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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

mens inventions before the wheat of Gods word Let the ablest Minister in the land preach in some Towns yet how many are there that prefer a rayling seducing Sectary that preacheth the fancies and dotages of his own brain before the faithful servants of God that dispense his word sincerely This also is a sad presage of some approaching Judgement 3 Contempt of the true Prophets It was a rare age of Prophets they had the best preaching a little before their ruine So great was the Lords care over them and so loath was hee that they should perish that hee sent extraordinary Prophets to them more in number than hee did to the Kingdome of Iudah and by them hee supplied the defect of the ordinary Ministry of Priests and Levites They had Elijah Elisha Ionah Amos Micah Ioel and Hosea who prophesied about seven and forty years unto them besides these Prophets Ahijah Semaja Iehu Iddo Amani Azariah c. yet such was their obstinacy and perversness that no wooings nor warnings could work upon them instead of hearkning to those Messengers which the Lord in great compassion sent unto them to reclaim them from their Idols they mocked jeered mis-used and persecuted them and looked upon them as a pack of Cheats and deceivers that frighted people without a cause till the wrath of the Lord broke forth against them and there was no remedy his anger was so fierce it could not bee extinguished When David sent messengers to comfort Hanun and hee abused them Davids anger was kindled against him and it cost him dear 2 Sam. 10. 4. Contempt of the word is an infallible fore-runner of judgement When Elies sons hearkned not to the counsel of their father God cut them off When Amaziah contemned the counsel of the Pr●phet it was a sign the Lord had a purpose to destroy him 2 Chron. 25. 16. And if this bee an infallible sign of a Nations ruine the Lord bee merciful to England never was the land so full of pious painful learned Ministers and never were any so coorsely and ingratefully dealt withall by many as these are What loads of reproaches and floods of bitter raylings are cast out against us not for any evil that wee have done but solely for discharging our duty and stopping men in their sinful heretical destructive wayes Wee are their enemies onely because wee tell them the truth Those that formerly were ready to pull out their own eyes to do us good now they are ready to pull out our eyes Thus have wee been wounded in the house of our friends To bee derided by Egyptians is threatned as a misery Hos. 7. ul● but to bee reproached by friends and professors is very grievous The good Lord lay not this ingratitude and contempt to their charge Though wee bear yet God will not alwayes bear When Moses is silent then God ariseth when hee is dumb then God speaks when hee is deaf then God hears and stirs Numb 12. 1 4. God will smite through the loyns of those that rise against his Messengers and of those that hate them that they rise not up again Deut. 33. 11. It is not so much the Minister as the Ministry that is cried down that which they should principally love us for viz. for our work sake that is the ground of these mens hatred As it was not the Baron but the Barony that was the Traytor so fo● the most part it is not so much the man that they smite at as the Maintenance the Tythes the Glebe and the Ordinances of God wherewith they are intrusted 4 As the true Prophets were contemned so they delighted in false ones Elijah is persecuted when eight hundred and fifty false Prophets are entertained and fed I King 18. 4 19. Though they were fools and mad-men Hos. 9. 7. The daies of Visitation are come how doth that appear why the Prophet the false Prophet is a fool and flatters the people with vain hopes yea the spiritual man is mad i. e. Hee who braggs so much of the Spirit and falsly boasteth that hee is inspired by the holy Spirit and that hee speaks all by the Spirit this man is mad hee is smitten with a spiritual frenzy doating upon his own dreams and lunatick illuminations and venting his brain-sick notions instead of Gods Word These Priests Ieroboam in his carnal policy chose out of the meanest of the people fit servants for such gods Calves suit well with Calves which were not of the Sons of Levi who were set apart by Gods special command for the service of his house but whosoever would might thrust himself into the office how unworthy soever I King 13. 33. But see what follows in the next vers 34. This thing became a sin to the house of Ieroboam even to cut it off from the face of the Earth This even this was that indeleble sin which ruined both him and his Family And is not this the sin of England are not false Prophets by many thousands preferred before the true will not many go ten miles to hear a deceiver that will not go two to hear a faithful Minister of Christ when men go by troops to such harlotrymeetings the Lord will visit for this as well as for corporal harlo●●y Ier. 5. 