in the Subjunttive, and conditionally, I would have ranſomed, I would have redeemed, ©. if 1ſrael had been wiſe : ſo *twill well cohere wich the 13th and 15th Verſes. And if the Words be conſidered as ſpoken of the whole Body of 1/7 acl, they will be maſt intelligible as they in- clude a Condition, and are ſubjun&ive. But the Apoſtles doth, and molt Chriftian Interpreters with the Apoſtle, interpret them as an ab- ſolute Promiſe made for the Comfort of the Pious and Ele among theſe J/7aelites, and labour not to conneR them with the foregoing or tollowing Words, but ſuppole them to be in a Parentheſis between them : And ſo we take them. r Fehovab or Meſj5ah, the Father pro- miſeth the Meſſiah, s By Power and Purchaſe, by the Price of the Blood of the Lamb of God, and by the Power of his Godhead. x That repent and believe, and wait for Redemption through Chrilc the Meſſih. u He conquered the Grave, and roſe out of it as our Captain and Head, and he will at the Great Day of the Reſurrettion by his Almighty Power open thoſe Priſon-Doors, and bring them out in Glory, Immortality and Incorruption, whom he redeemed by an ineſtimable and invaluable Price. x From the Curſe of the firſt Death. henceforth they that dig in the Lord $hall be blefſed, and from the ſecond Death which ſhall have no Power over them ; I will take away the Sting of Death which is Sin, 2. e. in the Dominion and Guilt of it; now Chriſt redeems from the one by ſanfifying Grace, and from the other by juſtifying Grace, y Thus I will deſtroy Death, and defeat him that had the Power of Death ; it isa Metaphor, as the next, + Iwill recover the Prey outof the Mouth of the Grave, Tl pull down thoſe Priſon-Walls, and bring out all that are confined there, of which the Bad I will remove into other kind of Priſons, the Good I will reftore to glorious Liberty. The Wicked ſhall have a ' worſe I'riton, the Godly ſhall for ever be freed from Priſon, and (o E will raze this Priſon the Grave to the very Foundation. 4 This Grace toward the Gedly, toward Believers among J/74el, and in the Charch, "through all Ages, is unchangeablez I will never, as Man that repent» eth, change my Word and Purpoſe, faith the Lord. In either Senſe they ſpeak the Grace of God toward us, he is ready to pardon and fave all that will repent, and he will moſt certainly and eternally ſave from Death, Grave, Sin and Hell, all that do repent and obey the Meſſiah; an abundant Comfort to pious ones who ſhould yet die Cap- tives in Aſ]yria, but riſe by the Power of the Meſſiah to eternal Glory in the Day of the General Reſurrettion, 15 © Though he a be fruitful b among his brethren c,
come dry h, and his fountain ſhall be dried up : : he k ſhall
2 Ephraim. b At preſent as a flouriſhing Tree ſeems to be fruitful, things in State ſeem to be well ſettled ; Peace at home, under #ojhea ; d:fire and Peace aboard with 4ſſyria and Egypr. c And all his Brethren ſur- I -round him, either the reſt of the Tribes, or the Nations who by League are become as his Brethren, 4 An Enemy, as pernicious to his Eſtate as the Eaft-wind is to Fruits, ſhall certainly come. e A mighty ahd violent Enemy, called here the Wind of the Lord, the u- ſual euperlative among the #ebrew, f Which lay South-Eaft from Canaan, and ſo it ſpeaks a more pernicious Quality in theſe Enemies, as the South-Eaft Winds in that Country were of all moſt hot and blaſt- ing, coming over thoſe hot, dry, ſandy Deſerts. g Springs of Water which were moſt needful, and highly valued. þ Shall fail and be cut off, dry up that there shall be no Waters in them. #7 The ſame thing in. different Words, confirming the certainty hereof. This the, Re-
(emblance of the Aſſyrian andthe miſchief he shall doto //7ael, he Shall lay Ephraim deſolate, and dry up all his Fountains, which were the Comfort of that Land, k The Aſſyrian Army, Shalmaneſer | $hall rob their Treaſuries, m and carry away all defirable Veſſels and F.rnicur: out of all their Houſes and Wardrobes ; thus all the Glory of Eplri Shall wither whilſt *tis ſeemingly flourishing, and well rooted too.
16 Samarla # ſhall beccme deſolate o, for ſhe hath re-
belled againſt her God þ -: they q ſhall fall by the ſword r :
men with child ſhall be ripp'd up t.
4 10 between whoſe Neath and Hoſhea's Time, ſome ſay, there was Bi an /nterregnum of twenty or near twenty Years, during Which a turbu- u 4 {ent People, as the 1ſr2e/rres were, would be frequent and earneft in all nes likelihood in moving for a King, f Neceſſary to affift the King. 4 11] gave thee * a King in mine anger f, and took him w way g In my wrath h, T at © | Such as Shallum, Menahem, Pekah, &c. but in Diſpleaſure againſt | Ju, g The Hebrew ſays not what, 1 think, their Kings mentioned. - God was angry when. he gave ſuch Kings to //rael, and he was no 6 better pleaſed when he took them away ; they were Funiſhments when oy v'\en, and Twas Puniſhment to Jjrae! when they were taken away. If 200 readl the eleventh Verſe in the future Tenſe, as you may, I will oks, 1 give them a King in my Anger, it may refer to God's giving the 6 ng of Afria the Rule over them, making them his Vallals : and , a 1%1ll take away, 7.e, you, O Jſraeiites { in my Wrath, I will deftroy and ome, and ſend others into Captivity, take all away out of your Land, | hut and ſend you in Wrath to the Grave, or Captive into Aſjyr ids lik 12* The inicuity z of Ephraim k is bound up : his fin cher E hid 97, - = theſingular inftead of the plural, all the Iniquities and Sins. & " G - Ingdom of the ten Tribes. I As Inditments drawn up and Ll-- ned "bs againſt the Day of Trial, or as Bills and Bonds tied up « fe pe may ve ready againſt the Day of Account when all muſt be we king gs Sins unpardoned ; for to looſe Sins is to forgive, and to "hal "Fog 15 to Charge them upon the Sinner, Marth, 16. 19. O-E- rg , --", Ut ne unpardoned Sins lie in Account againlt thee, thou ſhalt s, 11 —_ hol ops gy Day of Recompence, a3 Fob 21. 19. lo Rem. 2+ 5. and nv "a Yes : . upbl £0 * The forrows of a traveiling woman # ſhall ly "& upon him @, he p #5 an unwiſe ſon pp, for he
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taken, plundered and ſack'd, probably *twas razed to the Foundation 14.
by the A{;yriar, provoked by the Treachery firſt, and by the Obſtinacy Nah. 2.15,