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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

their false Prophets did seduce them vttering nothing but vanitic and winde and the froth of their owne imagination to sooth vp the people and nourish them in euill The confirmation therefore is from two causes One their sacrilegious disposition and wickednesse towards God The other their ciuill discords and home diuisions to the ruine of the Common-wealth whereby many Kings rose vp in a short time 8. When I speake of ciuill discord I meane not onely that the Princes and people are interessed in this businesse but the Prophets themselues which are set of God as watchmen to ouersee the people and keepe them at one They watch indeed but far in another sort for they watch treacherously and perfidiously to betray the people to set them at iarre euen the godly among them those that cleaue and hold fast vnto my God The diuisions and hart burnings of the people doe they take aduantage of to set them together by the eares so that this discord euen in the house of God the Prophet in all his courses vseth as a fowlers grinne or snare to catch the poore soules and to intrap them 9. But both these things a sacrilegious disposition and ciuill discords are hereditarie euills to the house of Israell And as they corrupt themselues this way and throw one another into the depth of all iniquitie sinning openly and shamelesly like to that their Fathers did at Gibeah so shall they be punished as their fathers were 10 For touching their sacrilegious disposition compare first what their fathers did to Baal peor in the wildernesse where I tooke as great pleasure in them and they were as deare and precious vnto me as grapes and as the first ripe figs but they forsooke me ioyned themselues to that shamefull Idoll and as the sway and heat of their spirituall lust did lead them as they loued and liked so did they multiplie Idoll after their pleasure 11. As Ephraim therefore treadeth this way in his forefathers steps so shall hee be partaker of their plagues The sonnes which are the pride and glory of their parents I will make quicke riddance of three manner of waies for eyther they shall not quicken in the wombe or not goe out there their full time or dye as soone as they are borne 12. And if happily they scape all these and haue some bringing vp in their childehood yet it in all be all one not one of them shall remaine aliue 13. Let them in their owne concei● be neuer so strong and sure as fast rooted and as well planted as Tyrus that famous Citie yet this that I haue said shall surely come to passe All their children yong and olde shall certainely be destroyed 14. O God therefore saith the Prophet diuerting his speech to him since thou hast threatned two euils one that their glory shall flit away as soone as they be borne or conceiued in the wombe the other that fathers shall lose their children when they haue brought them vp be satisfied with that which is the lesse euill of the twaine eyther that there may neuer any be borne or being borne may for lacke of sustenance dye out of hand 15. But I stay not here I will remember you of another like example of their fathers at Gilgall There were they wallowing in their wickednesse the vncircumcision of their flesh made me hate them And albeit I in my mercy and kindnesse pardoned their offence and renewed my Couenant with them cutting off their foreskin yet the place which I so sanctified these men prophane againe that all the wickednesse of their forefathers there doth yet sticke vnto them They are rebels euery one all the Princes of them wherefore I will spread my iudgements vpon them First I will expell them out of my house and take from them my seruice and religion which they despise 16. Secondly they shall not prosper but eyther be as a tree smitt with the wormes or weather that they shall not bring forth the fruit of the wombe or if they doe I will command the sword to slay their sweet and delightfull children Thirdly they shall be ledde captiue into strange Countries CHAP. 10. 