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A45340	Samaria's downfall, or, A commentary (by way of supplement) on the five last verses of the thirteenth chapter of Hosea wherein is set forth, Ephraim's dignity, duty, impenitency, and downfall : very suitable to, and seasonable for, these present times, where you have the text explained, sundry cases of conscience cleared, many practical observations raised (with references to such authors as clear any point more fully) : and a synopsis or brief character of the twenty kings of Israel, with some useful inferences from them / by Thomas Hall ...	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing H440; ESTC R18060	150,640	184

will be others render it ubi where So the Septuagint render it by 〈◊〉 ubi and the Apostle following the Septuagint speaking to Greeks and that in Greece alledgeth a Greek text as being most familiar and best known to them The Apostle gives the sense and meaning but not the words which is frequent in Scripture the Pen-men being intent on the matter were not curious in the words but did adde and alter what might explain and clear them yet the Prophet and the Apostle are easily reconciled thus O death I will be thy Plagues i. e. I will pull out thy Pestilent sting O grave I will be thy destruction i. e. I will get the victory over thee q. d. I the Lord Christ for to him the Apostle applies this text will redeem them from death by paying a valuable price for their Redemption this none could do but I yea I will bee the death of death I will bee its plagues and destruction it shall never prevail against my people for I will restore them to life again 1 Cor. 15. 26 54 55. 'T is not I am or I have been but 't is Ehi I will bee thy destruction Now in Hebrew the Future Tense doth oft express both the Present Tense and the Preterperfect Tense it implies not only the time to come but also the time present and the time past q. d. I am I have been and shall bee for ever deaths destroyer Christ was Virtually the Lamb ●lain from the beginning of the world and so was deaths destroyer but actually he conquered death and the grave by lying dead in the grave and by his Almighty power raising himself thence again so that death hath now no more dominion over him and his Act. 2. 24. O death I will bee thy plagues not one or two but many plagues even so many as shall destroy thee Thou didst destroy my people but now I will destroy thee thou didst triumph over them but now I will triumph over thee and lead thee and all the enemies of my people in triumph at my Chariot wheeles Psal. 68. 18. Ephes. 4. 8. for under death and the grave is Synecd●chically comprehended the conquest of all the enemies of our salvation as sin death he●● Satan banishment prisonment poverty sickness tribulation persecution famine sword c. over all these wee are more then conquerours even triumphers through Christ that loved us Rom. 8. 35 37. Hee names only death because death is the last enemy that shall bee destroyed 1 Cor. 15. 26. yet by an Argument a Majore ad minus from the greater to the less he comforts his people thus If I can deliver you from death and the grave then much more from banishment and captivity O grave I will bee thy destruction or I le bee thy rooting out and cutting off The same word is used Deut. 32. 24. Psal. 91. 6. I say 28. 2. q. d. Thou didst destroy my people but now I will destroy thee so that they may now sing triumphantly O death where is thy pestilent sting wherewith thou wast wont to torture and torment us 't is gone 't is destroyed by Christ who is thy death O death and thy utter destruction As a man that drinks a cup of poyson drinks that which will bee his ruine so the grave by swallowing and devouring Christ was conquered and killed by him Of old they did celebrate the Victories and Triumphs of Achilles Hercules Alexander Iulius Caesar and the rest of the great conquerours of the world but alas al● those dyed and were conquered by death Only Christ the King and Saviour of his Church and people by his death hath conquered sin Satan and death and hath made full satisfaction for us to the Law and Justice of God So that what the Prophet speaks here of the restauration of the Jews in particular the Apostle applies to the general Resurrection of the dead when this corruptible shall have put on incorruptio● and this mortality shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in Victory O death where is thy sting c. 1 Cor. 15. 54 55. Where the Apostle alledgeth two Texts and 't is usual with the Pen-men of the New Testament to alledge divers Texts out of the Old Testament and compose them into one in the New So doth Peter speaking against Iudas Act. 1. 20. 't is written in the book of the Psalms let his habitation be desolate and his Bishoprick let another take the former part is taken out of Psal. 69. 26. and the latter part out of Psal. 109. 7. So Mark 1. 2 3. the former part is taken out of Mal. 3. 1. the latter part from Esay 28. 