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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

is frequently acted in the world in one degree or other Psal. 10. 4. The wicked in the pride of his heart will not seek after God i. e. hee thinks hee hath no need of him but hath enough in himself and therefore hee will not go to God God is not in all his thoughts i. e. hee is in none of his thoughts no not in one of his thoughts or wayes It is an Hebraism The Devil would fain make men not beleeve that which himself cannot but beleeve viz. that there is a God This is one of the highest degrees of wickedness in the world To deny God is so high a sin that it takes away all at once the Devil needs not come a second time This is to sin against the greatest light it is not onely a sin against the light of Christianity but against the light of nature against the witness of the creature and the whole Creation Such sin against the Providence of God and against the common consent of all Nations Tully could say There was never any Nation so barbarous as to deny that there was a God I have seen ● City without walls but never any City but acknowledged a God I have heard of some that have denied that there was a God yet never knew the man but when hee was sick hee would seek unto God for help Therefore saith Seneca They do but lye that say there is no God they sin against the light of their own consciences they who most studiously go about to deny God yet cannot do it but some check of conscience will flye in their faces hence Heathens have condemned some to death that denied there was a God This is a mother-Mother-sin and the root of all abominations yea In every sin there is a virtual tacit interpretative Atheism they say as it were in their hearts that God doth not see Psal. 14. 1 2 3. 73. 11 12. 94. 5. to 9. This sin ruined Ierusalem Ezek. 9. 9. and if it spread in England as it hath done of late years it will certainly ruine us also Wee all carry the root of this Prolifical sin about us and in every sin there is a grain a least of Atheism when wee are charged with it wee are apt to say as Hazael Am I a Dogg hee would not beleeve that there was so much wickedness in him Thou shalt bee a King saith the Prophet and then thy corruptions will soon appear when thou hast power and opportunity to act them So say I thou art a Son of Adam lapsed and fallen in him thou hast the seed of this sin within thee and when a temptation comes it will quickly discover it self to the world 2 Take heed of Polytheism which is the ready way to Atheism the having of many gods is the ready way to have no God An Omni-Religion is the ready way to no Religion The world abounds with false gods 1 Whatsoever wee have more than God that is our God Amor tuus Deus tuus 2 Whatsoever wee confide in more than God that is our God Iob 31. 24. 3 Whatever wee glory and rejoyce in more than God Ier 9. 23. Phil. 3. 19. 4 Whatever wee ascribe efficiency to Hab. 1. 16. God will have all power ascribed to himself Deuteronomy 8. 12 13 17 18. 5 Whatever wee obey against the mind of God bee it friend or foe men or Devils that wee make our God Against Atheism See Capel on Tentat p. 2. ch 2. p. 153. Edit ult Mr. Henry Smith his Arrow against Atheists amongst his Ser. 2. p. p. 1 to 96. Mr. Trapp at the end of his Comment on the Epistles p. 1103. Robinsons Essaies Obs. 11. D. Cl●rks Ser. on Psal. 14. 1. p. 319. Weemse 4th Vol. p. 1. Church his Miscel. p. 154. Taffin on Amendment p. 4 to 25. B. Andrews Catechisme p. 25. Fullers Holy State p. 378. Mr. Clerks Mirrour chap. 9. Edit 3. 20 Their sin was full and they ripe for ruine God had born with their provocations about two hundred and sixty years even till they had filled up the measure of their sins and then hee brought destruction on them Now Ephraims sin was full 1 In respect of Multitude 2 Magnitude 3 Strength 4 Growth 5 Impudency 6 Obstinacy 1 There was a fulness of Number and Multitude 1 All sorts of sin abounded both in Doctrine and Manners there was Idolatry Adultery Murder Witchcraft Lying S●ealing Oppression 2 King 17. 9 10 11. Hos. 4. 1 2 7. 7. Amos 2. 6. 2 All sorts of Sinners abounded high and low Princes Priests and People all were Idolaters and delighted in false worship Hos. 5. 1. Micah 7. 3 4 5 6. This universality of sinning is ever a fore-runner of judgement when All the old world had corrupted themselves then came the flood when All Sodom was wicked and All Ierusalem rebelled when the mean man bowed to Idols and the great man humbled himself then God will not forgive Isa. 1. 5 6. 2. 9. Ier. 5. 1 4 5 6 7. 7. 18 19. 2 There is a fulness of Magnitude which is a fore-runner of destruction When the sins in themselves are great as Idolatry Witchcraft Hypocrisie Apostacy c. and these sins are heightened by circumstances being committed against great Light Love Patience c. and this was Ephraims I wish it were not also Englands case 3 A fulness of S●rength when men do wickedly with both hands i. e. Earnestly and actively Micah 7. 