n God will give boch Courage and Strength, Courage to attempt, and alſo Strength to go through and finiſh the Artempt ; in thisthey of the Houſe of Fudah were tamous in the Wars of the Jews againſt the Seleucide, in which Wars they had wonderful Difficulties, and as wonderful Courage and Succeſs. o The Remnant of the Kingdom of Iſrael, the Reſidue of the ten Tribes, called the Houſe of Foſeph,for that Ephraim and Manaſſeh, part of that Kingdom, were the Sons of Foſeph. p Both Fudah and Foſeph out of Babyloniſh Captivity. q To ſettle them in their own Land, and in their own Cries z how far this
doth warrant the expeRation of an univerſal Gathering of this Pco-
ple, I do not undertake to determine. r I pity them in what they have already ſuffered, and my Mercy is not clean gone from them, [ have yer rich Mercy for them, and will ſhew it when they have builr City and Temple, and reſtored Religion. £ In every reſpect they ſhall ſo multiply, thrive and proſper, that though they remem: ber it. with grief and ſhame, yet the Generations to come ſhall dil- cern no ſad Marks of a rejeRted People. # Ina perpetual Covenant, which I neyer can, nor will break ; I amand will be their God ; they ſhould, yea, ſhall be my People, as ch. 8. 8. «4 They will pray, and Lwill hear, for they are mine, they will ſeek me as their God, and L will fave them as my People.
7 And zhey of Ephraim x ſhall belike a mighty many, and their heart ſhall rejoyce as through wine = : yea, their children ſhall ſee zr, and be glad a, their heart
ſhall rejoyce in the LOR D 5.
x Vid. ver. 6. let. o, y See ver. s. let. h. x Which warmeth the Blood, cheareth the Spirits, and adds Life greatly, where a good and joyful ſucceſs concurreth as here it doth. a Either thus, in the days of your Children this ſhall be, or rather when the Time comes for theſe things, they ſhall continue through your Generations to Chil dren that ſhall be born. b The Goodneſs, Power, Wiſdom and Faith: fulneſs of God ſhall be the cauſe of this Joy, and many of thelc People ſhall indeed rejoyce in the Lord, and in the Meſſiah.
$ I will hifs for them c, and gather them d, for 1 have redeemed them e : and they ſhall increaſe as they have increaſed f. | c Though they are now ſcattered far eff, I will cauſe them to !e turn 3 1 will whiſtle, as a Shepherd; and they, as ſcattered Sheep, ſhall run with ſpeed back to the Flock : I called their Enemies 10 once, and they came, 1fa. 5. 26. & 7.18, 19. and my People will come when thus I call to them. & This ſhall be enough to bring them to gether, or it ſhall be done as ſoon as ſpoke, ſo ſoon as I whiſtle they ſhall return. e I have been at the care and charge of redeemi0s) raiſed Cyrus to do it, I beſtow'd all Nationsand Kingdoms on him, and afterwards on Darius Hyſtaſpis, todo this, to reſtore my Exiles) to re-plant Fudah, tore-build the City and Temple ; and 1 will do this alſo which is much leſs, I will, as a Shepherd with h1s paſtoral Whiſtle, call them in. f A Promiſe made by Feremiah, ch. 33: **
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founded mm. ſoul £ The Jews under the Conduof their Captains, ſuch as the Mac i cabees. h Shall be valiant, mighty Warriors. # Shall take Cities, and ”,” beat down thuſe that oppoſe them, and as uſual in ſuch caſes tread the * at
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27. and Hoſ. 2+ 23 that Land ſhall ſoon be full of Men and Cattel,
when God ſows both. The Heathen; here ditperſed, there they ſhould multiply. # There they ſhall think of me, and long for me, and deſire to return to Feruſalem, and to my Temple. &, Whither- ſoever they were driven in the fartheſt Parts of the Perſian Empire. / Though Captives and Poor, yet they nar their Children ſhall ſtarve, nay.their Children born to them ſhall live, and grow up with them, this young Fry ſhall fill the Farth. m To me, my Temple, their Ci- ty and Country» 1 o reter 0 '
on ef the Jews to the Goſpel, and (© their ſpreading the Goſpel unto others for-multipiying of rhe Sced of Tjrael accordiag to the Faich, as T doubt not, ſo neither ſhallT particularly erquire, fince the Letter ſures with Hiſtory and Matter of FaR, as is evident from the
ſo fairly 1 , Muſtitudes that wer2 gathered to the Paſſover when Titus Veſpaſian
coop'd them up 1n a cloſe Siege. _ ; ry
10 *] will bring them again alſo out of the land of FEgvpt 7, and gather them out of Ailyria o, and I will bring them into the land of Gilead p and Lebanon g, and place ſhall nor be found tor them 7.
1 Into-which doubleſs ſome haſted by an early flight from the Ba- bylmians before they waſted Canaan, and others led though forvid- den, Fer. 43. where alfo in atrer-days ſome Jews ſought a Repoſe,
and where they wonderfully increaſed if Zoſephas's Seory be true of
120 thouſand Jews fer at Liberty by Prolomens Philadelphus, when he procured the 72 Elders to tranſlate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Theſe Egyptian Jews ſhall be brought back- o In which many yer did linger, loth to depart, but when God hifſeth for them rhey ſhall come. þ Which was the Eafiern Frontier. of the Land ofCanaan. q This was the North Fronticr of the Land, and both fruitful and plerſaar, chev are here mentioned as Part ior the whole, as before, ch. 3. ver-7, 1 The Land ſhould be too narrow for them; ſo 1a. «9. 20.& 54 2, 3- which was in part fulfilled according to the hiſto- rical a::0 literal Part, but fully in the ſpiritual Part,