ng ©; Hen a faid the LORD b unto me c, * Go yet d, Ay love a Woman e (beloved of hey friend f, yet an ef adultereſs g,) according to the loye of the LORD toward the children of Iſrael þ, who look to other gods z, and a | love flagons of F wine k. - f s F; 4 Or, And, Heb, or, furthermore. bCommanded. c Hoſea. d Again, Is ® or once more, ſo it -implieth he had once already been commanded EZ 2nd done ſome ſuch like thing.- e In the former he was commanded ol © to marry, in this he is commanded: to Jove ( the reaſon of which © will appear in the. png of the Parable ) a Womay, tho de- oy 2 {rib'd by her - Charatter, yet not named; and tho her - CharaQter rho = would ſuit well enough to Gomer, yet it was not ſhe, for this Woman * = was to abide, ver. 3. for him, but Gomer was preſently married to il him, or at leaſt, ſo repreſented; this was bought, Gomer was not. by f Her Husband tho ſome think it may be ſome other Perſon, or F Lover. & Either already tainted, or that certainly will be tainted k with that Vice, a divorced Woman ſeparate from her Husband be- "a "Þ cauſe of her falſeneſs to him. + Let this be the Emblem of my Love nj £9 the Children of Iſrael; by this I intend, ſaith God, to let 1ſrae! " know how I haye loved, and how ſhe hath loved 3 how greatly, tat dearly,conftantly on my part ; how ſlightly, inconftantly, falſly on her hs part. i When I adopted them to be a peculiar People to me, to take < me for their God, and requir'd' they ſhould have none other (which go Relation is well expreft by that of Husband and Wife ) they have th look'd, liked, loved other Gods; and depended on them, and their Hearts have been eftranged from me; they have turned downright ' Idolaters. k Loved the . Feaſts of--their Tdols; where they drank F Wine to exceſs, by too great Meaſures, which without diſpute was uſual in the Idol-Feafts, Amos 2. 8.. 1 Cor. 10.21. or elſe theſe Fla- ul; gors of Wine ſpeak their looſe, drunken, and riotous living. - 2 So11 bought her mto me{for fifteen pieces.n of ſilver, | th and for an homer” o of barley, and an -| half homer of ket harley p. 4 2 hn ; | Al . TAs TI was commanded, I procured, or as we read it, bought :, fel m Which exactly anſwers to the State of the Fews when in Egypt, tainted with Egyptian Tdolatry, and poor without a Portion 3 bought or redeem'd. to be affanced to God, » Whatever was the exa@ cal quantity and value of theſe Pieces we need not here curiouſly enquire; Ie but note we, it was half the value of a Slave, Exod: 21. 32. and was t ſome 27 5. 6 4d, 0 This Meaſure might be about 14 Buſhels ; ſo the > whole will, for her Diet, amount to twenty and one Buſhel, no great ” Proviſion for her Diet. p And 'tis Barley in both places, the meaneſr i kind of Proviſion, and ſuted to a low Condition, Fudges 7. 13. Exek. fo 4.9, 12. All this the fuller to ſet forth .//reel's Indigence and In- | " gratitude to God, and God's Bounty to //rae!. a 3 And I ſaid unto her, Thou ſhalt * abide q for me ere ' many days r, thou ſhalt not play the harlot-s, and thou | br ſhalt not be for another Man #t , ſo will } alſo be for tet thee 4, res This Verſe is the form of Contract, or the Articles of Agree- Fr: ' ment between the Prophet and this Woman. q Dwell with me, and rd expect and wait in an unmarried Condition, until I ſee it fit to eſpouſe nth thee. r 'Tis not ſaid how long ; but a Slave, as ſhe is repreſented al, here, may not think this ſevere. The Preterment will compenſate het, ' her waiting. s This is the third Condition, ſhe is to live chaſte and let modeſt, not to do as ſhe had done. This was to ſettle her in a ver: on tuous Life, and to prove whether ſhe would betake her ſelf to a ob Life Praiſe-worthy. #t She is bound to marry none other, nor to ins commit Adultery with any other. « In due time | will accompliſh ail the Contra, and as I wait, ſo I will be for thee : ſo the Deed is Mr: mutually ſeald and fign'd. 11 BR 4 For the children of Iſrael ſhall abide many days x bs . * without a King y, and without a Prince z, and withour Nis a Sacrifice 4, and without- + an Image b, and without an Ephod c, and without Teraphim d. x1 x Now the Parable is unfolded and made plain, it ſhall be with Iſrael much like as with ſuch a Woman ; they and ſhe guilty of Adul- | tery, both puniſh'd with a Divorce, both puniſh'd long with ſuch hh . atfliled State, both made Slaves, kep* hardly, and valued meanly, joe yet in Mercy, at laſt pardon'd, reaccepted,and preter'd ;_ but this after pet long time of Probation. How long we cannot tell, nor liſt to diſpute if Whether 70 Years of Babylon's Captivity, or whether thele Seventy,
and the one hundred and thirty Years of ten Tribes Captivity before the two Tribes went Captives, i. e. two hundred Years z or whe- ther till Meſſiah's coming, or the general and laſt Converſion of
ef the Fews, long *twas to be no doubt. » None of their own Royal 5d Line ſhall fit on the Throne and rule them, but Foreigners, Enemies, "y uni they that had conquered them ſhould be Kings over them : So the rhe Kingdom ceaſed, as chap. 1,4. 7 The conquering Kings will not out
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' Angels, but have not kept it, you that have turned afide trom your
f Who dwell in the Cities and Towns of 1/rael divided from the Houſe
inftead of Truth here is Verjury, inftead of Compathon here 18 Ex- ecration, and evil ſpeaking. " od: denying of Truths, derrauding, leftening Good and repreſenting it
difed to fecret 'I heits, and ſome openly prattiling it. p Which was a Sin grown high
over all Hed ) Jr ; xr c che Law, which exprefly forbids what you daily practiſe. r Slaughs- ters are multiplied ; by Blood the Scripture nndertanderh Shughtcr, (Fen 4+
terer, W or poſſibly it may reter