul∣terie.

11. Nor hath Israel onely offended. I shall find cause enough to punish thee, O Iudah, by Sennacherib one that shall bring (k) 1.84 great sor∣row and affliction upon thee: After I have caused my people Israel to be led captives, (l) 1.85 as at first by Tiglathpelezer, so the second time again by Salmanasser.(k) 1.86

CHAP. VII.

1. When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephra∣im was discovered, and the wickednesse of Samaria: for they commit falshood: and the thief cometh in, & the troup of robbers spoileth without.

2. And they consider not

in their hearts: that I re∣member all their wicked∣nesse: now their own doings have beset them about, they are before my face.

3. They make the King glad with their wickedness and the Princes with their lies.

4. They are all adulte∣rers, an oven heated by the baker; who ceaseth from raising, after he hath knea∣ded the dough, untill it be leavened.

5. In the day of our King, the Princes have made him sick with bottles of wine, he stretched out his hand with scorners.

6. For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they ly in wait, their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their Iudges: all their Kings are fallen, there is none among them that cal∣leth unto me.

8 Ephraim, he hath mix∣ed himself among the peo∣ple, Ephraim is a cake not turned.

9 Strangers have devou∣red his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray haires are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

10 And the pride of Is∣rael testifieth to his face, and they do not return to the Lord their God, non seek to him for all this.

11 Ephraim also is like a silly dove, without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them, I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven: I will chastise them as their Congregation hath heard.

13 Wo unto them, for they have fled from me: de∣struction unto them, because they have transgressed a∣gainst me, though I bave redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled

upon their beds: they assem∣ble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

15 Though I have bound, & strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mis∣chief against me.

16 They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their Princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of E∣gypt.

CHAP. VII.

1. YOu have heard of their wounds, and sicknesse in Israel, and their desire of recovery. Now when I had begun a fair means of cure upon them (by removing the most ido∣latrous house of Ahab) a new way of iniquity was discovered in Ephraim, and Samaria (Jehu (n) 1.87 still leaving Jeroboams calves to be a snare to the people) For then fell they afresh to the making of (o) 1.88 images. Therefore I left them to be punished by whole troops of thieves and robbers both at home and abroad.

2. Yet will they not think in their hearts, how I remember all their wicked actions, which will (p) 1.89 shortly compasse them about (like ene∣mies, that come for their ruine) if they will

not remove them out of my sight.

3. They make a merriment of these faults be∣fore Jehu their King, and cozen the Princes as well as him (with the speculation of their imaginary prosperity in this course.)

4. In the mean time all these (q) 1.90 Idolaters are as hot upon it, as an oven: which was heated by a Baker, that, when he had kneaded his dough, till it was leavened, took no care to watch, and attend the oven, (r) 1.91 (so that the fire might easily break out, and consume the whole house, thorough his supine negligence) Such were these in their idolatrous courses, the more inflamed, and indangered, while their King Jehu connived, and took no care to re∣presse them,

5. And now the Prophet may say. In the daies of this our King Jehu, our Princes (s) 1.92 be∣gan (to be as hot upon their idolatry) as if they had been ins••amed with full bottles of wine. The King, withdrawing his hand and deferring to punish those wicked and profane contemners of God and Men.

6. For these Princes (under pretense of zeal to the cause) fitted, and prepared their infla∣med hearts for idolatry, like that oven before mentioned: treacherously deceiving the King

by their evill counsailes. And the King, all the while, was like the Baker (in the (t) 1.93 for∣mer parable) that slept all night, and either did not, or would not see what they went a∣bout: till at last (u) 1.94 the day came, when the King himself was as much inflamed with that false zeal, as any of them: and I might say; as the very fire, that first set all into such a flame.

7. Not long after, they were all become as hot as an oven, in this businesse. The People, as well as their King, and their Princes, (for, such an example could not but heat them on) And their stomachs quickly prove so hot upon it, that they spare not to devour their own Prin∣ces, and Governours.(x) 1.95 The time will come, when I shall punish them in the same way, by letting their Kings fall by the hands of sedi∣tious People: because, in all this confusion, there were few, or none, that would call upon me for appeasing of these disorders.

8. Therefore shall Ephraim be confusedly dis∣persed among other Nations,y 1.96 and suddenly too. For he shall be like a cake half baked, devour∣ed up before both sides be turned, and heated as they should be.

9. Strangers will consume his wealth, before

he will know why: and he shall be ruined be∣fore he is aware of it: like those that by their gray haires are here, and there fairly admonished of the approach of infirmities, and death: and yet (z) 1.97 will not take any notice of that admo∣nition.

10. And no wonder, if this be the doom of Israel, while their proud, and obstinate demea∣nour testifies to their faces, what they are, and they will not, in humility, return to the Lord, their God, and seek after him, for all this.

11. But Ephraim will still be like a silly dove, that hath no understanding, and (instead of seeking after God) (a) 1.98 fly about to his vain hopes: sometime to implore the help of Egypt, and sometime to be reposed under the shelter of Assyria.

12. But, when they have wandred, thorough all the wayes of trial, that their idle fancy can set them upon: I will catch them in a net, that I have ready to spread over them: and draw them like silly birds, whither I have already determined. And there I (b) 1.99 will punish them, according to that which they have often heard from the mouth of my Prophets, and others, in their several congregations.

13. Nothing but woe can be due to them,

for that often wandring away from me: nothing but desolation, (from those they prefer before my help) can be the doom of their grievous re∣bellions, and aversions from me, that have so often delivered them from the hands of their greatest enemies: though they still continue to speak falsly and vainly of me (in expressing my glory by their idols of wood and stone.)

14. To those titular Gods, and not to me do they heartily make their moan, when their affli∣cting thoughts make them howle upon their beds. And no otherwise, in their merry dayes, when with plenty of bread, and wine, they had (c) 1.100 in∣gurgitated themselves like beasts, did they turne away from me, the Author of that plenty. So that they could never find the way to my ser∣vice, either full or fasting.

15. Whether I weakned them by afsliction, or strengthned them by(d) 1.101prosperity, still they held on their mischievous, and idolatrous devices against me, and against the pure worship of my name.

16. Ever ready to turn away from being un∣der the yoke of my law (notwithstanding all their pretenses to it) like a deceitful bow, that seems to aim one way, and strikes another.(e) 1.102

(f) 1.103 Therefore shall God strike them with a se∣cret arrow, that cannot be discovered, or pre∣vented. For, their Princes shall fall by the sword, in those conspiracies which shall take rise from the virulent speeches, and libels se∣cretly cast out against them (the usual art to feel the pulse of the people) And this shall ex∣pose them to scorn, and contempt among their neighbours of Egypt (who are more loyall, and faithfull to their Princes; then you that should set them a copy of that obedience.)

CHAP. VIII.

1. SEt the trumpet to thy mouth: he shall come as an Eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my Covenant, and trespassed against my Law.

2 Israel shall cry unto me, my God, we know thee.

3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the ene∣my shall pursue him.

4 They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made Princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off, mine an∣ger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

6 For from Israel was it also, the workman made it, therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria

be broken in pieces.

7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlewinde: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yeild no meal: if so be it yeild, the strangers shall swallow it up.

8 Israel is swallowed up, now shall they be among the Gentiles, as a vessel where∣in is no pleasure.

9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild asse a∣lone by himself: Ephraim hath hired louers.

10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the King of Princos.

11 Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sinne.

12 I have written to him the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sinnes: they shall re∣turn to Egypt.

14 For Israel hath for∣gotten his Maker, and buildeth Temples; and Iu∣dah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

CHAP. VIII.

1. AFter this, God gave a command to Ho∣seah to this purpose. Lift up thy voice, against Israel, so loud, that it may be as easily heard, as the sound of a trumpet out of thy mouth, or the noise which an Eagle makes a∣bove

the height of the Temple. So loud do thou proclaim against them for their transgressing of my covenant, and violating my law, (g) 1.104 in a high way of presumption. And if that trum∣pet, and noise of an Eagle prevaile not with them, I will fright them with the trumpets of their enemies, and with Nebuchadnezar's terrible approach, which shall come as sud∣denly upon them, as the flight of an (h) 1.105 Eagle.

2. But they will not hear. Therefore when the time comes, that they shall cry aloud to me in their affliction, and say, O my God! We of Israel (i) 1.106 acknowledge thee onely to be the true God.

