euen that the end whereof is the beginning of their greatnesse Esay Chapter 6. 9. c. to the end of the Chapter The hardning of the peoples heart was fulfilled vpon Christs preaching of the Gospell and is meant of those times for thither the Euangelist doth referre it Ioh. 12 41. These things said Esaias when he saw his Christs glory and spake of him Wherefore you must take heed of applying this to the Babylonian or any other captiuity that went before But not to contend in that certaine it is that this hardnesse at what time soeuer you assigne the beginning not only endured to the Apostles times Act 28. 25. 26. but yet now endureth and shall endure till the fulnesse of the Gentiles become in Rom. 11. 25. So the fearefull desolation here spoken of comprehendeth all that time and therefore the thirteenth verse an euident prophesie of their conuersion which I thus read But yet there shall be in it a tenth part which againe shall be eaten vp neuerthelesse as an Elme and as an Oake which when they are rammed in the fastning is in them so the holie seed is the fastning thereof that is of that tenth part By the tenth part is meant a small remnant through the election of Grace that shall be left in the middest of this dereliction Esay 24. 13. and 65. 8. which againe shall be eaten vp He meaneth that when once they begin to make head embracing Christ and returning towards their own countrie Gog and Magog shall afflict them most extreamly Esay 26. 20. Dan. 12. 1. But as hard and durable trees that are rammed into the ground on both sides of a Cawsey doe keepe the earth fast from falling downe so the holy seed shall fasten them By holy Seed I vnderstand not the poore remnant of the godly among them for whose sake God will spare the rest for the holy seed is sayd heere to be the stay of that remnant or tenth part and it were vnproper to make the remnant the stay of the remnant hee meaneth therefore the blessed seed or seed of the woman Christ Iesus who shall then after a wonderfull manner put life and vigour into his people holding them vp in the middest of that grieuous conflict from whence a generall doctrine is easie to be gathered for the comfort of all Gods people To conclude I parallel this place in all points with Dan. 12. 1. That Michael there spoken of so named to note his Deity is this blessed seed according to the flesh or humane nature Esay Chap. 11. 1. 12 c. to the end of the 12. chapter This 11th Chapter which is a part of the Sermon begunne in the eight as the xij chapter is an Appendix vnto this hath a further and a more noble comfort added to those that went before from the benefit wee haue by Christ Whose person is first described in his pedigree according to the flesh outward condicion the place of his birth vers 1. and gifts of the spirit resting vpon him Secondly in the manner of his princely Gouernment and the fruit that redoundeth from it which is of two kindes one peace among his subiects the other the gathering together and vniting of the Saints both the Gentiles and the Iewes Concerning the Iewes these things are spoken in order 1. Their generall Call and the bringing of them home againe out of all the places of their dispersion 2. It shall bee of all the Tribes Israell as well as Iudah 3. The vnion of their mindes which shall no more bee rent asunder but make one entire kingdome as Ezech. 37. 19. c. 4. The enemies of the Church by them shall be subdued and brought vnto subiection of Christ and of his people as Numb 24. 17. Obadiah vers 18. Zach. 10. 11. 5. Gods myraculous hand and power in their deliuerie and leading them to their country who as he layd the red Sea dry when he brought the Israelites out of Egypt so once againe will do the like vnto the riuer the riuer which the Scripture is wont to call the great Riuer the Riuer Euphrates Gen. 15. 18. when the people lending their care to the Call of Christ shall make head and repaire towards their former seates Esay 51. 10. 11. and Reuel 16. 12. and for explaning of the terme Riuer in this place compare Esay 27. 14. 2. Chron. 9. 26. 6. The Churches magnifying of God for so great a mercie Esay Chapter 14. 1. 2. By occasion of the Iewes restoring from the captiuity of Babel the Prophet enterlaceth a comfort of their spiritu all deliuery from the thraldome of sinne and Sathan when the Gentiles being added to the folde the Iewes in the end shall ioyn with them beare the soueraigne sway in the Church of Christ They shall take the people themselues and bring them to their owne place and the house of Israell shall make themselues possessors of them in the land of Iehoua for seruants and for handmaids and they shall hold those Captiues that captiuated them and beare rule ouer their oppressors See Esay 61. 5. Esay Chapter 19. 18. 19. c. to the end of the Chapter A Prophesie of the Kingdome of Christ to be set vp in Egypt and of the spirituall Communion betweene Egypt Ashur and the people of Israell which pointeth out the last dayes when after the calling of the Iewes the Gospell shall be receiued throughout the world as appeareth Esay 27. 13. Zach. 10. 13. and in diuers otherplaces Esay Chapters 24 25 26 27. Vpon these foure Chapters hauing laboured heretofore an Exposition by it selfe with some few obseruations I refer you for the same to the end of the Booke because I would not interrupt the course that is here begun Esay 30. 19. c. to the end of the 31th Chapter This 19. verse to the end of the chapter is all of Evangegelicall promises made to the people which shall dwell at Tsion and in Ierusalem that is in their owne land Whereby it is easie to gather to what times you must refer it The promises generally propounded in the beginning are of two sorts 1. The meanes of their restoring which is the ministerie of the word 2. The conversion it selfe vers 22. 3. The fruitfulnesse of their soyle amplified by the circumstance of time when this shall be namely in the day of the great slaughter when the Towers the mightie top-gallant enemies of the Church shall fall who can that be but the Assyrian mentioned afterwards 4. The glorious light that shall shine in their Church as Esay 24. 23. Rev. 21. 23. 22. 5. 5. The ruine of the enemie that shall oppresse them named the Assyrian but manifest by the whole argument to be the Turke But he speaketh of the Assyrian because
the Gospell Ioh. 2. 17. Matth. 27. 34. Ioh. 19. 29. and the Apostles Acts 1. 19. Rom. 11. 9. doe apply vnto him The first part of the Psalme is a prayer in the person of Christ oppressed with that heauy burden of our sins lying vpon his shoulders The second an imprecation against the nation of the Iewes for crucifying the Lord of life The third is gratulatory or of thankesgiuing in the behalfe both of himselfe the head and of his members the humble ones among the Iewes that poore remnant whom God will bee pleased to pull out of this distresse Both reuiuing or putting a new life into them by the ministery of the Gospell and restoring their Cities and Countrey to dwell in that they may possesse the same for euer So this third part containeth a noble opposition to the former two Vers 5. My foolishnesse and my faults That is wherwith mine aduersaries doe vniustly charge me Psalme 72. 9 10 11. IT is a Prophesie of the fulnesse of the Gentiles Which as other Scriptures specifie shall not come in till the Iewes receiue the Gospell Matth. 24. Reu. 21. 14. Esay 27. 13. Psalme 110. THis Psalme doth royally set forth the two offices of Christ his Kingdome and Preisthood His Kingdome by the powerfull and great effects Generally in subduing all things to himselfe More particularly first toward the Gentiles vnto whom the Gospell shall spred out of Tsion that is from the Iewes then toward the Iewes themselues whom hee calleth his owne people as Deut. 32. 43. Opposed there to the Gentiles by name here to the same Gentiles vnder the name of enemies Thy people most free-hearted in the day of thy troopes in the comely places of holinesse from the wombe of the morning to thee shall come the dew of thy youth Wherein fiue things are giuen to vnderstand 1. Their prompt and ready obedience who shall not pretend euery light excuse when they are bid to the marriage feast as they did in the dayes of Christ Matth. 