1. Come to their ciuill discords They are good to none but to themselues If they bring forth any fruit they abuse it to their owne lusts 2. Whatsoeuer they haue they attribute it to their idols but God iealous of his glory will cut off their idols and places consecrate to Idolatry by the top 3. They thinke the King should not rule them but they the King And because they haue cast off all reuerence of God therfore they cast off and set light by the King which is his Ordinance 4. They are all periured and falsifiers of their word and Couenant New Conspiracies spring euery day among them all is out of order not iudgement it selfe which ought to be holy vnto God scapeth free but is turned into bitternesse and oppression A great indignity that those which liue of the furrowes of my field and whom my bountie and largesse doth sustaine should make gall and wormewood to grow vp in stead of good and sauourie fruit 5. But the punishment of their Idolatries the Calues of Bethel and Dan shall be First feare and trembling Secondly losse of all their glorie and whatsoeuer they reioyce in 6. Thirdly captiuitie of the inhabitants that shall make them ashamed of their doings 7. Fourthly destruction of the King of Israell hee that is now so glorious shall then be no more set by than the foame that is vpon the water 8. Fifthly Ruine of their Idols and idolatrous places wherein the Israelites sinned so grieuouslie 6. The sense and terror of Gods iudgements driuing them to desperation 9. From the dayes of Gibe ah hast thou sinned O Israel there they stood the battell in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not reach them 10. It is in my desire that I binde them for the people shall be gathered against them binding them to be carried away in their two habitations 11. For Ephraim is an heyfer taught that loueth to tread out the corne Though I would haue passed vpon the be awty of her necke would haue made Ephraim to ride Iudah should haue ploughed and Iacob should haue harrowed 12. Sowe to your selues to righteousnesse said I reape vnto kindnesse swallow vp your fallow ground for it is time to seeke Iehovah till hee come and powre downe the raine of righteousnesse vpon you 13. You haue plowed wickednesse you reape iniquity you cat the fruit of lying because thou trust est in thine owne way in the multitude of thy strong ones 14. Therefore shall a tumult rise among thy people and thy fenced places shall every one bee wasted as Shalman wasted the countrey of Arbell in the day of battell the mother with the children shall be dashed in pieces 15. Thus shall Bethell doe vnto you because of your exceeding wickednesse in the very morning vtterly cut off shall

in place of it is come mourning and complaint pining away for the calamitie and hard estate which their grieuous transgression hath brought vpon them But as the punishment is most heauy so the sinne here pointed at is a sinne of all sinnes the most superlatiue degree of sinne Such a transgression as exceedeth without comparison all other transgressions that euer were Detestable aboue and beyond all the sinnes whatsoeuer of all ages in the world What is that The crucifying of Christ the Lord of Glory vpon a desperate and deepe malice adding to the same so many circumstances of most notorious contumacie and ingratitude Obseruations 14. These shall lift vp their voyce and sing For the excellencie c. 21 The children of God haue their eyes open to see an excellencie of wisedome iustice goodnesse where the world is blind and can discerne nothing but deformitie and confusion Wherefore though their mouthes be stopped vp and mousled that not a word can come from them to the honour and praise of God yet the godly finde matter not onely to speake but to lift their voyce aloud yea to sing and shout There is a difference betweene Gods children and the wicked in obseruing the workes of God For the wicked themselues are forced to acknowledge Gods iustice As I haue done so hath God rendred vnto me Iudg. 1. 7. But Gods children behold an excellencie in Gods workes which maketh them with cheerefull and ioyfull hearts to magnifie his name The deformities that are in the world which seeme to minister nothing but iust complaint and discontent fill their mouthes with songs and hymnes For they with spirituall eyes discerne that excellencie of Gods worke such an aboundance of wisedome power goodnes holinesse truth iustice that maketh them perforce to breake forth into his praises And this is a holy vse of singing and vsing mirth when it tendeth as Dauids Psalmes to the glorifying of the high and mighty workes of God which he would haue to be had in euerlasting remembrance In the Iles of the Sea 25 No place should discourage vs from seruing God the solitarie wildernesse the Iles that are most comfortles What and how noble visions did God reueale to his seruant Iohn in the I le of Patmos when vpon the Lords day he gaue himselfe in that barbarous place to heauenly meditations Glorifie yee Iehovah 26 It is an excellent and a holy dutie to quicken others in pietie and godlinesse as God by his Spirit hath quickned vs. Psal 122. 1. I was glad of them that said vnto me Let vs goe to the house of Iehovah Zach. 8. 