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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

which I was wounded in the house of my friends 7. Awake O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow saith the Lord of hosts smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones 8. And it shall come to passe that in all the land saith the Lord two parts therein shall be cut off and die but the third shall be left therein 9. And I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried they shall call on my name and I will hear them I will say It is my people and they shall say The Lord is my God CHAP. XIII 1. ALl this mourning wherein their eyes become like fountains of teares if it be seasonably undertaken may end in a great blessing For even them shall a fountain be opened to the House of David and the Inhabitants of Ierusalem the mourners that were named before as a particular instance for the rest a fountain that shall wash away the guilt of all their sins though they be such as have made them most foule and polluted Soules 2. And then also will the time come saith the Lord of Hostes wherein I will begin to take away the very name of Idolatry from off the Earth by the conversion of the Gentiles so that in many places there shall be no more mention of Idols And with them will I make the false Prophets and the Divinations by help of unclean Spirits to vanish out of the lands that have been polluted with them 3. And such shall be the common zeal against Idolatry and false Prophets that if a man should yet venture upon that way of pretended Prophesie even his own Parents shall be ready to call for Justice against him and tell him that he is not worthy to live because he broacheth false doctrine under the colour of a message in the name of the Lord. Thus shall his own Father and Mother that were the meanes of his life become the meanes of his death too and in a zeal like that of Phineas presently run him through as one not to be suffered any longer to breath after such a fault against the God of the spirits of all flesh 4. And in these dayes you shall see it often come to passe that the divulgers of false and erroneous doctrine under the pretence of a Vision to usher in what they teach or foretell shall soon be confuted and made ashamed of those waies Neither shall they venture any more to take the outward Habit of a Prophet as a sufficient cloak for their deceiving and misguiding of others 5. Nay when any one of them is examined whether he be a Prophet or no he shall not dare to avouch it but he shall rather confesse and say I lay no claim to the spirit of Prophesie I am but a plain Husband-man fitter for plowing than prophesying and one man or other hath still trained me up that way and had me as a servant under him in that kind of drudgerie from my youth upward till now 6. And if any one say but what is the meaning of these markes that have taken such deep impression in thy hands Are they not such marks and figures as the false-Prophets have that acknowledge themselves devoted to some false Gods Or shall we call them blows or wounds that have been otherwise received Then to purge himself from all suspition of Idolatrie he shall say These were blows indeed that have made some impression in me for the better the signes of such correction as I deserved while I was in the house of my Friend Therefore I shall take them for no other than love-tokens 7. But now I will go on with the Prophesie of the death of the Messias to show what more the Lord is pleased to have foretold concerning those passages of his Passion that will be like a sword to pierce him to the heart Arise O sword against the Shepherd of my flock sa●th the Lord of Hostes and against my dear Companion that is nearest to my love Smite the Shepherd and let the Sheep be scattered Yet for the same hand that dispersed them with that sword will I return my gentle hand to that little innocent stock that forsook their good Shepherd out of mere infirmity while the storm fell about them 8. And for the greater flock through the whole Earth this shall come to passe saith the great Iehovah that of those that shall professe themselves to be of my fold two parts therein will be cut off and perish for want of perseverance but a third part in it shall continue to the end in obedience unto me 9. And that third part will I lead along under a fiery triall for by many temptations I will prove them of what mettall they are as the Goldsmith makes proof of his silver and gold to see what drosse there is in them till they are refined as he would have it And he that under this tryall will call upon my name and so endeavour to improve himself I will acknowledge he is one of my people and he shall persevere to professe me to be his God CHAP. XIV 1 BEhold the day of the Lord cometh thy spoil shall be devided in the midst of thee 2 For I will gather all nations against Ierusalem to battle and the city shall be taken and the houses rifled and the women ravished and half of the city shall go forth into captivity and residue of the people shall not be cut off from the Citie 3 Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives which is before Ierusalem on the east and the mount of Olives shall ●leave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west and there shall be a very great valley and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountaines for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the dayes of Vzziah king of Iudah and the Lord my God shall come and all the saints with thee 6 And it shall come to passe in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark 7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord not day nor night but it shall come to passe● that at evening time it shall be light 8 And it shall be in that day that living waters shal go out from Ierusalem half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be 9 And the

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