Fruit. n Summarily, the Ground you plant ſhall abundantly bring forth her Fruit to your ſatisfation. o Which before were as Bras, and made your Earth as Iron, hard, barren, ſhall now drop down cheir Rain, and make the Earth fruitful. Much hke that P/27. 72. 2, Hof. 2.18, þ By my ſpecial, ſingular Providence, and Bletfing oi them. q To enjoy, have the things and rhe Comfort of them z whereas before,tho? they ear,they were not ſatisficd, had not enouzh, Hats. 1.6. 13 And it ſhall come to pals, zhat as ye were a curſe among the heathen s, O houſe of Judah 7z, and houſe of [{rael z; fo will I fave you x, and * ye {hall be a blet- * Rurh 4; fing y : fear not, b»t let your hands be ltrong 2. Lt, 12. r As threatned, Deut. 28. 37. and Fer. 24+ 9. & 29. 18. all which came upon them in this ſeventy Years Captivity,and the Miferies that receded. s Nations who knew the Miſery which they heap'd on the Town, Nations among whom they were ſcattered. # Two Tribes. # Ten Tribes, or rather ſome of them which eſcaped Shalmaneſer's hand, and adhered to Fudah ; or ſome thar from the Divitton of the Tribes did keep cloſe ro the Houſe of David, and the Temple-Wor- ſhip. x In ſuch manner will I ſave you, ſo wondertully, fo graci- ouſly. » A Form or Model of Bleſſing, as Zepb. 3. 19, 209. 2 Be not diſcouraged, neither flack your Hands in the building of the Temple, and reſtoring the Worſhip of God, for God will be wich you, and finiſh all by and for you. 14 For thus faith the LORD of hoſts, As I thought z to puniſh you 6, when your fathers provoked £ me to wrath, ſaith the LORD of hoſts, and 1 repented nor 4; a Determin'd firſt, then declared my Reſolution, in my Threats and many Warnings given. b Jews, the Body of that Nation; vcu, one with your Fathers. c Highly, obſtinately, and till there was co Remedy, my Wrath being kindled and continually increaſed by it- creaſe of your Fathers fins and yeurs. d I did not fail to do as I faid [ would ;- I neither changed my Mind, for 1 am not a Man, nor changed the Courſe of my Providence, but executed my Threats, 15 90e avain have I thought in thele days to do well unto Jeruſalem, and to the houſe of Judah : tcar ye not f. e So with like ſteddineſs of Mind, with an equal unchangeable- neſs, I haye purpoled and promiſed todo well to you, O Inhabitants of Feruſalem and Houſe of Fudah. f For if in puniſhing, which I love not, I was conftanc; in blefling, which pleaſcth me, I cannor but be conſtant. 16 Theſe are the things that ye g ſhall do, * Speak ye every man. the truth þ to his neighbour z, * Eph, 4;
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unto me, ſaying, 19 Thus faith the LORD of hoſts, The faſt of the
fourth month 9, and the faſt of the fifth 7, and the faſt of the ſeventh s, and the faſt of the tenth 7 ſhall
be to the houſe of Judah Joy and gladnelis z, and chearful + feaſts x ; therefore love y the truth and
Peace. |
This nineteenth Verſe is a final Deciſion of the propoſed Caſe, | and the whole of this Verſe ſtands on a Proviſo or Condition, That they do thoſe things required, ver. 16, 17- then ſhall their faſting ceaſe, and turn into Joy and Feaſts. g Wherein the City was taken by the Babylonians, who'on the ninth Day of this Month broke into the City, Jer. 52.12, 13. r Of which on the tenth Day the Tem- ple was burat. s Wherein Gedaliah was killed, Fer. 41.1. # On the tenth Dav whereof the King of Babylon's Army fat down before theCity and beſieged it # Good Days, in which they ſhall rejoyce fr all the Goodneſs that God hath ſhewed them in their private; they ſhall rejoyce, x for publick ; theſe Days of taſting ſhall be turned into ſolemn and publick Feſtivals, Days of Thankſgiving to the Lord, for turning back their Captivity, and reſtoring Church and State. y Letyour hearty AffeRion be ſet on Truth, in all con- cerns of Religion, and on Peace in all Converſe with your Neigh-
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20 Thus ſaith the LoRD of hoſts /, Ir /ha/l yet come zo paſs m, that there ſhall come people 7, and inhabi- rants of many o cities.
I This ſolemn Atteſtation, that 'tis the Lord of Hoſts who will do that great thing next promis'd, cal's both for our heeding and belie- ving of it. m How low ſoever the ſtate of my Church doth ap- pear, and really is, yet a time ſhall come when it ſhall be more con- fiderable. n People, that is, Multitudes of People,, for they ſhall be o Inhabitanrs of many and great Cities, which is added to explain what was more obſcure in that one word, People; the Gentiles ſhall be added to the Church, and increaſe her greatly.
21 And the inhabitants of one c:zy ſhall go to ano- ther p, ſaying, Let us go || ſpeedily q } to pray betore the LORD, and to ſeek the LORD of hoſts 7 : I will go allo s.
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