21. The inhabitants of one Citie shall say vnto another Let vs go diligently to be sutors to Iehovah and to seeke Iehovah of Hoastes I also will goe And where the zeale of God warmeth at the heart it will breake forth as fire to the kindling and inflaming of others The God of Israel 27 The true God as he reuealeth himselfe in the Church is he that we must honour and serue The memoriall of whose name is alwaies one and the same Heretofore knowne to his people by the name of the God of Israel but now manifested vnto vs more clearely in his Sonne Christ Iesus who with the brightnes and excellencie of the New Testament obscureth and drowneth the former couenant And here haue you the very marke of the true Church which is to celebrate and professe the great and glorious name of the true God the God of Israel the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ 15. Sea valleys 30 In what place of the world soeuer any such may be found though lurking and lying hid in the middest of most barbarous and sauage Nations they are to be acknowledged the liuely members of the Church invisible From the skirt of the land we haue heard Psalmes 31 It is a holy and sweet musicke in Gods eares when as his benefits are generall so generall thanks is giuen of many 2 Cor. 1. 11. 16. Comelines to the iust 32 A land flourisheth and it is well with them when they feare God and walke in his commandements Contrariwise the rejecting and setting light by Gods mercies offred vnto a people is the cause of ruine and destruction of flourishing States and Kingdomes Neuer did any people flourish more then the Israelites when they kept close to Gods ordinances Neuer was there example seene of such a fearefull desolation as befell them when they fell from God which Moses had before threatned Deut. 32. and all the world hath seene to come to passe That in them as in a picture you may behold the truth of that which Solomon saith in his Prouerbes Prov. 14. 34. Righteousnes exalteth a Nation But sinne is the reproch of people To the iust one 34 The cause of the blisse of a whole State is for the iust that are among them Contrary to that the world esteemeth which ascribeth the growth of Kingdomes to the wisedome policie and power of the State yea thinke the seruants of God many times the cause of the calamities that light vpon them as appeareth in many of the Edicts of the first Heathen Emperors Who notwithstanding haue beene oft driuen to acknowledge that God blessed them for the Churches sake that harboured in their kingdomes Most treacherous treacherie 35 What a fearefull sinne it is to lend a deafe eare to Christ For if it shall be easier for Sodome and Gomorrha in the day of Iudgement then for those that despise his Ministers what shall be thought of those that do despise himselfe This is to be noted because of the steps whereby men climbe vp to the height of sinning For those that make no conscience of Christs Ordinances nor to entertaine the Prophets whom he sendeth will at the last make no conscience of killing Christ himselfe if they might come by him All sinnes therefore are not equall neither is there an equalitie of punishments Mans nature is so dull and heauy so vncapable of holy admonitions that they had neede to be beaten vpon againe and againe with varietie and heape of words and particularizing of Gods iudgements so to fasten them into their hearts as with goades and nayles Eccles 12. 13. 17. Feare and the pit and the snare shall come vpon thee O inhabitant of the Land 18. For it shrll be that he that fleeth because of the noise of the feare shall fall into the pit and he that getteth vp out of the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windowes from on high shall be opened and the foundations of the earth shall shake 19. The land shall be vtterly broken downe the land shall be cleane dissolued the land shall be moued exceedingly 20. The land shall reele to and fro like a drunken man and shall flit like a lodge and the transgression thereof shall be heauie vpon it so that it shall fall and rise no more EXPOSITION FIftly and lastly the threatned iudgement is

the ministerie and preaching of the Gospell that the subiects of the King of glory may come in multitudes of their brethren the Iewes to flock euery day to the Lords Assemblies All this by an Apostrophe or turning of the speech to those doore-keepers the Lords Remembrancers Thirdly are mustered their heauenly and spirituall graces fiue in number 1. Righteousnes both imputed and renewed 2. Faith which is the hand or instrument whereby they apprehend this righteousnesse of God in Christ and make themselues true owners and possessors of it Wherein the better to expresse the measure of their faith he calleth it faiths in the plurall as Peter hath godlinesses 2 Pet. 3. 11. The same perhaps which Paul in another case expresseth by the name of all faith 1 Cor. 13. 2. 