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A00746	The calling of the Ievves A present to Iudah and the children of Israel that ioyned with him, and to Ioseph (the valiant tribe of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel that ioyned with him. The Lord giue them grace, that they may returne and seeke Iehovah their God, and Dauid their King, in these latter dayes. There is prefixed an epistle vnto them, written for their sake in the Hebrue tongue, and translated into English. Published by William Gouge, B. of D. and preacher of Gods word in Blackefryers. London.	Finch, Henry, Sir, d. 1625.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 10874; ESTC S102095	158,276	326

proper terme of the Romane warfare Whose Armies are called abhominable because they were Infidels and worshipped Idols And this to bee the sence of the place beside the Angels thus suting of these things you may see by comparing the three Euangelists that speake of this History for where Math. 24. 25. Mark 13. 14. Christ saith When ye see the abhomimation of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the holy place where it should not Luke interpreteth it thus When ye shall see Ierusalem compassed about of Armies then know the desolation thereof is at hand Luke 21. 20. And so these words are but the same in sence and substance that was in the former verse which said all this should be done by warre 3. Insteed of inundation or ouerflowing of calamities vers 26. heere you haue a powring forth of all Gods Iudgements at once as if the windowes of Heauen should be opened as they were at the floud 4. Where the 26. verse doth speake of desolation to the end of the warre those words expound these of the twenty seauenth vnto vtter destruction 5. Precisenesse of desolation in the 26. verse is somewhat more clearely vttered in the 27. vnto vtter destruction precisely determined So one of these noteth the greatnesse the other the certainty of the desolation The Rabbinicall Doctors seeke for a knot in a rush when they enquire vpon this place how long this desolation shall continue and when the precise determinate time shall haue an end for the period of all that Daniel heere speaketh of is the end of the seauentieth seauen Howbeit in other Scriptures Dan. 12. 11. 12. Math. 23. 38. 39. Luk. 21. 24. Rom. 11. 25. 26. that precise determinate time of the Iewes desolation is precisely prophesied and foretold but euery place hath his proper interpretation To close vp this Treatise because it may bee of great vse for the cleering of this and many other hard and obscure passages I will heere set downe the iust periods of time from the beginning of the World to the dissolution of all things as they are to be gathered in holy Scripture First from the Creation to the Floud are yeares 1656. manifest by the yeares of the fathers before the Floud Gen. 5. 11. Secondly from the Floud vnto the Promise made to Abraham 426. for from the Floud to Terah are 221. Terah begat Abraham at 130. At 70. he begat children Gen. 11. 26. But that was Nahor his first borne though Abraham for honour sake be named first Abraham he begat at 130. as appeareth in that Terah dyed at 205. Gen. 11. 32. when Abraham was 75. Gen. 12. 4. The promise made to Abraham was at 75. for then and not before he left his owne Country Charran which was his Country as well as Vr or the Valley of the Chaldeans and both in Mesopotamia for Canaan Gen. 12. 4. And Exod. 1● 4. it is said the pregrination of the children of Israel in Aegipt meaning both there and in the Land of Canaan where they were alike strangers was 430. yeares So as the promise and the entrance into the Land begin together Also if Terah had not beene dead before the promise he which none will say should haue receiued the promise of Christ to come of his seede as well as Abraham for doubtlesse Abraham as a Prophet of God would not haue concealed it from him Of necessity therefore two callings of Abraham are to be distinguished one in Ur of the Chaldeans which being passed ouer Gen. 11. is layd downe Gen. 15. 7. and Stephen speaketh of it Act. 7. 2. 3. The second after his fathers death Gen. 12. 1. Which place is to be translated not Iehouah had said but Iehouah did say as a new commandement to goe on his iourney with an addition of the promise And this Stephen mentioneth Act 7. 4. Thirdly frō the promise to the giuing of the Law 430. Gal. 3. 17. Which are the 430. yeares of peregrination Exod. 12. 40. In 400. whereof Abrahams seed was afflicted Gen. 15. 13. They shall intreat thy seede euill 400. yeares This affliction beginneth at Ismaels persecution of Isaac Gen. 21. 9. Gal. 4. 29. and continueth to their deliuerance out of the house of bondage the setuitude of Aegipt The persecution of Isaac was not at his birth it must be when he was of some vnderstanding and the computation of time draweth it to about the sixt yeare of his age which was iust 30. yeares from the promise Thus are those three texts Gal. 3. 17. Exod. 12. 4. and Gen. 15. 