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A85371	Jacob raised: or, The means of making a nation happy both in spiritual and temporal priviledges. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Peeres in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the late solemne monthly fast, Decemb. 30. 1646. / By Willam [sic] Goode, B.D. and Pastor of Denton in Norfolk. Published by order of the House of Peeres.	Goode, William, b. 1599 or 1600.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1094; Thomason E369_3; ESTC R201278	27,277	38

a yet greater judgement arise upon us Though our dangers yet be great because of our intestine divisions and the unwearied plots of our enemies and which is worst of all Reformation of Religion with a hedge about it is not yet perfected but Prophanesse Heresies and Blasphemies in many places abound more then ever Yet let us not murmure To be kept long in the wildernesse hath been the condition of Gods people before us Let us wait upon God with patience and thankfulnesse improving studiously those means for recovery He hath blest us with untill the Lord be pleased to raise us out of these present troubles and dangers and accomplish for us those rich mercies which we desire and hope for Patience is a quiet silent frame of soule under troubles submiting to God without murmuring or declining any work God sets us about And to encourage and perswade us to this Patience take these brief Considerations First They that wait for Gods salvation with a free and full submission to his will and bearing of his indignation manifested in those crosses and afflictions which he brings upon them for their sins or tryall shall never fail of such an issue as shall conduce most to their true and eternal happinesse Jer. 30. 18. Secondly The more patient we are under cure the sooner we shall be healed nothing more hinders the cure of wounds then the distempered strugling and unquietnesse of the Patient When David in his flight from Absolon came to this degree of submission unto God 2 Sam. 15. 26. Here I am let him do unto me what seemeth good in his eyes David quickly got the victory over Absolon and all that rose up in that rebellion with him When Hezekiah came to this after God had threatned that all his treasures and jewels should be taken away and his sons become Eunuches to the King of Babylon as to say Isaiah 39. 8. Good is the word of the Lord God presently respited the judgement and let Peace and Truth be in his dayes We could not but expect to meet with great and long troubles by the strongest oppositions that men or devils can stir up against us because we endeavour to carry Reformation to the highest pitch Psal. 2. 1 2. When Christ sets up his kingdome the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsell against the Lord and against his Anointed When the Jewes began to build the Wall of Jerusalem Sanballet and Tobias and the Arabians c. they all conspired together to go and fight against Jerusalem Nehem. 4. 8. When they began to build the Temple their enemies hired Counsellors and wrote Letters against them unto Cyrus King of Persia Ezra 4. 5. and designed their ruine Evill men will strive for their lusts as for their lives and therefore will struggle much against that Reformation that will either curb their extravagancies or expose them to much disgrace and scorn even amongst their inferiours And not only evill men but Satan will muster up all his forces for opposition when he sees his kingdom going down As Jaylers when they see their prisoners ready to break out they will then thrust them into the Dungeon and double their irons So Satan when he discernes the Liberty and Purity of the Gospel is like to take his prisoners from him he will shakle them with all troubles and miseries he can get commission to bring upon them Fourthly All our troubles are much lesse then our deservings God might have stub'd us up when he went about to prune us God might have turned us into dust as he did Sodome and Gomorrah seeing our sins are greater then theirs could be that never abused Gospel-mercy as we have done and surely it is only the Lords mercy we are not consumed In the midst of our judgements God hath remembred mercy and by many miraculous deliverances in our greatest streits hath let us see that he would not give us up to be a prey to the teeth of our enemies and still we we have balm in Gilead and physitians there though our sins exceedingly obstruct our perfect healing Fifthly God useth by long afflictions many times to prepare us for great mercies Joseph was a great while in the hands of strangers and afterward in prison before he became ruler of Aegypt Israel were instructed with the Rod forty