3. Constancie and perseuerance in this grace wrestling for the faith as Iude speaketh vers 3. And holding of it fast which was the Apostles reioycing 2 Tim. 4. 7. I haue kept the faith 4. The ground of all this a new birth To a frame saith he a heauenly frame one framed and fashioned from aboue that of a wilde Asse colt is made a man by spirituall regeneration as Tsophar speaketh in the booke of Iob. Iob 11. 12. Thou doest reserue c. 5. Trust and confidence with all ones heart soule and thoughts resting and relying vpon the power of God in Christ vpon his strengthning and corroborating Spirit into whose hands God hath committed all things that it is impossible any should perish that betake themselues to him For all our endeauours are able to do nothing It is God alone by whom we are garded walled in and fensed vnto saluation 1 Pet. 1. 5. The fourth remarkable thing in this part is the happinesse and felicitie which God bestoweth vpon his people thus furnished and fitted of heauenly graces peace peace all manner of good things so farre as is for their good Which first shall be most plentifull and aboundant then constant and perpetuall not reserued onely and laid vp in store but kept and preserued firme for euermore by him that is the surest and most faithfull keeper But this peace especially comprehendeth peace of conscience that passeth vnderstanding and is a continuall feast to those that haue it So doth the Prophet expresse in this place that which the Apostle writeth to the Romanes Rom. 14. 17. The kingdome of God is righteousnes and peace and ioy in the Holy Ghost Obseruations 1. In that day The time of Gods mercies ought to be the time of our thanksgiuings We are not to take day for it Song Herevnto we must stirre vp our selues by all good meanes to quicken our dulnes and to set an edge vpon our praises thanksgiuings vsing Psalmes Hymnes and spirituall Songs For the voyce and melodious tune is fit to stir vp the affections of the heart and to beget much spirituall and inward joy So shall we vse holily and aright the things that God hath giuen for the comfort and solace of our life In the land Publicke benefits are publikely and of all to be acknowledged Herewith is God well pleased when a whole Nation lifteth vp their voyce topraise God for mercy in common appertaining to them all Of Iehuda The Church onely is capable of this dutie Prophane men and worldlings like swine receiue many blessings but neuer looke vp to the hand that gaue them Of the 10 Lepers that were healed onely one returned to giue glory vnto God Luk. 17. 2. A strong The Church of God is of invincible strength and power Hell gates cannot preuaile against it To vs This is for the comfort of all the faithfull For the promises made to it extend to all the members citizens of the same And thus must we learne to apply to our owne good whatsoeuer we finde written of the Church or of those that dwell therein God hath set But this strength neither Church nor any member haue of themselues or by their owne in herent vertue All commeth from Gods grace and power onely We are weake and sillie wormes to encounter with so great and mightie foes as fight against vs on euery side It is he that doth set his fense about vs and guards our walls and bulwarks Psal 60. 14. Through God we shall doe valiantly and he treads downe our foes Saluations We neede not feare in anything For it it is not slight and small succours we haue from him Saluations all manner of health and safetie he doth minister If one helpe will not do it he is ready with an other Sathan can not haue so many meanes to foylevs as He hath meanes to keepe and hold vs vp 2. Open The preaching of the Gospell is the gate to let in Gods people into the Church and to make them Citizens of the beauenly Tsion Rom. 10. Faith commeth by hearing This gate must be vnlocked and kept wide open by the Ministers to whom God hath committed the keyes of the house of Dauid to open and to shut For they are set as vpon a watch-towre to keep out enemies that the true Citizens may come in Wherefore a continuall diligence and attendance is to be looked for of such that night and day they stand vpon their watch As that faithfull watch-man professeth of himselfe he did Esay 21. 8. How much are they to blame that neglect so holy a dutie imposed of God vpon them May enter in But as they are thus carefully to attend so it is the peoples part to lye at this doore as the multitude did at the poole of Bethesda Ioh. 5. ready to goe in with the first entrance that they finde Dauid Psal 110. 