3. Then will I answer. For all your fair language now, you of Israel, (that took your name of (k) 1.107 Israel for prevailing with me) have notwithstanding forsaken me your supreme good, and your best friend. And, in forsaking me, you have bereaved your selves of all that is good for you. For, therefore will I leave you to an enemy, that shall never forsake the pursuit of Israel, till he hath brought him to utter ruine.

4. Many Kings and Iudges, (before and

after Jehu and his posterity) have they set••over themselves, without any such direct order from me, or so much as inquiring after my pleasure, (as if my permission were enough to excuse them, without my command) This was one way, and for a second way of forsaking their chief good, of their silver and gold have they made them Idols, as if it were to give me oc∣casion, not onely to take away that wealth, which they so abused: but to cut off such a people from the place, where they have so highly offended. As I have often threatned that I would do.

5. For, do not think, these Idols can prevent it. No, as thou didst cast me off, so thy calf will cast thee off, O Samaria. That Diety of thy first Kings invention, and which thou ma∣kest so much of (as the chief seat of thy ido∣latrous Kings) shall leave thee in the lurch, when thou hast most need of a better help. And, instead of succour from thence, her ad∣mirers shall find the effects of my fierce anger. For, how long shall I expect, 'ere they (l) 1.108 wash off the guilt of those sinnes by repentance, and follow after innocence and purity in the service of the true God?

6. For, this device of the calf is a trick of Israels own choice, and election. They learned it not of any of their idolatrous neighbours. The first founders of it were their own Fa∣thers in the wildernesse. When their poste∣rity long after had taken it up again, it was made by those Artificers, that their own Prin∣ces set on work. And, when all is done, how far it is from being a God, you shall see by my breaking of it all to pieces, (while that is able to make no resistance.) And the hands, that I shall make use of to that purpose, shall spend those pieces of silver, and gold, as they please, without any respect to the pretended sacred employment, which, they had before.

7. Then shall men take up a Proverb against them, and say, They have sowen the wind, and reaped the whirlewind: They have busled, and (m) 1.109 troubled themselves to their own further vexation, (n) 1.110 rather than any advantage. (o) 1.111

For, what true fruit have they of that, whereof they are now ashamed?

And the truth of this they will see in the fruites of the earth, which will as much deceive their expe∣ctation. For, if the stalk come up, it shall have no corn upon it, or, if it have, that shall not make any good meale: or, if it do, strangers

shall come and eat it up. Little of it shall come into their profane mouths.

8. And such (p) 1.112 strangers shall devour the men of Israel themselves, as well as their corn, after a while. And, (for their neglect of my service) the Moabites, and other forreign na∣tions shall make as little account of them, as they do of a broken, or tainted vessel, that a man hath no mind to make use of, for the meanest occasion.

9. In this distresse, up will Israel get him, to seek help of the Assyrian: but he will find him slow enough to take Israel's burden upon his own shoulders, For the Assyrian is like a wild Asse, that feeds alone to himself (he cares not to fit himself for others employment, but for his own ease, and profit.) Therefore Ephra∣ims (q) 1.113 bribes may walk to make friends of the Assyrians, (but it will be to little purpose.)

10. For, Imagine (while they seek not me, their onely true God, and their best help,) that they have some fair hopes from those nati∣ons, that are hired with their money, yet those nations will I muster up against them (chiefly the Assyrians, whom they reckon in the num∣ber of their ablest, and surest friends,) And

then shall they (r) 1.114 begin to be troubled by little, and little, and oppressed with the heavy bur∣dens, layed upon them by that King and his Princes.

11. And, since Ephraim hath taken pleasure in building many Altars, wherein to offend God: they shall meet with Altars (in Assyria) that will give no little offence to them (when, besides their other grievances, they are forced to con∣vey wood, and water, and sacrifices to that service of the Assyrian)

12. All which they might easily have pre∣vented. For, to that purpose, I gave them ma∣ny good and (s) 1.115 worthy lawes in writing, (from the time of Moses) upon which they set no more value, then upon a thing, that little con∣cerned them, or their felicity.

13. The flesh of those sacrifices, which they offer unto me, (for their own sweet sakes, that must feast upon it) let them offer it, and let them eat freely of it, if they will: (For, I little regard either, while they are done with∣out amendment of life) And, for all them, they shall know, that (t) 1.116 ere-long I will call their sinnes to remembrance, and punish their offen∣ces. And this, in particular, that (contrary

to their solemn ingagement to the Assyrian) they have entertained a resolution of applying themselves again to the Egyptians, for an un∣certain relief.

14. In which, as in other courses, they for∣get their God, that made them: and dream of building more and more (u) 1.117 fair houses to their Gods, from whom they expect deliverance. Wherein also the kingdom of Iudah hath not been a little to blame, which (fearing the like incursions of the Assyrian) built not her hopes upon God, but upon the multitude-of her new fenced Cities and Palaces, which I shall send a fire to consume, (by the hand of Sennache∣rib.)

CHAP. IX.

1. REjoyce not, O Isra∣el, for joy as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every corn floor.

2 The floor and the wine∣presse shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

3 They shall not dwell in the Lords land: but E∣phraim shall return to E∣gypt, and they shall eat un∣clean things in Assyria.

4 They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord; neither shall they be plea∣sing

unto him: their sacri∣fices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners: all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

5 What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of thè Lord.

6 For lo, they are gone because of destruction: E∣gypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possesse them: thornes shall be in their tabernacles.

7 The dayes of visitati∣on are come, the dayes of recompense are come, Isra∣el shall know it; the Pro∣phet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multi∣tude of thine iniquity and the great hatred.

8 The watchman of E∣phraim was with my God: but the Prophet is a snare of a sowler in all his waies and hatred in the house of his God.

9 They have deeply cor∣rupted themselves, as in the dayes of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their ini∣quity, he will visit their sins.

10 I found Israel like grapes in the wildernesse: I saw your Fathers as the first ripe in the fig-tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and their abominations were according as they loved.

11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall flee away like a bird: from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea wo also to them when I de∣part from them.

13 Ephraim, as I saw Ty∣rus, is planted in a plea∣sant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his chil∣dren to the murderer.

14 Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

15 All their wickednesse is in Gilgal: for there I hated them; for the wick∣ednesse of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their Princes are revolters.

16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the na∣tions.

CHAP. IX.

1. PLease not thy self too much, O Israel, in thinking thy prosperity as secure, and permanent, as they of other nations may hope for. Idolatrie is not so great a sin in them, as it is in thee. Thou hast gone a whoring from the true God (to whom thou hadst plighted thy troth) And thou hast done it, in expectation of a good reward for it, in all thy corn-floors, (wherein thou hopest to find more plenty, for doing that, which will bring a greater plague upon thee.)

2. For, the floore and the winepresse shall not be able to maintain the owners of them, and the new wine shall faile in this land.

3. For, this is the Lords land by a peculiar

title. And he will not suffer them to be long Inhabitants of his land, that have soon forgot∣ten him, that placed them in so rich, and plea∣sant a soil, when he brought them out of their Egyptian bondage. No: they shall many of them trot along to Egypt again (to an other bondage there) and the rest shall be carried into Assyria, where they shall be forced to eat of those meats, which their law doth account to be unclean. (So far shall their idols be from supplying of them with that plentie, which they expected.)

4. For, it is but just, that they (which would not bring their offerings to God, when they should have done it) should not now be suffered to present him with their wine-offerings, & usu∣al sacrifices, when they fain would do it. Or, if they would, & might then offer them, yet would not God be any way pleased with such a service, in a profane land. They should have no better ac∣ceptance, then those (x) 1.118 funeral-feasts, whereof nothing was wont to be presented in the Tem∣ple. All that eat of such presents (how wel soever they relish to them) would be thereby polluted. Therefore sure they may keep the meat of such oblations (y) 1.119 for themselves. For, there would be no admittance of it into the house of the Lord, (if you suppose such a house then standing,

and them able to spare enough, for that use.)

5. And, if your offerings will be so little regarded, what will you then resolve to do upon your New-Moons, and other solemn, and festi∣val daies, wherein you were wont to appear before the Lord? (Your new Masters will hardlie give you leave to make them holy daies: or, if they do, and you would not appear empty before God; Where, and what can you then present unto God, that shall be accepted, as it hath been in your own Countrie? But, besides all this, They, that will make your blood a sacrifice to Gods justice, and a (z) 1.120 feast to which God himself will invite such as you would not like. They will find you out new holy daies, that you dream not of? What will you do upon those solemn, and festival daies? wherein they will triumph over your miseries, and make you wearie of them, and the place they live in.

