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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

view of all 2 Sam. 12. 12. the onely way to have our sins hid indeed is plainly and sincerely to confess them psalm 32. 5. 2. Whereas thou gloriest that thou hast escaped so long unpunisht know that t is a sore punishment to go unpunisht for sin When the Lord was angry with Ephraim hee bids let him alone and tells him that he will not punish him for his sin Hos. 4. 14 17. q. d. Since Ephraim will go after Idols after Idols he shall go I will not by any punishment restrain him but I will let him go on and prosper in his abominations to his utter confusion and thus to be given up to ones own hearts lust is a signe of Gods highest displeasure Psalm 87. 11 12. in this sense not be stricken is the sorest stroke Isay 1. 5. and for God not to bee angry is the greatest anger as to bee stopt and corrected for sin is the greatest mercy Psalm 89. 32 33 34. and 94. 12 13. 3. Know that punishment is never neerer than when 't is least feared A great calm many times is a force-runner of a storm When men cry Peace Peace then comes sudden and swift destruction 1 Thes. 5. 3. When the old world was eating drinking buying building marrying and snorting in security then comes the flood When Agag thought the bitterness of death was past now saith Samuel hew him in peeces When men bee at ease in Sion there 's a woe hang over their heads Amos 6. 1. to 8. When men look upon judgements as a far off then God will defer no longer Ezek. 12. 27 28. Secure Laish becomes a booty to its enemies Iudg 18. 7 27. The Amalakites when they had taken Ziglag and were drunken fearing no danger they were suddenly surprised and slain 1 Sam. 30. 16 17. When the Philistims met to be merry and sport themselves with Sampson he brings the house upon their heads Iudg. 16. 25 29. Darius in the midst of his cups was ●lain by the Persians Dan. 5. 30. and Babylon that boasted shee 〈◊〉 as a Queen and should see no sorrow had sudden plagues 〈◊〉 on her Rev. 18. 7 8. Let no man then delude himself with the thoughts of impunity for though conscience may sleep for a time yet at last it will bee awakned and then the longer thy sins have been hid the more will it rage against thee especially at the day of judgement that day of revealing the hidden work of darkness God will then bring every work to judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or evil Eccles. 12. ul● God will then unlock his Treasury and those sins which are now sealed and bundled up shall then be brought to open light and those secret Villanies which men would not have known for all the world shall then be written as with a beam of the Sun upon their foreheads to their everlasting shame Sinners shall then have no cause to say where is the God of Iudgement Mal. 2. 17. Let us therefore make a right use and improvement of the Patience of God let it melt and humble us and lead us to repentance Let us in this our day know the things that belong to our everlasting peace whil'st the Patience of God yet waits upon us and hee stands knocking at the door of our hearts Rev. 3. 20. before the door of grace be shut against us for then 't will be too late To quicken you know that God in the end will reckon with you for all his Patience and forbearance the longer he hath borne with you the greater will your sin be He takes an exact account of every day and year that he hath borne with us Psal. 95. 10. fourty years long was I grieved with this generation He takes notice of every provocation Numb 14. 22. These ten times have they provoked me though you forget your provocations yet God doth not Yea hee records every Sermon that wee hear and the day and year that it was preached to us Hag. 1. 1. Lastly let us imitate God and be followers of him as dear children be Patient as he is Patient though wee cannot bee so by way of Equality yet by way of Analogy and resemblance in our degree and measure wee may and must if hee bear with us wee may well bear with our brethren if hee hath forgiven us Pounds wee may well forgive them Pence We should forbear one another and forgive one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven us Ephes. 4. 31. Colos. 3. 13. Let your moderation and quietness of minde be made known to all Phil. 4. 5. and if any man wrong us let us melt them with our kindnesses Rom. 12. 20. as David ●elted Saul and made him weep and confess that hee was more righteous than himself Even Nature could say it becomes a noble spirit to pass by injuries When one told King Iohn that his deadly enemie was buried there and advised him to deface his Monument no said the King but I wish all the rest of mine enemies were as honourably buried 'T was an excellent answer of Chrysostom to the Empress Eudoxa and savored of a sweet mortified frame of spirit If the Queen said he will banish me let her banish me The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof If she will saw me asunder let her do it the Prophet Isay suffered as much If she will let her cast me into the sea and there will I remember Jonah VERSE 13. The sorrows of a travelling woman shall come upon him he is an unwise son for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children IN this Verse the Prophet goeth on to denounce judgements against an obstinate and rebellious people if by any means he might awaken them out of their security By the sorrows of a woman in travel he sets forth the sudden sure and sore destruction which was even now coming upon the heads of those carnally-confident sinners They promised themselves Peace and Prosperity they had made a league with death and had put the evil day far from their souls and therefore drew near to iniquity Amos 6. 