yeares in the wildernesse before they were made possessors of the land that flowed with milk and hony and afterward were humbled with seventy yeares Captivity before they enjoyed the glory of the second Temple And Antichrist must reign and afflict the Saints a thousand years before the glorious times of the Church A field that is to be sowen with curious seed that is all over-grown with briars and thorns will take a long time in stulbing and preparing And stones that are to be placed in a curious building will take a long time in hewing and squaring Sixthly We still go on to continue and multiply our sins now to have gods judgements removed before we be amended were the greatest judgement of all For God thus not to be angry were the greatest anger of all For the Chyrurgion to pull off his salves and to leave dressing the wounds of his Patient before he were healed were to leave him desperate of any cure at all God doth not afflict willingly neither doth he take any delight in the troubles of his own people and therefore sure we are not yet fit for those mercies we desire or else God would not continue to multiply his judgements upon us Now better had we be content with any cure then to be suffered to go on still in our sins There is nothing so much bitternesse in those rods that drive us unto God as in those sins by which we are separated from God Kingdoms are well bought whatever price we give for them saith a Heathen Whatever pressures we undergo the purchase will be happy if the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for the comfort of us and our posterity may be at length advanced among us Seventhly We may be patient because our troubles shall neither be greater nor longer then makes for Gods glory and our good One of the sharpest and longest miseries that befell Israel was the Babylonish captivity and yet God saith of that I have sent them into Chaldea for their good Jer. 24. 5. Affliction is measured out only by God himself neither men nor devils can touch one hair of our heads without licence first sued out from God Affliction springs not out of the dust Job 5. 6. Is there any evil in the city that I have not done saith God Now God knowes our strength is not the strength of stones nor our flesh the flesh of brasse Job 6. 12. And therefore God doth afflict his people in measure Isa. 27. 7. God that is our Physitian to mixe the potion of our adversity

stir them they will run over But all the sins and miseries of three Kingdoms can scarce pump a teare or a sigh from many of our hearts Take heed of continuing in such Fasts for if God cannot draw tears he will draw blood from our hearts when there shall be no remedy Soul-affecting Fasts are raising Fasts and no other Secondly Raise your Prayers Acceptable prayer will raise a Nation out of the dust Psal. 102. 14. 17. 1. Raise your Fervencie Jam. 5. 16. Fervencie prevaileth much Jacob wrestled and prevailed with God Hos. 12. 4. God hath long cryed to us and we are not awakened sufficiently And let us not think that lesse then our strongest cries will awaken God to rise up for us God deals with us as mothers with their children while they only whimper they are not much regarded but if they begin to cry in earnest and will not be quiet then presently they take them and give them suck 2. Raise your Faith Faith is the strength of Prayer nothing layes hold on God without this Let us lean with confidence upon Gods strength and goodnesse according to his promises and then nothing is so difficult but God will effect it for us in the best season Psal. 34. 10. The wals of Jericho fell down by faith Psal. 22. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee they trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them Thirdly Raise your Reformation and this will raise the Nation Amend your wayes throughly Jer. 7. 5. True Reformation will make your Fasts prevailing Fasts They turned every man from his evil way and God saw their works and repented of the evil he said he would do unto them and did it not Jonah 3. 9 10. It will make our Prayers prevailing Prayers Isa. 5. 16. Strive to grow and increase in Holinesse If you would have England to be the Mount of Happinesse you must make it first as Judah was the Mount of Holinesse Zach. 8. 3. New wine must be put into new bottles The way to enjoy great mercies for soule and body is to get such a degree of Holinesse as will enable you to improve the choicest Mercies to Gods glory Raise therefore your Holinesse First Above Formality Let it be visible in your conversations that ye have not only a form but the power of Faith and Love and other graces of the Spirit 2. Above Partiality Allow your selves no Sin but universally make conscience of every Duty as Zachary and Elizabeth walking in all the commandements of God 3. Above Lukewarmnesse or the lowest forme of Christians Be holy as He is holy that hath called you 1 Pet. 1. 