3. writing of these very times when Gods people shall be wonne to Christ sheweth what ardencie and zeale shall be in them to enter in at these gates Thy people shall flocke most willingly in the day of thy troopes in the comely places of holinesse euen from the wombe from the morning to thee shall flocke the dew of thy youth Righteous The badge and liuerie of Gods people is righteousnesse and holinesse whereby as by a coguisance men may know the Maister whom they serue for this praise belongeth to them alone And here is a true definition of the Church of God and of their liuely members Whatsoeuer faire vertues are to be seene among the worldlings it is but a glosse that quickly fadeth an outside onely that neuer taketh roote Faith For lacking faith that onely purifieth the heart Act. 15. 9. it is impossible that they should haue any sound or solide vertue The righteousnes of faith is the onely true righteousnesse In vaine doe men seeke for righteousnes where it can not be had as Pharisees and Iustitiaries doe in their owne perfections For which cause the Apostle rejecteth the Iewes in his time from being the Church of God Rom. 10. 3. Seeking to set vp their owne righteousnes they haue not beene subiect to the righteousnesse of God But when God

be the King of Israell 9. The fift and last part followeth which is the conclusion of the Prophesie repeating first that which was said before of the peoples sinning like their fathers of Gibeah nothing moued with Gods mercifull and gracious dealing who cut them not off in that war against the wicked Beniaminites as they did deserue but suffered them to remaine 10. But because they will not learne to profit by Gods mercies Let me see whother they will profit by my Chastisements I think best to correct them to deliuer them bound in both their habitations of Israel and of Iuda to bee carried away Captiues 11. Next he doth garnish and adorne this conclusion by a double dissimilitude One is of the Israelites affection and disposition compared with Gods gracious counsell towards them Ephraim saith the Lord by the Prophet was taught true Piety and instructed in the feare of God my purpose was to haue tuned him that he might bee plyable to the yoake and draw in my plough and to occupie him in my seruice But he loues to take his ease and onely followeth after his pleasure and profit 12. The other by comparing Gods documents and instructions calling them to righteousnesse and holinesse that hath most large and ample promises annexed it 13. With their contrary deeds vnsatiable in iniquity 14. Lastly hee denounceth the Iudgement it selfe a cruell and mortall warre destroying them Amplifying this destruction First by the greatnesse set forth by a similitude That all sexes and ages shall be destroyed euen as Shalman Shalmanasar by all likelihood in that voyage which is spoken of 2. Kin. 18. 34. 19. 13. wasted and destroyed the countrey of Arbel afterwards renowned for the ouerthrow that Alexander the great gaue in that place vnto Darius 15. Secondly by the causes that brought this Iudgement vpon them They may thanke their idolatrie for it Thirdly by the speedinesse of the Iudgement Early that is to say quickly and anone it shall be done 4. By the certainty which the doubling of the word importeth CHAP. 11. 1. Because Israel is a youth whom I loue therefore out of Aegypt haue I called my sonne 1. These are the three Sermons touching the sinnes of the people and Gods iudgements against them for the same Now in two Sermon● more he setteth forth the promises of grace peace and reconciliation to a small remnant the little handfull of Gods elect which in this 11. Chapter being the first Sermon hee doth foure manner of wayes First is the fundamentall cause and ground worke of all the good things which God offereth or bestoweth vpon the Iewes which is the grace and fauour of God in and through Christ In whom because God loued them and adopted them for his Children therefore in his infinite mercy hee brought his sonne for their sake out of Egypt where their sinnes deserued he should perpetually remaine and neuer to haue come backe for the worke of their redemption So this place is applyed and expounded Math. 2. 2. As they called to them so went they from their presence they sacrificed vnto Baalim and burnt incense to their grauen Images 3. When as I acquaint Ephraim he taketh them in his arms and they know not that I heale them 4. With cords of a man doe I draw them with thick bands of loue and I am vnto them as those that lift vp the yoake put vpon their cheekes that I might reach meate vnto them 5. He was not to haue returned into the Land of Aegypt or of the Assyrian who is his King but they refused to conuert 6. To conclude when the sword abideth in his cities and consumeth his members and denoureth because of their owne counsels 7. My people are prone to rebellion against mee although they called them to the most high hee doth not withall exalt him 2. The