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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

Baasha slayes Ieroboams posterity and Zimri slayes his c. Thus it was amongst the Romans Iulius Caesar roots up Pompey Brutus and Cassius Iulius and Aug●●tus roots up them The Senate pursued Nero Otho Galba Vitellius Otho Vespatian Vitellus Domitian Titus Nerva and Trajan Domitian Tyrants seldome dye in peace 8 Obs. Rulers must destroy all the Monuments of Idolatry It is not sufficient that they destroy Baal but they must down with his Temples Images Groves Priests and all his appurtenances so doth Iohu here and so did God command Deut. 12. 2 3. Yee shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the Nations served their gods c. Every word hath its weight Yee shal destroy utterly destroy the places all the places where menserved Idols you shall overhrow their Altars break their Pillars burn their Groves hew down their Images and abolish the very names of their gods What can be more fully spoken So Num. 33. 52. They must destroy not one but all their Pictures and pull down all their high places When one demanded why in King Henry the eighths dayes they pilled down the Monasteries It was answered That the very nests of such rooks must be pulled down that they may build there no more Wee are to bless God for this here in England that in our dayes hee hath not onely rooted up Idolatry but hee hath cast out all the rags and remnants of it there is not a hoof not a cross not a crucifix not an Image left behinde The greater is their sin then that in these dayes of Reformation have not onely leaped out of the Surpless but out of the Ministry and out of the Church too They have not onely cast out the Font but the Infant also The Ceremonies are gone and some are casting the substance after them Set forms are gone and now they would have no prayers at all Oh the folly and madness of this licentious age Do wee thus requite the Lord O foolish and unwise Is this the thanks wee give him for all his Ordinances Mercies and great deliverances to separate from the Assemblies of his people to contemn his Ordinances the pledges of his love unto us to vilifie his Ministers and hate the paths of purity and peace The Lord hath born long with this Athestical brood but hee will not alwayes bear The Lord will wound the head of these his enemies and the hairy pates of such as walk on in such paths of libertinism and prophaneness 9 The service that men do for God shall bee rewarded If Jehu cut off Ahabs posterity destroy Baal and his worshipers and execute Gods commands though it be but hypocritically yet it shall be rewarded with a temporal reward answerable to his service his sons shall sit upon his Throne to the fourth Generation 2 King 10. 30. Ahabs hypocritical humiliation obtained a reprival The King of Babylon though a Heathen yet is rewarded by God for the service hee doth him Ezek. 29. 18 19. 20. yea and those wicked ones Mal 1. 10. but especially such as serve him sincerely shall bee rewarded fully Numb 14. 24. Rev. 14. 13. Hee never sayes to the seed of Jacob seek my face in vain Isa. 45. 19. Wee cannot lose though wee should lose all by serving him Not onely For but In the very keeping of his Commandements there is great reward Psal. 19. 11 All the good wee have done in secret shall at last bee acknowledged and openly rewarded even to a cup of cold water Matth. 6. 6. and 10. 41 42. Pharaohs Butler may forget the kindness of Joseph and the Saints themselves may forget the good which they have done but their God doth not Mal. 3. 16. Matth. 25. 34. c. 10 God may reward men for the matter of their service yet punish them for the manner of doing it Iehu was commanded to destroy the house of Ahab and God commends him for it and rewards his service for the act in it self was good yet because Iehu did it hypocritically and by halves and though hee destroied Ahabs house yet hee followed him in his Idolatry and did cut off the posterity of Ahab for self-ends viz. to settle the Kingdome on himself and his posterity the surer and did not primarily look at Gods glory therein therefore God calls it Murder and threatens to avenge the blood of Ahab on the house of Iehu Hosea 1. 4. Because hee did not Gods work for God but for himself to settle the Crown faster on his own head and so did Gods work for base self-ends his great care was to settle the State and Kingdome and that hee did thorowly but when hee came to reform the Church that hee did haltingly and halvingly Hee destories the Priests and Idols of Baal but not the Priests and Idols of Dan and Bethel hee was not sincere in what hee did hee pickt and chose his way so as might best stand with his own politick interest hee supprest one false way and did tollerate another and therefore the Lord puts a But upon him 2 King 10. 31. But Iehu took no heed to walk in the way of the Lord with all his heart for hee departed not from the sins of Ieroboam who made Israel to sin This But spoiled all A man may do much go far and shew much zeal for God as Iehu did here and yet bee nothing How fat an hypocrite may go is abundantly shewed by others The Papists boast much of their zeal in converting the Indians when they pervert them rather and turn them from one kinde of Idolatty to another and under the Name of Christ draw them to Antichrist flaying and massacring those poor souls in a most inhumane barbarous manner seeking their gold rather than their good as appears by History 11 The better men are the longer many times they live Iehu was one of the best Kings that ever Israel had since the Tribes were divided and hee reigned longer than any King of Israel before him did and but one after him that reigned longer and that was Ieroboam the second Iehu's grand childe who reigned one and forty years when Jehu reigned but eight and twenty Piety hath the promise of long life Prov. 22. 4. And if such as honour their natural Fathers shall have their daies prolonged how much more such as honour their heavenly Father 12. Death spares none Jehu valiant powerful politick active successful Jehu dies No priviledge nor prerogative can preserve men from the grave Death is that great Leveller which laies all in the dust it is the way of all flesh and therefore wee should prepare to meet it 12 Jehoahaz the Son of Jehu succeeds his Father both in his sin and in the Throne hee reigns seventeen years over Israel and hath the usual brand set on him which his predecessors had viz. that hee did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord in following the sins of Jeroboam who made Israel sin This