22. But at the first hearing shall obey Esay 66. 7 8. 2. Their strength and power For in the day of thine armies not onely meaneth the spirituall mustring when they shall be called together by the Trumpet of the Word but withall secretly doth import their troupes and armies that nobly and couragiously shall fight for their liues countrey and religion in the last dayes The 3. thing is what a glorious Church God will set vp among them which he termeth comely places of holinesse 4. Their diligent and speedy turning to the Lord when once they shall bee summoned As Esay 66. 8. From the wombe of the morning saith our Psalmist that is assoone as the light of the Gospell shall but begin to peepe whilest it is yet scarce breake of day 5 The innumerable companie that shall be called and flocke to the Lords Assemblies as the drops of dew that fall from heauen in the morning By all which appeareth that this is not to be accomplished till their last conuersion And the second and third verse haue the very same dependance that you finde Esay 2. 2 3 4 5. Mica 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. The Priesthood is set out with great glory vers 4. from the which he resorteth againe to the power of Christs kingdome in the three verses following Which may be taken generally of all enemies whatsoeuer and wheresoeuer opposing against Christ Neither is there I confesse any necessitie to stretch them further Yet when I consider all the circumstances and the waight of euery word day of his wrath dashing to peeces of Kings iudging the Heathen filling the places with dead carcases dashing in peeces the head I am drawne to beleeue that hereby is meant the destruction of some one grand enemie that shall dominere ouer Gods people and be subdued in the last dayes by the beleeuing Iewes whereupon Christ is said to lift vp his head in victorie and in triumph And hereunto the very order of the Psalme may lead vs that speaketh of these things in time after the Iewes conuersion So doth the phrase of breaking of the head Which as it is elegantly vsed to note a thorough conquest so secretly it seemeth to point at the Grand Signior himselfe And erets rabba which we translate great Countries the Psalmist taketh vp of purpose closely and couertly vnder an ambiguous kinde of speech to intimate the Land of Rabba the cheife Citie of the Ammonites which Dauid conquered 2 Sam. 12. thereby vnderstanding these enemies of Gods people Gog and Magog as they are else where vnder the name of Moab and Edom the Ammonites cosin germanes Such doubtfull speeches that carie a currant and cleare meaning and yet haue an other thing infolded which time and euent of the Prophecies will reueale the ancient Prophets delighted to vse As that good Father Iacob Gen. 48. 22. I giue thee one portion aboue thy brethren one hill or piece of ground more then they But the word is Sechem or City of the Sechemites which was the floure of the porcion assigned to the house of Ioseph So Esay 11. 1. A graffe shall grow out of the rootes of Ishai Netser which in Hebrew is a graffe closely noteth a Nazaraean or one borne in Nazareth Cantic 8. 10. I being a wall and my brests towers then shall I be in his eyes as one that findeth peace Vers 8. First Salomon foreseeing in spirit the calling of the Gentiles doth in the person of the Church consult with Christ of some good course to be taken for the furtherance of their Faith by her in helping and administring by him in giuing an encrease and blessing Verse 9. Christ and shee both doe signifie when those dayes doe come how graciously they meane to deale Whereupon the Church in this third verse professeth she is so ioyfull of her younger sisters good that shee her selfe the Church of the Iewes wil account it her perfection to grow at the last into one and the same body as a principall most glorious part of that spirituall building This therefore is an euident prophecie of the Iewes conuersion in the end of the world Esay Chapters 2. 3. 4. The foure first verses of the second chapter are of the spreading of the Gospell out of Tsion to the Gentiles Whereupon he prouoketh the Iewes to a holy emulation His exhortation is a Prophecie that so it shall be in the last dayes as Psalm 110. 2. 3. Mica 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. But first for reiecting Christ the people shall be cast off and a most wonderfull desolation anarchie and confusion brought vpon them yet will God haue mercy set vp a glorious Church among them in that very day when the period of their desolation is at an end that you may know what is the desolation which before he spake of
their iourneis in the Wildernesse when they came out of Aegypt and the iudgements that befell them there which were partly touched before in this chapter vers 25. The very same similitude you haue Hosh 2. 14. vers 35. 36. 3. His couenant with a few some small remnant To which end he saith he wil make them goe vnder the rodde that so he may picke cull out the good to receiue them into Couenant as into his fould as a good Sheepheard that numbreth his sheepe by tale Leuit. 27. 32. vers 37. putting a maine difference betweene the wicked that shall neuer come into the Land of Promise and them vers 38 And then goe to let the wicked runne on in their euill and sinfull waies euen after all this shall come vpon them and take that which followeth of it vers 39. 4. The bringing of them to inhabite in their owne Land and there to set vp the spirituall worship and seruice of God shadowed by the types of the Old Law vers 40. 41. 42. 43. 5. The Prime cause of all this resting only in the truth faithfulnesse and goodnesse of God which their own conscience shall conuince them of they being most vnworthy in themselue vers 44 Ezekiel 21. verse 26. 27. THe consideration of the prophane wickednesse of the Prince of Israell vers 25. kindleth the Prophets zeale to meditate both of the fall of that polluted principality and of a holy and firme principality that shall be set vp in and through Christ for these are the two parts of this Prophecie The fall of that principality or the vtter ruine and desolation of the whole land of Iudaea hath three steps or parts 1. The kindome shall be taken from them no Crown no Diadem there 1. part of vers 26. 2. The Common-wealth shall not be as now it is All shall be turned vpside downe 2. part of verse 26. Read Verse 26. the latter part of it thus That which is low exalt and that which is high bring downe Iust the same that Cambyses threatned vnto Aegypt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Herodot lib. 2. 3. The whole state shall be ruined and weeried with blow vpon blow one mischiefe vpon the backe of another 1. part of verse 27. The firme and stable principality which shall bee in Christ is brieflly touched when he saith that this wofull desolation shall last till Messias come whose the right of the Kingdome is and that he be stablished in it 2. part of vers 27. for the comming here spoken of is neyther his first comming in the flesh nor his second comming vnto Iudgement but his comming in the brightnesse of the Gospell when Antichrist consumed with the spirit of his mouth shall be abolished by his bright appearance 2. Thes 2. 8. and our brethren the Iewes conuerted vnto Christ Math. 24. 39. Reuel 1. 7. To conclude this Prophecie is in effect the very same and no other that you haue Math. 23. 38. 39. Ezech Chap. 34. vers 20. to the end of the chapter BEcause of the lazie and deuouring Shepheards against whom hee had inueighed from the beginning of the chapter God saith now hee will take the matter into his owne hands to helpe and to reforme it vers 20. 21. 22. and therupon breaketh into these most sweet and heauenly promises 1. Sending of Christ the good Shepheard among them vers 23. 2. Their embracing of him by faith vers 24. 3. Security from their enemies which three are in a manner ioyntly knit together vers 25. 26. 27. 28. and 29. 