3. No words nor warnings no mercies nor judgements could work upon them therefore the Lord resolves to bear no longer with them but speedily to surprize them with his judgements The sorrows of a travelling woman shall come upon them In this Verse we have 1. A commination or a judgement threatned set forth by the similitude of the sorrows of a Travelling woman a Metaphor very frequent in Scripture Wherein is set forth 1. Sudden 2. Sharp 3. Inevitable Sorrows 1. Pangs upon a woman in travel come suddenly and unexpectedly Sometime whil'st they are eating drinking sleeping playing and think not of the pains of travel So the Lord threatens to bring upon this stupid people such calamities which should be like the sorrows of a travelling woman sudden and une●pected 2. The

desolations that after ceized upon him 5. By coming off fully to Christ you will enjoy abundance of Peace and comfort which otherwise you will miss of A thorow conversion brings joy as a woman that is once delivered of her birth forgetteth her sorrow for joy that a childe is born into the world The wise Merchant that sold all and parted with every lust for Christ went away rejoycing as having made a wise bargain The Spirit layes the foundation of comfort first in convincing men of their sin and misery and then of an all-sufficient righteousness to free them from that misery Iohn 16. 8 9. 4. Obs. Impenitent sinners are unwise men Impenitent Ephraim is called an unwise son though for number power and riches hee was the chief of the Tribes hence impenitent sinners and fools are Synonymaes in Scripture Prov. 1. 7 32. Psal. 14. 1. Rom. 1. 22. Titus 3. 3. Though the blinde world may admire such as the only men yet in Gods esteem for all their parts and Power they are but fools and madmen 1 Sam. 25. 25. Luke 12. 20. and 15. 17. 1 Cor. 2. 14. 'T is a grief to Parents when their children are fools Prov. 10. 1. and 19. 13. and 't is a trouble to God when his children are stubborn fools that may but will not know the things that concern their peace When men are wise to do evil but averse to do good When men forget the God of their mercies and suffer Seducers to mislead them this speaks men fools Deut. 32. 6. Gal. 3. 1. when men fear sufferings more than sin and resist assistance when 't is tendred them and had rather bee strangled in the birth than have strength to bring forth all this proclaims mens folly 5. Obs. To be stupid under judgements is a sore judgement To bee sick and yet to be insensible of sickness is a deadly signe yet so was Eph●aim here the pangs of a travelling woman were upon him yet hee sticks in the place of bringing forth which is mortal both to the mother and the childe like a childe that sticks in the birth and doth not struggle or move for its own relief 'T is made a note of a wicked man that hee cries not to God for help and deliverance when hee binds them with the cords of correction Iob 36. 13. 'T is a signe men are stupid indeed when they are wasted and yet will not bee warned plagued and yet not instructed Isay 1. 5. and 9. 13. Ier. 5. 3. Amos 4. 6 11. yet such there have been and are still that are no whit affected with Gods judgements upon them nor repent they of their sins though scorched with plagues Isay 42. 25. Rev. 9. 18. and 16. 8 11. and is not this Englands sin the pangs of a travelling woman are come upon us and we are encompassed with dangers on every side gray haires which are a signe of weakness old age and death approaching are here and there upon us yet wee know it not so as to make a right use of it and to repent Hos. 7. 9. but still we remain incorrigible and incurable growing worse for beating The more pains God takes to cure us the more we revolt both in doctrine and manners and therefore since in our filthiness there is leudness and wee will not be purged wee may justly fear that wee shall not bee purged but as wee have had our will so God will have his will too I will cause my fury to rest upon you Ezek. 24. 13. 'T will bee our wisdom to fore-see the plague and hide our selves to mourn for the things wee cannot mend to keep our selves free from the sins of the time that so wee may bee kept free from those plagues which are certainly coming upon this sinful land if any thing set us free from the sense of evil it is the fear of evil Prov. 28. 14. Hab. 3. 16. 