15. Labour to reach the highest step of holinesse You are raised to great hopes you have the choicest means of Holinesse Judgements to purge you Mercies to draw you Ordinances to edifie you Walk therefore as becommeth a people of such hopes of such helps Let every Lust in you be like the house of Saul that grew weaker and weaker and every Grace like the house of David that grew stronger and stronger Perfecting Holinesse in the fear of God That so God may prevent our fears and remove our judgements and raise us to that height in temporal and spiritual priviledges that those promises may be made good to us Jer. 3. 17. The time shall come that they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all Nations shall be gathered unto it And Isa. 27. 6. He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root Israel shall blassome and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit FINIS A Continuation of the Catalogue of Sermons preached upon the Dayes of Publique Humiliation before the Right honorable house of Lords From Jan. 28. 1645. to Decemb 30. 1646. A Continuation of the Catalogue of Sermons preached upon the dayes of Publique Humiliation before the Honorable House of Commons From Jan. 14 1645. to Decemb. 30 1646. Both Houses and the Assembly kept a special day of Humiliation to seek GOD for Direction about Church-Government Jan. 28. 1645. Mr. Gasper Hicks Hos. 5. 15. Mr. Dan. Evance 1 Sam. 2. 30. Feb. 25. Mr. Andrew Perne Mr. Will. Jenkin Hag. 1. 2. Mar. 25. Mr. Robert Harris Mr. Tho. Case Exod. 5. 22 23. April 29 Mr. Thomas Foord Mr. Reuben Easthrop May 27. Mr. Francis Tailor Gen. 35. 1. Mr. Nicholas Proffet June 24. Mr. Robert Johnson Mr. Charles Herle July 29. Mr. Samuel Bolton Mr. Simeon Ash Octo. 28 Mr. Stephen Marshal Ps. 8. 2. Mr. Will. Bridge Zeph. 2. 3. Nov. 25. Mr. Will. Price Ezra 9. 6 7 8. Mr. John Ward An extraordinary Fast for removing the judgement of Rain and Waters Dec. 9. Mr. Charles Herle Mr. Francis Roberts Ps. 51. 17. Dec. 30. Mr. William Goode Amos 7. 5. Mr. Tho. Horton Num. 32. 23. Jan. 14. Mr. Stephen Marshal M. J. Whitaker 2 Chr. 26. 15 16 Jan. 28. Mr. Jos. Caryl Jam. 4. 8. 1 part Mr. Rich. Vines Ja. 4. 8. last p. Feb. 25. Mr. T. Goodwin Ps. 105. 14. 15. Mr. Anth. Burgess Num. 11. 12 Mar. 25. Mr. Sam. Bolton Mat. 1. 21. Mr. Fran. Cheynel Gen. 18. 19 Apr. 29. Mr. James Nalton Jer. 13. 27. Mr. John Owen Acts 16. 11. May 27. Mr. Rich. Heyrick Hest. 4. 16. Mr. Iohn Ward June 24 Dr. Peter Smith Mr. William Spurstowe July 29. Mr. Ioseph Caryl Mr. Ieremiah Whitaker Aug. 25. Mr. Daniel Cawdrey Mr. Jer. Burroughs Mat. 5. 6. Sept. 30 Mr. Joseph Symonds Mr. Herbert Palmer Isa. 58. 12 Oct. 28. Mr. John Maynard Phil. 3 21. Mr. Nic. Lockier Isa. 53. 10. Nov. 25 Mr. William Del Heb. 9. 10. Mr. Christopher Love An extraordinary Fast for removing the judgement of Rain and Waters Dec. 9. Mr. Jeremiah Whitaker Mr. John Ward Dec. 30. Mr. St. Marshal 1 Chr. 12. 32. Mr. M. Newcomen Heb. 4. 13. Reader Be pleased to take notice Those whose Texts are not quoted are not yet printed A Continuation of the Sermons preached upon the Dayes of Publique Thanks-giving before both or either Houses of PARLIAMENT From April 2. 1646. To Novemb. 5. 1646. April 2. For the good successe of the Parliaments Army in the West especially in Cornwal and disbanding of the Kings Horse there Mr. Ioseph Caryl Psal. 118. 17. Mr. Hugh Peters Psal. 31. 23. May 12. For the regaining and taking 12 severall Garrisons viz. Excester Barnstaple c. Before the Lords Master Daniel Gawdrey Master Richard Ley. Before the Commons Mr. Samuel Torshel Deut. 16. 20. Mr. Charles Herle July 21. For the Surrender of Oxford c. Before the Commons Mr. Henry Wilkinson Numb. 23. 23. Mr. Walter Cradock 1 John 1. 3 4. Sept. 8. For the Surrender of Worcester c. Before the Commons Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick Mr. Thomas Goodwin Nov. 5. For the Deliverance from the Powder-Treason Before the Lords Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick Before the Commons Mr. William Strong Ezra 9. 13 14. Before the Lord Mayor c. at Pauls Mr. Nathanael Hardy Psal. 9. 16. FINIS 1. Propos. 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason Darium illum quem Alexander magnus bis acie superavit cum ex fuga defessus aquam lutulentam cadaveribus inquinatam biberet dixisse serunt se nunquam in vita bibisse iucundius Osor de instit. regis l. 4. 4. Reason Application Vse 2. Vse 3. 1. Consid. 2. Consid. 3. Consid. 4. Consid. 5. Consid. 