second thing is the peoples extreame ingratitude refusing Christ but that is incled by mentioning the sinnes of the time hee liued in Idolatrie especially and the worship of false gods and is further amplified by comparing Gods gracious dealing in this behalfe and the holy means which he vsed to reclaim them First he called them by the Prophets 3. Secondly hee taught and enformed the people how he would be serued yet they set vp Idolls in his stead and after the manner of impudent and shamelesse strumpets tooke the puppets in their armes and embraced them before his face 4. Thirdly he heaped vpon them many fauors and tokens of his Ioue howbeit all Gods benefits could not keep them to him but they would needs flye vnto strangers for helpe Hee drew them not as beasts but gently and louinglie with the words of men Like a good husbandman hee lift vp the yoake from their necke to giue them meat 5. So as they wanted nothing there was no cause for them to runne for helpe eyther to the Aegyptian as Hoshea did or to the Assirian to whom they were tributaries from the time of Menachem yet they would not be stayd 6. Thirdly he layd vpon them heauie crosses and corrections The sword lodged in their houses it eate vp and consumed their very bodies because of their wickednesse 7. Yet they prone vnto rebellion tooke no heed nor gaue glorie vnto God though all these things the Word Gods blessings and afflictions invited them vnto him 8. How should I expose thee O Ephraim how should I deliuer thee vp O Israell how should I dispose thee as Admah how should I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart turneth it selfe within me together doe my bowels of repentance boyle 9. I will not execute the heat of my wrath I will no more destroy Ephraim for I am God Almighty and not a man the holy oxe in the middest of thee and I will not inuade the city 8. The third thing is the desolation of this people which well might haue beene a gulfe to swallow them vp and a graue to bury them in for euer being most worthy to perish as the Cities which God destroyed in his wrath Gen. 19. Howbeit God in the bowels of his mercy earning and taking pitie of them spareth to lay vpon them the extremitie of his wrath and is ready to saue them for his mercies sake This latter hath the proofes and reasons rendred for it which are three all taken from the consideration of the nature of God First his mercies as we said before 9. Secondly his vnchangeablenes being not a man that is alwaies variable and differing as well from himselfe as others but the mightie God whose purpose and decrees are constant for the sauing of the elect Thirdly his holinesse who is himselfe holy and the author of eternall sanctitie 10. After Iehouah shall they goe as a roaring Lion for hee shall roare and the children shall come trembling from the Sea 11. They shall come trembling as a bird out of Aegypt and as a doue out of Asshur and I will place them in their

I looke vpon them 8. I met them as a Beare robbed of her whelpes and I brake the fall of their heart and I deuoured them there as a huge Lyon as a beast of the field tearing them 7. These things propounded now hee doth amplifie and enlarge each part and first the sinnes of the Israelites couetousnesse Idolatrie Pride First extreame couetousnesse in fraud and oppression 8. Reiecting all honest meanes of comming by their wealth and scorning whatsoeuer iumped not with their wicked desires 9. Albeit God from the beginning had heaped blessings manifoldly vpon them which they ought to haue rested in and not to flie vnto vnlawfull meanes 10. Yea not so onely but had made ample and large promises of further fauours by his Prophets Both which doe adde to the vnworthinesse of their sinne 11. Their second sinne is Idolatrie wherein more thorowly to conuince their benummed consciences the Prophet reasoneth with them in this sort What thinke you the men of Gilead those beyond the riuer of Iordan whom Tiglath Pileser spoyled and led captiues that they onely were guiltie of Idolatrie and you not because you remaine at home vntouched of the Assyrian Nay saith he the very entrance into the countrey Gilgall it selfe so aboundeth with Idolatrie that it is not to be doubted but in the rest of the parts of the kingdome their altars are as thicke as furrowes in the field that is to say innumerable 12. A horrible thing if it be well considered that these two places should now become the nurceries of euill which heretofore were the meanes of so great comfort to Gods people For Gilead serued as a sanctuarie vnto Iacob when hee fled from Laban 13. In Gilgall God by Iosua renewed his couenant with your Fathers after he had brought them out of Egypt by the hand of Moses and Aaron 14. But notwithstanding all that Israell hath so sinned as hath beene said and prouoked Gods heauie indignation and therefore his bloud be vpon him he shall remaine guiltie and subiect vnto punishment and must be content to take that that commeth of it CHAP. 13. 