6. Obs. God owns his people even when they are gu●lty of great folly and stupidity Ephraim is a son though an unwise son The ten Tribes under Ieroboam Ahab and the rest of those wicked Kings of Israel were sadly over-grown with Idolatry Security Impenitency c. and yet God owns them for his people to the last and their circumcision as valid still Ierusalem that killed the Prophets yet were owned by Christ for the Church of God and hee preacht unto them even when hee wept over them for their sins and for the fore-seen calamities which were coming on them The Church of Corinth what carnality divisions drunkenness and profanation of holy things were amongst them and yet still stiled the Church of God Great then is the uncharitableness of those people that cast off Churches and people whom God hath not cast off and unchurch those whom God hath not unchurched The brother of the Prodigal was angry at his Fathers kinde reception of him and calls him This thy son by way of proud disdain and not this my brother Luk. 15. 28 29 30. How many are angry at us for owning the Church of England for a National Church and her Parochial Assemblies for true Assemblies though the Word and Sacraments bee rightly dispensed there This savours strongly of Pharisaical Pride and too high conceits that some have of themselves and of their Church-way in whose Assemblies there may bee found worse things than in many of those Churches which yet they reject But against separation see more at large in my Commentary on 2 Tim. 3. 5. P. 11 12. and 141 c. VERSE 14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy Plagues O grave I will be thy destruction Repentance shall be hid from mine eyes THis Verse is a kinde of Parenthesis and being taken intirely in it self the context will run more smoothly 'T is full of knots and difficulties it hath almost as many interpretations as there be Interpreters and as many various Lections as words Some read the words conditionally and put in the word if and put the Verb in a different Mood and Tense thus if Ephraim were wise and Would but repent I would have ransomed him from death I would have redeemed him from the power of the grave i. e. I would either have preserved him from captivity or else I would have delivered him thence This is true but not from the Text for the word is Ephdem in the future Tense liberabo I will ransom I will redeem and wee may not change Mood and Tense to make a sense of our own though never so good The words therefore are to bee taken simply in themselves for a singular support to Gods people in their deepest distresses as containing in them a pretious cordial and a most comfortable Evangelical promise of a mighty Redemption and glorious Resurrection to the remnant according to the election of grace whom God would have comforted in times of distress 'T is usual

kindles Gods wrath against him and makes it burn like fire insomuch that the Lord delivered Israel into the hand of the Syrians who opprest them very sorely both in their persons and estates and made them like the dust by threshing i. e. very weak and contemptible like corn which is too much thresht which is broken and scattered about leaving them but fifty horse-men ten Charriots and ten thousand foot-men a poor Guard for a Kingdome 2 King 13. 3. 7. 22. Quest. But what doth Jehoahaz do in this his deep distress Answ. Hee goeth to his prayers as wicked men use to do nevertill necessity and deep distress doth drive them They make not prayer a duty but a refuge yet such is the goodness of the Lord that seeing the deep distress his people were in and the sad oppression they lay under hee answers the prayers of this wicked man and gave Israel a Saviour and Deliverer so that they dwelt quietly and securely as before Quest. But what was the ground of all this mercy Answ. Nothing but Gods free Grace though they were most unworthy yet the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them because of his covenant 2 King 13. 23. Obs. 1 Those that will not serve God shall bee slaves to men Israel forsakes God and God forsakes them and delivers them into the hand of Hazael and into the hand of Benhadad his Son who oppressed and vexed Israel all their daies 2 King 13. 2 3. 2 Even wicked men when they are in deep distress will pray Idolatrous Jehoahaz is brought very low and now hee praies The Heathenish Mariners can pray in a tempest and call on Jonah so to do Jonah 1 5 6. A wicked Pharaoh in time of trouble may begg the prayer of a Moses and Saul of a Samuel How many prophane persons amongst us when they are sick and dying yet will send again and again for those Ministers to pray for them whom they hated in their health When the Devil was sick c. Wee read of four sorts in one Psalm that cried to the Lord in their trouble viz. Travellers sick-men Sea-men Captives Psal. 107. So did Israel Judg. 10. 10. Psal. 78. 34. 3 God hears the prayers of wicked men and sometimes answers them so as to deliver them from temporal distresses Many a time did Israel cry hypocritically to the Lord onely in their trouble and hee delivered them out of their distress Psal. 78. 34 to 39. So hee dealt with Ahab 1 King 21. 29. And Rehoboam 2 Chron. 12. 