4 The inhabiting of their owne country 5. The fruitfulnesse of the soyle 6. The Couenant to be manifested in and vpon them vers 30. 7. The associating of the Gntiles vnto them vers 31. When ye ye I say men that is not the Israelites also but all Nations knit vnto Christ by Faith shall be my flocke c. Ezech. Chap. 36. THis Chapter hath two parts and as it were two seuerall Sermons The first part promiseth First the destruction of their enemies noted by Edom. vers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Secondly the fruitfulnesse of the land ver 8. 9. Thirdly the inhabiting of it againe and that by the whole house of Israell meaning the X. Tribes as well as the other two vers 10. which promises are amplified two waies 1. That they shall be in more excellent manner than euer before vers 11. 2. By the perpetuity of these blessings which shall neuer any more faile vers 12. 13. 14. 15. In the second part of the Chapter are other glorious promises which God wil bestow for his owne names sake though they bee most vnworthy vers 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. The first promise is the bringing of them out of all the places where they were dispersed vnto their owneland againe vers 24. 2. Iustification vers 25. 3. Regeneration and Sanctification vers 26. 1. part of verse 27. 4. The fruits of holinesse 2. part of vers 28. 5. The Couenant of God with them vers 28. 6. The blessing of outward fruitfulnesse vers 29. 30. 7. Vnfayned sorrow and repentance for their sinnes vers 31. Then is the cause and the end touched againe not their worthinesse vers 32. but to glorifie Gods great and holy name which by them was prophaned vers 33. 34. 35. 36. 8. The multitudes of them that shall inhabit the land beleeue in Christ and be the flocke of his pasture verse 37. 38. Ezechiell Chapter 37. ALl from hence to the end of the booke is excellently to this purpose It hath foure steppes or degrees The first step is the lewes first conuersion which the Apostle calleth Life from the dead Rom. 11. 15. a kinde of resurrection and here is set forth by alluding thereunto in the first 14 verses The second step in a further progresse of their conversion vnder a parable or similitude of two sticks vers 15. 16. 17. comprehendeth many noble benefits the application whereof hath 1. The conuersion of the X. Tribes as well as Iudah vers 18. and 1. part of verse 19. 2. The vniting of them both into one 2. part of verse 19. 3. The bringing of them to their owne country from all the places where they were scattered vers 20. 21. 4. Their making of one entire kingdome vers 22. 5. The Couenant of God with them of peace and reconciliation vers 23. through Christ 1. part of ver 24. 6. The sanctifying of them to walke in his obedience 2. part of vers 24. 7. The inhabiting in their country for euer vers 25. 8. The perpetuity of Gods Couenant vers 26. and worship among them vers 27. 28. The third steppe or degree is the destruction of their enemies in the 38. and 39. chapters Wherefore 1. The enemies are reckoned vp the Grand enemy is Gog. out of the Land of Magog Prince
wont to call a Sea and the Syrian Creeke of the Mediterranean Sea The other at the holy mount of Comelinesse as Iudaea is called the Comelinesse of all Countries Ezech. 20. 6 15. which doth explane the former and more particularly designe the place where the Grand Signior himself shal fall at the holy mountaine as Esay 24. 25. whose fall is first closely and couertly pointed at by a rare and extraordinarie word tents of the ire of his Iudgement vsed for this onely purpose to note his extraordinarie and heauy punishment 1 part of vers 45. as Esay 30. 33. Then it is in expresse words laid forth and the manner also signified how he shall come to his end there shall be none to helpe him As if he would say his ouerthrow shall come not so much from the force of man as by Gods owne arme from heauen stretched out against him 2 part of vers 45. Hitherto of the oppression of the Iewes The ioyfull and happy issue conteyneth foure things 1. A wonderfull deliuerance from the sorest time of affliction that euer was chap. 12. vers 1. 2. The full restoring of the Nation of the Iewes and the calling of them to faith in Christ meant here by their awaking out of the dustie earth 1 part of vers 2. Of the last resurrection you cannot take it For the certaine time when this shall be is defined in the 11 12 verses But withall a certaine qualification is made that some which shall awake and be so deliuered shall awake to euerlasting shame and destruction For all the Iewes shall not agree in the same truth some shall persist in their former hardnes notwithstanding all the euident testimonies that God shall giue vnto his Sonne For whom there remaineth Read Verse 45. the first part of it thus And he shall plant the tents of the wrath of his iudgement betweene the Seas c. no further promise of grace 2 part of vers 2. 3. Their glorious Church Those that are wise that is the whole companie of the faithfull shall shine as the firmament But the teachers those that make other righteous by teaching exhorting reprouing comforting as the more lightsome part of their orbe like shining stars shall beautifie this firmament vers 3. For it is said here they that be wise and do make righteous in the present not in the time past Which is a proofe that he speaketh not of the last resurrection 4. The time when all this shall be vers 4. Which time is doubly designed First in generall by an Angels question vnto Christ vers 5 6 and Christs answer with a solemne oath that the end of these marueilous things shall be at a time two times and halfe a time Which words being generall and vncertaine and to be applied to any time are in the words following reduced to one certaine and definite time namely when he shall make an end of scattering the holy people The meaning therefore is that this end shall be when the blasphemous kingdome of the Turkes is at an end that is after 350 yeares of the Turkish power which hath his expiration about Anno 1650. At what time God will leaue scattering of his holy people and of further powring out his wrath vpon them For then shall the Turkes first declining come vers 7. Secondly it is set forth in more particular manner and diuidedly vpon Daniels humble suite vers 8. yet not for his vnderstanding from whom these things were shut vp vers 9. but for the Elects sake in succeeding ages in whom these things amidst their many trials may breede constancie and sweet comfort and who about the end of these things shall be diligent to search out the truth hereof vers 10. First therefore he maketh one common beginning of the account From the daily sacrifice taken away which was done by the death of Christ and from the laying of the abhomination desolate for so I would translate these words 1 part of vers 11. By abhomination he meaneth the Iewes sacrificings which were impious and abhominable after Christ by his death had set an end to them The laying of this abhomination desolate was by the last publike ouerthrow of the legall seruice in the destruction of Ierusalem Not that by Vespasian but in the time of Iulian when the Apostata in hatred of the Christian name giuing the Iewes leaue to repaire the Temple and that at the publike charge God by an earth-quake did vtterly throw downe the old foundations that neuer afterwards any thing could be attempted in that kinde This was about the yeare 360. From hence groweth a twofold period or a double appointed terme One 1290 dayes 2 part of vers 11. that is to say yeares for morning and euening are not set downe to note them to be naturall dayes as before chap. 8. 11. Adding therfore 1290 to 360 there will arise 1650. which is the yeare of the Turkish power first declining and perfectly accomplished in the time times and halfe a time before vers 7. The second period or praefixed time vers 12. is 1335 dayes or yeares which addeth 45 yeares to the former and endeth at the yeare 1695. Being that space of an houre day moneth and a yeare Rev. 9. 