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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61668	A paraphrasticall explication of the twelve minor prophets. Viz. Hoseah. Joel. Amos. Obadiah. Jonah. Micah. Nahum. Habakkuk. Zephaniah. Haggai. Zechariah. Malachi. / By Da. Stokes. D.D.	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.; Pearson, John, 1613-1686.; Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5719; ESTC R203657	306,596	639

they come against my people with their great forces of horse wherein they put their confidence I will strike all their horses with astonishment and their riders with furie as Jerusalem was struck before when she had drunk of that cup of giddinesse that exposed her to ruine But toward the house of Iudah at that time will I open my watchful and favourable eye while I smite their enemies horse-forces with blindnesse that they may rather ingage themselves more and more in their own danger then see how to effect what they subtilly plotted and contrived against my people 5. Then shall the Princes and Champions of Iudah say within their hearts that the strength of the inhabitants of Ierusalem must be in me even in the Lord of Hosts their God 6. About that time I will make the Governors of Iudah like a live coal of fire compassed about with drie wood that can quickly set all about it in a flame or like a torch of fire that is compassed about with sheafs of corn that will soon convey the heat and danger to all that is near Like such a fire shall they sodainly and fearfully consume all their enemies that compasse them about on the right hand or on the left And Ierusalem all the while shall remain immoveable like the stone we spake of before in her own place where Jerusalem was ever seated And so shall that larger Church whereof Jerusalem is but a figure It shall not be removed from that rock which gives it such support that the gates of hell shall not be able to prevail against 7. And the Lord will save the inhabitants of his people in Iudaea as he ever did from the beginning i. by himself and his own power and wisdom that the honour may be his own and man may have no part in it and that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the Inhabitants of their great City of Ierusalem do not magnifie it self for the protection of the people of Iudah as if it were to be ascribed unto them 8. Thus in those times shall God defend with his people of Iudaea the inhabitants also of Ierusalem that we may account them not our Guardians but the partakers of the same divine protection with us and the infirm and inferiour sort among them that you think likeliest to fall from their station shall then prove another David for valour to go before them And they of the house of David like men of the House of God which is nearest to his care and defense and like an Angel of God that being in near attendance upon his person and in his holy Temple above cannot but be near to all safety and freedom from danger 9. Then shall any justice find out waies for the destruction of all those nations that have come in hostile manner against Jerusalem 10. But I will pour upon the house of David and the inhabitants of Ierusalem the graces of my spirit in such plentiful manner that many of them shall in hearty sorrow and contrition and in humble prayer and supplication beg my gratious pardon for what they have done amisse And in a sad repentance they shall look upon me whom they have pierced not in my hands and feet and head and side onely but in my very heart too with their wicked and blasphemous words more then with their spear And they shall mourn for Him that suffered so much by them before they knew him to be what he was● As bitterly shall they mourn as one would mourn for his first-born son or his onely son that hath the greatest share in his love and affection with such sorrow shall they look upon his Passion that they may learn to look upon it with love and with resolution to forbear the piercing him afresh by continuance in sin Or else there will come a time when they will weep and howl too late at the sight of him when he comes in his glory 11. But in the first and more seasonable time then will there be a great and heavy lamentation in Ierusalem which shall be seconded in the Church that Jerusalem yet resembles It shall be like the great mourning for the death of good Josiah called the mourning of Hadadrimmon a City in the valley of Mageddon 12. And the whole land shall have cause to mourn every family apart The families of the house of David apart and their wives too apart as your custome is in times of great sorrow and repentance The families of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart For what family hath not been guilty of piercing their Messias It is not the issue left of the Royal Family nor the posterity of the Princely Tribe that can plead an exemption from that guilt 13. The Families of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart For even the Priests and Levites had as great a hand in it as any other The Familie of the house Shemei apart and their wives apart 14. And so in summe all the several families that remain un-named every family apart and their wives apart as all some way or other guilty of that great offence against the Messias whom they have pierced by contributing much to his heavy sufferings and therefore should pierce their own hearts with some deep remorse and impression of sorrow With these shall the several Families of all the nations in the world sooner or later bewail their sins the chief murderers of our Messias which make them all accessorie or rather Principals in the Death of Him that is the God of Life And the sooner the better but still as one eye looks upon the grief the other looking upon the love wherewith he was pierced For CHAP. XIII IN that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem for sin and for uncleannesse 2. And it shall come to passe in that day saith the Lord of hosts that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land and they shall no more be remembred and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to passe out of the land 3. And it shall come to passe that when any shall yet prophesie then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him Thou shalt not live for thou spakest lies in the name of the Lord and his father and ●his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth 4. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he hath prophesied neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive 5. But he shall say I am no prophet I am an husband man for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth 6. And one shall say unto him What are these wounds in thine hands then he shall answer These with