6. Will you now see, what will become of them that escape out of this then-desolate land of your own (by running from the Assyrians?) Egypt shall find them a place, wherein to meet, and Memphis shall furnish them with a place of burial: while, in the mean time, those lovely places, which they had purchased here, with their

good money, shall be covered over with nettles: and thorns shall grow in those habitations, wherein, they thought, they had been richly, and safely pitched, without the likelihood of any sodain removal.

7. I speak not now of mere speculations. Doubt not but these daies of visitation, and retribution will as certainly come, as if they were (a) 1.121 come already, and that you shall know it to your cost (that I have foretold nothing, but what is true) And to represent my pre∣dictions in a way, that may expresse the greater assurance of truth, I speak of what shall be, as of things present, or already past. The false Prophets, that lulled you asleep with other dreams of securitie, did but play the fools, and your mad upstarts, that pretended to be inspired, did contribute much to the increase of your in∣iquities, and specially of that your ill opinion, or that great malice rather, which you bare to all them, that would have advised you better, and withdrawn you from idolatrie.

8. A true watchman of Israel is ever (b) 1.122 for my God (doth not side with the people, to their

ruine: but speaks the truth, as in the presence of God, and for their good) but the Prophet, that they cry up, i. the pretended Prophet, that we spake of: He is but like a snare, which the fowler laies to intrap you in all his waies. And what mischief one of those false Prophets so doth, against a true worshiper of God: he doth it, in meer spite against the Temple of his God, where that true worship is performed.

9. These are they, that are profound sinners (stark nought at the heart, whatsoever they are in show) (c) 1.123 Their corruptions are such as can not be matched, but in the storie of the miserable corrupted times, wherein we read of the villanie of those impudent men of Gibeah. Which (d) 1.124 great sins of theirs, with other their offences God will remember and pu∣nish in due time: though they think he hath forgot them, and little regards what is done below.

10. But, who would not grieve to think, how soon Israel was fallen so deep into such foul enormities: for) When I found Israel, at first, in the deserts of Arabia (in their passage out of Egypt into the holy land) upon the

first trial, I found withal somewhat that was good in them, and pleased me as well, as the best grapes would please them that travail in those hot, and barren places. I could then have compared the goodnesse of your forefathers to the first fruit of the sig (that which first ap∣pears to be now ripened, and welcom to the tast) But (such sigs may be soon ripe, soon rot∣ten: and so were they. For) it was not long e're they fell foul upon the worship of Baal (e) 1.125 Peor (the abomination of the Moabites and Ammonites) and (f) 1.126 separated themselves. not to my service, as did the true Nazarites, but to the service of that shameful thing: and so because as abominible as that, whereon they doted.

11. Their sin came on apace then: so did Ephraims after them. And so shall their punish∣ment. For the glorie of Ephraim shall sodainly and swiftly flie away, like a bird. Their glorie is their fruitfulnesse, which they are proud to see in their very (g) 1.127 name. But what glorie will they challenge from the birth of their little ones (when they are (h) 1.128 still-born?) What glorie from the womb, when their wives shall be abortive? What glorie from conception,

(i) 1.129 when they shall have no joy of the fruit of their womb?

12. For, though they bring up their children, till they are of good years; yet will I, more and more, bereave them of those children, till they have not a man left. Part of this shall happen in their passage into Assyria, and the worst, and most(k) 1.130 woful part, when I leave them there, with a more sensible impression of my depar∣ture from them.

13. I look upon Ephraim. like an other Ty∣rus, very populous, and richly seated in a most pleasant place: but thence shall Ephraim be fain to bring forth his children, to be slaughtered by their enemies.

14. And the passing of that heavie decree makes me, that I cannot hold from praying for some mitigation, at least, of their punishment. Give them, O Lord (since it must be so) what thou hadst first threatned, that thou wouldst give them: Their unthankfulnesse for the contrarie benefits deserve no lesse. Give them (that, which sufficientlie crosseth the fair (l) 1.131 omen of their name) barrennesse. Let it suffice that they shall have a barren womb, and drie breasts. For, that other is a (m) 1.132 more sad,

and fearful punishment, to give up their chil∣dren to the mercie of the enemy, when their growth, and strength promise much help, and comfort to their Parents.

15. Yet I must confesse they deserve no such mitigation of their punishment, when I call to mind all their (n) 1.133 wickednesse in Gilgal. That very place might have put them in mind of the favours which I showed them there, presently after their miraculous passage through Iordan, and first entrance into the land of (o) 1.134 promise. There I forgave the long neglect of their circumcision, and did not onely take away that reproach: but began my work of higher mercy, and protection over them in that land. This place therefore, of all other, should have been made a place of thankful ac∣knowledgements, and good resolutions of amendment of life, and holy obedience for the future. They should never have chose to make the (p) 1.135 Devila Chappel, where they were first obliged to show their service to me. The circumcision of their flesh there, should have been seconded with the circumcision of their hearts, and expressed in such actions, as might have gained more of my love. But, they have so ordered it, that I cannot but hate those

things, that have been done in that place. And, me thinks, I hear God saying thus of thom, For the wickednesse of those their doings, and spe∣cially the erection of a house there for idola∣trie, I will drive them far from my house, and show them no more tokens of my love. The rather, because all their Princes and Governors (that should have prevented these mischiefs) have bin as deep as any other inrebellion against me.

16. We have now seen the stroke of justice come so heavily upon Ephraim, that the verie root of that fair, and far-spreading tree is like to be dried up, and withered. Or, if they of Ephraim do bring any store of fruit (and so hold out like their (q) 1.136 name) yet that is a heavy sentence, which God himself hath spoken in these sad terms. I will slay the (r) 1.137most amiable fruit of their womb (that which they so much long for, & place so much affection upon, when they have it) because they spoil their fair beau∣ty, with the imitation of their fathers ugly sins.

17. Thefore my God will cast them off with scorn, because they have not been obedient unto him. And they shall be scattered about, like va∣gabonds, among other nations. All which I speak (s) 1.138 not as desirous to deliver a curse, but as bound to make known a Prophesie a∣gainst this nation.

CHAP. X.

1. ISrael is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself; according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath increased the al∣tars, according to the goodnesse of his land, they have made goodly ima∣ges.

2 Their heart is divided: now shall they be found faul∣ty: he shall break down their altars: he shall spoil their images.

3 For (now they shall say) we have no King, be∣cause we feared not the Lord, what then should a King do to us?

4 They have spoken words, swearing falsly in making a covenant: thus judge∣ment springeth up as hem∣lock in the furrows of the field.

5 The inhabitants of Sa∣maria shall fear, because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoyced on it, for the glory thereof, be∣cause it is departed from it.

6 It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to King Iareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Is∣rael shall be ashamed of his own counsell.

7 As for Samaria, her King is cut off as the some upon the water.

8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the moun∣tains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

9 O Israel, thou hast sin∣ned from the daies of Gi∣beah: there they stood: the battail in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did

not overtake them.

10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them, and the people shall be ga∣thered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn, but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride: Iudah shall plow, and Iacob shall break his clod••.

12 Sow to your selves in righteousnesse, reap in mer∣cy: break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousnesse upon you.

13 Ye have plowed wick∣ednesse, ye have reaped iniquity, ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy for∣tresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth∣arbel in the day of bat∣tel: the mother was dash∣ed in pieces upon her chil∣dren.

15 So shall Bethel do unto you, because of your great wickednesse: in a morning shall the King of Israel be utterly cut off.

CHAP. X.

1. ISrael is like a Vine, that lies wast, and fruit∣lesse to Him that is true owner of it. Her enemies help to lay it wast, and they that should dresse her, and look to her, by their carelessenesse leave it without good sap and moisture: which makes the fruit accordingly little enough, and bad enough. Yet even that little fruit, which Israel hath, he (t) 1.139 makes use of for himself, to be sent spent after his own hu∣mour. And, which is worse, the more God en∣creaseth him, with the fruits of temporal pros∣peritie, in a goodlie soile. He is so far from returning a thankful acknowledgement to God, the good Author of it, that he doth so much the more increase the number of Altars, and Statues (in remembrance of his false gods that do nothing for him) and (u) 1.140 bestow the more cost upon them.