7. Wicked men may pray to God as to a Creator and hee may hear them though they cannot pray to him as to a Father Hee is a God of pitty and compassion and the very distress and misery of the Creature Virtually though not Vocally cries unto him for mercy Hee that hears the cry of the Ravens cannot but hear the cry of his rational and more noble Creatures This Reason is given in the Text Vers. 4. Hee saw the oppression of Israel to bee great and therefore hee heard and delivered them 4 God usually suffers things to come to extremity before hee deliver Israel is brought as low as the dust great doubtless was the slaughter when but fifty horse-men were left and ten Charriots and ten thousand foot what are these to save a Kingdome God could have prevented this but for the greater manifestation of his wisdome power and glory hee oft deals thus with his people 5 Magistrates are the Saviours of a people God gave Israel a Saviour Vers. 5. i. e. Hee raised up Joash the Son of Jehoahaz who regained the Cities which his Father had lost 2 King 13. 25. and prevailed mightily against the Syrians as did Jeroboam his Son 2 King 14. 27. Hence Magistrates in Scripture are oft called the Saviours and Deliverers of a people Judg. 2. 16. and 3. 9. 2 King 14. 27. Neh. 9. 27. Prov. 11. 14. Obad. 21. There is but one common Saviour of us all and these are subordinate Saviours under him as Moses Gideon Jeptha Deborah Barac Joshua David c. Wee should therefore love honour respect them pray for them pay to them and defend them whom God hath raised for our defence In their peace lieth our peace wee should therefore bee tender over them 6 Nothing works on hardened sinners No judgements nor mercies Israel here is brought as low as the dust God hears their prayers gives them a Saviour raiseth them out of the dust and yet Israel is Israel still as Idolatrous and forgetful of God as ever and that foul But still lies as a blot upon them 2 King 13. 6. But they departed not from the sins of Jeroboam who made Israel sin Phrygians they say are amended by blows but no beating will mend these So true is that of Solomon let a sinful fool bee brayed never so long in the morter of affliction yet his folly will not depart from him Prov. 27. 22. You may beat him to death before you can beat his folly out of him Jer. 8. 28 29. Neither do mercies win them Isa. 26. 10. Unless God set in with his Spirit nothing works kindly upon our souls but men will bee made more obstinate by judgements and more loose by mercies Besides Elisha living in those times no doubt but hee had forewarned them of the evils approaching and yet nothing works upon them 7 The ground of all Gods goodness to his people is no merit of ours but onely his own free grace and love 2 King 13. 23. 8 No might nor man-hood can save a sinful people from ruine King Jehoahaz here is said to bee a man of Might and one that with abundance of courage and valour fought with the Syrians yet still they prevailed against him so that it was not want of courage but want of conscience in him and his people that undid them Their Idolatry was their worst enemy and strengthned their enemies against them 13 Jehoash or Joash succeedeth Jehoahaz his father both in his dignity and iniquity Hee reigned sixteen years and hath the common But and brand put upon him that his Predecessors had 2 King 13. 10 11 12 13. Hee obtained three great Victories against the Syrians of which Elisha fore-told him 2 King 13. 17 18 19. and rescued many of the Cities of Israel from them and thereupon is called their Saviour and Deliverer 2 King 13. 5 25. Hee also prevailed against Amaziah King of Judah and pillaged the Temple of Jerusalem with the Kings house 2 King 14. 13. and which makes most for his praise though hee were a King yet hee goes to visit the sick Prophet Elisha weeps over him and calls him My Father my Father the Chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof Such tender affection and reverence did this wicked King bear to this man of God whom hee acknowledged to bee the Walls and Bulworks the Ammunition and defence both of Church and State who by

his praying and preaching did more for the defence and safety of Israel than all their Armies could do 1 Obs. It is dangerous following our fore-fathers in sin Iehoash doth so and is punished for his pains People are so besotted with the example of their Parents and Ancestors especially if Idolaters that they will after them what ever come of them 2 King 17. ult which made the Lord to adde that commination to the end of the second Commandement which hee doth to no other Commandement against those children which should walk in the steps of their Idolatrous fore-fathers and often forbids that sin as fore-seeing our proneness to it Ezek. 20. 18 19 20. Psal. 78. 8. Zach. 7. 4. and bids us to the Law and not to Examples Isa. 8. 