13. cleered Of these 430. yeares 215. were spent in the Land of Canaan for from the 75. yeare of Abraham to Isacks birth are 25. Isaac was 60. when Iacob was borne Gen. 25. Iacob went downe into Aegypt at 130. Gen. 47. 9. So onely 215. are left for Aegypt Fourthly from the Law or comming out of Aegypt to the building of the Temple 480. 1. Kings 6. 1. Their summe ariseth thus In the Desert 40. Deut. 1. 3. Iosua 17. The Conquest and partition of the Land take vp 7. of it As it is proued by Calebs age Iosh 14. 7. 10. for the Land was diuided the 45. yeare after Moses sent him from Kadesh Barnea to view the Land out of which deduct 38. yeares that the Children of Israel remained in the wildernesse after Gods sentence vpon Calebs returne and their remaine 7. 480. yeares from the Passeouer to the Temple he ruled the other 10. in all 17. As appeareth in that of those all but 17. are in the time of other Rulers and that remaine can be cast vpon none but him Iudg. 339. That is to say Othniel 40. Ehud and Shamgar 80. Debora 40. Gedeon 4. Abimelech 3. Tolah 23. Iair 22. Ieptha 6. Ibtsan 7. Elon 16. Abdon 8. Sampson 20. Elie 40. Acts 13. 19. it is said God gaue them Iudges as it were 450. yeares vnto Samuel the Prophet he saith as it were or in a manner for in proper Chronicle and common supputation it was 339. But Iudges that within the compasse of that time did tyrannize and oppresse them tooke vp 111. yeares namely Cushan 8. Moab 18. Sisera 20. Midian 7. Ammon 8. Philistines 40. Saul 40. Act. 13. 21. where Paul saith Afterwards they desired a King and God gaue vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis a man of the Tribe of Beniamin 40 yeares As if he should say all this from the Iudges was 40. yeares So comprehending the wholetime from the death of Elie as wel the interim till Samuel medled with the gouernment which was not in 20. yeares after 〈…〉 1. Sam. 7. 3. as the whole time of his gouernment and of Sauls raigne being 20 yeares more Dauid 40. Salomon 4. 1. Kings 6. 1. Fiftly the Temple stood before it was burnt by Nebuchadnetzar 408. To be gathered thus To Salomons death 36. for he raigned 40. in all The Kings of Iudah after him raigned 372. as the yeares are truely

collected by Tremellius in the Argument of the first and second Booke of Kings The 390. yeares that Ezechiel bare the iniquitie of the house of Israel Ezech. 4. whereof 40. part of those 390. vers 9. were for the house of Iudah doth no way crosse this account of the Kings that succeeded Salomon for neither doe those 390. yeares begin when Ieroboam drew Israel away but from about the 28. yeare of Salomons raigne at what time waxing old hee was led to the worship of false Gods 1. King 11. and all Israel ranne headlong into Idolatrie neither doe they end with the destruction of the Temple and the Citie but in the last and finall carrying away of the poore remain by Nebuzaradan as appeareth Ezech. 5. 4. which was some fiue yeare after And the 40. yeare of Iudah are from the eighteenth yeare of Iosia when the couenant was renewed 2. King 23. 23. from which the people immediately fell away Sixtly from the burning of the Temple to the Edict of Cyrus to build it anew And so adding the first 18. yeares of Nebuchadnetzar you haue the 70. yeares Captiuity Seauenthly from that Edict to the destruction of the Temple by the Romanes 490. Which are Daniels seauens Dan. 9. whereof the first 49. yeares are for the full finishing of the temple and all the furniture thereof Eighthly from a second and the finall desolation thereof being endeuoured to be re edifyed by Iulian the Apostata in despight of the Christian name about Anno. 360. after Christ till such time as the Iewes acknowledging Christ the Lord shall set vp a glorious Church at Ierusalem againe not of wood or stone nor for any Legall worship but for the spirituall seruice of God in Christ are yeares 1233. Dan. 12. 11. 12. Ninthly from thence to the full comming in of the Gentiles the certaine time is not foretold vnles which I dare not say any thing may be gathered from Reuel 20. 4. But the tenth and last period is that after the fulnesse of the Gentiles once come in the generation then liuing shall not passe away till all things haue an end Math. 24. 34. The Prophecie of Hoshea Chapters 1. 2. CHAP. 1. 1. The Word of Iehouah that came vnto Hoshea the sonne of Beery in the dayes of Vzziah Iotham Achaz Hezechiah Kings of Iuda and in the dayes of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash King of Israel 1. THe Title or Inscription setteth forth the Author of the Prophecie God the Preacher or publisher thereof Hoshea the time that he executed his Propheticall function 43. yeares at the least for so many there are from the very last yeare of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash to the first yeare of Hezechias to bee reckoned in this sort The last yeare of Ieroboam was the 39. of Uzzia or Azaria Uzzia or Azaria raigned 13. yeares more 52. in all Iotham after him 25. Achaz Hezechiahs father 14. The knowledge of the time helpeth much and bringeth a great light to the vnderstanding of the Prophecie because of the many accidents that fell within that compasse in the Kingdome of Israel to the Kings thereof of whom he maketh often mention and liued himselfe to see most of the things that heere he prophecieth and so was able the better to make vse of it vnto the people vnder that one of Ieroboam the sonne of Ioash when our Prophet first began all the Kings of Israel are comprehended in this place as many as raigned from him to Hezechiah The authority of this Prophet cannot be called in question He is cited by our Sauiour Christ Math. 9 13. 