15. when the Turkish tyrannie shall be vtterly extinct and rooted out And blessed indeed are they that attaine this time as the Angell here saith For this is the glorious resurrection spoken of vers 2. and the greatest felicitie that it is possible for Gods Saints to come vnto vpon earth HOSHEA THE three first Chapters of Hoshea and the soure last are spent in this Argument An entire explication of the whole Prophecie I purposely reserue to the end of the Booke Ioel according to the common distinction which we follow chap. 2. verse 28. to the end of the booke THE Prophet from temporall things leadeth the people to the consideration of spirituall blessings which are 1. The graces of the Spirit that vpon Christs ascension shall be powred vpon the Church for so the Apostle interpreteth this place Act. 2. chap. 2. vers 28. 29. 30. 31. 2. A holy seed or remnant to remaine among the Iewes 1. part of vers 32. 3. The Gentiles to participate of Christ 2. part of ver 32. 4. Gods mercy towards the Iewes in the last daies Setting forth First their restoring chap. 3. vers 1. Secondly the destruction of their enemies wherein are specified 1. The place The valley of Iehoshaphat which was in the view of Ierusalem 2. Chron. 20. For Gog and Magog shall compasse the beloued City and there shall fire from heauen deuoure them Reu. 20. 9. 1. part of vers 2. 2. The cause of this iudgement their ill entreating of his people 2. part of vers 2. and vers 3 3. An enumeration of some particular foes vers 4. whose hard dealing with the people is likewise reckoned vers 5. 6. and their iust retribution vers
seeking righteousnesse by their owne workes and not by faith in Christ which lasteth from Chap. 9. 27. to the 11. Chapter The second that God yet hath left a remnant a holy seede chap. 11. 1 2 3 4 5 6. notwithstanding that Israel in generall be hardened vers 7 8 9 10. The third that God will haue mercy vpon them and receiue them at the last Whereunto our Apostle commeth by degrees 1. He sheweth Gods purpose in casting them off Not for their vtter ruine 1 part of vers 11. but for a threefold end One that a way may be made for the Gentiles to be saued 2 part of vers 11. An other that thorough the grace offred to the Gentiles themselues might be prouoked to a holy emulation as Esay 2. 2 3 4. last part of vers 11. A third that their taking to at the last may much more cause the Gospell to be published among all Nations vers 12. which two latter ends the second and the third are amplified in their order The second vers 13 14. The third vers 15. 2. He proueth it by a notable Argument In that the roote being holy the branches must needs be so vers 16. 3. He exhorteth the Gentiles not to insult vpon them vers 17 18 19 20 21 22. 4. He declareth that God is able to graffe them in vers 23. by a greater example of Gods power vpon vs Gentiles vers 24. 5. He layeth downe the doctrine it selfe of Gods pleasure and will to graffe them in indeed vers 25. 6. He fortifieth the same by Scripture vers 26 27. by Gods vnrepentant counsels vers 28 29. and by the like example of the Gentiles vers 30 31. 7. And lastly he shutteth vp all with the admiration of Gods wisedome and vnsearchable iudgements in this behalfe vers 32 33 34 35 36. 2 Cor. 3. 16. IS expresse that as now they are hardned so one day their heart shall turne vnto the Lord. 2 Thess 2. 8. THe destroying of that wicked one by the brightnes of Christs comming is meant of the glory and excellencie of Christ appearing in the Iewes conuersion as Math. 24. 30. Rev. 1. 7. For though Rome shall before that be ouerthrowne yet till then Poperie shall not wholy fall nor Antichrist be vtterly done away Of the end of the world it cannot be vnderstood seeing it is euident the Turke shall hold out some-while after the beast and false Prophet both triple crowne and Papall dignitie done away Rev. 20. 8 9 10. THE REVELATION IN the Booke of the Revelation I will but point at some principall things REVEL 1. 7. Behold he commeth with the clouds and euery eye shall see him Yea euen they which pierced him thorough And all the Tribes of the earth shall waile before him Euen so Amen IOHN hauing rendred praise to God for his mercy to the Gentiles doth now celebrate his goodnesse that shall be most conspicuous in the calling of the Iewes 1. Expressing the great glory that shall appeare in their conuersion by Christs glorious comming in the clouds to iudgement whereof this of all things in the world is the most expresse and liuely image 2. The wayling here spoken of are the teares of true repentance as is manifest by the Prophet Zacharie from whom this place is borrowed Zach. 12. 10. 3. The name of Tribes sheweth of what people it is meant which in the Prophet is more manifest 4. In saying all the Tribes the 10 Tribes are included Rev. 16. 12. to the end of the Chapter THE very course of time being after the Sea of the beast Rome ouerthrowne leadeth vs by the hand to the exposition of the sixt Viale To vnderstand it of the Iewes who are here called Kings of the East which stile of Kings is giuen them Psal 68. 29. Esay 24. 21. 1. Is the repayre to their owne homes vpon the beginning of Grace wrought in their hearts 2. God for them will lay drie the waters of Euphrates as once he did the red Sea Esay 11. 15. vers 12. 3. Heereupon the Dragon the Turke Christs open professed enemy to leaue what may bee sayd from hence of the beast and the false Prophet a more subtle and close aduersary shall come with his Begs and Bashawes to destory this people vers 13. 14. 15. This is the sore time of affliction mentioned Dan. 12. 1. 4. The conflict shall be at Harmageddon the mount of delightfulnesse that is in the holy land as Dan. 11. and euen as may be thought at Ierusalem it selfe vers 16. 5. The issue appeareth in the VII Viall the vtter ruine of the whole kingdome of darkenesse whereof the Turkish or Mahometicall tyranny is a principall vers 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Chap. 19. 5. to the end of the booke FRom hence to the end of the Reuelation are four steps or degrees the same though not altogether in the same order that we noted Ezech. 37. Which maruellouslie cleereth the vnderstanding of this Prophesie First after Romes funerall for which the Iewes as well as Gentiles breake forth into thankesgiuing as Amen Halleluiah vers 4. one Hebrew by birth but made a Greeke Denisen the other a meere Hebrew word importeth they now setling themselues after the great obstacle of their repentance the idolatry of the Romish Church remoued to lend their cares to Christ commeth the first call of that Nation for the intimating whereof onely the Hebrew word Halleluiah in this place is vsed vers 5. 6. It is expressed 1. By the preparing of her selfe for the selemnization of the marriage vers 7. 2. By the marriage garment which they put on the cleane and fine linnen of the righteousnesse of Christ imputed to the Saints and by faith made theirs vers 8. 9. 10. The second steppe after some other things enterlaced wherewith I shall not need to meddle is the battell with Gog and Magog vnder the conduct of the Turke Sathan or the Deuill whose Minister he is the chiefe principall cause being put for the instrumentall This enemy rising some 1000 yeares after Constantine that is about Anno 1300. vers 7. and prospering exceedingly 1. part of vers 8. warring all the while with the Saints 2. part of vers 8. shall at the last when their appointed period draweth to an end bend all his force against the conuerted Iewes 1. Is noted the place of this conflict They compassed the beloued City 3. part of vers 8. for the brunt of the battell shall be before Ierusalem in the valley of Iehoshaphat as Ioel 3. 2. 2. The defeat of the whole Army by strange and extraordinary iudgements of God from heauen as Esay 27. 1. vers 9. 3. The finall ruine of this tyrant his state and person and whole succession of the Turkish Empire vers 10. The third step is the full conuersion of this people betaking themselues to Christ or rather Christ taking them vnto him their taking to as