16. So Christ himself Mat. 21. 13. alludes to Esay 56. 7. and Ier. 7. 11. So here the Apostle cites one text out of Esay 25. 8. he will swallow up death in Victory The other is Hos. 14. 13. The seventy render it thus devorabit mors praevalens Death devours all but this is contrary both to the sense of the Prophet and the Apostle who speak not of the prevailing power of death but of the power of Christ over death Death is swallowed up in Victory and that great devourer of all is by Christ devoured This promile is now fulfilled in the death of Christ who hath already destroyed the power of death for his people and shall bee compleatly fulfilled at the Resurrection of the dead when all corruption and mortality shall bee totally taken away and death shall bee swallowed up in Victory for ever In the sense of this mercy the Apostle breaks forth ravished as it were with the contemplation of this conquest over death into a triumphant song which all the Saints shall sing at the last day when they shall bee totally freed from the captivity of death and the grave then shall they insult over subdued death and say O death where is thy sting wherewith thou hadst wont to wound all creatures O grave where is thy victory by which thou hast hitherto kept the dead under by force which now thou must render again as not being able any longer to hold them under thy power Rev. 20. 13 14. It is onely sin by which death hath power over us and it is the just rigor of the Law which inflicts death upon us for sin But thanks bee to God who hath given us the victory over sin which is the cause of death and over death which is inflicted for sin through Jesus Christ our Lord by whom wee obtain an immortal and incorruptible life Thus the Apostle hath faithfully given us the sense of the Prophet though not his very words The summe and substance of all is this Though Ephraim hath been an unwise Son and hath delayed his returning unto mee yet his impenitency and security shall not retard or disanul my faithfulness and truth unto my people I

upon Christ and his wayes and open the mouthes of the wicked to cry Behold these are the people of the Lord see how loosely and unrighteously they live Ezek. 36. 20. where the Lord hath been a Valley of Vision and bestowed much preaching if people answer not the Lords cost they mu●t expect a burden of judgement to sight upon them Isa. 22. 1. No place was punished like Ierusalem because no place had better preaching and more priviledges Lam. 4. 6. Dan. 9. 12. They that have preaching shall one day know what it is to have Prophets amongst them Ezek 2. 5. and shall pay full dearly for their contempt of them 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. Prov. 1. 24 25. 28. 9. Isa. 5. 24 25. 30. 9 12 13. Ier 6. 19. 9. 12 13. Zach. 7. 11 12. Mat. 10. 14 15. This is the reason why Iudgements usually begin at the Sanctuary Ezek. 9. 6. and at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 17. Rom. 2. 9. though it doth not end there but goes on to the wicked Ier. 25. 17 18 28 29. the cup begins at Ierusalem and then goes round to Egypt Vz Askelon Ekron Edom Moab c. The highest in preferment are first in punishment and if this bee done to Zion wo to Babylon Jer. 49. 12. The sins of Gods people are committed against greater light and love and bring more dishonour to God and disgrace to his truth than the sins of others and therefore of all men hee will not spare them for their iniquities as wee see in Moses Eli David Hezekiah Zachery 1 Sam. 2. 27 28 30. and 2 Sam 12. 14. Luke 1. 20. They are a people nearer to him than others and therefore hee will not bear with them as hee doth with those that know him not Numb 16. 9. Lev. 10. 2 3. Amos 3. 2. A father will sooner correct his children if they offend than strangers that hee knows not Heb. 12. 5 6. Wee can indure dung in our fields which wee cannot abide in our Parlours Wee suffer those briars to grow in the wilderness which wee cannot away with in our gardens If they bee open enemies God can better bear it but it highly provokes him to bee wounded in the house of his friends when hee shall nourish and bring up children and they shall rebel against him hee cannot hee will not brook it Isa. 1. 2 7. To shew his impartial Justice to the world 2 For the terrour of others 3 To take off the scandal that comes hereby to Religion hee will punish sin where ever hee findes it Numb 20. 12. Hee hath his fire in Zion and his Furnace in Ierusalem and is terrible in the Assembly of his Saints Psal. 68. ult 4 Obs. No Priviledges nor Prerogatives can preserve a disobedie●t people from ruine Ephriam here had many Priviledges as you may see Gen. 48. 