2 erpre ds 1 denial, that Epkraim was of Judah, and in the cities thereof, when I ſhall brir » Cha leads ſome to interpret theſe words into a : ; : 1e Ci : all bring > «(nt Ehild, and denying the truth of his pro- > TINT, Vet "BY DC Tp 32. 4c A his dear Son, or a pleaſe axtby ro ©, hy be ET he. 600 their cap ity, the LORD bieſs thee, O habica- Heb, Fell. d Repontance. EEE niorels Archer of che Sg! fb ; 10D of juſtice, and mountain of holineſs zz. < 16. WM whole PE = ed. that the affirmative Interrogation tome | k Theſe Prophecies of the Reſtzuration ct ti Jews, are very be VOUS wn © doh imply a Negative, or the negative Particle | Ordainarily prefaczd with theſe txo Attributes of Gee, the ere of i times 1N 19% (I <q; er RT. & vie os iobreie thy) dear which afſerts his Power to do the thing promited; for what cannor 3s ſupprefſ-d and '-.1S #4 4K | FE PRs BE 9e-the bives be dore by the Lord of Hoſts? The other aſſerting his Goodneſs -$m here, is the ſame wit Z 5. Pp? 115 Pl "Fa di 2h - ws or Good Will to this People, becauſe he is their God, related to CES. 75 hoe we hank applied bog bene | 27> in Covenant with them : Abiliry and Love, or Good Will with did I no:? So Job 20. 4- Wh J Hef res form? Is j Ge Ro to us, being the two P:1lJars of our Faith, and Confidence in God, ' thou nt k q OE} neck wah os wy - 5H the chunk _ me no _ _ _ - open be qv that the w.th Haff thou 8 « 20+ JO.. \V. 2. ws Ho erilon whom we truſt 15 able and wiliing to do whar we truſt to the Particl: prefixed T1, be an affirmarive Parricle, yet 1t 15 often him for, The Particle ")) ſeemeth better rranſ]-red, vir 5 yer pur for Pn and ſignificth Negatively the Negarive being ſupprel- | again they ſhall uſe, &c, m Three things the Prophet here forte]- ied and to be unde:{to0d. I have alſo ſometimes thought thar even | lerh. «1, "Thar the Cities which formerly had been the Habitat:ons here it may be fairly enough interpreted, Is Ephraim now ome ; of bloody, unjuſt, cruel Men, ſhould become the Habitations of my dear Son ? Is he a pleaſant Child ? Is his heart turned? Sois ; Men who ſhould do juſtice toall. 2. That the City which ſtood woe s For ſince I ſi ON hw. ww with -— Dh &y v> = __ amor Zion, _ _ _— —_ an oe of Ido!a- earneſtly remember him, "NAT 7D Ar. Mentanus tranſl: it, fr | Ters, ad other unholy P-rſons, ſhould become a tJace, in which : with him; the reaſon of the difference is, |, Men ſhou'd in a duc and holy manner ſerveand wo ſhip the rrue foro of Rk it gnifi-s time. I fee no reaſon to vary ' God. 3. That they ſhould be ſo famous bo-h for erend Ho- -from our Tranſlation fince or from the time, as the ſame Particle Jlineſs, that Men ſhou'd take notice of it, and wiſh rhem well un- Rock, 2 Sow 18. 4 qg21 Kings 14 28. Iſa. 28. 19. Iipake againſt der that notion ; and up>n that account, as they had for their ſins bin by ye Thrernings. I do remember him with the affeQtion and been made a Curſe and a Proverb, fo upon their Refo:mat'on they compaſſion of a Father. 6 My bowels are troubled for him is as much fhould be for a Bl.fling. By this we may obſerve tht thoſe who a$ T have pitied him; as the Bowels of Parents are turned and rrou= Would be bl:fſed by God and Men, muſt be juſt rowaids Men, and bled for their Children in C:lamitiesz therefore ſaith God. c I will | holy towards God. : ; certainly ſhew him Favour. ; 24 And there (ball dwell in Judah itſelf, and in all 21 Serthee up way-marks 4, make thee high heaps e: the cities thereof together husbandmen, and they has ſet thine heart towards the high-way, ever the way go forth with flocks ». 6: | which thou wenteſt f : turn again, O virgin of Iſrael, 7 This whole Verſe is but an Expreſſion of their peaceable State turn again to theſe thy cities g. og _ return, they ſhould live innocently and peaceably. So d The later part of this Verſe expounds the former, Thou ſhale | "7: 35 12 : ( faith God ) Gon again to theſe Cities which — _ 12 A S have _— _ a eary foul, and I have | therefore takz good notice of the way r10u goclt, ict up ilome | TEPIienUNEd Every LOTFOWTU) TOu!l 7. marks by whict thou mayeſt know it again: *s _ __ . #1 I have here is of the ſame ſign:ficancy with 7 will. as ordinarly or ſome high heaps of Stone in the wa Bo won he wed th —_ 1N Propherical Promiſ:s,which are the words of him who ca'lerh the [Or, agrin when thou comeſt at on j -n == He js; kay x p things raat are not,as if they were, and would have his Peoplelock | ſhould 1 : Aſſrians and the Babylon'/ans carr ed thee, p | So 5 upon tae things which he hath promiſed to do as certain as if they have con . the ſame way, g Farther to aſſure them they ſhould return, he | were already done. The words are only a promiſe to the ſame ſence | rinued ay calls ro them to turn again, and doubleth his words, for the far- | as before, that God would give his people abundance of eaſe and 1 busband ther confirmation of the thing. picnty, and wipe all tears from their eyes, ; aro” them EY « How long wilt thou go about, O thou back- 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld ; and my ſleep fliding daughter 5? for the LORD hath created a new | was ſweet unto me o. thing in the earth, a woman (hall compaſs a man z. 0 Either this Revelation was made to Jeremiah in a dream, from þ That the Jews are here m2ant by the backſliding daughter is | whence he awaking, look'd about him, and was very wel] pleaſed
with his ſleep at that tims. becauſe of the graciouſe Promiſes cons
ou: of queſtion, but what going about is here intend-d, 1s not fo | | - cerning Juday which the Lord had in that Dream revealed to him.
plain. Some interpret it of :h<rr runaing after Idols 3 tome of rheir , 8: : ſeeking help from foraign Nations, initead of app'ying them» | Or elſe in a Viſion pon the ſight and hearing of which he was
ſelves unto God. Others of their wandring up and down in Captis ; as well pleaſed, as a Man that had flepr quietly, and had had noill vity. + But the greater difficulty is avout tais zew thing, which rhe | and usp'ealing, bur ſweet and delightful Dreams while he ſlepr. Lord faith he will create in the new Earth. a Woman compaſſing a Man. 275 C Behold, the days come , fſaich the LORD, cara ASA mnnog _ >» v-caagh>grea of, "ara that* I will ſow the houſe of Iſrael and the houſe ofJu- » xx,x agunit trong Men. But the rwo Interpr dah with the ſeed of man, and with the ſeed of beaſt o. >