shall dye the death of the vncircumcised Ezech. 28. 12. And it shall be in that same day Iehovah shall thresh from the channell of that riuer vnto the streame of Aegypt and yee shall be gathered one by one ô children of Israel EXPOSITION THE fourth step is the Perfection of this Church in that 1. They shall possesse and replenish the whole land as before For from Euphrates meant here by the channell of the riuer vnto the riuer of Aegypt were their iust and lawfull bounders The inheritance first promised to Abraham Gen. 15. 18. and afterwards in possession both of Dauid 2 Sam. 8. 3. 1 Cron. 18. 3. and of Solomon 2 Cron. 9. 26. 2. Their calling shall be generall and vniuersall Not one left out whom God hath appointed to saluation as Ezech. 39. 28. Obseruations 12. Shall thresh The ministerie of the word is Gods flayle to seuer the chaffe from corne to single his out of the middest of wicked and prophane worldlings One by one There is no thresher in the world that thresheth halfe so cleane for he looseth not one graine Those that thou hast giuen me I haue kept and not one of them is lost but that sonne of destruction c. Ioh. 7. 12. This singular comfort haue all that are his it is impossible any one should perish whom God the Father hath giuen to his Sonne And withall what a thing is this How great an extent of loue God hath not onely a care of the Church in generall but of euery one particularly and by the poll The good shepheard calleth his owne sheepe by name Ioh. 10. 3. 13. And it shall be in that same day a blast shall be blowne with a great trumpet and those shall come that perished in the land of Ashur and the outcasts in the land of Aegypt and shall bow downe to Iehovah in the holy mount at Ierusalem EXPOSITION THE fift and last step is their Dâ—tacion For not they onely shall be called but the large and vaste countries all the tract of the East and of the South shall be conuerted vnto Christ by the great trumpet the sound of the Gospell comming into all the parts of the world from one end of the heauen vnto another which is the last marke that our Sauiour giueth to fore-runne his last and glorious comming Matth. 24. 31. and which being once accomplished the world before that age or generation passe shall haue an end Math. 24. 34. And these saith he which is the cause why he maketh mention of them here shall bow downe to Iehovah in the holy mount at Ierusalem That is Such shall be the brightnes of the new Ierusalem the Church of the Iewes wonne to Christ that the nations of those that are to be saued shall walke in her light and the Kings of the earth shall bring their glory and honour in vnto her Rev. 21. 24. Read Esay 60. So I distinguish betweene the 14 and 15 verses in the very same manner as I finde these things distinguished Zach. 10. 12 13. Obseruations 13. Perish How miserable is the state of all those that are not in Christ They perish in their ignorance and diuers sinnes liuing they are dead perdition it selfe hath already seized of them This is all we can brag of if we looke vnto our selues as we are the naturall sonnes of Adam A blast c. O therefore the excellencie of the preaching of the Gospell neuer sufficiently to be commended which is the great trump of God to saue those that perish to put life into the dead As our Sauiour saith Ioh. 5. 25. The dead shall heare the voice of the Sonne of God and they that heare shall liue And shall bowe downe in the holy mount at Ierusalem It is a holy fruit of the communion of Saints not to enuie the graces of God in our brethren but to make vse of them and where God sheweth most loue there for men to giue most honour Daniel 9. 24. c. to the end of the Chapter 24. Seauenty seauens are each of them cut out for thy people and for thy holy City to restraine wickednesse and to seale sinnes and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring righteousnesse euerlasting and to seale vision and Prophet and to annoint the most holy 25. Know therefore and marke from the going forth of the word to restore and to build Ierusalem vnto a Messia Gouernor shall be seauen seauens And threescore and two seauens againe shall be built street and ditch and trouble some shall those times be 26. And after those threescore two seauens Messia shall be cut off and shall haue nothing And the City and sanctuarie shall the people of a forraine gouernor destroy and the end thereof shall be with a floud and vnto the end of the warre there shall be an extreame determined desolation 27. And hee shall corroborate the Couenant vnto many one seauen and in the halfe of that seauen he shall cause sacrifice and oblation to cease and by the abhominable wing hee shall make desolation euen till vtter destruction and that precisely determined be powred vpon the desolate THese words are a part of the message which the Angell Gabriel sent Ambassador from the God of heauen had in commission to deliuer to our Prophet It is a noble Prophesie of the state of Gods people how after the winter of 70. yeares captiuity there should come a spring of 70. times seauen yeares continuance in their land and country In vvhich time the Temple and Citie shall be built anew Christ the Lord of the Temple by his personall presence shall abolish the legall worship and at the last in fact take it quite away destroying both Temple and City by the Romaine Armies which iustly shall light vpon their heads for refusing the saluation which this great Prophet their Lord and redeemer came into the world to bring vnto them Three questions heere naturally arise vpon the vnfolding whereof the vnderstanding of this Scripture doth much depend one from what time these 70. seauens take their beginning another when they determine and haue an end the third who should be the Messiah here spoken of For the discussing of these and to bring some light to so darke and difficult a peece of Scripture somewhat must first be said of the 70. yeares captiuity and of Darius the Mede and Cyrus King of Persia that brought an end vnto it There were 3. captiuities of Gods people all mentioned 2. Chron. 36. and 2. Kings 24. and 25. The first towards the end of the third yeare of Iehoiakim and the beginning of his fourth being the first yeare of Nabuchadnetsar when Daniel and his fellowes were led away captiues Ier. 25. 1. Dan. 1. 1. The second vnder Iehoiacin or Iechonia about the eight yeare of Nabuchadnetzar from whence Ezechiel is wont to reckon Ezekiel 1. 2. being himselfe
it not with an vpright heart God iustly punished it in his posteritie 6. Afterwards she conceiued againe and bare a Daughter and Iehouah said vnto him call her name Loruhamab for I will no more haue mercy vpon the house of Israel that I should any way forgiue them 7. But on the house of Iuda I will haue mercy and will saue them by Iehouah their God and will not saue them by bowe nor by sword nor by battaile by horses nor by horsemen 6. The second Child is a Daughter named Loruhamab that is not obtaining mercy it figureth the vtter desolation of the tenne Tribes begun by Tiglah Pileser King of Ashur when he carried away captiue the Reubenites Gadites halfe tribe of Manasse 1. Chron. 5. 