you-arguegamils, 40r theſe things aggravate your Sin, and FT you ies: 6apable of hoping or; ootaining METCy, ſince you abule, ſuch Gxacd:; remgpaer efn0s 3.2. You think I cannot, muſt not now root. you'pur of yaur Land, hecauje Ibrought you Out of Eg Ve as It .you were the only People that ever were brought out of Bondage, c But Moſes tells you, the Philiſtines were captivated Þ the Cyphrorzms, who dwelc in their Land, yet the Philiſtines were Ie ored, and you. tound them in the Land When you came to poile!s it ; their” Expuliion you read, Deur. 2. 23. though 1 remember no particular mention of their Deliverance in any Hiſtory, yet this Hint 35 enough to afſure us of the Matter of Fatt: 4 AnantientPeople, inhabiting a large Countxy, and known by ſeveral diſtin&t Names. e Conquered by tome potens;Ene- mies,- probably the antzent A{/yr1475, and ſent away to Azria City.or Country. of Melia,. yet delivered at laſt ; Should thele Nations, as you do, argue themſelves'to be out of , Danger ot;-Divine Juſtice and levere Puniſhments, becauſe I had done this for them ; eertainly. you wouid not allow ſuch Arguments-in them, nor will I allow it in-you.
'$ Behold p, the eyes of the Lord GOD: þ are upon the finful Kingdom 7, and I will deftroy ir-from off the tace of the Earth k ; faving that 1 I will. nor utrerty deſtroy the Houſe of Jacob m1, ſaith the- LORD 2. |
- £ Conſider things better, and argue more like Men of Reaſon. b |
God of infinite, Purity and Knowledg, whole, Nature hateth all Sin, and whoſe Office *tis to puniſh Sinners, his Eyes behold all the Chii- dren of Men, they run'tq and fro, as 2 Chrw. 16. 9, 4 Every fintul Kingdom, and on the Kingdom of the ten Tribes, as notoriouſly che {inning Kingdom, as Zeb. k And I will ruine any ſuch Kingdom for! their:Sins, that: it ſhall ceaſe to be a Kingdorz, on- Earth. -1 And lov would Ido with the. Kingdom of J/rae?, ,but that 1 have by Covenant with their Fathers engaped to be their God for ever, which Promiſe I will keep to a Remfiant of their Seed for, ever. '- m The Seed of Facob which God will not utterly extirpate, thongh- he do extirpate other Nations, Fer. 3011: ;# This 1s added to confirm the gracious Word concerning the Remnant which ſhall be ſpared.. | | -.v For loo, | will command p, and I will + ſift the houſe of Iſrael 'among all Nations 9, like as Corn1s ſifred ina five r; yet ſhall not the leaſt + grain s fall vpon the Earth.t. BY 149 | | |
- 0 As this confirms what the $rh Verſe premiſeth, ſo it requireth a very diligent and full Attention of us. Þ Or give a Charge to all Na- tions whither theſe <exiJed Perions ſhajl come, and they thall obſerve the Charge, it ſhall as-jurely be dane az tis ſpokes q Though Ajjyri- aps and other Nations be the Means and Initruments, yet God's Hand is principal ; whileſt they would tols and _Iicatter Jjrars with Viadlence, yet God will hold the Sive,and guide their Hands, and let Bqunds to their Violence; - 7 By a skiltul and careful Hushandman who deiigns to ſeparate the Chatf ſrom . the Corr; to prefcrve this, to tread the 0- ther under Foot. « T hough covered under much Chaft, though tum- bled and tofſed with the-greatcit Violence, and withoutany regard to
- it, yet the ſmalleſt and leaft regarded good Grain ſhall not-be jolt or
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deftroyed with that Fire which conſutmerth the Chaft, 7 7.6, Periſh or be 'loſr, fo the Phraſe, x Sam. 26./20- and 2 Sam. 14. 11, and 1 Kings 1,52. here is a' Promiſe of Preſervation as great and wonder- tui, and as hardly comprehended as was the threatned Puniſhment, 10 All the ſinners # oft my people ſhall die-by the .fword x, *which ſay, | The evil y ſhall not over-take || nor prevent Z us.” peY 4 u The great, notorivns Sinners, Tdolaters,” Opprefſors, Perverters of Law and Equity, cruel and inhumane Judges and others: x Either at home in the Wars, or ':broad by barbarous Men that captivate thems as er, 4-let.d, + In their Hearts thinking or hoping, or in their Words diſcprrting 'the Impoſſibiliry of what Amos did toretel, 3» The fad, miſerable, and deſolating End; '}| As a purſning Enemy, we will flee from it, vid. ver. 1. Jet. #. 7 1t is far off, we ſhall die firſt, and be-ſafe in the Grave; a Kingdom in its Proſperity, and well ſet- tled as this Kingdom waS'in Feroboanrs time, cannot ſoon he brought to'ſuch Confutlion; we ghatl never ſee it. This ſavoured Rank of their Atheiſm, and theſe shall certainly fall and perish, and nerer riſe. .. © 11 E In that day a will 1 raiſe up b the Tabernacle of David &c that is fallen 4, and + cloſe up the breaches e thereof, and | will raiſe up his runes 7, and I wilt buyld if $ in the days of old gp: - Ig AS
-* This Promiſe I nothing doubt hath a double Afpea, both to the. 5 |
Return out of Captivity, and to the Meſhah his Xingdom, and each Part 15 to be contidered by us; it we would dnly explain this and the
following Verſe, let us look firſt to the Letter and Hiſtorical Refe- |
rence, and next to the myſtical and ſpiritual'Senſe of the Words. 4 A very uſual Phraſe in <cripture, whereby a time fix'd and certain,yet unknown to us, 18 intended in the {et time which God hath prefix'd. b Lay the Founilation, and build up, reduce out ot Captivity, and re- eſtablish in their own Land. c The Houle 'of David, ana thoſe that O14 adhere to Pavid's Family, which are here called a Tabernacle, part- ly tor that it never did after the Captivity riſe to a free and indepen- Gent Kingdom, and partly becanſe he would diſtinguish the Jews trom the Apoltate J/rac1tes, who did wholly foriake David's Houle, d By a Revolt of ten Tribes in twelve, whereby -their State is low, and as faliton to the Ground, e Which are in it by that long Divifen, ſince
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