12. 7. by the Euangelist writing by Gods Spirit Math. 2. 15. and lastly by the Apostle Paul 1. Cor. 15. 55. Rom. 25. 26. where he voucheth him by name 2. The beginning of that which Iehouah spake by Hoshea And Iehouah said vnto Hoshea Goe take vnto thee a Wife an Harlot and children begot in fornication for the Land hath greatly gone a whoring departing from Iehouah 3. So he went and tooke Gomer a woman of Diblaim who conceiued and bare him a sonne 4. Then said Iehouah vnto him call his name Izreel for yet a little while and I will visite the slaughters of Izreel vpon the house of Iehu and will make the Kingdome to cease in the house of Israel 5. And it shall be in that day that I will breake the bow of Israel because of the valley of Izreel 2. The summe of the Prophecie is a fearefull denouncing of Gods iudgements against the people for their sinnes a sweet publishing of mercies to a small remnant the little handfull of Gods Elect it is all typicall or declaratiue of the Type The typicall part which hath also an application going with it in the three first Chapters vnder two types whereof the first in the first and second Chapter is of a Wife an Harlot and Children begot in fornication whom the Prophet is willed to take not as though hee should take the mother and them together which could not bee they being borne after but because from a wicked and vncleane mother hee was to haue base and misbegotten Issue Whether the Prophet in truth tooke such a wife which God commanding cannot be dishonest or as rather must be thought by way of similitude only and comparing himselfe with a man marrying in that sort to taxe the peoples infidelity and falling away from God by spirituall adultery with their false Gods and Idols This Wife an Harlot figureth the Kingdome of the Israelites that went a whoring from God their lawfull Husband to whom they were espoused 3. Shee is called Gomer that is to say entierty or perfection for that the whole body of Israel was vouchsafed the honour of this spirituall marriage Shee is said to be a woman of Diblaim or out of Diblah that wast and huge wildernesse which you reade of Ezech. 6. 24. to shew that not their merit but Gods free and gracious goodnesse aduanced them to that estate and dignitie The three Children begot in fornication figure the iudgements which by so many degrees were to light vpon this people euery one heauier than the other 4. The first Child is a son whose name was Izreel by the name of the ten Tribes Mother-Citie figuring the ruine of Iehues house and of the Kings of Israel in his line which is set forth First by the circumstance of time that it should come quickly to passe for Zachariah Ieroboams sonne raigned but 6. moneths then Shallum the sonne of Iabesh conspired against him slue him and raigned in his stead Secondly by the effects that from that time forward God will weaken the force of the whole State and Kingdome by home dissentions and forraigne warres Thirdly by the cause of this iudgement because saith he of the valley of Izreel that is the slaughters and massacres which Iehu made there which albeit God had commanded and was well pleased with yet for that hee did

being but 80. refused a better offer to be in Dauids Court because of the greatnesse of his age 2. Chron. 19. 33 34 35 36. This Assuerus raigned from India to Ethiopia as it is commonly translated But the Hebrew is from India to Cush Cush may bee taken as well for Arabia as Aethiopia and to some parts of Arabia his Kingdome might well reach euen whilst the Babilonians bare their greatest sway for the Kings which should subdue Babylon that is the Medes and Persians are called mighty Nations and great Kings Ier. 27. 7. And Herodotus in his first Booke doth wonderfully extoll the great power of Cyaxeres the Mede by that name Stories call this Assuerus and his father who ruled as hee saith ouer all Asia and subdued the Assyrians the Babylonians only excepted it is like his territories extended to the Indians Eastward and of the other side vnto Arabia and Nebuchadnetzars most about Babylon and in Aegypt Tyrus and the regions of Asia minor Howsoeuer it were if hee enlarged not his bounds so farre whilst Nebuchadnetzar was aliue at the least he might doe it in the time of Euilmerodach who lost much to the Medes and Persians and was at the last slaine in battaile against them That which maketh all the doubt is that Mordecai was carried prisoner frō Ierusalem by Nebuchadnetzar King of Babel in the captiuity of Ieconiah Ester 2. 6. Therefore he dwelt not vnder the dominion of Assuerus the Mede for from Nebuchadnetzar till Babel was taken by Darius none of the Medes had footing in that Kingdome Nay the Iewes by Gods ordinance were to serue the King of Babel his sonne and sonnes sonne till the yeares of the captiuity should be expired as may bee gathered by Ier. 27. 