26. and perfited by Salmanaser who vtterly ouerthrew the residue of the Kingdome of Israel 1. King 17. This age is compared to a Daughter because from that time forward after the bow of Israel that is all their power and strength so broken they should bee no more able to defend themselues than if they were a common-wealth of women Their misery in this behalfe you haue aggrauated two wayes First that it shall be without hope of restitution God will not haue mercy on them to pardon their sinnes and graciously to restore them after they are once carried Captiues 7. Secondly by Gods contrary dealing with the house of Iuda whom the Aramites and they confederating together did most maliciously seeke to ruine These he saith he will saue for his mercies sake sheweth how and by whom by Iesus Christ true God and true man the ground and foundation of the Couenant and of all Gods promises whom in the fulnesse of time God would send among them not by their owne forces nor by any forraine helpes The meaning is the Tribe of Iuda notwithstanding their captiuity in Babylon from the which he will set them free shall continue a Tribe still and certaine some principality and forme of Gouernment till Shiloh which is his sonne doe come and that the Gentiles beleeue in him 8. Now when she had weined Loruhamah Shee conceiued and bare a soune 9. Then said Iehouah call his name Loammi for yee are not my people neither will I be yours 10. Yet the number of the Children of Israell shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor tould and instead of that it was said vnto them yee are not my people it shall bee said vnto them yee are the sonnes of the liuing God Almighty 11. When the Children of Iuda and the Children of Israel gathering themselues together and setting ouer them one head shall come vp out of the Land for great shall the day of Izreel bee 8. The third Childe which she bare after the weaning of the former that is to say after that the patience of God had long expected for their conuersion and found no amendment but a desperate going on in sinne is a sonne 9. Loammi not my people figuring the finall reiection and casting off of the whole Nation of the Iewes for refusing the Lord of life whom the Father sent to saue them that they should bee no longer his Church and people 10. But the sharpnesse of this sentence the Prophet by way of correction of his speech doth qualifie and remper with most heauenly comforts the sweete promises of the Ghospell for First howsoeuer the whole Nation of the Iewes is thus to bee abandoned yet at the last a Church shall bee gathered of them through grace and that no small multitude but a number numberlesse when looking with sorrow and true repentance vpō him whom they haue thrust through they shall be made not his people only but the sonnes of the liuing God Secondly the Gentiles shall together with them embrace the Gospell for so is this place expounded Rom. 9. 24. 25. and 1. Pet. 2. 10. yet of necessity the calling of the Gentiles heere pointed at must be entended that which is after the Iewes conuersion but that serueth well to warrant the first inceptions of their calling to which purpose the Apostles doe there apply it Thirdly the tenne Tribes as well as Iudah shall bee vouchsafed this honour to bee called to the participation of Christ Fourthly the vnion of them into one body and one Religion for they shall all submit to one head Christ and make but one Kingdome Fiftly their returne vnto Ierusalem againe comming out of the Countries whether they were dispersed there to re-edifie and set vp his spirituall worship and seruice Sixtly the greatnesse of this worke for great saith hee shall the day of Izreel bee great in regard of their great distresse the sorest time of affliction that euer was great in regard of their great deliuery farre to be preferred before their deliuerance out of Aegypt great in regard of the great destruction of their great enemie that shall fall before them Lastly which it seemeth the Prophet heere doth specially respect great in regard of the great and maruellous encrease of the Church the plentifull seede which God will sow in the same as Esay did also prophecie Esay 49. 50. 51. c. multiplying them with men as it were with flocks of sheepe Ezech. 36. 38. Ier. 31. 37. which is the number numberlesse whereof he spake in the former verse Seauenthly heerevpon a new name is giuen to this people to be called Izreel or the seede of Gods owne sowing And so by a Paranomasia or allusion of speech hee doth elegantly open another and a more sweet etymologie of that name which before serued for the threatning of Iudgement heere it is vsed to note the promises of grace from God as it is Chapter 2. 16. which place doth answer vnto this and openeth the meaning of it The receiued opinion is that the second Child Loruhamah figureth the captiuity of the Reubenites Gadites and half tribe of Manasseh the third child Loammi the captiuity of the rest of the ten Tribes But that cānot stand for First in the second Childe hee expressly nameth the whole house of Israel vers 6. Secondly he opposeth them to the house of Iuda vers 7. not to the residue of those tribes of Israel Thirdly the iudgement threatned in the third Childe is after Iehouah Christ his comming into the world by whom Iuda should bee saued whilst the other remained Captiues vers 7. Therefore the captiuity of the ten tribes must go before the third Childe borne Fourthly the reiection spoken of in the third Childe doth properly and aptly concerne the Iewes that were at Christs comming not those led away by Salmanazar Fiftly the promise of restoring Iuda no lesse than Israel sheweth that they had their part in the former threatnings Sixtly the mother of these Children is called Gomer that is to say entiertie or perfection vers 3. The very name teaching vs that the type extendeth as well to the tribe of Iuda as to
God Words faile me for to set an edge and to put some spirituall life into thee But my hart shal neuer faile to pray for thy prosperitie all my dayes Bowing my knees to the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ the God of glorie that he would hasten that which he hath spoken concerning thee by the Prophets of old and by the Apostles sent by his sonne Whose counsels are without repentance his loue neuer changeth he will not forget his promises to thy Fathers but will graft thee in by faith into that naturall Oliue tree from the which thorough infidelity thou art hitherto broken off The root is holy and so it shall be manifest that thou the branches art when Gog and Magog falling before thee which dayes are euen now at hand thou shalt sit as a Lady in the mount of comelinesse that hill of beautie the true Tsion and heauenly Ierusalem to the worldes admiration And for my selfe I shall thinke I reape aboundant fruit of these my trauailes if in the day of thy reioycing in the day of the gladnes of thy heart when God shall doe these great things for thee it may besayd that I haue layd one stone say it be but a peble stone toward thy spirituall building Refusing Christ. Reiection Remnant Desolation Call Last dayes Generall call X. Tribes Wrath against refractaries First converted Time of first conversion Repaire towards their country Euphrates dry Turke shaken Conflict with Gog. Sore distresse Place of conflict Conquest Gods fighting Place of Gogs fall Place of the armies discemfit Time of conquest Dwell in their Countrey Inhabit all the Land Safety of the Kingdome Continue for euer Fruitfulnesse of the Land Countrey populous One Kingdome Flourishing Common-wealth Glorious Church Churches beauty Sanctity Purity Couenant Spirituall graces Cheerefull obedience Multitude of Beleeuers Prosperity Joy Safety of Church Stability of the Church Perpetuity of the Church All nations embracing Christ Nations honouring them Enemies subdued Esay 25. 10. Esay 34. 5. 6. 63. Psal 110. 6. Esa 30. 31. 31. 8. Hosh 13. 13. compared with Hosh 14. 3. Mica 5. 5. 6. Zach. 9. 13. 6 Posit Last dayes Vers 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19 20. 21. 1 part of 22. part of verse 22. vers 23. 24. 46 Posit Enemies subdued 7 Posit Generall call 18 Posit Conquest 18 Posit Conquest 16 Posit Sore distresse 4 Posit Desolation Vers 22. to vers 28. 1 Posit Refusing Christ Vers 28. to vers 36. 16. Posit Sore distresse Vers 36. Vers 37 38 39 18 Posit Conquest Vers 40. 41 42. 7. Posit Generall call Vers 43. Deut. 32. vers 36. and he that is shut vp and he that is left to be nothing Vers 4. Vers 5 6. Vers 7 8. Vers 9 10. Vers 11 12. Vers 13 14 15 16 17. Vers 18 19 20 21. 16 Posit Sore distresse 13 Posit Euphrates dry Vers 22. 12 Posit Repaire to their Countrey Posit 18. Conquest Vers 23. 7. Posit Generall call Vers 24. 31. Posit Glorious Church Vers 25. 8. Posit Ten tribes Vers 26. Vers 27. Vers 28. Vers 29. 46. Posit Enemies subdued Vers 30. 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ Vers 31. Vers 32 33 34 Vers 35. In the first 21 verses Vers 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Vers 29 30 31. 3. Posit Remnant 7. Posit Generall call Vers 32 33. 23. Posit Dwell in their Countrey 26. Posit Continue for euer Vers 34 35 36. 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ Vers 1. Vers 2. 7. Posit Generall call Vers 3. 