16 19 20. Deut. ●3 13 14 15 16 17. where under the name of Ioseph Moses blesseth Ephraim with the precious things of Sun and Moon and the precious things of the earth as Corn Wine Gold Silver c. and prophesies that the good will of him that dwelt in the bush should dwell amongst them i. e. God would shew his special love to them as his peculiar people and not only give them outward but inward blessings also would so strengthen them that no enemy should be able to stand before them yet Ephraim sinning against the God of those mercies lost all No priviledges can shelter us if God bee against us Hee that raised us can as easily ruine us hee that exalted us can as easily abase us hee that made us famous for mercies can quickly make us infamous for judgements and consume us after hee hath done us good Iosh. 24. 20. It is not silver nor gold Prov. 11. 4. Ezek. 7. 19. Zeph. 2. ult Not men nor might that can save us if God bee against us Psal. ●0 7 8. Isa. 22. 6. to 15. Nahum 3. 12. Many trust in their swords and think by their valour and skill in war to defend themselves and possess the Land as their inheritance for ever but God tells them since they trust in the sword that they shall fall by the sword and bee cast out of all Ezek. 33. 26 27 28. if hee bee against us all is against us and if hee but stamp or hiss for an enemy they presently come against us Isa. 5. 26. Ierusalem was strongly fortified and no man thought that ever the enemy could have entred it Lam 4. 12. And if Priviledges could ever have preserved a sinful people from ruine Ierusalem had never been destroyed for they had more Priviledges than all the people in the world besides It was called the Perfection of beau●y and the Ioy of the whole earth and Gods own City by way of eminency Psal. 46. 4. Matth. 5. 35. so famous was it for preaching that it is called the Valley of Vision Isa. 22. 1. and they were called a people near to God the holy people that knew his Name and were blest by him above all people They had godly Magisirates as David Hezekiah Iosiah c. and zealous Prophets as Isaiah Ieremiah Ezekiel c. and after Christ and his Apostles To them pertained the Adoption and the Glory and the Covenants and the Law and the service of God and the Promises theirs were the Fathers and of them Christ came These eight Priviledges the Apostle sets down together Rom. 9. 4 5. None better seated none more strangely delivered none had such signal Providences and glorious Ordinances all the world besides ●ay in darkness they onely were a Goshen a Land of light Gods glory his pecu●iar his pleasant portion and delight c. So that if any people under heaven might have been secure in respect of Priviledges it was Ierusalem yet they falling to Atheism Idolatry persecution of Gods Messengers c. they are become a desolation Sodome was a beautiful place like the Paradise of God Gen. 13. 10. Babylon was the glory of Kingdomes Isa. 13. 19. yet both the one and the other were destroyed for their lewdness and pride England is apt to boast of its Priviledges and to tell what great things God hath done for us With thankfulness it must bee acknowledged that God hath done great things for us indeed Hee hath made us as hee did Ephraim here the head of the Nations when for our sins wee might have been the Tayl. Hee hath set us above when for our horrid Apostasies and hideous Blasphemies hee might justly have have laid us beneath Hee hath made us the terrour of the Nations and given us Victory upon Victory success upon success and hath p●ospered us by Sea and Land blessed us with the best Laws and the best Land all things considered in the world and as if all this had not been sufficient for us hee hath given us the word and the sword Moses and Aaron Magistracy and Ministry the best

I think in the world Besdes the singular helps in Print those excellent Tracts both Polemical and Practical compare but our large Annotations with the Dutch Annotations and you will see what cause wee have to bee thankful in this kinde All these things make us deeply indebted to our God but had wee ten thousand times more Priviledges than wee have yet if wee walk not up unto them and answer them with obedience wee are an undone people The greater our Priviledges the nearer to Judgement if wee abuse them Shiloh was for a time priviledged with the Tabernacle and the Ark those visible pledges of Gods special presence and residence amongst them but they abusing these mercies were given up to Judgements Ier. 7. 12. And if England go on in sinning as it hath done of late and proceed in its Hypocrise Blasphemy Apostasie Heresie Witchcraft Formality Prophaneness and abuse of Gods favours c. wee must certainly expect some sweeping judgement It is not Priviledges it is not Circumcision nor Uncircumcision it is not those outward Prerogatives that make us acceptable to God but a new creature Gal. 6. 15. either new men or no men in Gods esteem Let us then become an holy people and wee shall bee an happy people Let us answer our Priviledges with self-denying hearts and lives that as God hath done more for us than for others so wee may do more for him than others that as hee hath given us distinguishing mercies so wee may answer them with distinguishing manners not living like the men of the world Exod. 19. 