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A86936	A brief exposition on the XII. smal prophets the first volume containing an exposition on the prophecies of Hosea, Joel, & Amos. By George Hutcheson, minister at Edenburgh.	Hutcheson, George, 1615-1674.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3823; Thomason E1453_1; ESTC R202497	435,098	550

quarrel as an husband may be of his adulterous wise her paramours for and none shall deliver 〈◊〉 out of my hand 3. Idolatry and abuse of prosperity to uphold that doth ripen a visible Church for very speedy destruction For Now saith he I will discover her nakednesse c. Ver. 11. I will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast-dayes her new Moones and her Sabbaths and all her solemne feasts Thirdly he threatens to cut short her mirth and all her solemnities of worship which were set up in imitation of the feasts appointed by God in Judah See 1 Kings 12.32 Whence learn 1. Sin and mirth will not last long together but were there never so much of it sin will cut it all short For I will also cause all her mirth to cease whether her rejoycing at her prosperous condition or at these solemne feasts in paarticular 2. God will not be mocked with external performances of solemne worship to him especially being of mens own invention when they joyne grosse Idolatry with them but he will send on wrath to cut all short together For saith he I will make to cease her feast-dayes her new Moons and her Sabbaths and all her solemne feasts as came to passe in her captivity Her Sabbaths were every seventh day from the creation which she observed as well as Judah and her feast-dayes seemeth to be a general comprehending the two followiag of new Moons and other solemne feasts Vers 12. And I will destroy her vines and her fig-trees whereof she hath said These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forrest and the beasts of the field shall eat them Fourthly he threatens to destroy not only their fruits but the trees they grew upon and so to leave their land desolate as a forrest for wilde beasts and that because they looked on these things as the reward of their Idolatry Whence learn 1. Spiritual judgements and deprivation of Ordinances will have but little weight with wicked men unlesse 〈◊〉 other rod be with them Therefore after that threatening v. 11. of depriving them of their solemnities must this again be added I will destroy her vines c. 2. Such is the desperate stupidity and obstinacy of declining sinners as no cutting off of present enjoyments will affect them unlesse their future expectations be cut off liikewise For he must destroy not only her present fruits but her vines and her fig-trees and make them a forrest that the beasts of the field may eat them before she be sensible of it as a stroak 3. As God doth not cut off enjoyments from sinners but when they do abuse them So we would take head of forgetting Gods quarrel under calamities and particularly the abuse of prosperity in not acknowledging God but stregthening our selves in an ill way because of it Therefore is the challenge repeated he destroyeth her vines c. whereof she said These are my rewards that my lovers have given me or the fruits of my Idolatry and the benefits I reap by that which the Prophets call my whoredome For the speech alludes to the hire given to an harlot Vers 13. And I will visit upon her the dayes of Baalim wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her eare-rings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgate me saith the LORD The last branch of the challenge and the height of all the sin formerly challenged is for her Idolatry particularly of Baal which she followed with much sumptuousnesse forgetting God For this the Lord threatens in due time to punish Whence learn 1. The capestone and height of sin and abuse of mercy in the visible Church is Idolatry when all her care is to set up a false Religion and to uphold it by her prosperity and in particular when not only the true God is worshipped in a wrong way but when an Idol is set up to be the object of worship This is the substance of all the former challenges her burning incense to Baalim or several Idols under that name or that same Idol under several shapes in diverse places and going after her lovers 2. Such as admit of one step of Idolatry may be given up to more and such as set up their own devices in worshipping the true God are justly given up to take an Idol in his room and would do so if they had a tentation For they who at first worshipped the calves do now embrace Baalim 3. Idolatry is a way to which our hearts incline by nature and much external pomp is no evidence of a true Religion For she burnt incense to them and decked her self with her eare-rings and her Jewels and she went after her lovers Her pomp and superfluity in upholding that Idolatry as an harlots decking when she prostitutes her self declared the inclination of her heart and this pomp proclaimed the unsoundnesse of that way 4. As Idolatry in the visible Church proclaimeth great forgetfulnesse of God what he is in himself and hath been unto them So the Lord will take notice of this as an aggravatiun of that sin Therefore is it added and forgat me saith the LORD See Deut. 32.6 7 15 16. 5. Albeit the Lord may seem to look on for a time when his people depart from him yet he is a jealous God who will not suffer Idolatry to go unpunished but will in due time come and take order with it and repay all their obstinate continuance in it For saith he I will visit upon her or come to take order with her for the dayes of Baalim or the long time she continued serving them and that albeit these dayes had ceased since Jehu's reformation Ver. 14. Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the wildernesse and speak comfortably unto her In the rest of this Chap. the Lord for the comfort of the Elect Israelites that were then living or should live afterwards brings forth his purpose of mercy in several Gospel-consolations which however they belong spiritually to all the Israel of God yet are here expressed with a peculiar eye to Israel here threatened and in particular with an eye to their future conversion as a Nation Rom. 11.25 26. The first ground of consolation or promise in this ver hath three branches 1. It being supposed in the former threatenings that Israel is rejected for sin and driven in exile and under bondage as when they were in Egypt to which the allusion is The Lord promiseth even when she is in that condition to allure and perswade her by the voice of the Gospel and efficacy of his Spirit to turn to him and come out of her spiritual bondage to follow him which answers to their call out of Egypt by the Ministery of Moses and Aaron Hos 11.1 2. As Israel after their coming out of Egypt were brought into a wildernesse where they were made to walk long as the word here will read amidst many