20. If Ioash would have followed his Predecessors hee should have set before him the example of Abraham Isaac and Iacob and not of Ieroboam an Idolater that had mis-led so many into sin and misery Wee may follow our fore-fathers so far as they followed Christ and no further But such is the bewitching power of Superstition that when once it hath got possession and rooting in mens hearts it is seldome ever rooted up again but runs from generation to generation till all bee cut off Idolatry hath so many flesh-pleasing pompous Rites and Ceremonies such seeming sanctity and devotions such splendor of Temples Images Organs and other allurements as are very taking with carnal men besides the fat Bishopricks Denaries Cardinal-ships and Kingdomes with which they intice many from Christ. This was that which made all these Kings of Israel keep up the worship of the Calves that they might keep the people from going from them to Ierusalem 2 Obs. Men may conquer others and yet not conquer themselves Ioash here beats the Syrians three times recovers many Cities from them takes the King of Iudah prisoner and yet himself is a prisoner to sin hee pillageth Jerusalem and the Devil pillageth him Hee is called the Saviour of Israel and yet himself was not saved from his iniquity for hee lived and dyed an Idolater So true is that of Solomon Prov. 16. 32. Hee that can rule his own spirit is better than hee that taketh a City Alexander that could conquer others yet Wine and Women conquered him 3 There is none so wicked but there is some good in them Joash here a wicked King yet visits the Prophet in his sickness sympathizeth with him and weeps over him in his affliction considering the great loss that the Church and State would receive by his death hee gives him honourable Titles savouring of much respect to him How would some Atheistical Sectaries amongst us have railed at this King for calling the good Prophet Father and stiling him The Chariot of Israel i. e. The Shield and Buckler the best defence that Israel had Those Sots and Satans whom the Devil hath blinded and strongly deluded are not worthy of an Answer yet if any would see them answered let them peruse my Comment on 2 Tim. 3. 17. p. 296. Wisdome is justified of her own children and though this ungrateful world vilifie Gods Ministers whilst living yet when they are dead they are ready to adore them 4 There is no loss in shewing kindness to the Prophets of God The King comes to visit the Prophet in his sickness and the Prophet by way of gratitude assures the King of a threefold victory which hee should have against the Syrians 2 King 13. 25 c. The Lord takes the kindness which wee shew to his Prophets as done to himself Hee that honours them honours him whose Embassadors they are Ebedmelech that shewed kindness to Ieremy hath his life given him for a prey Ier. 39. 17 18. Hee that receives a Prophet in the name of a Prophet and shews kindness to him upon that account because hee is a Minister of Christ shall have a Prophets reward Mat. 10. 41. i. e. Hee shall have an eminent reward fit for such a one as hath promoted Gods service in a high degree Gaius lost nothing by such guests as Iohn nor the Shunamite or Sareptan Widow by entertaining Prophets of such Christ seems to say as Paul did of Onesimus if hee owe thee ought put it on mine account I will repay it 5 Hee died The most potent puissant successful Conquerors of the world are conquered by death As I have shewed before 14 Jeroboam the second succeeds his Father Joash and reigns one and forty years not one of his rank reigned so long hee was one of the most prosperous successful and victorious of all the Kings of Israel since the division of the ten Tribes Hee recovered the antient borders of Israel from the Syrians and made them tributary to himself The ground of all this goodness is given 2 King 14. 23 25 26 27 28. The Lord saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter for there was none shut up or left nor any helper left therefore the Lord out of his wonted mercy raised up Jeroboam to bee a Saviour to them Yet hee is stigmatized with the old brand that his predecessor had before him v●z That this New Jeroboam was a chip of the old block for hee did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord and departed not from all the sins of old Jeroboam the Son of Nebat who made Israel sin 2 King 14. 24. And that which aggravates his sin is this 1 That hee sinned against great Light for in his daies preached Jonah Amos Hosea three very famous Prophets 2 Against great Love for the Lord sent Jonah to prophesie of victory and good success unto him 2 King 14. 25. But since hee profited not by this Prophets Ministery the Lord sends him to Niniveh the chief City of the great Empire of the Assyrians Obs. 1 When a Nation is in its most prosperous and flourishing condition it may bee nearest ruine Israel never flourisht since the division of the ten Tribes under any King as it did under this Joash and Jehoahaz had done valiantly before but Jeroboam excells them all Under him the Kingdome flourisht in riches honours victories and great success But after this its honour and power still decaied till it was totally ruined It was in this Kings reign that Hosea fore-told the destruction of Samaria Hos. 1. 1. And Amos fore-told the ruine of Jeroboam and his house Amos 1. 2. and 7. 8 9 10 11. Idolatrous Kingdomes cannot stand long Babylon may think to sit as a Queen but sorrows shall at last surprize her and no worldly pomp or power shall bee able to keep off Gods judgements from her Rev. 18. 7 8. All Kingdomes have their rise and ruine and when they bee at the height then they decrease and moulder away as wee see in the Assyrian Babylonian and Persian Monarchies what vast Dominions had they yet all are vanisht and come to nothing This should keep us humble in the midst