* 1.1412. Thus the heart of Israel is now (x) 1.142 clean departed from the observance of their dutie. Therefore shall they be laid fullie desolate. And he that I will make the instrument of that de∣solation,

will break those Altars of theirs in pieces, and spoile their Statues.

4. For, nothing will reduce them to their dutie unto God, and their King Hosheah. But, this will be their conclusion, (y) 1.143we will neither have Hosheah, nor any other King over us. For we, that durst forsake the service of God, what should we fear the forsaking of the Kings ser∣vice, who hath no great power now to do any thing for us, nor much power to do any thing against us, if we be resolute, and hold close to our selves.

4. In the progresse of such a violent, and treasonable conclusion, they will not stick at a false oath, and covenant. Therefore (to answer the former plenty of their fruitful land) their just punishments shall encrease to as great abun∣dance, as the worst weeds, that come up so thick in the furrowes of the field.

5. Near these times great fear shall fall upon the inhabitants of Samaria, about sending the calves of Bethel and Dan (as a present to Sal∣manaser) For the people (* 1.144 taking them for the very golden calves) shall be much grieved, and troubled at it. But the idol-priests shall be merrie (and applaud their subtle arts, of send∣ing

brazen, and guilded calves, instead of those that were all of gold) This shall be the several deportment of the Priests, and people, when the riches and glorie of their idol shall be thus (z) 1.145 carried into an other land, as a fore-runner of their captivitie.

6. And thus shall their present be carried in∣to Assyria, and offered to Salmanaser, as the great King, their (a) 1.146 Protector, and Avenger of their enemies. But, for this (instead of succour from Assyria) shame will light upon Ephraim, and confusion upon Israel, for that his subtle device.

7. And sodainly shall Samaria, and her King vanish, and be cut off from being a kingdom; like the (b) 1.147 foam, that now appears upon the superficies of the water, and instantly is gone out of sight, and become as if it had never been.

8. The like doom shall fall upon the high pla∣ces, where the Israelites were wont to worship their (c) 1.148 idols. They shall be utterlie destroyed: thorns, and thistles growing, where their Altars had formerlie been placed. And then where will

not those sinners desire to hide themselves, from the wrath, and furie poured out upon them? (d) 1.149 They will call to the hills to cover them, and to the Mountains to fall upon them.

9. Nor are these heavy punishments to be much wondred at in thee, O Israel, For it is no new thing in thee, to be much overtaken with sins of a high strain, specially from the times of Gibeah. Yet then, they of Israel, that went against Gibeah (* 1.150 though they were great sin∣ners, and therefore sadly punished in their first assaults, yet) they (e) 1.151 remained and stood to it, like men reserved for a better day. And upon the battle in Gibeah, against those grievous sin∣ners; though they twice miscarried, yet, at last they had the victory. No (f) 1.152 man had power to take them, and wholly overcome them, because they did so severelie pro∣secute the revenge of a vile, and wicked offence.

10. But now I (g) 1.153 am more then content, to have them taken, and led out of their own land in bonds, and captivite. And (for punishment of those sins, which they themselves would take no order to correct) I will muster up whole ar∣mies

of strange people: when the time is come, that I will have them, to cast those sinners in∣to bonds, and (h) 1.154 tie them fast enough, for the libertie, which they took to themselves in those two great offences (the worship of the two calves, that in Bethel, and that in Dan.)

11. In which sins, they that made those calves to be their Gods, may well be likened unto calves themselves. For Ephraim is like a young heifer, that is easily taught, either to plow, or tread out the corn, and to do it with some delight, ((i) 1.155 being not muzled, but suffe∣red to take part of it) Therefore, I put my yoke upon his fair neck, (the yoke of my law) and guided him, as one might do, that should (k) 1.156 ride upon the back of such a beast, and I said, Let Iudah plow, and Iacob break his clods, (which is as much as if I had said to them, in other words, A good life is the best husban∣drie.) That is,

12. Let your good and righteous actions be like your sowing of good seed, and you shall reap a good reward: (l) 1.157 according to that (l) 1.158 mercy, with which I shall crown that labour, Break up your fallow grounds (to fit and prepare your

selves for a blessing) And finding you are in a good time of seeking God (by your best endea∣vours) so continue till he come and shoure down his (m) 1.159 benefits (which is a piece of (m) 1.160 justice, that he never fails of for his part.) Let your care be for the seed-time, and he will provide a good harvest.

13. As much hath been said to you, as this comes to. But your actions have been nothing answerable to such good advise. Your minds run upon plowing in a worser sense, it seems. For you have laboured as hard to compasse your wicked designs, as one that follows the plow. Therefore you have reaped the punishment of your sins. And the fruit of your labour hath pro∣ved but a specious show, and mere (n) 1.161 delusion. This is the end of thy trusting, and flattering thy self, in thy own waies, and in the youth∣ful strength of thy many stout companions, that have taken part with thee in those labours, that are now come to nothing.

14. Hence arise those jars, and tumults a∣mong thy people, and the spoiling of their strong holds by strangers, in as fierce a manner, as (o) 1.162 Salmana was destroyed by the house of Jerub∣babel, in the day of battle. And with so much

cruelty, that there will be no commiseration of Sex, or Age, the * 1.163 Mother being dashed in pieces with her children.

15. So shall Bethel do unto you. It will bring you into this danger, for your great, very great offences. (p) Your King Hosheah shall be utterly destroyed, and turned out of his Kingdom, as it were in the verie morning, and beginning of his reign, (or, of a sodain, before he looked for such a disaster.)

CHAP. XI.

WHen Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incense to graven images.

3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms: but they knew not that I healed them.

4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

5 He shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be his King, because they refused to return.

6. And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall

consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

7 And my people are bent to back-sliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shal I make thee as Adamah? how shall I set thee as Ze∣b••im: mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

9 I will not exceute the fiercenesse of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man, the holy One in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city.

10 They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall trem∣ble from the west.

11 They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.

12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Iudah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Saints.

CHAP. XI.

1. IN the first times, and tender age of the people of Israel, (q) 1.164 I loved him as my son, and my first born. And as I gave him the honour of that title in Egypt, so with a fatherly affecti∣on I brought him out from thence, (and made

him, (r) 1.165 in that a type of my own natural Son, that was, in due time, to be brought out of the same place.)

2. In those first, and the following times, did Moses, Aaron, the Prophets, and other my Messengers call them to works of Piety, and to obedience unto me. But, how did they requite it? The more they called, so much the readier were the Israelites to turn their backs upon their Teachers, and walk quite another way from their good instructions: and, leaving my service, to sacrifice to their Baals, and burn incense to their graven images.

3. Yet was it I, that nursed them, in their younger daies, and taught them gentlie, how to go sure, and safe, holding them up by the arms (or, carrying them in my own arms, as tender nurses use to carry and hold their children) so did I preserve them from all danger, when they were least able to help themselves. But they would not consider, that I therefore showed this care, and providence of mine, that I might so cure them of their national disease, their itching after the worship of other gods, that could not preserve them.

4. I drew them to me, as men would draw their dearest friends, with the (s) 1.166 strongest

bands of love, and affection. And, after I had been so good a friend to them, as to take off their Egyptian yoke, and the bridle which their hard Masters had put into their mouth, (t) 1.167 then I filled their mouths with plenty of quailes and mannah, as it were of food from heaven, i. dropped out of the air unto them.

5. Though in their latter daies, they return∣ed into Egypt, by seeking help from thence, notwithstanding I will so order it, that they shall return thither no more, upon that errand: but the Assyrian shall rule over them, because they would not be converted unto me, that I might be acknowledged for their King.

6, 7. And do they not deserve this? when the war being (u) 1.168 begun in their own Cities by civil dissentions, and having consumed the strongest, and chiefest of them, because they fol∣lowed their own devises, and not the good counsels, that I gave unto them by my Pro∣phets: yet, for all this, they that were called my people, made no hast of their conversion unto me, but were like men (x) 1.169 that knew not. what to resolve of, though all the messengers, that I sent, called them never so earnestly to return to the High God, still, as (y) 1.170 if all were agreed to∣gether,

not so much as one of them would rouse up himself, and follow that call.

8. How shall I give thee up to thy deserved punishment for these things, O Ephraim! How shall I deliver thee over, O Israel? unlesse I should give thee up, as once I gave up Admah, and make thee like unto Zeboim, in thy fearful, and utter ruine. But my heart is quicklie altered from the execution of so heavy a sentence, and all my bowels of compassion are at once (z) 1.171 moved to repent of that, and take another way.

