expole them to the Penalty threatned againſt rhe Iolluted, Zeur, 26. Im 13+ and Numb. 19. 13. y Or, ſurely ; the Particle 1s not here Cauſal the but Aſertive, as in many other places *tis. + Their Mtncha or Breaq y A which they always offer'd, and were bound to offer with their $Saczi. int fices ; or elſe the firſt Fruits of their Corn which were to be brovygin hat to the Lord, and which being rightly offered, did ſanWify and enjure the the reſt to them with a Blefſing. This ſhould not be done, they phe! ſhould be at that diſtance from the Temple, and under the confinement int! of Captives, ſo that they ſhould not be able to do it it they were ij. then ling. a Be brought in to the Pricft in the Temple, Deut, 26, 2,, tred ce | anot 5 What will ye do in the ſolemn day, and in the day 9 9 of the feaſt of the LORD ? days Think with your ſelves what you are likely to do then on thoſe inq days you were wont to ceaſe from your Labours, to offer Sacrifice; 2 ] to God (as you thought and ſaid) to feaft with one another ? All was ple, b full of ſeeming Religion, and real Feafting and Jollity on thoſe days cheir in your own Countrey ; but will your hard Mafters that love their c The own Profit, that hate your Perſons, and deſpiſe your Religion, wil Work they loſe your Labour, indulge your Eaſe, incourage your Religion, charge and ſuffer you to exerciſe it ? Is this imaginable ? © Promi 6 For lo b they are gone, becauſe of - deſtruftion c ;4 y, iſ of not Egypt ſhall gather them up 4, Memphis e ſhall bury/xi, WW . '* them f: || - the pleaſant places for their ſilver g , * net. )% faw y tles ſhall poſſeſs them þ : thorns 5 ſhall be in their tf 6, rſt ti bernacles k& : Fi. ed m1 b Mark it well, and obſerve the Event. c Some of the Wary and g, | LIONS | Timorous are already withdrawn from the Deſolation that cometh 4 jj, g the on their Country, and more will fly from the Aſſyrian Invader ; and j4, UNexpe4 'tis very near, and very certain, expreſs'd therefore in the Perfett #1, | which a Tence. 4 In Egypt they hope to be quiet, and ſurvive theſe Deſola- xy; bear to tions, and to return into their own Land ; but they ſhall die in Zgyzr,c,, ſeth the and Ex yptians ſball lay them out, and prepare them to their Graye, or Iſaac, So this Phraſe, Fer. $. 2. and Ezek, 29. 5+ e Which elſewhere is cal- & & As th ied Noph, Jſa, 19. 13+ a very greatly traded City in thoſe days, and at W the firſt th's day alſo known by the name which ſpeaks its Greatneſs, Gran we bear,wh Cairo. f Many of the Ten Tribes flying their own wafted Country, - FThis e did no doubt remove ſo far as Memphy, partly for Safety, that they P Facob, b may be out of the Aſhrians reach, but more principally for Conveni- Story of ency of a. Trade, that they might at leaſt get a Livelihood, if not groy - committ rich on their Trade ; There many of theſe Fugitives died, and per- | diſcourſe haps by the Peſtilence ( which is a Diſeaſe that frequently ſweeps that - Looſenel: City) Multitudes of them might be ſwept away into their Gravesin "7942s; of
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and about that Cit”. g Their beautiful and ſtrong Houſes built tor keeping their Wealth in. þ They ſhall be ruined, and lie long in Rubbiſh,till Nettles grow up in them. # Qr Br1ars, or whatever (one kind for all) worthlets, and hurtful Shrubs uſe to grow in perpetuz ted Deſolation. & In their Dwelling-places, their Houſes which here retain the Name of their antient Habitations when they dwelt it Tents.
7 The days of viſitation are come, the days of recompence are come 1, Iſrael ſhall know # mn: tie prophet #5 a fool », the | ſpiritual man o 75 mad yp, forit
the multitude of thine iniquity q, and the great ha- 1 It As tred r, - bird s ; fi I The Prophet doubleth the ſame thing, both to confirm the Cer- the conce tainty of it, and to awaken the ſtupid !ſraelires ; the days of God's juſt 7 Their Diſpleaſure, in which he will puniſh, and render to theſe incorrigible Iſrael, as the Idolaters, and abominable Debauchees, as their Wickedneſs deſer- tions m1; veth, are come ; they are very near, within four years at moſt. m /- of promiſe: rael will not believe it, though God hath often told them of it ; but * Pal. 128 tc when *tis come, and they feel it, they ſhall then know indeed, as Fools . unexpeRed
know when they 1mart for their Folly. # That their falſe Prophets were all to a Man of them Fools and raſh, judging by preſent Great- nels or Alliances of Jſrael,not obſerving what were their Sins and God's Wrath. Now when #oſea preach'd what was contained in this ninth
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Chapter, //rael had made a League with So King of Eg ypt, caft off the W% _ : Ajjyrian and not ſought to God, but vainly truſted to the Ezypriar ; 12 Tl Succours : Now any wiſe Man might imagine that likely, which the WW: will 1 bi Prophet #oſea did foretel as certain,that the Aſſyrian with all his Fow- IF # Zeft 2 : y er would fall upon the Revolters ; none but Fools would promiſe (uci WW * them þh
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0 That pretends to be full of the Spirit of Prophecy, and foretels Good to them. p Whom we thought a true Prophet, but now find by fad Experience that we believed a Mad-man-z one much out of his Wits, yet were we more to believe what he promiſed. q God was highly ci pleaſed with the Multitude of their Iniquities, and began his Puniſh- ' ments in giving them over to believe the Lies of rheir taiſe Prophets,
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and to expett what Peace thoſe Prophets did Promiſe. r Which God I will cut they had againſt your Sins and Ways : You would walk'in Ways whict Compleat the: God hated, yet would have Prophets to foretel Peace and Plenty ; ſuch blad to loſ c you have had, as deſcribed Mich, 2, 11. and you believed them ; an =e% God, out of his juſt Diſſike, ſuffered. this to be, left you to your 13 Ephbr choice. fant place e
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