6. Consid. Imperia q●ovis preti● constant bene 7. Consid. 8. Consid. Interficere me possunt nocere mihi non possunt Qui volens addidit infamiae tuae nolens addidit mercedi tuae 2. Propos. 1. Reason 2. Reason Object Answ 3. Reason 4. Reason 5. Reason ● Reason Vse of Direction 1. Breach of Covenant Want of compassion Want of execution of justice Divisions Corruptions in Religion Mr. Baily in his Disswasive from Error 1. 2. Part. Concordia parvae res crescunt Acts 1. 14. 2. 1. 46. 4. 32. 5. 12. * Ignecharitatis funt ●●m●●rende Constantinus in synodo Niceno libellos accipiens querelarum plenos quos ei de privatis injuriis obtulerunt Episcopi cos ne legendos quidem sibi esse putavit sed continud flammis tradidit Ruffin l. 1. c. 2. Socrat l. 1. c. 5. 2. Direct {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Craesus vivens Socrates moriens * Aethiopes olim qui supra Aegyptum habitabant eum regem eligebant qui proceritate corporis ●nteiret Osor de instit. regis lib. 4. 3. Direction

but he being a wicked King walking in the wayes of Jeroboam who made Israel to sin the Peoples sins grew to so great a height as they were ripe for judgement and therefore God sent this Prophet to mind them of those breaches and desolations which were speedily to come upon them without their mature repentance And in the Nine first verses of this Chapter declares a most sad vision which he had concerning their future condition Verse 1. He saw an army of Grashoppers or Locusts a kind of green worm that should devour all their grasse and so bring a degree of scarcity upon them Verse 4. He saw a Fire by which God would contend with them which should devour the great deep and eat up a part Calvin reades it not a part but the whole possession which the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} will bear that is all that the Locusts had left This Fire is conceived to be a great drought when the violent heat of the Sunne beames shall peirce the deepest of the earth below the roots of Corn or Trees and so make a perfect famine Verse 8. He saw a Plumb line which was a certain measure of time taken by God beyond which he would not spare this people as the text saith I will not passe by them any more I will inevitably bring my judgements in their full current as it followeth verse 9. Now while the people were under the two former judgements there was some hope of recovery yet their sins were so great and they so obstinate in them and God in his wrath resolved to bring them so low as the Prophet being deeply affected with the sense of their calamity and yet at a stand how they should compasse any deliverance complains to God and saith By whom shall Jacob arise for he is small For Explication of these words we must understand First that By Jacob is meant the ten Tribes cheifly yet Judah is not excluded because Amos prophesied to them also Amos 2. 5. Secondly Small By this is meant the afflicted and lowe estate of this people in regard of their Temporals under the forenamed judgements and likewise in regard of their Spirituals Verse 9. The Sanctuary of Israel shall be laid wast and I will send a fumine and not of bread but of the word of the Lord Amos 8. 11. Thirdly By whom shall Jacob arise {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies to arise to stand to establish but here by the most it is taken transitively and signifies to raise and then t is read Who shall raise Jacob And if we read it so the sense is still the same who shall raise deliver restore Jacob and make him happy in the enjoyment of Temporal and Spiritual priviledges The Text thus explained affords us these Two Propositions First That Gods people may be brought so lowe in regard of Temporal and Spiritual priviledges as no meanes may be visible or if visible for the present not effectuall for their restauration Amos makes it a question because he could not see by whom Jacob should be raised The Second Proposition is this When there is no meanes visible or if visible not effectuall for our recovery then we ought to apply our selves to God to work deliverance for us Amos though he could see no means whereby Jacob should be raised yet he prayes Verse 3. O Lord pardon and Verse 5. O Lord cease and asketh God this question By whom c. Of these Propositions in order and first of the First That Gods people c. Such was their condition in the beginning of Jeroboams reign 2 King 14. 26. The Lord saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter for there was none shut up nor any left nor any helper in Israel In Jehorams time 2 King 6. 