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

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

of my rest to prey upon you and disturb you of your rest For I am now resolved and have peremptorily decreed to gather some of other nations and kingdoms together specially the Chaldaeans and their auxiliaries and by them to pour out my indignation upon these Iews even all the fiercenesse of my indignation For no otherwise then in a kind of fierce zeal shall all the land of Judaea be destroyed 9. But after that affliction I will convert the people to a more penitent and devout and holy language that they may call upon the name of the Lord with more reverence then now is to be found amongst them and joyntly endevour to serve and obey him as they that willingly joyn their sholders together to bear that yoke that he laies upon them which easie yoke is no other then his service 10. And then from the remotest parts of their captivity from as far as those places about the rivers of Cush shall my suppliant and humble servants the off-spring of my people Israel and Judah far and wide dispersed over several nations from thence shall they bring offerings unto me in testimony of their hearty thanks for their joyful return into their own countrie 11. About that time will I take away the shame and grief which thou hadst conceived for thy former great sins and offences committed against me For then shall I by death and miserie have removed from thee those haughty and insulting Countrymen and Priests of thine And then shalt thou offend no more as thou hast done by pride and contempt of my holy places and my Sanctuarie in Mount Sion when those Masters of misrule and ringleaders to the proudest and most presumptious offences are taken away 12. In stead of them I will furnish thee with a meek and humble generation of men though poor which shall trust in the name of the Lord and not in the proud mistake of their own fortunes and abilities 13. This good remnant of my people that return from their captivity shall not return to their great and grievous sin their idolatry nor shall they so accustom themselves again to the speaking of lies and deceit Therefore in all peace and plenty shall they feed well at last and take their rest securely having none to fright or molest them 14. Rejoyce then O daughter of Sion sing and shout for joy O Israel Be merry and chearfull from the bottom of a thankefull heart O Daughter of Ierusalem 15. For God hath taken off those judgements wherewith thou wert afflicted for thy sins He hath removed thy enemies out of thy sight that they may trouble thee no more And instead of those Tyrants Iehovah the the God and King of Israel is in the midst of thee and thou shalt see no more of those calamities which thou hast seen heretofore 16. In those daies it shall be said to Jerusalem and to Sion Fear not nor be any way discouraged Let not thy bands faint or give over till they have raised an other City and Temple wherein to serve the Lord. 17 Iehovah thy God in the midst of thee is of great might and power and of as ready a mind and will to save and defend thee He will rejoyce over thee exceedingly He will acquiesce and solace himself in his love toward thee They that sing for joy shall not have more content and delight then he will take in thee 18. They that were the cause of removing thy merry Feasts and Solemnities will I remove far from thee For they have been but a burden and a disgrace unto thee 19. And take notice of it at that time will I undoe not them onely but all those that have any way troubled and afflicted thee And I will cure them amongst thee that are any way weakened in their fortunes and gather them dayly to their own homes that have been as good as ejected and banished from thence in the long time of their captivity And I will make them famous and renowned in those very places where they have been put to shame and disgrace 20. Again I say it to you all that shall then survive and serve me At that time will I reduce you to your own homes and gather you together to your own friends and acquaintance and I will make you famous and renowned among all the people of the earth so that your own eyes shall see with what advantage I have brought you back again from your captivity A Paraphrastical EXPLICATION Of the PROPHESIE OF HAGGAI CHAP. I. IN the second year of Darius the king in the sixth moneth in the first day of the moneth came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governour of Iudah and to Ioshuah the son of Iosedech the high priest saying 2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts saying This people say The time is not come the time that the Lords house should be built 3 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet saying 4 Is it time for you Oye to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie wast 5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts Consider your waies 6 Ye have sown much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye are not filled with drink ye cloth you but there is none warm and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts Consider your waies 8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified saith the Lord. 9 Ye looked for much and lo it came to little and when ye brought it home I did blow upon it why saith the Lord of hosts because of mine house that is wast and ye run every man unto his own house 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from her fruit 11 And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the corn and upon the new wine and upon the oyl and upon that which the ground bringeth forth and upon men and upon cattel and upon all the labour of the hands 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Ioshua the son of Iosedech the high priest with all the remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet as the Lord their God had sent him and the people did fear before the Lord. 13. Then spake Haggai the Lords messenger in the Lords message unto the people saying I am with you saith the Lord. 14 And the Lord stirred up the spirt of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governour of Iudah and the spirit of Ioshua the son of Iosedech the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in