7. 2. Chron. 36. 20. And a Babylonian King if it were during the captiuitie this Assuerus could not bee for the Kingdome of Babylon was promised to Nebuchadnetzar his sonne and sonnes sonne Ier. 25. 6 7. who are named to bee Euilmerodach 2. Kings 25. 27. and Belshazzar Dan. 5. This indeed is a great obiection to the which of a certaine I can say nothing But seeing Assuerus was a King of the Medes and Persians and euen during the Babilonian captiuity there was at Susis where Assuerus kept his court Ester 1. 2. a Pallace for the Kings of Media and Persia Dan. 8. 2. Why may it not be that multitude of the Iewes dispersed themselues hither and thither into diuers Countries as they could best make shift especially in the confusion and shuffling of things when Nebuchadnetzar was throwne out of his Kingdome and Mordecai happily among the rest might transport himselfe to Susis In this City was Daniel the third yeare of King Belshazzar Dan. 8. 2. for so I hold hee was indeed and not in a vision he might bee by the riuer Vlai in a vision but when he saw that vision he was really in the Pallace at Susis Belike in regard of his great wisedome hee was sent thither vpon some Embassage or other employment for the seruice of the King his maister So vers 27. of that Chapter seemeth to import for certainely at that time Susis was of the Medes dominion The generality therefore of the people might be vnder the King of Babel for it was the Babylonicall captiuity seing the Land of Iudaea belonged to the Babylonian and no returne could be without his leaue though many of them shifted for themselues elsewhere Perhaps also the King of Medes either taking aduantage of those great changes in the state and Common-wealth that could not but fall out vpon the expelling of Nebuchadnetzar or in the loosenesse of Euilmerodachs raigne when his father was dead subdued those places in Mesopotamia about the riuer Chebar whether the Iewes of Ieconias captiuity were led away Ezech. 1. 3. 2. 25. many other things there bee which might make an alteration that are not particularly and by name expressed in the Scripture Wherefore Gods great goodnesse to his poore afflicted Church did herein maruellously shew it selfe that at one and the sametime vnder the captiuity in the middest of their greatest heauinesse Mordecai and Queene Ester among the Medes and Daniel with the Babylonians were so highly exalted After Darius death came the proclamation of Cyrus which is recorded 2 Chron. 36. Ezr. 1. That Darius was then dead appeareth by the Memorandum found among the records Ezra 6. 2. 3. made in the first yeare of K. Cyrus Cyrus made a decree c. and by the proclamation it selfe Thus saith Cyrus King of Persia God hath giuen vnto mee all the Kingdomes of the Earth c. If Darius had been liuing Cyrus would not haue written himselfe King of Persia for all Darius time it was the Medes and Persians At the least he would not haue said that God had giuen him all the Kingdomes of the earth when Darius was his Soueraigne neither would he haue beene named King of Babel at that time as Ezra 5. 13. relating therevnto doth call him which without question was Darius his during his life Dan. 5. 31. 6. 1. 2. c. Now then for the first question of the three formerly propounded from this Edict of Cyrus the time when the seauenty yeares captiuity ended begin the seauenty seauens for 1. Certainely they include the whole time of the peoples welfare so the words of the Angell sound Seauenty seauens are determined vpon thy people and vppon thy holy Citie But that was promised to be assoon as the seauenty yeares captiuity should expire Ier. 29. 10. After seauenty yeares bee accomplished to Babel I will visite you and performe my good promise to cause you to returne to this place The performance of which promise Daniel heere prayeth that God would not deferre verse 19. And the Angell telleth him vers 23. hee was heard in that hee prayed for and that the Angell was come to declare the same vnto him 2. The Angell speaketh of the going forth of the word as of a thing notorious which must needs be the word or proclamation that was to come from Cyrus for of him the Scripture speaketh by name Esay 43. 23. and other promise there was not any 3. To suspend the beginning so long as till Darius Nothus or the second Artaxerxes whom they call Artaxerxes Muemon were to make Daniel the whole Church for whose comfort this Prophesie was reuealed ignorant of the beginning And then there should haue needed another to haue interpreted the Angell and to shew when that Edict was to be published It is true the Edict was not gone forth when Daniel vsed this prayer for his prayer was in the raigne of Darius the Mede at what time Cyrus was not as yet the absolute Lord But it appeareth Dan. 9. 1 2. Daniel knew the time was now come when the same must be accomplished and Cyrus notoriously knowne to be the person that must doe it Esay 43. 23. So that of this Edict presently to be promulged