3. When men draw iniquity with the cords of Vanity and study how they may do mischief with all their might Isa. 5. 18. Ezek. 22. 6. 4 A fulness of Growth when men sin more and more as Ep●m did Hos. 13. 2. and grow worse and worse 2 Tim. 3. 13. persevering in their sin without end or measure this also prognosticates ruine to a Nation The Lord did not presently destroy the Amorites but suffered their sin to come to its fulness that hee might pour upon them the fulness of his fury Gen. 15. 16. The sins of the Amorites is not yet full Though they were notoriously wicked yet hee bears with them till their sins were ripe for ruine A woman must go her forty weeks till the childe bee come to perfection and then comes her travel suddenly and surely So sin hath its conception rise reign and ruine Psal. 7. 14. Iames 1. 15. 5 A fulness of Impudency when men declare their sins like Sodom and openly profess their wickedness with Whores fore-heads that cannot blush Isa. 3. 9. Ier. 3. 3. 6. 15. Zeph. 3. 5. 6 A fulness of Obstinacy when nothing can reclaim a People but they are resolvedly wicked as Ephraim here who was married to Idols and would not return being deeply rooted in iniquity Hos. 4. 17. 5. 14. 9. 9. They sold themselves to do wickedly 2 King 17. 17. they would not bee warned by the falls of others whom God had punished before them for the same sins 2 King

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

Sacraments good books corrections and all other rich means which God hath afforded us in these latter daies Oh what Gyants might wee have been in waies of grace and goodness if every Ordinance had been effectual upon our hearts hee that is weak amongst us might have been as strong as David and hee that is strong as David might have been as an Angel of the Lord for wisdome and purity Zach. 12. 8. Like Saul we might have been taller by the head and shoulders in the waies of Grace than other men Our leanness and our lewdness our barrenness and unfruitfulness our unanswerable walking to the rich means of Grace that wee enjoy doth certainly fore-tell a storm approaching 10 Ingratitude and abuse of Gods mercies to the promoting of Idolatry The more God did for them the less they did for him their fulness bred forgetfulness and the more they were increased the more they sinned Hence the Lord so oft complains of this sin as provoking him more than all the rest Hos. 2. 8. 4. 7. 10. 1. 11. 3 4. 13. 5 6. It was this sin especially that brought the sword upon them Hos. 2. 9. 13. 7. The Prophet Amos also who was contemporary with Hosea doth notably set forth the great Ingratitude of this people in abusing Gods mercies Amos 2. 9 10 11. And is not this that crying sin of England Do wee not●fight against God with his own blessings abusing our health wealth wit peace plenty corn wine gold silver Scriptures Ordinances yea all our comforts and creatures to the dishonour of the giver of them His mercies make us proud his riches covetous his peace secure his food intemperate and all his benefits serve us but as weapons to rebel against him And do wee thus require the Lord O foolish and unwise is this the thanks wee give him for all his patience preservations success and deliverances Will not the Lord visit for these things and shall not his soul bee avenged on such a Nation as this Had England no more sins to answer for but this even this were sufficient to make it a desolation as it did Samaria 11 Covenant-breaking God had betrothed them to himself and chosen them from the rest of the world to become his people But they like men transgressed the Covenant there did they deal treacherously against him Hos. 6. 7. 10. 4. Like Sons of Adam they walkt in his steps though they were abundantly blest by God yet they revolted from him and transgrest the Covenant there even th●re it is put emphatically where they should have been most faithful viz. in the Covenant there they dealt most falsly and perfidiously with him And is not this one of the crying sins of England Never was there a wiser and better composed Covenant in the Nation and never any worse performed wee have lifted up our hands to the most High that wee will in our places and callings extirpate heresies and yet many walk as if they had taken a Covenant to propagate them many amongst us make no more of their Covenants than an Ape doth of his coller which hee can put off or on at his own pleasure Let any man but read all the branches of the Covenant and then compare our contrary walking to it and hee cannot but admire the infinite patience of the Lord that hee hath not long since sent a sword to avenge the quarrel of his Covenant upon us Levit. 26. 