9. I will do nothing against thee in the fierce∣nesse of my anger. I will not return to that thought of destroying Ephraim in such a man∣ner. For I am a merciful God, that can easily remember my covenant with thy Fathers, and continue my desire of thy happinesse. Nor do I forget, how I have been often hallowed in the midst of thy Assemblies: and I would en∣courage thee to return to the same acknow∣ledgement, and performance of thy bounden dutie. Therefore I will not fall upon any of thy Cities, with that severitie: and specially upon Ierusalem, the place set apart for my wor∣ship.

20. And if they will walk confidently and obe∣diently

after me: I will defend them against all that persecute them. I will be like (a) 1.172 a roaring Lion, and at that voice they shall trem∣ble that come from the Sea, or any of the re∣motest parts, to follow after them.

11. They shall quake like (the stork) the bird, that comes out of Egypt: and (b) 1.173 like the Assyrian-dove shall they fly back into their own nests with all the speed that may be: And there will I settle them quietly, saith the Lord.

12. This will I surely do for them: (c) 1.174 Yet doth Ephraim fetch me about with nothing but lies, and the house of Israel with deceit (fair promises of amendment, and few or no per∣formances) Only, the best is, Iudah doth yet hold out stoutly, (d) 1.175 in the daily worship of the true God, and deales faithfully with his holy Prophets (under their good King Hezekiah.)

CHAP. XII.

1 EPhraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the Eastwind: he day∣ly increaseth lies and deso∣lation, and they do make a covenant with the Assyri∣ans, and oil is carried into Egypt.

2 The Lord hath also a controversie with Iudah, and will punish Iacob ac∣cording to his waies, ac∣cording to his doings will he recompense him.

3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God.

4 Yea, he had power o∣ver the Angel and prevail∣ed, he wept and made sup∣plication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.

5 Even the Lord God of hostes, the Lord is his me∣moriall.

6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgement, and wait on thy God continually.

7 He is a merchant; the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to op∣presse.

8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me, that were sinne.

9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet make thee to dwell in Ta∣bernacles, as in the dayes of the solemn feast.

10 I have also spoken by the Prophets, and I have multiplyed visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the Prophets.

11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are va∣nity, they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heapes in the fur∣rowes of the fields.

12 And Iacob fled into the countrey of Syria, and Israel served for a wi fe, and for a wife he kept sheep.

13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he preserved.

14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his re∣preach shall his Lord return unto him.

CHAP. XII.

1. EPhraim feeds himself with the hopes of that, which is mere wind, and vanity, and will deceive him at the last. Nay (which is far worse) he runs gaping after the East∣wind. That is the wind which he followes, a wind, in these parts of the world, of most malignity, i.e. he takes a quite contrary course to appease the wrath of God. For, the in∣crease of dissembling, and hypocrisie is alwaies Ephraims fault in the fairest pretenses: He were as good resolve to increase the meanes of his own ruine and desolaiton. That will be the end of the Ephramites ingaging themselves by a league with the Assyrian, and at the same time, sending precious oil, and other rich pre∣sents into Egypt, to beg aid from thence against their own confederates.

2. And as Israel is guilty of this subtle Art

of dissembling, and false dealing: so Iudah (in that point, though not so much in the matter of Idolatry) hath his faults too, for which God hath a quarrell to him: but He will not spare to punish (e) 1.176 Israel: according to their wicked waies, and according to their evill doings, will he return a just recompense unto them (who were distinguished from the Tribe of Judah, by the name from Israel, or Jacob; and were the greater offenders, though those names should have put them more in mind of their duty.)

3. The subtilty of the people of Israel, is not like that of Israel, their honoured Patri∣arch: that had it in matter of praise, and ad∣miration. For, he was called Jacob, because while he was yet unborn, he did miraculously supplant his brother, and so give a presage of that felicity, which should be taken off from his Brother, and laid upon him, to be injoy∣ed by his posterity, rather than by himself. In which miraculous supplantation (which was a kind of wrastling with his brother for the blessing) we must not forget how afterwards (f) 1.177 he wrastled, and prevailed with God himself by the strength of his hearty prayers.

4. For, when he had such power to prevaile

over the Angell (that represented the person of God) and to get the victory: you must needs conceive, that he was strengthned by God (the Lord of all the Angels.) His pray∣ers, and his teares procured him that blessing in Bethel, where he found that Angel, and discour∣sed (g) 1.178 with him, and herein he did as good as speak to us (as plainly as if we had been with him) and show us how we may prevaile with the Lord of Hostes.

5. You little thought of this, when you set up your calves in this Bethel, where he wor∣shipped, and made supplication to the true God, that delivered him in his greatest dan∣ger. The same piety to God might procure you the same assistance in all your extremities. For, Iehovah, the Lord of Hosts is the name by which he is remembred. And out of that name you may gather the extent of his power, and goodnesse.

6. Therefore do thou, O Israel, as Jacob did. Return unto thy God, by an unfeigned conversion from all sinne, and keep close to Mercy, and Iustice: so mayst thou alwayes (h) 1.179 expect the like help from thy God, and put thy trust in Him.

7. But, to what purpose is all this good ad∣vice?

For, Israel will continue still to be such a crafty merchant, as he shewed himself in his former subtilty. When he gets deceitfull weights into his hand (any opportunity of deceiving others) he longs to be practising his Art of de∣ceit, to the dammage and oppression of them that suspect him not.

8. In all which Ephraim (or Israel i.e., the ten tribes that will now be called Ephraim) hath the face to say, I am indeed become rich. I have found wayes to purchase me good store of wealth: and have I not done well in all this? In all the paines that I have taken for it (cavill they that will) they will find no fault, wherein I have offended.

9. But, is it no fault, O Ephraim, that I should be so served? I, that am the Lord tby God, that delivered thee out of the Egyptian bondage, and would have made thee still to dwell (i) 1.180 as securely, and chearfully, in all thy ha∣bitaitons,(k) 1.181 as ever thou wert in the dayes of the solemn feast (l) 1.182 of Tabernacles.

10. To which purpose have not I spoken to thee by my Prophets? Have I not sent to thee

by vision after vision: and used Parables, and Similitudes by the ministry of my Prophets? But I have lost my labour, and so have the Isra∣elites too.

11. For, though they have set up an(*) 1.183 idoll in Gilead, yet they did it to (m) 1.184 no purpose (they missed of their aime, when they looked for help, and deliverance from such poor Dei∣ties) And they that offered bullocks (or to bullocks in (n) 1.185 Gilgal; took a wrong course in their worship, and therefore had as ill successe. For even their Altars are come to ruine, and confusion, and lie but as heaps of stones, that the husbandman hath cast up and down, at a venture, in the furrowes of his field.

12. The time was, when Jacob (your Fa∣ther) (o) 1.186 fled out of Syria into that Region of Gilead. In those dayes he could find in his heart to do service for the purchase of a wife, and for a wife to be a keeper of sheep. This did he for his two wives, but what have you done in the service of God, to win his favour?

13. The time was too, when God sent Mo∣ses, as a great Prophet, to bring Israel out of Egypt, and by the care and direction of that

Prophet they were kept from all danger, and safely conducted in the wildernesse, till Joshu∣ah had a command to lead them into the pro∣mised land; which is your inheritance.

14. But, what requitall have they, or you given to me? Nay, Ephraim hath, instead of that, provoked me (p) 1.187 bitterly to anger, by his wicked deeds: Therefore his bloud shall be upon him, for his cruelty to many good per∣sons, and the reproaches against me and my Prophets, shall his God return upon him, in due time.

CHAP. XIII.

1. WHen Ephraim spake, trembling he exalted himself in Isra∣el; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

2 And now they sinne more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own un∣derstanding, all of it the work of the crafts-man: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice, kisse the calves.

3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it passeth away, as the chaffe that is driven with a whirl∣wind out of the floor, and as the smoak out of the chimney.

4 Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt and thou shalt know no God but me; for there is no Sa∣viour beside me.

5 I did know thee in the wildernesse, in the land

of great drought.

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled: they were filled, and their heart was exalted: there∣fore have they forgotten me.

7 Therefore I will be un∣to them as a Lion, as a Leo∣pard by the way will I ob∣serve them.

8 I will meet them as a Bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rent the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a Lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

9 O Israel, thou hast de∣stroyed thy self, but in me it thine help.

10 I will be thy King: where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities? and thy Iudges of whom thou saidst, Give me a King and Princes?