28. they were so low with famine that They that did feed delicately were desolate in the streets they that were brought up in scarlet did embrace the dunghill This was the state of Gods people in Aegypt in the Wildernesse in the Babylonish Captivity and under the Romish servitude This was Job his case Job 1. when estate and friends and reputation and health were all taken from him This was Davids case with Akish King of Gath 1 Sam. 21 and in Ziglag 1 Sam. 30. 6. when his wives were taken prisoners his substance plundered and the City ready to stone him And as this is the condition sometimes of Gods people in regard of their Temporal so of their Spiritual priviledges when the Worship of God is generally corrupted his Truths despised and his Ordinances polluted and contemned Thus it was in Ahabs time when there was a generall face of Idolatry and such a persecution of the Ministers of God by those that had the highest authority as Obadiah was forced to hide an hundred of the Prophets of the Lord by fifty in a cave 1 King 18. 4. And Elijah complained They have forsaken thy Covenant and thrown down thine Altars and for such as did visibly worship God truely he saith I even I am left alone and they seeke my life also 1 King 19. 10. The Reasons of this dispensation of God are First To take us off from Idolizing meanes or resting upon creature helps for deliverance and that we may both expect this from himself and give him the praise of it when we have it We naturally are not willing to come to God as long as we have any means to go unto and therefore God removes these or makes them ineffectual to relieve us and increaseth our affliction to bring us to trust in him and to seek for restauration at his hand Hos. 5. 13. Ephraim and Judah sent first to Ahab and King Jareb then God turned their Moth into a Lion and saith I will go away and teare and none shall rescue untill they seek my face In their affliction they will seek me early God will have the honour that is due unto him which is to be trusted as the adequate cause of all our deliverances according to that Psal. 62. 8. Trust in God at all times And that Jer. 3. 23. In vain is salvation looked for from the hills or from the multitude of mountains for God is the salvation of Israel Secondly for the glory of his Justice When God threatens only and doth not strike or if his strokes be lesse then his threatnings hold out we are apt to think our sins are not so great or not so provoking as they are or else that God is not just in punishing Jer. 16. 10. When the people heard of great judgements they cryed out What is our iniquity What is our sin And Psal. 50. 21. I held my tongue and thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thou art As Dionysius that robbed a Temple and when he had done went to sea and had a prosperous voyage and he said Surely the gods

Die Jovis 31. Decembr 1646. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That this House gives thanks to Mr. Goode one of the Assembly of Divines for his great paines taken in his Sermon preached the last Fast before the Lords of Parliament in the Abby Church Westminster And he is hereby desired to print and publish the same which is to be printed only by authority under his own hand John Browne Cler. Parliamen I do appoint Nathanaell Webb and William Grantham to print my Sermon William Goode JACOB RAISED OR The means of making a Nation happy both in spiritual and temporal Priviledges Presented in A SERMON Preached before the Right Honorable House of PEERES in the Abby Church at Westminster at the late Solemne Monthly Fast Decemb. 30. 1646. By Willam Goode B. D. and Pastor of Denton in Norfolk Published by Order of the House of Peeres Psal. 68. 1. Let God arise and let his enemies be scattered Ezek. 36. 11. I will do better to you then at your beginnings 1 Chron. 22. 19. Now set your heart and soul to seek the Lord your God arise therefore and build yee the Sanctuary of the Lord God London Printed by T. R. and E. M. for Nath. Webb and Will. Grantham at the sign of the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard 1647. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE The House of PEERES Assembled in PARLIAMENT Right Honorable AS the goodnesse of God that hitherto hath afforded a miraculous preservation to the Parliament of England and hath never failed to give in mercifull Deliverances in time of need and to make many admirable returnes of Prayer doth manifest that God is with you in your pious endeavours for the settling of Truth and Peace So is it evident that our sinnes do with-hold good things from us that notwithstanding the Balm that is in Gilead and the Physitians there yet we are not healed The Sword is not sheathed the Pestilence not ceased and Famine a Plague worse then these begins to threaten us Ignorance Prophanesse Heresies get ground in many places