25. wee must not think to do such things and escape or to break our Covenants with God and then bee delivered Ezek. 17. 15 to 20. If the Lord so sadly avenged the breach of Covenant with a man yea with a Heathen and Idolater what shall bee done to him who breaks his Covenant made with the great God of Heaven and Earth and if a good man will perform the Covenant which hee made though it bee to his disadvantage how great is their sin then who perform not the conditions of such Covenants as tend to their everlasting welfare Psal. 15. 4. The Jews have a saying That there is no punishment that befalls them but there is a dram of the golden Calf in it so there is no misery that befalls England but there it a dram of Covenant-breaking in it 12 Security Though strangers had devoured his strength yet hee knew it not the Syrian and Assyrian had consumed him and made a prey of him yet such was his stupidity that hee knew it not viz. with a practical saving knowledge so as to repent and make a right use of it Yea gray hairs were sprinkled here and there upon him which were a sign of weakness and old age and death approaching yet they laid it not to heart Hos. 7. 9. but they were at ease in Sion and trusted in the Mountain of Samaria putting the evil day far from them and therefore a woe is denounced against them Amos 6. 1 3. 9. 10. And was there ever more security and sensless stupidity in England than at this day Do not the Ministers of Christ generally complain that they see not that life zeal activity tenderness compunction c. in their people as formerly Many applaud and flatter themselves with their gifts and external profession of sanctity but the power of it is very much wanting amongst us A great calm oft times is a fore-runner of a storm and great security is a great fore-runner of some great judgement When the old world was eating drinking buying building marrying and thought not of a flood then it came and swept them all away when men cry peace peace then comes sudden and swift destruction 1 Thes. 5. 3. 13 Anarchy They devoured all their Iudges all their Kings were fallen Hos. 7. 7. They discovered their rage in their seditious and frequent conspiracies to the devouring and destroying of their Judges and Magistrates as appears in the frequent murders of their Kings What Anarchy and confusion is amongst us hee is a great stranger in our English Israel that knows not 14 Lukewarmness This is another sin that helpt to ruine Ephraim Hos. 7. 8. Ephraim is a cake not turned and so but half-baked or dough-baked neque crudus neque coctus neither hot nor cold neither fish nor flesh but of a middle mongrel Religion halting between two partly for God and partly for the Devil partly for Christ and partly for Baal but God hates such halting 〈◊〉 doings and therefore spues them out of his mouth and sends them packing into captivity And is not this the sin of England Are wee not a luke-warm generation neither hot nor cold that halt not between two but two hundred opinions Wee have a knee for God and a knee for Baal a tongue for Christ and a tongue for Antichrist a tongue for Truth and a tongue for Falshood Like the harlot wee are all for dividing But God will bee served truly and totally without halting or halving hee hath made our whole

worship of Baal in the Mountain of Samaria which was far worse than the Idolatry of Ieroboam for though they had Idols yet they pretended to worship the true God but in this they worshipped Baal himself as appears by that speech of Elijah of Baal bee God implying that they esteemed him so 2 Ieroboam erected the golden Calves to preserve the Kingdome to himself but Ahab peaceably possest the Kingdome yet desiberately hee sets up more Idols 3 Hee knew the Zidonians were great worshippers of Baal yet hee fears not to match with a Iesabel there that stirred him up to a greater height of wickedness 1 King 21. 25. shee was a proud cruel cursed Idolatress a fierce persecutor of Gods people and a great promoter of the worship of Baal hence St. Iohn calls that false Prophetess that seduced so many to uncleanness and Idolatry Iesabel Rev. 2. 20. And Iehu chargeth her with whoredome and witchcraft This Ahab was slain in battel by the Syrians the doggs lick his blood and hee is buried in Samaria his chief City and his posterity is cursed after him 1 King 21. 