11 I gave thee a King in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

12 The iniquity of Ephra∣im is bound up: his sin is hid.

13 The sorrowes of a tra∣velling woman shall come upon him, he is an unwise son, for he should not stay long in the place of the brea∣king forth of children.

14 I will ransome them from the power of the grave, I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues: O grave, I will be thy destruction: re∣pentance shall be hid from mine eies.

15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an East∣wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wildernesse, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoile the treasures of all pleasant vessels.

16 Samaria shal become desolate, for she hath re∣belled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ript up.

CHAP. XIII.

1. THe time was also, when if Ephraim stood up to speak, a kind of (q) 1.188 fear, and reverence seazed upon all those of the ten Tribes. This height of Honour was he come to in Israel. But, the times of that respect are past, and for the sinne, which he hath commit∣ted in his (r) 1.189 calves, and Baals, he must look for nothing but death, and destruction,

2. For now, this sinne hath more and more increased, amongst them, and (not content with their calves, in Dan and Bethel,) they have made themselves other molten images of their silver, after their own phansie, all of those i∣dols the work of craftsmen. And they spare not to say to them, They among us, that offer men too in sacrifice, shall also perform (s) 1.190 their homage to the calves.

3. Therefore they shall not hold out long in

this wickednesse. For, I will make them leave the place, which they have so abused, and sud∣denly vanish, like the morning-cloudes, and the early dew, that is soon gone, and the chaffe that is hurried away, with the whirlwind, out of the floor: and the smoak out of the chimney, that quickly leaves that place, and knows it no more.

4. And justly will this fall upon thee, ô Israel, For, I am thy God that brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Therefore thou shouldst have acknowledged no other God besides me, who only can save, and deliver thee, out of all thy troubles, and am the onely Preserver of man∣kind.

5. I vouchsafed to take notice, and care of thee, in the vast wildernesse, a dry, and barren place, where thou couldst otherwise have been supplied with no provisions.

6. I fed them there like sheep in variety of severall pastures, and when they were fully satis∣fied, and fatted with good fare, their hearts were puffed up with pride: that is it, that made them so soon forget me, that fed them.

7. Therefore I will be (no longer as a Shep∣herd to feed them so fat, but rather) as a Lion, and a Leopard to watch, (t) 1.191 and walk about,

and observe, how I may destroy them in the way, which they are to passe.

8. I will meet them in that rage, which you see in a bear, when she is robbed of her whelps, and tear in pieces their very (u) 1.192 heart-strings, I will set the Assyrian, like a Lion, or some such wild beast to devour some, and distract others into so many divisions, that they shall not be able, in one body again, to make any re∣sistance.

9. And for this thy (x) 1.193 low, and miserable estate, thou mayst thank thy self, O Israel: that wouldst not thank me for thy succour, in all thy necessities, it depending wholly upon mee.

10. For (y) 1.194 what is become of thy King? that should all this while, provide for thy safety in all thy Cities, where is he? And what is become of thy Iudges, and Rulers that should defend thee? Of whom thou saidst once, (z) 1.195 Give us a King, to rule over us, and Princes to judge us, and go before us, and fight our battles. Didst thou not long for them a little too soon?

11. Wherfore there was a time, and may

be again, when I give thee a King in mine an∣ger (as in Saul, and Jeroboam) and I take thy King away in my wrath (as in the good Josiah, ann in Hosheah, of whom there was some good hope.)

12. This misery will fall, especially upon the ten tribes. For I will not forget the sins of Ephraim, I bound them up together in a bun∣dle, and laid them up in a safe corner: to be again brought out, and revenged, as I see cause.

13. When the sad time of revenge drawes near, and the pangs come suddenly upon him, as upon a woman in travaile; it will appear, that (a) 1.196 he is like a silly babe, that knowes not how to make way for his Mother's, and his own de∣livery. Else would he seek to me, and not stay so long for succour, when he is as near the be∣ing rescued, as one that is come to the time of birth.

14. For (b) 1.197 I can set them at liberty, in the greatest distresse: from the very power of death and the grave. And so I will do, when I see my time, and for all those that I will deliver (c) 1.198 Where will then be thy sting, O Death! O Grave, where will then be thy victory? But now,

since they will not seek me, I will look upon no wayes how to (d) 1.199 comfort me, and appease my wrath, but in their destruction.

15. And when Ephraim is become (like his name) (e) 1.200 fruitfull, and populous among his bre∣thren, then a strong (f) 1.201 and terrible East-wind, (the swift and pernicious army of the Assy∣rian) shall come upon him from the deserts of Syria, (whence the most boisterous winds arise) and dry up the springs, and fountains, that have hitherto refreshed him. And that wind (or fierce army) shall blow away, or make spoile of all the rich treasures, and severall kind of (g) 1.202 things, which he hath heaped up in storè, and wherein he hath placed his delight.

16. Samaria (their Metropolis) must needs be (h) 1.203 guilty of some great offence, that hath thus (i) 1.204 bitterly provoked her God to anger. Therefore shall many of them fall by the sword. (k) 1.205 Their Infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

CHAP. XIV.

1 O Isral, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

2 Take with you words, and turn to the Lord, say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us gra∣ciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

3 Ashur shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse find∣eth mercy.

4 I will heal their back∣sliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lillie, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the Olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return: they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine, the sent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green firre tree, from me is thy fruit found.

9 Who so is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the waies of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressour shall fall therein.

CHAP. XIV.

(l) 1.206THere is yet one way, the way of serious, and timely repentance, to prevent, or qualifie all this. Come then, O Israel, Return again unto the Lord thy God, by true repen∣tance, as (l) 1.207 thou hast taken from him by thy great offences.

2. Take this form of confession into your mouths, and say to him, with a true penitent heart. Take away the (m) 1.208 punishment of all our iniquities, O Lord, and pardon our (n) 1.209 offences. And gratiously accept (o) 1.210 of that good service, which we deserve to offer unto thee in all submission. And, though we have hitherto been•• fruitlesse in our actions, yet now let the (p) 1.211 fruit of our lips (our thankful acknow∣ledgements) be rendred, as a pledge of our fu∣ture obedience.

3. We will make no more addresses to Assyria, when we would be saved from our enemies. We will seek no more succour from the Egyptian Horse. (wherein that nation excels.) We will

never hereafter give that honour to idols, the work of our own hands, which belongs onely to God. For thou art the true and sure refuge of all that are afflicted. The very Orphans, and they that are most destitute of help, are wont to find pitie in thee, when all other hopes forsake them: and a pitie, accompanied with such a loving (q) 1.212 affection as a dear mother bears to the fruit in her womb.

4. Upon this humble submission of theirs, I would give them this merciful answer (saith God himself) that, I will, upon their amend∣ment of life, cure them of all their strange aver∣sions from me. I will embrace them most loving∣ly, with a (r) 1.213 free, and hearty affection. So ea∣sily would I be content, that mine anger should be wholly turned from them.

5. I will be to Israel like the hopeful dew (the pledge of a plentiful encrease) (s) He shall slourish like the fair lilly, and take as deep root as the trees of Lebanon.

6. His children like (t) olive-branches shall spread, and dilate themselves all abroad. For, his (u) 1.214 excellencie shall be every way like that of the olive (not in the green, and long-flou∣rishing boughs onely, but in the goodnesse, and (x) 1.215 fatnesse of the fruit, that pleaseth God, and

men) And his name and good report among other nations shall be as sweet as the smel of (y) 1.216 frankincense.

7. So that many that, upon their fame, will come to live under the shadow, and protection of Israel shall be converted to the worship of the true God, And their newness of life shall be with as much fruit as the corn that dies in the ground, and is again quickened with the advantage of much increase. It shall be compared to the growth of the fruitful vine: and the memorial of them shall be like the fragrant, and pleasant wine of Lebanon, that is never remembred but with high commendation.

8. But (for all these good promises of theirs, and presages of mine) how comes it to passe, that Ephraim doth still continue his worship of idols? I am readie to hear and help him, in the time of need (which they cannot) and so carefully to look to him, that he shall not cease to flourish like a green sirre tree. For thou hast never done any thing, O Ephraim, but it hath been found, that I have answered it to thee, with the fruit of a high reward.