of the Land and hence such as are enemies to Peace and Reformation encourage themselves with hope to see the time when they shall cause your work to cease and bring us back again to Egypt It therefore highly concernes all of all conditions to examine what their iniquities are that put a stop to the current of Gods Mercies towards us and when they have stoned the Achans in their owne bosome to mourn for the sinnes of others and to wrestle with God for pardon and such a spirit of repentance as may fit the Land for those high and excellent Mercies both for soul and body which hitherto have been the object both of our prayers and hopes Now as no meanes of cure are successefull further then Gods owne power and blessing have a concurrence with them so the onely way to procure Gods assistance is to make such application to him as may most strongly engage him to be with you in all your endeavours And seeing God doth all things for his owne glorie to advance such waies as will make the name of God most glorious in the Land must needs be the greatest engagement you can make of God Some few directions for this purpose by your Lordships command I presented to your eares and now by the same command present them to your eyes The chief whereof was this the advancement of Gospel-truth and the power of godlinesse The Psalmist tels us In Jury is God well known his name is great in Israel Where God is best known he is most glorified God is rightly made known only by his own truth revealed in his Word and as this is more or lesse defended propagated and obedience thereunto yeelded so is God more or lesse honoured by any Nation and their spirituall and temporall priviledges more or lesse enlarged Basill and Ambrose say of the Echineis or Remora a little fish that if it joyn it self to a Ship under sayle it will make it stand still and quiet though driven with the greatest tempests Like this Echineis to a Ship is Religion to a State which while your Lordships have endeavoured to reforme and establish you have been preserved in safety while so many dreadfull stormes have blown from one end of the Land unto another God therefore having trusted you in a speciall manner with the guarding of his Truth and Ordinances let it be your greatest care to preserve and propagate these in their power and purity And then you may commit both your own and the Kingdoms safetie with confidence unto Gods keeping And whatsoever storms shall be raised against you and such as be with you in the Cause of God he will quiet them in his appointed time and give a prevailing command to all your enemies saying Destroy not the Cluster for there is a blessing in it Isaiah 65. 8. Thus may your Honours not only be Physitians to heal our Land but make plentifull provisions for your own happinesse to eternity whereas otherwise those great talents of honour authority and wealth which God hath entrusted you with will be but the improvement of your everlasting misery Alcibiades bragging of his great possessions Socrates to abate his pride fetched him a Map of the World and desired him to show him where his possessions lay but there he could not find them All Athens in that being but a point Remember that what ever possessions great men have here yet Not many wise not many rich not many mighty shall have inheritances in heaven As therefore God hath done great things for you so do you great things for God Let your authority be the bulwark of the innocent the axe to cut downe prophanesse injustice and oppression in the Land Let Ireland be releived and such at home as the Publike service hath made Widows or Orphants or necessitous be succoured Let those little Sisters that have no breasts be provided for all the Kingdom over Let grace and holinesse be seen in their own colours in your lives and examples that your copies which are seen and read of all men may make them in love with godlinesse that when God shall divest you of your great possessions here he may invest you with a glorious inheritance among the Saints in his own Kingdom for ever which that he may do is the prayer of Your Lordships humble servant in the Lord WILLIAM GOODE A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable House of LORDS at their late Solemn Monthly Fast Decemb. 30. 1646. Amos 7. 5. last words By whom shall JACOB arise for he is small THe great miseries which this Prophet saw were coming upon the people of Israel and those desolating judgements which he had a commission to denounce against them were the cause of this mournfull question in my text He Prophecied in the time of Jeroboam the Second who was the Son of Joash 2 King 14. 24. In his reign Israel had some restauration in regard of their outward estate