4 5. that the Lord may rejoyce over us to do us good and may shew us yet greater things than these 5 Obs. Abuse of mercies loseth mercies God had done much for Ephraim hee had not been to him a barren wilderness or a land that was not sown but hee brought him out of the wilderness miraculously delivered him out of Egyt freely adopted him for his own planted him in a fat pasture even a land flowing with milk and honey gave him his Law and sent to them many extraordinary Prophets but they instead of exalting God who had exalted them grew proud and insolent forgetting the God of all their mercies and confiding in Kings and Princes kissing the Calves and sacrificing to Baal who could not save them and then they dyed Hos. 13. 1. to 12. when hee began to fight against God with his own mercies and to abuse the health wealth and blessings which God had given him to the dishonour of the donor then hee lost his riches strength glory Kingdome and all Then comes the Assyrian like an East-wind and sweeps away all before his name was fruitfulness but now God threatens them with emptiness barrenness driness of roots fruits branches springs even the loss of all As all the world had been witnesses of Gods special favour to them so now they should be witnesses of their just confusion when men honour not the Lord with their riches but kiss their own hands and sacrifice to their own Nets when like beasts they bite the hand that feeds them and crop the tree that shelters them it is just with God to take all from them Hos. 2. 8 9. Neh. 9. 7. to 25. Wee have a large Catalogue of Gods singular mercies Vers. ●6 wee read how they abused those mercies vers 27 28. wee read of Gods judgements on them for abusing those blessings So Psal. 106. 9 10 11. wee see Gods mercies vers 13. to 39. wee have the abuse of them and vers 40. 41 42. Judgements follow It is usually seen that where the Lord bestows the greatest mercies there hee oft receives the greatest indignities where hee gives most honour there hee receives most dishonour When Iesurum is fat and full then hee kicks Deut. 32. 15. Ephraim here was a son and had all the priviledges of a son the greater was his sin to rebel against that God who had been so tender to him 1 Hee had Dilection when Israel was a childe God loved him Hos. 11. 1. 4. 2 Direction hee taught him how to go and sent Ionah Amos Hosea and other Prophets to instruct him Hos. 11. 3. 3 Correction as a father corrects his children for their good so did God by Ephraim Hos. 5. ult and 6. 1 2. 4 Provision Fathers provide for their children so did God for Ephraim Hee made him fruitful amongst his brethren and sed him in a large pasture Hos. 13. 6. 5 Protection hee was their King who saved them from their enemies Hos. 13. 10. God hath done as great things for England all things considered as ever hee did for Ephraim hee hath been a tender Father to us hee hath blessed us abundantly both in Church and State Hee hath broken the power and policy of many subtil Achitophels and great Zanzummims Giants and sons of Anak Hee hath made Mountains a plain before us and though fierce men have rid over our heads yet hath hee brought us through fire and water into a wealthy place For Englands sake hee hath sent to Babylon and brought down all their Nobles Hee hath bound even Kings and Princes in chains and their followers in links of iron Hee hath made the wicked to bow before the good and the evil at the gates of the righteous No Nation so blessed of our God as wee and no Nation that hath worse requited the Lords blessings than wee have done As hee hath loaded us with mercies so wee have loaded him with Blasphemies Heresies Apostasies no favours can win us no benefits binde us if God had been our deadly enemy wee could not have acted more ignobly and disingenuously against him than wee have done It is a Miracle of mercy that hee yet continues his mercies to us and that he hath not long ago stripped us naked as in the day when wee were born Hos. 2. 3. Wee have rendred evil to the Lord for all his goodness to us and therefore wee may justly fear that evil should pursue us Prov. 17. 13. if hee shall bee punished that renders evil for evil to man what shall bee done to him that renders evil for good and that to his God who never did him hurt The good Lord humble us for all our ungrateful and dis-ingenuous walking before him who hath been so good and gracious to us and grant that at last wee may know and acknowledge the God of our mercies lest an East-wind come and bereave us of all for though at present wee have peace and plenty and fresh springs of mercy round about us yet God can suddenly dry up all our springs and bring a plundring Assyrian from the East or West upon us for those Metathorical winds as well as the Natural are all his servants that shall quickly rob us of all our pleasant things Let us not therefore flatter our selves and think that because at present wee have peace therefore no evil shall come upon us for if England go on to sin