22 23 24. Obs. 1 Wicked Parents many times have wicked children An Idolatrous Omri hath an Idolatrous Ahab As I have shewed before 2 Succeeding Idolaters oft-times exceed their predecessors in wickedness Ieroboam was naught Omri worse but Ahab worst of all hee is a Non-such for wickedness No King of Israel before him nor after him like him for wickedness 3 Great sins seldome go alone Ahab here is first an Idolater then an Oppressor a Murderer a Persecutor c. and what not As there is a concatenation of virtues 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7. So usually of vices Great sins like great men have many followers as I have proved at large elsewhere 4 The best Preachers cannot work upon hardened sinners Ahab had Elijah a man of fire fit for those cold times one that had wrought many great Miracles and boldly reproves him to his face for his wickedness besides Elisha and others and yet hee is Ahab still When once men are given up to hardness of heart not all that Mount Sinah or Mount Sion can afford not all the curses of the one nor all the promises of the other can do any good Of all the plagues therefore take heed of the plague of a hard heart On this side Hell there is not a sorer judgement and therefore when the Church prayes for a direful curse upon her incurable enemies it is this Lam. 3. 65. Give them sorrow of heart or as the margin reads it Obstinacy and hardness of heart thy curse upon them See the danger of a hard heart Mr. Marshals Serm. on Zach. 7. 12. Dyke on Scandals p. 88. Bain Epist. 7. A Lapide on Exod. 7. 3. Sibbs Cordials p. 14. Hierom 1. part p. 457 and 462. Downams Guide in fine p. 8. and 72. H●okers Guide of Saints p. 98. 5 Wicked men sell themselves to do wickedly They are not Passively sold under sin against their wills and the bent of their souls as the regenerate are Rom. 7. 14. But they Actively give up themselves unto it As a servant is not sui juris at his own dispose but is a living instrument to work for his Master so a wicked man that hath given up himself a servant to sin is not now himself but hee must plod contrive and act for sin with all his might though hee ruine himself by it Rom. 6. 16. Thus it was with Ahab here hee had not hired himself out to sin for a week a month a year but hee had wholly sold himself as a slave for ever to the service of sin and Satan so that hee could neither think speak or act any thing but what had a tendency to sin Hee was a King and by his place hee should have ruled others but alass hee was so enthralled to sin that hee could not rule himself Diogenes could upbraid Alexander for his lusts I am the King saith Diogenes and thou art the slave for I rule over those lusts that rule over thee 6 Misery attends Idolatry Ahab sets up Baal and God pulls down him How can they expect Peace on Earth that fight with Heaven The Kingdome is now troubled Samaria besieged a famine in the Land no dew nor rain for three years and a half Ahab and Iesabel are slain and Ahabs seventy Sons cut off These these are the fruits of Idolatry and forsaking God It is worth observing what Tumults Treasons Treachery King-killing Wars and changing of the Royal Lines there was throughout the reign of these Idolatrous Kings of Israel Solomon that first set up Idolatry had three enemies upon him 1 Hadad the Edomite 2 Rezin King of Damascus 3 Ieroboam his servant So when Ioram King of Iudah walked in the waies of Idolatrous Ahab then Edom and Libnah revolt from him 2 King 8. 18 20. But on the contrary see what success and renown Iudah had who was more faithful to God They had nineteen Kings of Israel all of the same stock succeeding each other whereas among the twenty Kings of Israel there were ten several Kings and they of several stocks and they frequently destroyed each other to get into the Throne and lived not long whereas Asa one of the good Kings of Iudah out-lived Ieroboam Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Tibni Omri and some part of Ahabs time 7 It is a fore judgement to have an evil Wife Ahab was wicked but his Iesabel made him worse 1 King 21. 25. Hee was so awed by her and such a slave to her that what ever shee would have done bee it never so vile hee durst not but do it Ahab wanted neither wit nor wickedness and yet hee is in both a very novice to this Zidonian Dame There needs no other Devil than Iesable whether to project evil or to act it shee chides the pusillanimity of her dejected Husband and perswades him that his rule cannot bee free unless it bee licentious and that there should bee not bounds for soveraignty but will As our English Seneca excellently As a good wife is a choice mercy Prov. 19. 14. So an ill wife is a sore judgement As a good wife will incite a man to goodness so an evil one will bee provoking to wickedness Solomon the wisest of men how was hee besotted by his Idolatrous wives into what sin and mifery did they draw him 1 King 11. 3 7 8 9. And this helpt to ruine Iehoram in that hee had the Daughter of Ahab to his Wife 2 King 8. 18. As you love your souls take heed of matching with an Idolatress it is an abomination for Gods people so to do Ezra 9. 14. Neh. 13. 6. Mal. 2. 11. Israel hath committed an abomination why what hath hee done why hee hath married the Daughter of a strange God When Pompey would have ensnared Cato by bestowing one of his Daughters on him hee wisely answered Se