Words, and kinder Uſage, I will incline her Mind to hear and conli- der what I propoſe ; I will perſwade by ſweeteft Dealings, like a kind Hushand that makes uſe of the Diftreſſes of his difloyal Wite, to com- mend his Love to her, to win her to himſelf, and to Ways that are the Honour and Happinels'of a Wife. + After 1445 1 have brought her into the Wilderneſs ; (ſo the' French) and ſome other Verſions, and ſo it 1s plainer than as we read it, « Deep Diſtreſs or Captivity, with all the Sorrrows that atten Captivity : then 'tis likely ſhe will hearken ; or, | 15: « - by Wilderneſs may be underſtood a retired Place and Solitary, where | with the former, is ad.tcd to enſure all to this new eſpouſed Wite;a
ſhall be no Diverſions of. her Mind, and no ſuch Temptations. as for-
Z The former Covenant was broken, and the Marriage null4, by
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diſperſe
r o he Zews after. the Captivity, or the whole Earth, all Places % | = rn” you do as you ſhould refer it to Goſpel-days, and lo "al ” en this Promiſe fulfilled; x See chap. 1. ver, 6. let. b, &,
we have
and ver. 10. tO's J So great is the Change Grace hath made, that
' 'eople are once more taken to be a-pecu:iar People: A
R _— —_ them is ſaved. 4 Not in word only bes with hearty Confent ſoy, AffeRion and Thankfulneſs they ſhall be my People, as well 25 call themſelves ſo. This People of whom the Prophet hcre ſpeaketh, ſhall openly confeſs the Lord is their God, Soveraign to command and rule, and Saviour to deliver and fave them z their God | hem Law and Life, to dire their Obedience, and to be
WY +, 1 7 (4 o 4 . ». /* . . ng T © £" exceeding great Reward for it; their God to ſanQity, juſtify -0- "* and glority-
2 n CHAP, I. n EY gs 25 By bis loving and buying an adultereſs, God ſheweth the long and deſolate
condition of 1jrael before their reſt auration, 1——5,
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God threatneth 1/r4el for the wickedneſs of the People, and Prieſts, 1----11,
Chap. IV.
{ of the Fews make their C icf Officers to rule the Fews, but Strangers ſhall be Princes and Governours over them. «a Either right, and ac- cording to Law ; (theſe Sacrifices they had long lince calt of } or Idclatrous ones which they would chooſe. ' 6 They could carry none ot their Images with them, and the Aſrians would not let them make new ones. c No Prieft as well as no Ephod., 4 Idolatrous Images kept in their private Houſes to worſhip and conſult with, like the Kc- man Lares and Penates, Houſhold-Gods; in one word, ſuch ſhould be the State of theſe Captives: They ſhould have nothing of their own either in Kingdom and Civil Afffairs, or in Church and :\eligicn, but - wholly under the Power and Arbitrary Wills of their conquering -NEMIES.
5 Afterward c ſhall the children of [ſrael return d, and
ſeek the LORD their God e, and David their king f, and
ſhall fear the LORD g, and his goodneſs þ in the * latter # 1%. 2. 2:
days 'y M:ih.4-- c After theſe long and ſore Troubles have broken their Hearts and
opened their Eyes. d Repent ; 'tis not promiſe of return into their
own Countrey. e To know his way, and to live under his Frote&ion
and Bleffing, to worſhip him; and they ſhall pray to kim, depend on
him, conſult with him, with ardency and earneſtnels of Detire, f Not
Son of Feſs, who was long fince dead; nor Zerubbabel, but Meſſiah
who 15 elſewhere called David, Pſal. 132. 10. Fer, 30. g. Exch. 34.24
and 37. 24, 25. which ſee; and Amos g. 11. g With Reverence
ſhall pray, depend and conſult their God, and worſhip his Son the
Meſſi4h, whom the Father ſent out of his infinite Goodneſs and Kind-
nels towards us. h God and his Goodneſs, 7. e. the good and gra-
ctous God, ſuch to us in Chriſt, God in Chrift and with Chritt thall
be worſhipp'd. 7 In the days of the Meſſiah, in Goſpel-times, 2:4
perhaps the laſt of theſe latter days.
CHAP. IV,
eſpecially their abominable 1dolatry, 12 it by JſraeÞ's calamity, 15— 19.
'H verhe e with the inhabitants of the land F, becauſe there 15 - _ g, nor mbrcy h, nor knowledge of God 7 in the an ”. : 4 Attend, conſider, and duly weigh z it's the hearing of the Mind, as well as.of the Ear is here required, 6 He that ſpeaks is the great God ;z tho the Meſſenger be a Man, the Meſſage is not Man's, but it is the Word,the Meſſage of the Sovereign, Holy, Juſt and Mighty Fekovah, who ever ſpeaks moſt important things, things that reſpet&t our Duty and Safety. «c You of the ten Tribes with whoſe Anceftors
14. warning Fudah againft
Ear a the word of the LORD 6, ye children of
Iſrael c-; for * the LORD &d hath a contro- — Jer. 25.31. Chap.12.2 Mich. 5.2»