the Church as Egypt carried it toward Jſracl. x Moſt deſolate, when God hall judge and punish ;z fo Shall Spiritual Egypr, Rev. 11.8, The Poſterity of E/au, of near Kin to 1/rael, according to the Flesh, whoſe fſirlt Father envied J«cob the Bleſſing, and vow*d his Death and made him fly from his Father's Houſe, and become a Servant ina ſtrange Land, and was the firſt who denied J/7ael a friendly Paſſage, and the common Civility of Neceſfaries for their Money, and came out in hoſtile manner to fight them, Numb. 20. 18, &c. It was Edom, of whom you read in 0badiab, tor. a moſt bloody implacable Enemy to Judah in his greateſt Diſtreſs. And all who come under Eons Charatter, are here intended, and threatned under this Name, Moſr deſolate, and which Art cannot repair ; deſolate Houſes or Vine. yards may, but Wildernefſes cannot by Art be repaired. & The Þeo- ple of God, his Churches 6 Where diſtreſſed Jews $hould haxe tound Safety, they met their Death ; in Egypt and dumea,
20 But c Judah 7 ſhall || dwell e for ever, and Jeruſalem [6
f from generation to generation g.
c And, or, yet. d The choſen, peculiar, redeemed of the Lord, his Church. e No more be captivated and driven from home, but in their own Land and Houſes abide ſafely and perpetually : This typifi- eth the eternal Peace and Reft to which God's People are redeemed, City of God. g Through many Generations on Earth, through Eter. nity in Heaven, Some Shadow of this poſſibly we may find in the Days of Maccabees, but the Fulneſs of this we expe& when that Day, great, dreadful, and finally decifive Day, which Interpreters refer this Chapter to, ſhall deſtroy all the Wicked, and put the Godly into Poſſeſſion of Eternal Manſions of Glory.
21 For h1 will cleanſe ; their blood & that I have not;
cleanſed 1, || for mz the * LORD dwelleth in Zion. + 1k
h And Heb. i Purge away both by the Spirit of SanQification and ti by free Pardon in the Blood of the Redeemer, by their Sufferings al. kl ſo, by the Waters of Afition, as well as by the waſhing of Regene- a, ration, and renewirig of the Holy Ghoſt. & Their moral Pollutions*] and Sinfulneſs compar'd here unto Blood, as alſo Ezek. 16. 6, g. and;
fo Men in a finful State are called Fleſh and Blood, Marth, 16. 17, and Gal. 1. 16. God will pardon and purity Believers z and when they are pardoned and purified, nothing attempted againſt them $þall ſucceed, I Which before I had not taken away ; what was wanting in their Sar- Qification or Juſtification, and Reconciliation, I will make up in them and to them. m And I am Febovab dwelling in Zion, whence the Lay of Grace was publiſhed, where the Wonders of pardoning and ſandtify- ing Grace are wrought, that J/7ael might be a People with whom the Holy God might dwell. Now whereas this can be done but in part here on Earth, there is a S702 above, whither Fehovah, who dwells there, will take every Saint after the Day of Judgment, having firſt vindicated, acquitted, and pronounced them holy and meet for Enjoy. ment of the Holy One.
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F, we might be allowd to make a Conjefure at the Ouality of our Prophet's Sermons by the Signification of this Name, * muſt conclude that they contain heavy Tidings and grievous Fudgments coming upon them to whom he 1s ſent to real Amos 7 the Hebrew coming from a Word which ſignifies to burden, to lay a Weight or Load on one. ; er Kule to judge the Contents of brs Prophecy by : He is by ſome antient Writers, erring in this point, ſaid to be the Father 0, Iſaiah ; but beſides that Iſaieh was contemporary with Amos, which fairly argues it unlike that Iſaiah ſhould be Amos bi Son - Amor the Father o;" iſaiah is quite another Name different from Amos, both in Letters wherewith each 1s ſpelt, 4
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in Signification alſo,
Aud if Iſaiah were of the Royal Line, ( as ſome ſay he was ) Nephew to either Amaziah or Uzzial
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by a Brother, it cannot be conceived how Amos a plain Herdſman of Tekoa ſhould be his Father, It 1s certain he mas & ther by Birth or Education, or Employment, or in all theſe Reſpeds, of the Tribe of Judah ; and as certain that by an mm
aiate Call from God he was taken off the Herdſman's Work, and made a Prophet, Ch. 7. 14,15. He did 1m Deed, a5 profeſſed in Word, cone from the Lord, and in bis Name deliveres his Meſſage to all thoſe whom God ſent him unto.
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purſuant hereto he Preacheth firſt againſt thoſe Nations who were Borderers, and had been bitter, oppreſſ|uve, and old Agua farics to Iſrael and Judah, cþ. 1. 3, to theend, and Ch. 2. 1, 2, 3. By this expreſs Courſe, declaring future ju = tions upon Syria, Paleſtine, Tyre, Edom, Ammon, aud Moab, the Prophet doth much prevent the Prejuidices W%*
Iſrael and Judah might have had againſt his Perſon and Dottrine. | and threaten the Sins of God's own People, ſince he hath ſo plainly reproved and threatned their Encmuics ; they who eaſily bulieved him a Prophet in his Prediftions agamſt Foreigners, muſt in Reaſon as eaſtly b: Prophet in his Reprooſs and Pred:Gions agataſt themſelves. 40M cn [Iſrael or the Kingdom of the ten Tribes, to whom he was principally ſent ; yet be doth Prophecy again/ji and to both he ts very ſharpeinfhis Reproofs, imparti.z! in bis Cenſures, carneft in his Per/waſtons to rec ?,
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to this Duty, and demonſiratively evident in his charging Sin upon them. He had 1iaiah, Joel ana Hoſea