1. For this sinne of Idolatrie hath brought three fearefull iudgements vpon them First They that before were a terrour vnto all are now of no reckoning The time indeed was that if Ephraim did but speake all the tribes trembled and quaked But as soone as he offended with Baal following after Idolatrie he was no more set by then a dead carkasse 2. Secondly God in his iudgement hath giuen them vp into hardnesse of minde and to their hearts Iust that for all this suddaine change they repent not but run more and more into Idolatrie 3. Thirdly Being made very fooles at the length they shall vanish and come to nothing 4. Thus by the place and by the effects hee hath made odious their Idolatrie Now lastly he doth the same by comparing on the contrary part his couenant with them from the beginning and his former benefits euen in the wildernesse 5. Both which ought to haue beene motiues to keepe them fast vnto him 6. The third sinne is their pride and loftinesse of heart which made them to forget God and that in the middest of his blessings when they had most cause to remember him A thing that Moses warned them of before Deut. 8. 7. 8. But they went not so away with it I met with them sayth God and handled them roughly as they did deserue 9. He hath marred thee O Israell when as in me in thine helpe thou mightest haue stood 10. Where is thy King Where now that he may saue thee in all thy cities and thy Iudges of whom thou saidest giue me a King and Princes 11. I giue thee a King in mine anger and take away in my wrath 12. The iniquitie of Epbraim is bound vp his ●●nne is layd vp 13. The sorrowes of a woman in trauell shall come vppon him he is no wise sonne for then he would not stay a what in the mouth of the matrixe 9. And so hauing done with the sinnes of the Israelites he doth now amplifie and enlarge his former inuitation vnto repentance First taking arguments from the good that thereby shall come vnto them compared with the euils that before they were in for their offences Hee saith God by his Prophet meaning the King of whom he speaketh in the next verse in whom thou puttedst thy trust Was the cause of thy Confusion Whereas in me who am thy strength and sauing health all good things are to bee found and by repentance shall come vnto thee 10. The former part is proued for that none of their Kings and Princes were able to doe them good 11. For God in his wrath set them vp and pulled them downe and in a little while made many changes and alterations in the kingdome 12. Their iniquitie which God tied vp as a man doth his purse full of money and kept in store to pay them home for it was the cause of all this 13. Yet were they so foolish that though throwes came vpon them as vpon a woman with Childe for so is their Common-wealth compared to a mother Chapter 23. yet they had no list to rid themselues out of those dangers and to put forth into the hands of God as vnto a Midwife And this may well seeme to be a prophecie of the great miserie they are now in because of the promises which do follow 14. From the power of the graue will I redeeme them from death I will auenge them where are thy plagues O death where thy destroying O graue repentance shall be hidden from mine eyes 15. For he shall bring forth fruit among the brethren after that an East winde comming a winde of Iehouah comming vp from the desert his spring shall become drie and his fountaine shall drie vp the same shall spoyle the treasure of all pleasant vessels 16. After that Samaria shall be laid desolate for that shee hath rebelled against her God After that by the sword they shall fall their infants be dashed in peeces and their women with childe ript 14. In the second part from the panges and sorrowes before mentioned he passeth presently to most sweet and comfortable promises Being of foure kindes The first promise is The deliuerie of them out of that depth of miserie wherein they were plunged and making them to flourish againe which is first set out by a double similitude One comparing their wretched estate to death and the graue Out of the which he will set them free by raising them from death to life For such and so wonderfull shall their restoring be that it is called life from the dead Rom 11. 15. And this resurrection as it were of their is an euident argument of the generall rising from the dead Ezech. 37. To which purpose the Apostle aptly and properly doth alledge it 1. Cor. 15. 15. The other similitude is from a peece of ground all dryed vp and