37. Posit Cheerefull obedience 18. Posit Conquest 31. Posit Glorious Church 37. Posit Cheerefull obedience 38. Posit Multiplication of beleeuers 18. Posit Conquest 7 Posit Generall call 6. Posit Call in the last dayes Vers 5. 7. Posit Generall call 4 Posit Desolation From the fift verse to the second verse of the fourth chapter 31 Posit Glorious Church Verse 2. Verse 9. 10. 4 Posit Desolation Vers 11. 12. 7. Posit Generall call 3. Posit Remnant 16 Posit Sore desires Verse 2. Vers 3. 4. 5. Vers 6. 7 8 9. Verse 10. In this 11. vers so forward 7. Posit Generall Call Verse 11. 8 Posit Ten Tribes Verse 12. 29 Posit One Kingdome Verse 13. 46 Posit Enemies subdued Verse 14. 11. Posit Euphratet dry Verse 15. 16. 12. Posit Repayr towards their country Chapter 12. Verse 1. 7. Posit Generall call 46. Posit Enemies possessed Verse 2. 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey Vers 19. Vers 20 21. 7 Posit Generall call 27 Posit Fruitfulnes of the land Vers 23 24. to the beginning of vers 25. 22 Posit Time of conquest In the end of the 25 vers 31 Posit Glorious church Vers 26. 18 Posit Conquest These two are vers 27 28. Vers 29. 19 Posit Gods fighting Vers 30. 18 Posit Conquest In the end of the 33 vers Vers 1 2 3. Vers 4. Vers 5. 7 Posit Generall call Vers 6. Vers 7. 18 Posit Conquest 19 Posit Gods fighting first part of vers 8. second part of vers 8. first part of vers 9. second part of vers 10. 4. Posit Desolation 36. Posit Spirituall graces 39. Posit Prosperitie 18. Posit Conquest 18. Posit Conquest 18 Posit Conquest 42. Posit Stabilitie of the Church 16. Posit Sore distresse 18. Posit Conquest 7. Posit Generall call 9 Posit Refractaries 42 Posit Stabilitie of the Church 32 Posit Churches beauty 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 46 Posit Enemies possessed 41 Posit Safety of the Church 18 Posit Conquest 36 Posit Spirituall grases 12 Posit Repair to wards their country 33 Posit Sanctitie 41 Posit Safety of the Church 23 Posit Dwell in their countrey 40 Posit Joy 18 Posit Conquest 36 Posit Spirituall graces 12 Posit Repair towards their Country 18 Posit Conquest 10 Posit First conuerted 2 Posit Reiection 4. Posit Desolation 5. Posit Call 45. Posit Nations honouring of them 23. Posit Dwelling in their country 36. Posit Spiritual graces 13 Posit Euphrates dry 18. Posit Conquest 5 Posit Call 2 Posit Reiection 4. Posit Desolation 36. Posit Spirituall Graces 44. Posit All Nations embracing Christ 4. Posit Desolation 5 Posit Call 12. Posit Repayr towards their Country 31. Posit Glorious Church 38. Posit Multitude of Beleeuers 45. Posit Nations honouring them 18. Posit Conquest 2. Posit Reiection 1. Posit Refusing Christ 3. Posit Remnant 2. Posit Reiection 5. Posit Call 31 Posit Glorious Church 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 18. Posit Conquest 13 Posit Euphrates dry 18. Posit Conquest 5. Posit Call 37. Posit Cheerefull obedience 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 33. Posit Sanctity 41. Posit Safety of the Church 4. Posit Desolation 38. Posit Multitude of belieuers 35. Posit Couenant 32. Posit Churches beauty 36 Posit Spiritual grace 39. Posit Prosperitie 41. Posit Safetie 5 Posit Call 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 35. Posit Couenant 31. Posit Glorious Church 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 45. Posit Nations honouring of them 41. Posit Safety of the Church 39. Posit
Prosperity 26. Posit Continue for euer 28 Posit Country populous 5. Posit Call 27. Posit Fruitfulnesse of the land 46 Posit Enemies possessed 45. Posit Nations honouring them 40 Posit Glorious Church 35 Posit Couenant 45 Posit Nations honouring them 31 Posit Glorious church 18 Posit Conquest a Read Verse 3. And of the people not a man could stand with me 19 Posit Gods fighting b Read Verse 3. In doing terrible things which we looked not for ô that thou wouldest come downe that the mountaines might flow c. 18 Posit Conquest 2 Posit Reiection 4 Posit Desolation 3 Posit Remnant 5 Posit Call 8 Posit X. Tribes 9 Posit Wrath against refractarie Iewes 34 Posit Puritie 40 Posit Joy 39 Posit Prosperitie 4 Posit Desolation 31 Posit Glorious church 37 Posit Cheerefull obedience 45 Posit Nations honouring them 39 40 Position Joy Prosperitie 18 Posit Conquest 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 31 Posit Glorious church 18 Posit Conquest 8 Posit X. Tribes 10 Posit First conuerted 36 Posit Glorious church Spirituall graces 36 Posit Multiplication of beleeuers 31 Posit Glorious church 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 39 Posit One kingdome 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 10 Posit First conuerted 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 10 Posit First conuerted 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 4 Posit Desolation 5. Posit Call 41 Posit Safety of the Church 4 Posit Desolation 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 31 Posit Glorious church 42 43 Pos Stabilitie of the Church Perpetuitie 30 Posit Flourishing Commonwealth 35 Posit Couenant 18 Posit Conquest 6 Posit Last dayes 8 Posit X. Tribes 39 Posit Prosperitie 10 Posit First conuerted 7 Posit Generall call 38 Posit Multitude of Beleeuers 45 Posit Nations honouring them 40 Posit Joy 8 Posit X. Tribes 5 Posit Call 23 Posit Dwell in their Country 18 Posit Conquest 31 Posit Glorious church 33 Posit Sanctitie 24 Posit Inhabit all the Land 36 Posit Spirituall graces 38. Posit Multitude of belieuers 9 Posit Wrath against refractarie Iewes 35. Posit Couenant 24 Posit Inhabit all the Land 26 Posit Continue for euer 5 Posit Call 39 Posit Prosperitie 8 Posit X. Tribes 45 Posit Nations honouring them 40 39 Pos Joy Prosperitie 23 Posit Dwell in their Country 27 Posit Fruitfulnes of the Land 31 Posit Glorious church 26 Posit Cōtinue for euer 32. Posit Churches beauty 5 Posit Call 8 Posit X. Tribes 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 36 Posit Spiritual graces 12. Posit Repayr towards their Country 16. Posit Sore distresse 3. Posit A Remnant 9. Posit Wrath against refractaries 23. Posit Dwelling in their country 31. Posit Glorious Church 4. Posit Desolation 5. Posit Call 5. Posit Call 41. Posit Safety of the Church 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 27. Posit Fruitfulnesse of the land 5. Posit Call 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 18 Posit Conquest 27. Posit Fruitfulnesse of the land 23 Posit Dwell in tlxir Church 8 Posit X. Tribes 31. Posit Glorious Church 26 Posit Cōtinue for euer 23. Posit Dwell in their Country 27 Posit Fruitfulnesse of the land 5 Posit Call 38 Posit Multiplication of beleeuers 5 Posit Call 8. Posit Ten Tribes 26 Posit One kingdome 23. Posit Dwelling in their country 29. Posit One Kingdome 35. Posit Couenant 26 Posit Continue for euer 43. Posit Perpetuity 18. Posit Conquest 18. Posit Conquest 19. Posit Gods fighting 17. Posit Place of the conflict 18. Posit Conquest 21. Posit Place of the armies discomfit 20. Posit Place of Gogs Fall 7. Posit Generall call 31. Posit Glorious church 34. Posit Puritie 33 Posit Sanctitie 36 Posit Spirituall graces 24 Posit Inhabit all the Land 8 Posit X. Tribes 31 Posit Glorious church 43 Posit Perpetuitie of the Church 46 Posit Enemies subdued 18 Posit Conquest 11 Posit Time of first conversion 18 Posit Conquest 30 Posit Flourishing Commonwealth 31 Posit Glorious church 10 Posit First conuerted 17 Posit Place of conflict 20 Posit Place of Gogs fall 19 Posit Gods fighting 16 Posit Sore distresse 7 Posit Generall call 9 Posit Wrath against refractaries 31 Posit Glorious church 11 Posit Time of first conversion 11 Posit Time of first conversion 22 Posit Time of conquest 3 Posit Remnant 5 Posit Call 18 Posit Conquest 17. Posit Place of conflict 46 Posit Enemies possessed 18 Posit Conquest 18 Posit Conquest 33. Posit Sanctity 27. Posit Fruitfulnesse of the land 36. Posit Spiritual graces 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 46 Posit Enemies subdued 26 Posit Continue for euer 31. Posit Glorious church 4. Posit Desolation 3 Posit Remnant 5. Posit Call 31 Posit