9. Will any of you now be so wise as to con∣sider these things? (z) 1.217 Will any be so prudent in their actions, as if they took full notice of

the passages of the mercy, and justice of God? Though you will not do so, yet are all the coun∣sels, and actions of God full of equity. And as all his waies are just: so all that are just will walk in his waies. But the wicked, and unjust are so far from walking in them, as they should do, that they cannot hold out long, without discoverie of their great faults, and relapses, wherein they fall foule from him, and his waies, though they may pretend to walk in them.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  Quid hîc inimicum fidei Christianae, si m••retrix, relictâ fornicatione in caslam conjujem commutet••? (ut Aug. contra Faustum Manichaeu••a disputaus.)
• (b) 1.2

  〈 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.
• (c) 1.3

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (d) 1.4

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (e) 1.5

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 disseminare.
• (f) 1.6

  4 Reg. 10. Vide R. Kimchi & Lyranum.
• (g) 1.7

  Sic Jonathan •• Kimchicitatus.
• (h) 1.8

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 non consecuta misericordiam.
• (i) 1.9

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 non populus meus.
• (k) 1.10

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• (l) 1.11

  Which answers 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in the best sense. vide V. 4.
• (m) 1.12

  Vide V. 4.
• (n) 1.13

  V. 10.
• (o) 1.14

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (p) 1.15

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 populus meus.
• (q) 1.16

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 miseri cordia consecuta. Hîo potiùs claudendum primum caput, cum Hieron.
• (r) 1.17

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 implies both.
• (r) 1.18

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 implies both.
• (s) 1.19

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (t) 1.20

  Sic Ab. Ezra.
• (u) 1.21

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (x) 1.22

  Nam nudatio pudendorum stultitia est, inquit A. Ezra.
• (y) 1.23

  This seems to be ironically spoken to the ten Tribes:
• (z) 1.24

  Leg. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vinitores, ut Hieron.
• (a) 1.25

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 institutio puerorum quasi per lineas, a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (b) 1.26

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vir mi 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 int Baal. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 festivi∣tatis gratiâ addi videtur (ut alibi saepe) quasi diceres, Call me him Husband, not Baal.
• (c) 1.27

  Nam 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 saepe pro bonitate.
• * 1.28

  Sic 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 saepe sumitur.
• (d) 1.29

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (e) 1.30

  i. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Chap. 1. 4. 11.
• (f) 1.31

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 alludit iterum ad nomen Jezreel.
• (g) 1.32

  Chap. 1. 6, 9.
• (h) 1.33

  Dilectionem conjugalem intelligit.
• (i) 1.34

  Intellige retum populum Israeliticum: tam Iud. quam Isra pro∣priè dict.
• (k) 1.35

  s. in captivit. Pab. & sunt qui haec exponunt (in hoc & seq. vers.) de Iudaeis, in fine mund•• ad Christi fidem converten∣dis: post longum tempus exactum sine sacrificio, & altari.
• (l) 1.36

  non in Iudátanium, sed in Israel propriè dict. erant Columnae, E∣phod, Teràphim, in imitationem eorum, que in Templo Hierosol. habe∣bantur: ne dissimilis cliltus Sacerdotium Iudae redderet augustius.
• (m) 1.37

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (n) 1.38

  ut vasa nimium impleta, id enim 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (o) 1.39

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 soepe pro caede
• (p) 1.40

  & pro peccatis, sanguinis effusionesi. e. morte dignis.
• (q) 1.41

  Sic prata ridere dicuntur, ••n summâ rerum copiâ: hic lugere in sterili a••e aut vastatione.
• (r) 1.42

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 labe-fieri, infirmari, cum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ad auxesen geminat.
• (s) 1.43

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 certè ut Psal. 5 8. ult. & Job. 18. ult. sic Mercerus, hic certè nemo ausit, i. e. reprehendi se non patientur. Deut, 17, 12.
• (t) 1.44

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 utrumque significat, Regem & Sacerdotem.
• (u) 1.45

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vel 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quasi hodie ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c: 7. 2.
• (x) 1.46

  al••udit ad subito, & nocte captain Hieros l. 2. Paral. ult.
• (y) 1.47

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hic & amplitudinem, & dignitatem significat, ut patet ex se∣••uent.
• (z) 1.48

  Deut. 4. 15. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 elevare animum ad aliquid, est d••si∣derare.
• (a) 1.49

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (b) 1.50

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (c) 1.51

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 domus peccati potius a Prophetis dicitur, ob idololatriam, quam Be••hel, i. e, Domus Dei.
• (k) 1.52

  alludit ad vitulum in Beth-aven, sed Iarki: A Ezra & Kimchi sumunt 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in notione rebellandi, ut dicatur hic similis bovi saginato, adeoque refractario.
• (l) 1.53

  Ironicè dictum videtur, etsi Kimchi sic ver∣tat. Ni defecissent pavisset eos Dominus in affluentia.
• (f) 1.54

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 proceres & clypei hebr.
• (g) 1.55

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 nam Propheta in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Idola subintelligit: quae, eadem de causâ, alibi ettam similia habent nomina.
• (h) 1.56

  ventus ligavit eam ad ducendum in exilium, ut Kimchi Patrem suum dicit exposuisse, Ipse autem Kimchi hoc modo expo∣nit. Vt qui ligat ventum in alis suis, unde nihil boni provenit, sic qui sacrificarunt vitulis, nihil praeter confusionem, lucrantur.
• (i) 1.57

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 paena (secundum judicium rectum (immine••) vobis.
• (k) 1.58

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (l) 1.59

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro fundarunt mactare (ut Kimchi) i. were deeply ingaged for that sin, ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 sit verb. Infin. modo ut alibi 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & sic Targum.
• (m) 1.60

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ego correctionem pro illis pa••o, ut rectè Jonathan.
• * 1.61

  Sic u. ul••.
• (n) 1.62

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (o) 1.63

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro utroque exponi potest, & pro menstrua pensione, & pro brevi tempore, quod Mercero magis placet.
• (p) 1.64

  Reg. 15. 19. Hos. 8. 10.
• (q) 1.65

  i. Bethel.
• (r) 1.66

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 constantiam meam.
• (s) 1.67

  Sic & Mercero hunc locum suppleri posse videtur:
• (t) 1.68

  2 Reg. 15. 20. & 16. 6,
• (u) 1.69

  Paral. 28. 16.
• (x) 1.70

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ca. 10. 6.
• (x) 1.71

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ca. 10. 6.
• (y) 1.72

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 gemina∣tio ad auxesin.
• (z) 1.73

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 donec se re••s peragant. Id enim 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 signif. ut Levit. 4. 13.
• (a) 1.74

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (b) 1.75

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (c) 1.76

  Psal. 114. 4.
• (d) 1.77

  Psal. 65, ult.
• (e) 1.78

  Sic 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 soepe significat.
• (f) 1.79

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hic eodem sensu sumi potest, quo v. 4.
• * 1.80

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (g) 1.81

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c. 7. 1.
• (h) 1.82

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 tra∣ced,.. &c.
• (i) 1.83

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (k) 1.84

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro angustiis, ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (l) 1.85

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (k) 1.86

  Et eleganter admodum 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (afflictio, & miseria) dicitur 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 i. fructus peccato∣rum q. d. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 finis. ejus est miseria. Adde quod Messis designat tempus judicii, vide c. 8. 7.
• (n) 1.87

  2 Reg. 10.31,
• (o) 1.88

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 hic ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c. 6. v.8.
• (p) 1.89

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 c. ••.5.
• (q) 1.90

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (r) 1.91

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 à vigilando c••ssavit. Ex. v. 6.
• (s) 1.92

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (t) 1.93

  vide v. 4.
• (u) 1.94

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (x) 1.95

  2. Reg. 15. 16.
• y 1.96

  c. 4. 2.
• (z) 1.97

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (a) 1.98

  2. Reg. 15, 59. Hos. 5, 13.
• (b) 1.99

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 à 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 2. Reg. 17, 13.
• (c) 1.100

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ruminare (ut hic Hieron) vel ingurgitare, vel congregare se ad comedendum, & bibendum.
• (d) 1.101

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (e) 1.102

  lege•• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (f) 1.103

  Psal. 78. 37.
• (g) 1.104

  nam 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 est peccatum praesumptionis.
• (h) 1.105

  & de hac Aquila non∣nulli exponunt verba praced.
• (i) 1.106

  nam hoc 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 saepe signif.
• (k) 1.107

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 sonat cum deo pravalentem.
• (l) 1.108

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 utrumque complectitur, (ut Ps. l. 26. 6.) innocentiam, & mundationem per poenitantiam.
• (m) 1.109

