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Chap. XI. *
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* Ch. 10. cauſe of 7 their own counſels 7.
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Deut. 29.
them in goo.
in their Wants, as tie careful Husbandinan
iucrcale to the days of their final Ruine.
«| * He y ſhall nor retura into the land of Egypt = chap. $. 3- byt the Aſſy iaus ſhall be his King a, Eecaule they refuſed
Oo returu b.
3 Eptraim thus provided for by me, thus indu Punitthed. 2 Either nee &j1red that Afhftance z I wou fic.2ntiy provided tor them F iO, t2reatned or puniſh d ; bur it E} HET@ THEE ha. it foretold, that tho Ephraim Hatters numlelt w a Recuge in Egypt, it ſhould nut bc. tazm, ould make himleit their King, and C:velty. b The realon of all 18, their Lm;enitence, refuling, to return 00. Goa ; lages are alſo explicable as t turned anto me, Aj/yr7.z (hou :
6 And the ſword c ſhall abide d on his Cities e, and ſhall conſume f his branches g, and Geyour them h, be-
|] not have been their King.
c Either Inteſtine or Forcign Wars, or both. 4 Shall be long, not be as a ſudden Incurſion, which doch much Milchiet to ſurprited and unfortified Places, but it ſhall be a laſting War ; three Years Samaria was beſieged, lo the Sword lid abide, e All the Cittes of Epbraim, the Enemy ſhould have Courage and Leiure to attend the SIege of every one of them. f Shall prevail to tae, lack, burn and ruin the Branches. £ Lefler Towns and Villages. þ Which he ſhall ſwallow up with ſpeed and eaſe, without remeay. 2 Which they firſt took, 1 Xtrg. 12+ 2S. and ever fince irreclaimably have tollowed in oppu-
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u As a carefy' Hu-banJiman doth in due ſeaſon take che Yoke tron bt> labeuring Oxen, and rakes oft the Muzzle with which they were kept trom eating when at work, gives them time of rett and teeding ; >6 did God with jjracl. x brought rhem Proviton
bri1gs Fidider and Pro- vendcr for his wearied labouring Ox ; by which plain Stmile God doth inform //rael in 4:5jcd's time, what antient, tender, cenftant and vi- gilant Love he had ſheaed ro Iſra:1, tO their Predecetlors, and to them allo, and hereby diſcovers their unheard of Ingraticude and \\ ickednels, which began in their Fathers, ans hath continued with
unchangeable Goodiiefs, he remembers ail his Promiſes to every one and now teeth who among /{7.2el believe, and hope for his Grace _ Mercy ; theſe he muff (pare as he is juſt Judge of the whote Earts A and tor their ſukes he will ſpare meny others. » A holy God, ang S Covenz2ut, tho not with all, yet with many among you ; ang tho'. that are in Covenant with Gcd are holy ones too : I will not mat.. them as 4.{mah or Zeboim, tor the caſe is different, in the Cities gf the Vain there were no righteous ones, but here are ſome, tho ngt rg and io &7vct renders the words, there is a holy One in the mt of 30, where the ſingular is uſed for plural, as in that Paſſage, there js none righteous. 7 I will not come amonfſt you, as I came into Solom, ay Here is Comtort for God's Remnant. ;
'&>, or elſe Ephraim ded not have courted Exypr's Friendhip, or Id have kept them {ate enoug”, and ſut- if You I2:cr this to Eprr &m, not »braim be here threatned, then you ith falle hopes of 4 Conquering and captivating
tremble 4 trom the welt c.
4 Whom. infinite Mercy ſpareth, the choice Remnant. 6 Shall hear and obey, worſhip and depend on the Lord, on the Meſſ5ah, of wg thele and the words of the next Verſe do certainly ſpeak. They re. fer alſo to the return out of Captivity, in both Hiſtory and Type of our Deliverance out of ſpiritual and eternal Captivity. c Chriſt the Lion of the Tribe of Fad, ſhall ſend out his Goſpel, this meant by
10 They a ſhall walk after the LORD b : * he ſhall ro like a lion c: when he ſhall roar, then the children ſhaj 1: Y
rule them with Rigor and their Gbftinacy in Idolatry, ar.d which two latter Pal- \c tormer : thus, if they would have re-
the Licn roaring, Foel 2. 16. of whom *tis obſerv'd, that he doth by roaring gather his Whelps and others of his kind to the Prey; by the mighty Voice of the Lord in the Goſpel, the Eie& ſhall be gathered to partake of Eternal Life. 4 The Spirit by its Power awakeniup them to the fight of Sin, fhall make them fear and tremble. e To the Ends of the Earth. This is the myſtical Senſe, yet the literal I thin: refers to the rzturn of the Fews out of Captivity, when many out gf Ajſyria and E: ypt returned, and ſome report 100000 from Ethiopiz cy. Xa, and the Parts toward Arabia z and poſhbly this hath particular reſpe& to Darius his Decree, on the behalf of thoſe that follow'd Hy gat and Zchariah's Counſel, finiſh'd the Temple, reftored the Wor. [hip of God, reformed ſtrange and unlawful Marriages, paid their Tithes, &c. in theſe they followed the Lord; and Darius madea De- cree for them, terrible to the Children of the Welt as the roaring of 2 Lion. Ter this Work go forward, Exra 6. 7, ©c. who dares to hinder? let Timber be taken out of his Houle, and a Gallows made thereof, an ſuch be hanged thereon, ver. 11, 12+ All this filled the Inhahi. tants of thoſe Parts with great Fear, when God thus gatheret his
fition to all the good Counte
time, ro all which they have turned a deat Ear 3 they have lued for
Egypt andl Aſbur's Favour, and lighted mine. 7 And my k people are bent to backf'ding from me 7.:
+ Heb. :0- tho they m2 called them to the moſt High #, | none at all
gether they g would exalt him p. þ Yet God owneth them for his, he had not caſt them quite off;