Glorious Church 44. Posit All Nations embracing Christ 46. Posit Enemies possessed 36 Posit Spirituall graces 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 26. Posit Continue for euer 18. Posit Conquest 4 Posit Desolation 18 Posit Conquest 3 Posit Remnant 5 Posit Call 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 46 Posit Enemies subdued 46 Posit Enemies possessed 23. Posit Dwell in their Country 8 Posit X. Tribes 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 18 Posit Conquest 5. Posit Call 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 4 Posit Desolation 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 18 Posit Conquest 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 7. Posit Generall call 33. Posit Sanctity 40 Posit Joy 45. Posit Nations honouring them 31 Posit Glorieus Church 18. Posit Conquest 45 Posit Nations honouring them 18. Posit Conquest 5 Posit Call 38 Posit Multiplication of beleeuers 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 5. Posit Call 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 35. Posit Couenant 44. Posit All Nations embracing Christ 5. Posit Call 4. Posit Desolation 23. Posit Dwell in their Country 8 Posit X. Tribes 18 Posit Conquest 2 Posit Reiection 18 Posit Conquest 8 Posit X. Tribes 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 40 Posit Joy 5. Posit Call 38 Posit Multitude of belieuers 23 Posit Dwell in their Country 28 Posit Country populous 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 26 Posit Continue for euer 2 Posit Reiection 18 Posit Conquest 5. Posit Call 34 Posit Puritie of doctrine 3 Posit Remnant 4 Posit Desolation 5 Posit Call 16 Posit Sore distresse 17 Posit Place of conflict 41 Posit Conquest 19 Posit Gods fighting 31 Posit Glorious church 36 Posit Spirituall graces 44 Posit All Nations embracing Christ 24 Posit Inhabit all the Land 27 Posit Fruitfulnes of the land 33 Posit Sanctitie 41 Posit Safety of the Church 18 Posit Conquest 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 33 Posit Sanctitie 5 Posit Call 18 Posit Conquest 4 Posit Desolation 5 Posit Call 5. Posit Call 22 Posit Time of conquest 31 Posit Glorious church 8 Posit X. Tribes 5 Posit Call 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 21 Posit Retection 3 Posit Remnant 5 Posit Call 2 Posit Reiection 5. Posit Call 31 Posit Glorious church 5. Posit Call 8 Posit X. Tribes 12 Posit Repayr towards their Country 13 Posit Euphrates dry 16 Posit Sore distresse 15 Posit Conflict with Gog. 17
Posit Place of conflict 18 Posit Conquest 5. Posit Call 20 Pesit Place of Gogs Fall 19 Posit Gods fighting 18. Posit Conquest 7 Posit Generall call 9 Posit Wrath against refractaries 31. Posit Gloricus Church 34. Posit Puritie 34. Posit Purity 35. Posit Couenant 35 Posit Couenant 39 Posit Prosperity 9 Posit Wrath against refractaries 31. Posit Glorious Church 32. Posit Churches beauty 34. Posit Puritie 36 Posit Spirituall graces 44. Posit Nations embracing Christ 45 Posit Nations honouring them 33 Posit Sanctitie 36. Posit Spiritual graces 37. Posit Cheerefull obedience 37 Posit Cheerefull obedience 40 Posit Joy 32 Posit Churches beauty 36. Posit Spiritual graces 43 Posit Perpetuitie of the Church a Hebr. Petuerteth the face thereof b In emptying shall bee emptyed and in spoyling shall be spoyled c The height of the people 4 Posit Desolation 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. a Of emptinesse b From comming in 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 3 Posit Remnant a With treacherie of treacherous men 14. 15. 16 22 23 24 28 29. 33. 36. 37. a voice b in breaking shall be broken downe So in the rest 17. 18. 19. 20. 38 a A gathering a prisoner b Visited 21. 16. Posit Sore destresse 18 Posit Conquest 20 Posit Place of Gogs Fall 21 Posit Place of the armies discomfit 22. 6 Posit Last dayes 11 Posit Time of first conuersion 22 Posit Time of conquest 47 48. 49. b Glory that is in glory 23 23. Posit Dwell in their countrey 32 Posit Churches beautie 31. Posit Glorious Church 56 57 a an invndation of a wall 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. a The face of the vaile for the vail of the face alluding to the vail that Moses put vpon his face A figure that is called hypallage 6 8 Posit X Tribes 23. Posit Dwell in their countrey 36 Posit Spiritual graces 7. 5. Posit Call 8. 39 Posit Prosperity 5 Posit Call 9. 10 18 Posit Conquest 11. 12. a Faiths 1. 23. Posit Dwell in their countrey 42 Posit Stabilitie 2. 38 Posit Multitude of beleeuers 36 Posit Spiritual graces 3. 39 Posit Prosperitie a rightnesses 4. 5. 6. 18 Posit Conquest 7. a of the people 3 Posit Remnant 8. 9. 10 11. a Helps could we not haue done 12 13. 14. 15. 4 Posit Disolation 17 18. 19. a her blouds 20 16 Posit Distresse 21. Chap. 27. 1. 18 Posit Conquest 19 Posit Gods fighting Chap. 27. 33 Posit Glorious church 2. 3. 41. Posit Safety of the Church 4. 5. a According to the stroke of his smiter b Of vnderstanding 6. 42 Posit Stability of the Church 39 Posit Prosperitie 38 Posit Multitude of beleeuers 7. 8. 10. 11. a by one one 12. 24 Posit Inhabit all the land 13. 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 45 Posit The nations honouring them a Or weekes meaning seuens of years But the tearm weekes is not so cleere and significant * So doth the verbe in the plural import b Or in restraining that is within which cōpass of time shall be restrained c Heb. Holines of holinesses d Or an anointed gouernor e Heb. in trouble f No more to doe there g Hebr. A Come-gouernor in Latin Aduena h Hebr. Precisenes of desolations that is extreame desolation precisely determined i Hebr. By the wing of abhominations k Hebr. Consummation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Hebr. A Wife of whoredomes and children of whoredomes b From after Iehouah c Daughter d Bloods a I wil not adde any more to 2. Posit Reiection 5. Posit Call 44 Posit All nations embracing Christ 8. Posit Ten Tribes 29. Posit One Kingdome 23 Posit Dwell in their Countrey 38 Posit Multitude of of belieuers a Of Whoredomes 3. Posit Remnant a Wall a wall a To haue couered 4. Posit Desolation 16. Posit Sore distresse 23. Posit Dwell in their Country 36. Posit Spirituall graces 40. Posit Ioy. 5. Posit Call 34. Posit Puritie 41. Posit Safety of the Church 43. Posit Perpetuity 26. Posit Spirituall graces 17. Posit Fruitfulnesse of the Land 35. Posit Couenant a Grapes b Shall feare to Iehouah 3. Posit Remnant 4. Posit Desolation 5. Posit Call 〈…〉 4. Posit Desolation 5. Posit Call a From vnder their God a Blouds touch bloods b With the beasts and with foule a From vnder their God a Bugges b In going a whoring they goe a whoring c Shidde 18. a Deepen a Geut a In affliction vnto them a Shall know follow after b Morning at a man may say a Footstepped if I may so say with blood b Wickednesses c To. a A fire of a flame a According to the hearing of their congregation a Eugges b In the excellencies a Bread b Their soule as Leuit. 21. 1. c Tents of desire a With my God b They deepen corrupt c I will bereaue them from a man a The desires b Behead c In vanitie d Vpon the face of the waters a Harrowed to him b House of Arbel c The wickednesse of your wickednesse d In cutting off cut off 1. Posit Refusing Christ a My repentance b Not returne to destroy 4. Posit Desolation a Tremble So in the next verse 5. Posit Call 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 12. Posit Repayre towards their Country 16. Posit Sore distresse 23. Posit Dwell in their Countrey Chapter 12. 1. 2. 3. a With bitternesses * His bloods b Adde to sin c Bugges d The sacrificert of men e Earlying as a man may say f Of droughts g Shutting h A time i Breach of Children 4. Posit Desolation k Vessels of desire 7. Posit Generall Call 30. Posit Florishing Common-wealth 8. Posit Ten Tribes l Take That is taking bestow as Exod. 25. 2. Chapter 14. 5. Posit Call 35. Posit Couenant m Strike n Goe o Is found 39. Posit Prosperitie 44. Posit All nations embracing Christ 38 Posit Multitude of beleeuers 45. Posit Nations honouring them 34. Posit Puritie of doctrine 36. Posit Spirituall graces