and crie mightily unto the Lord the men out of true remorse of conscience and hearty sorrow the beasts as forced to it by hunger upon keeping them from their usual food and that every man should repent renouncing and forsaking all their evil courses and specially the violence injustice and oppression which they had exercised before and which now they should wash off from their hands by Charity and restitution of what was injuriously taken away or detained from any other which is one of the clearest and most evident fruits of repentance 9. To all which they might be the rather induced because they had no reason but to hope that this message of the Prophet proceeded not from any irreversible decree for their utter destruction but rather as an invitation to repentance and amendment of life whereby the merciful God might be moved to reconciliation and reversement of that heavy punishment which they had deserved 10. This command of the King which seconded the preaching of Iudah was so readily obeyed that God to whom all hearts are open seeinng their sorrow and repentance accompanied with a serious and real intention of amendment in forsaking their evil waies and exercising themselves in all good works specially in the virtues opposite to their violence and oppression He also repented of the punishment which he threatned to bring upon them and in his tender pitty and compassion kept off the blow that was ready to fall upon their City CHAP. IV. 1 BVt it displeased Ionah exceedingly and he was very angry 2 And he prayed unto the Lord and said I pray thee O Lord was not this my saying when I was yet in my country Therefore I fled before more Tarshish for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil 3 Therefore now O Lord take I beseech thee my life from me for it is better for me to die then to live 4 Then said the Lord Dost thou well to be angry● 5 So Ionah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow till he might see what would become of the city 6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd and made it to come up over Ionah that it might be a shadow over his head to deliver him from his grief So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourd 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day and it smote the gourd that it withered 8 And it came to passe when the sun did arise that God prepared a vehement east-wind and the sun beat upon the head of Ionah that he fainted and wished in himself to die and said it is better for me to die then to live 9 And God said to Ionah Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd and he said I do well to be angry even unto death 10 Then said the Lord Thou hast bad pitie on the gourd for the which thou hast not laboured neither madest it grow which came up in a night and perished in a night 11 And should not I spare Nineveh that great city wherein are more then six scoure thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand and also much cattel CHAP. IV. 1. IN the mean time Ionah instead of rejoycing and blessing God for his mercy toward the sad and penitent Ninivites discovered his great anger and impatience and too much respect and tendernesse of his own honour and credit which he would not have blemished with the wellfare of the Gentiles against whom he had prophesied And a strange thing this must needs seem to be that a Prophet should take it ill that his Prophesie was seconded with their repentance or that their repentance should be crowned with so much mercie and deliverance Specially after himself had suffered so much for his disobedience and backwardnesse to prophesie to them and been delivered out of the verie jaws of death upon his own penitent and humble supplication in his own behalf For this though it may be thought to show his tender love to his own people that by this repentance and successe at Nineve were convinced of what the obstinacie of the Iews deserved at Ierusalem yet is it an evident Argument of great weaknesse in the Prophet and great mercie in God that would pardon such a fault to a weak servant of his who seemed now to envie that favour to the Gentiles which God had long before showed himself willing to bestow though it were to the irritation of the Iews 2. But Ionah would be like his name grieved and murmuring where he should not and displeased with that which pleased God Nor was this enough unlesse he made it appear in his very prayer also where he venters to expostulate with God and to frame his prayer after this manner Why didst thou make me a Preacher or rather a false Prophet to Ninive Is not this the verie thing that made me so loath to undertake that office when I was in Iudaea Is not this the onely reason that moved me to fly from thence to Tharsis that I might be far enough from this unwelcom employment For I said within my self and I knew that I had reason enough to say that thou art a gratious God merciful and slow to anger and of so great kindnesse that thou quickly repentest thee of any evil which thou threatnest to bring upon sinners if they are ready to repent them of their sins 3. Now therefore I pray thee O Lord rid me of my life which is a burden and punishment unto me heavier then death While I foresee the punishment that I may well think will fall upon my own countrie-men for their impenitence which is now made fowler by the repentance and conversation of the Heathen that knew not the goodnesse or pleasure of God so well as they did Therefore I am likely enough for this businesse at Ninive to be hated by the Israelites as well as mocked and derided by the Ninivites that will look upon me as one quite out in his Prophesie 4. Yet the gratious Lord answers not the Prophet according to the heat of his passion or the errour of his judgement but in great mercy and meeknesse proposeth this question Whether he thought that he had just cause to be angry with him for sparing so great a City upon their true repentance Which every good man should rather beg by his prayers then any way be troubled to see it done 5. But Ionah having little to answer in his own defense amd being willing to see what would be the final event of this businesse without any reply left the City and sitting toward the East-side of it made himself a little booth there that he might rest under the shadow of it while he expected what would at last become of Ninive after the 40 daies