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The ARGUMENT.
HE prophet Nahum is one of thoſe prophets whoſe family and countrey ts concealed, and it would be more loboys
than profit 10
/ Pe nd time on t he Enquiry aft cr T1 he one or ot her. He 7s ſt ted t be Elkofhite,and pefhubly born and
bred in Elkofh 0 107 of Galilee, an obſcure Place, of which perhaps we bad heard no more, had it not been writes; that this Man was born there, to allude 10 that of the P/a/miſt, Pſ. 87. 5. The time of Dis appearing in publick tg 7s frophetick Office 1s much more material,being a key to the whole prophecy. Noz it ts certain tbat Nahum
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wntire firengih, whilſt it
het in Office, whilſt the kingdom of Aſſyria was not only ſtanding, but whilſt it was ſtanding in its glory and was dangerous and terrible 10 its Neighbours. It 1s to me evident, that Nahum prophe/ied be.
{re tbe deſtruction of Senacherib's Army, for be foretelleth the deathof Senacherib, chap. 1. 14. i 7s certain alſy
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he appear'd after Hothea, and the ten Tribes were carried captive by Shalmaneſer.
- Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18.10. and ſome few years before the death of Shalmaneſer, whoje ſon Senacherib /zcceeded and invaded Egypt and Judah in the 141Þ year of Hezekiah.,cight years afier Samatia was taken and the ten 1ribes Were aft rot cd;ithin which time.and probably toward the fifth of thoſe eight.Nahum 7s ſent a prophet to guiet, ſap
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excourage Herekiah and his Subjetts,againſt all the threats and power of the Aflyrian Tyrant.oho threatned 21h Jeruſalem, {rom accompliſhing whereof the tyrant ſhall be ſo far.that God will turnit to his rune, andere aa very tit ſeaſon the prophet declareth the final and utter rume of the Aflyrian Empire and its capital
Gy Ninevel.oe @ ft revenge for all their oppreſſions of their Neighbours but eſpecially in revenge of their renerg.
red oi0lence ag0inft Trael and Judah on account of tohich good T11dir;zs the prophet bath his name Nachum, which in
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the Hebrew 7s from a word fgnitying to comtort, ad alſo 10 repent : Indeed repentance is preparatory to comfort nd
though bis preaching againſt Nineveh ve 19e comfort of Jerutalem, no deat be called Jeruſalem to repent, which js 7: obably colletied from Ch. 1. v. 15. Keep thy ſolemn feaſts, O Judah, p<:torm thy \ OWS. L£ his whole prophecy ex- cept the 151Þ verſe of this Chapter, is directed againſt Nineveh, head ciiy of i 'C Aſſyrian Kingdom, and again} the whole Kingdom hich with all forts of Men and Women 1 H1.QFc threatued with very ſore and Peavy Judgment s,eit) final deſolitien Or captivity for their fins , all which tas fuljitled by the Lord.afing the Babylonian and Median power 10 coertbrow this power of Allyria, and particularly by ihe joint forces of Nabopollaſer and Aftyages, as 7s by the 2 /f learned A.B. Liher objerved,in Anno Mundi 3370. Tet others tell us the final LUC of the Allyrian Kingdom
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forctold by Nahum came much ſooner, and that in the death of Etfarhaddon or Aifiradinus tbe Aſſyrian Monarcts
But tho” I determine not the number of years, during which this tbreatned Monarchy did ſtand, yet te they fewer cr mere, Nahum's prophecy was fulfilled in the deſtruthon of Nineveh, axd the ſubverſion of the Affly- andihe Jews were no more infeſtedby the Allyrian, th they were by the Babyloniſh kingdom, 'Ibe
rely > things then fpoRen of by N
ahum., doin the letier and hiforical part of them concern the times between the 12th
ard 14ih of Hezekiah, and the ends of the Aflyrian Monarchy. And a silful obſerver of the Hiſtories of thoſe timcs
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7 this Prophet , nor ſhall any ao 1t tolerably well without recourſe to thoſe Hiſterics, b 1o.1:þ 107 ated bere at large (wich brief Annotations admitnor ) ye? have not been quite neg !etted ;, and #12 applying the Hiſtories and Computation of Iimes are bere committed, all will candidly excuſe 1
knew the chjeurity and ancertainty of thoſe 1imcs.
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ſo vengeance 15 the Lords's, and he will repay. 1 'Tis repeated for confirming the Truth, and to affe& the wicked with terroy, aid to awaken them to a timely Repentancez to affe& God's own people with joy and hope, that they may wait on him till they ſee the ver-
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a * of Nineveh 6. the vition d of Nahum e the Elkothirte }, | ; When the Prophets were ſent to denounce future Judgments Ind wifdem toexecute his diſpleaſure in fitteſt time. n When it 1 2 Naitionor City, the Word was uſually call'd the Burden 01]! CICA.ONTD! |
un or Cify ; as the Burden of 23foab, Ifa. 15. 1. of Fgopt.| <*p:iunsttic former phraſe, Lord of Fury 3 God reſirains and keeps 1. Gf Damaſcrs, Iſa, 17. 1. So her | # Ms own anger, which grows greater by the ſufferings of his peo- ics forrtold are calld the Burden of Nrnevth. o It wa. ple, and fins of his enemies.
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nor command or govern their Anger, but grow ſuddenly furicus,aud * , | 45 ſuddenly pour it forth, whether fcafonably or unſcaſonably they The book © 0i (cgard nur; but God who here threatens enemies, and comforts is irtends, is as much Lord of his anger, as he is Lord of pour
moſt ſeaſontble he ſhould do it, he moſtcertainly will do ir. 0 This
3 The LORD zs flow p to anger g, and grear in pow:
is kereto be interpreted,ac inciuding the who's Kingdom which 1:| ex r, and will s not ar all acquit t the wicked u : the
threatncd with deſtruRion, in the deftruftion of Nineveh,a City very
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