  Job. 4, 8.
• (n) 1.110

  Prov. 22, 8.
• (o) 1.111

  Rom. 6.
• (p) 1.112

  patet ex sequentibus,
• (q) 1.113

  Ezek. 16, 33.
• (r) 1.114

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Hiph. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 incipere (ut apparet ex daghes in Lamed) sed cūm aellusione aliquâ ad 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 dolere.
• (s) 1.115

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 mult••, & magna, atque honoranda signific.
• (t) 1.116

  hoc n. est 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (u) 1.117

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 delubra.
• (x) 1.118

  Parentalia, Hieron. Jer. 16. 7.
• (y) 1.119

  Sic 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 saepe sumitur.
• (z) 1.120

  Vide Ezek. 39. 17, 18, 19.
• (a) 1.121

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 venerunt. (vide c. 11. ult vel.)
• (b) 1.122

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 cum Deo meo quo sensu Christus Dom. dixit, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 — qui non est mecum, contra me est. Mat. 12. 30. Vel sic vertas, Ephraims watchman (for what he saith) is counted of equal authority with my God, and his true Prophet: but he is but like a snare— &c.
• (c) 1.123

  Chap. 10. 9. 1 Sam. 8, 5. 6. Jud: 19. 6.
• (d) 1.124

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (e) 1.125

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 nuditas sic Priapum vocabant.
• (f) 1.126

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 made new kind of Nazarites of themselves.
• (g) 1.127

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (h) 1.128

  Sle Kimchi.
• (i) 1.129

  iex sequ.
• (k) 1.130

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vae illis.
• (l) 1.131

  Vide v. 11.
• (m) 1.132

  Sic. A. Ezra, & D. Kim••ht.
• (n) 1.133

  Vide cap. 12. 11.
• (o) 1.134

  vide I••s. 4.
• (p) 1.135

  Vide c. 4. 15. & 12. 11.
• (q) 1.136

  Vi v, u••.
• (r) 1.137

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (s) 1.138

  S. Ia••kl.
• (t) 1.139

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ponit, i. facit sibi.
• (u) 1.140

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• * 1.141

  Isa. 5. 6.
• (x) 1.142

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉c. 5. 6.
• (y) 1.143

  Verba sunt desperantium, ut plerique exponunt.
• * 1.144

  Vide v. 6. Et Hieron. ad locum, de vitulis aeneis, & deauratis.
• (z) 1.145

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 migrarem in captivitate.
• (a) 1.146

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut c. 5, 13. est Vltor, vel Protector. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, qui ••ites corum dirimet, eosque ut sues, in ••utelam suscipiet.
• (b) 1.147

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 spuma in superficie aquae ferventis, & ebullientis. Vnde pro i•• â vehementiori.
• (c) 1.148

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 idolum vel pro Be••h. Aven.
• (d) 1.149

  Luc. 27. 30. Apoc. 6. 16. Isai. 2. ult.
• * 1.150

  Iud. 20.
• (e) 1.151

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (f) 1.152

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (g) 1.153

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ab 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ligare.
• (h) 1.154

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & alludit ad vitulum alligatum, qui Iascivierat.
• (i) 1.155

  Deut. 25. 4.
• (k) 1.156

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (l) 1.157

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 juxta, secundum.
• (l) 1.158

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 beneficentia.
• (m) 1.159

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (ut suprà 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) saepe pro misericordiâ & beneficentiâ)
• (m) 1.160

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (ut suprà 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) saepe pro misericordiâ & beneficentiâ)
• (n) 1.161

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (o) 1.162

  Alludit ad Iud. 8. ut vult Hieronim. & Salman ponitur pro Salmana (vel Zalmunah) sicut & Arbal pro Ierubbaal, etsi aliter Kimchi.
• * 1.163

  Gen. 32, 11. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 aurora. pro princ••pio vel mane exsciudi, de improviso exi••io intelligi potest.
• (q) 1.164

  Ezek. 16. 3. & 23. 3. Exod. 4. 22.
• (r) 1.165

  MaT. 1. 25.
• (s) 1.166

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 rudentes, vel vincula crassiera.
• (t) 1.167

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 inclinabam cibum. I held it close to their mouths.
• (u) 1.168

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (x) 1.169

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pendent animi num ad me redeant.
• (y) 1.170

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (z) 1.171

  In••alescunt paenitudinermea.
• (a) 1.172

  potest hic subest vaticinium de reliquiis Israel, ad Christam conver∣tendis per rugitum Domini, i. e. Evangelii praedicationem, quam, in Iudaeâ primò promulgaram, Iudaei primò, deinde, alii summâ cum admi∣ratio••e, & timore amplectentur, & huno sensum versus etiam sequen•• ad∣mittere potest.
• (b) 1.173

  sicut avis, & sicut columba) hoc celeritatem di∣vulgationis Evangelii, & conversionis fidelium significare potest, si di∣ctum, in margine, prioris versus sensum sequamur.
• (c) 1.174

  Hic no••••ulli•• nova Prophetia incipera videtur.
• (d) 1.175

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut c. 918.
• (e) 1.176

  hebr. Iacob.
• (f) 1.177

  Gen. 32, 22.
• (g) 1.178

  sic utraque lectio exprimi potest 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (h) 1.179

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (i) 1.180

  hebr. pro 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as in tents,
• (k) 1.181

  other houses were called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from the first use of Tabernacles, wherein they dwelt in the desert. In memory whereof the Feast of Tabernacles was instituted, which was also a shadow of the peace, and quiet, and security, that we should have by Christ.
• (l) 1.182

  nam 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ex praecedentibus reperendum.
• (*) 1.183

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (m) 1.184

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (n) 1.185

  videour significare, & decem, & duas tri∣bus pari idololatriae errore deceptas. Nam quo tempore haec propheta∣bantur, Galaad erat in regno decem tribuum, Gil•••••• duarum, ut monet Hieronymus, vide cap. 4, 15.
• (o) 1.186

  sugit agrum Syriae.
• (p) 1.187

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 cap. 4. 1. 2. cap. 11, 1.
• (q) 1.188

  Tempore Iudicum, & Regum aliquot ex eâ tribu.
• (r) 1.189

  Hebraei vitulos etiam, interdum vocant Baalim.
• (s) 1.190

  Osculum erat signum ho∣magii, (ut vocatur) & sic illud exponendum, Psal 2. ult. sulemus e∣nim, oscula manuum, Principes adorare, & subjectionis nostrae testi∣monium presta••e.
• (t) 1.191

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 gradiens, vel observans, ab 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vel 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (u) 1.192

  praecordia, vel claustra cordis, potest ad animos alludere, occlusos ad omnes admonitiones.
• (x) 1.193

  depressio tua ex te, vel perdidisti te, vel perdidit te (iniquitas tua)
• (y) 1.194

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 pro 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ubi tandem est Rex tuus?
• (z) 1.195

  Sam. 8. 20.
• (a) 1.196

  4. Reg. 19, 3.
• (b) 1.197

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Modus Indicationis pro potentiali (ut v. 4. I could or can—
• (c) 1.198

  1. Cor. 15, 55. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 ut v. 10.
• (d) 1.199

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (e) 1.200

  c. 9. 11.
• (f) 1.201

  ventus Dei, i. vehemens, vel à Deo missus: quem quidam de Christo exponunt, qui venit ut ventus morti, & inferno noxius: mortis fonte (peccato) per Christum abolito.
• (g) 1.202

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (ut Scot. geare) comprehendit omnia utensilia, &c.
• (h) 1.203

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 reum peragi.
• (i) 1.204

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (k) 1.205

  Psal•• 137, 8.
• (l) 1.206

  V. 1. vel 2.
• (l) 1.207

  V. 1. vel 2.
• (m) 1.208

  vel 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 quamvis—though thou hast—
• (n) 1.209

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 peco••tir••m & paenam peccati significat.
• (o) 1.210

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (p) 1.211

  Pro 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Sept. l••••gerunt 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & sic Heb. 13. 15.
• (q) 1.212

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• (r) 1.213

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ephes. 1. 5, 9. Gen: 27. 39. Isa. 26. 19. Mic 9.7. Ps. 128.4
• (u) 1.214

  Praestantia ejus sicut olea (praestantia)
• (x) 1.215

  Jud. 9.9
• (y) 1.216

  Or the wine of Lebanon. as v. 7.
• (z) 1.217

  Psal. 107. ult. Jer. 9. 12. Psal. 50. penult.