7 9. The quaking Seducers are certainly lead by this spirit of the Devil as will easily appear if wee consider the Men the Matter or the Manner of their speaking 1 The Men both Speakers and Hearers are generally a prophane Generation they are mordaces mendaces notorious Railers and Lyars as like their Father the Devil as ever they can look 2 What is the Matter of their Speaking why it is against Ministers and their Maintenance or against the Coercive power of the Magistrate against Scripture Ordinances c. 3 The Manner of their Meeting is prophane and tumultuous A rout meet together on a Mountain a Common or under some Hedge and there without any praying before some speak others jeer some dispute some quarrel and fight others take Tobacco amidst such an unsavoury company they had need of some better Antidote so that one would think they were at some Bear-baiting and not at the Service of God That men should bee tolerated yea and commanded to serve God is commendable but that men should bee tollerated to blaspheme and worship the Devil is abominable 2 What folly and madness hath seized on the false Prophets of our times the swarms of blasphemous Pamphlets do sufficiently testifie to the world and the thousands and ten thousands that have been infected by them do plainly fore-tell that some judgement is at hand 3 How many of Ieroboams Priests have thrust themselves into the work of the Ministery who vent heresies and blasphemies instead of truth and what tolleration and countenance hath been given to such is known now to all the world and forreign Churches complain against us for it and what cause wee have to fear that wrath is coming upon

others do to marriages Witness all those living speeches of dying Saints which will shortly be published by an able and industrious hand to the world Cyprian hearing the sentence of death pronounced against him said Lord I thank thee that now thou wilt free mee from the bonds of the body I shall not now lose my life but change it for a better Excellently Pomponius Algerius in an Epistle which hee writ to his friends from the delectable Hortyard of the Leonine prison Iuly 1● 1555. I shall tell you said hee str●●ge things I have found a honey comb in a Lions belly In a deep dungeon I have found pleasantness in a place of bitterness and the shadow of death I have found peace and hope of life In the belly of hell I have found comfort Where others weep there do I sing for joy and wh●re ●thers fear there have I support The good hand of my God hath done all this for mee Hee that seemed sometime to bee far from mee is now most present with mee Hee that I had but some glympses of before now I see him face to face Hee hath turned my winter into a glorious Spring why should I fear any freezi●g cold who am thus inflamed with the love of God Let Malefactors fear this prison to mee it flows with honey See seven Consolations against Death in Caryl on Iob 18. 14. p. 96 97. and in my Comment on 2 Tim. 4. 6. Obs. 3. p. 370 c. Byfields Cure of the fear of Death p. 653. Perkins Art of Dying well Mr. Gatakers Sermon on Philip. 1. 23. part 2. p. 222. Hierons Sermon p. 653. Mr. Baxter Saints Rest p. 25. c. B. Halls Balm of Gilead p. 247. Drexelius Prodromus Aeternitatis p. 33. Vol. 1. folio Mr. Sam. Fishers Antidote against the fear of Death at the end of his Sermon on Psal. 39. 9. 9 Obs. Gods Decrees are infallible and u●changeable Repentance is hid from his eyes hee knows not what it means Hee is not as man that hee should lye or repent Nu●b 23. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 25. Hee is Jehovah hee changeth not Mal. 3. 6. His Covenant hee will not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips Psal. 89. 34 35. and 110. 4. Isa. 54. 9 10. if hee hath decreed to shew mercy to his people and to redeem them from the power of hell all the Devils in hell shall not bee able to hinder it It is not the counsel of men or Devils but the counsel of the Lo●d that shall stand Psal. 33. 10. 11. If hee hath spoken it hee will do it yea and the contrary plots of wicked men shall help to effect it Rom. 9. 11. Acts 2. 23. Obj. Is not God said to repent Gen. 6. 6. Ier. 18. 8. Amos 7 3 6. Answ. It is spoken not properly but after the manner of men and according to our capacity because his work is changed though himself continueth un●hangeable for with him is no variableness nor so much as a shadow of changeing He is constant and faithful in performing all his promises to his people 1 Thess. 5. 24. All his wayes are mercy and truth to them that fear him and keep his Covenant They are mercy in promising and truth in performing not one thing shall fail of all the good things which God hath promised to his people Iosh. 23. 14. though they bee not presently fulfilled yet in Gods due time they shall bee accomplished for though God come not at our time yet hee never fails his own Deut. 32. 35. Hab. 2. 3. 10 Obs. Beleevers in this life may bee assured of their sal●vation Repentance is hid from Gods eyes whom hee loves once hee loves for ever Not one of those that the Father hath given to Christ shall perish Matth. 18. 14. Ioh. 6. 39. The foundation of the Lord stands sure more sure than the Pillars of the earth or the Poles of heaven 2 Tim. 2. 19. The Decree of Election is there called a foundation 2 It is not every foundation but a firm and sure foundation 3 It is not a foundation of mans laying but it is the foundation of the Lord. 4 It is not a tottering but a standing foundation built on a rock sealed and confirmed by the Spirit counsel and special knowledge of God Hee knows who are his Hence the Covenant of the Lord made with his people is called An everlasting Covenant 2 Sam. 23. 5. Hos. 2. 19 20. And hee hath promised to plant his fear in their hearts that they shall never depart from him Jer. 32. 39. if they fall yet they shall not bee utterly cast down for the Lord upholds them with his hand Deut. 33. 3. Psal. 37. 24. Prov. 2. 7 8. Ioh. 10. 28. They stand not by their own strength but are kept and guarded by his Almighty power through faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1. 5. Common gifts and graces may fade and fail but his gifts i. e. his peculiar essential gifts which appertain to salvation are without repentance Rom. 11. 29. But of this I have treated at large elsewhere VERSE 15. Though hee bee fruitful amongst his brethren ●n East-wind shall come the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness and his spring shall become dry and his fountain shall bee dryed up hee shall spoyl the treasure of all pleasant Vessels THe Prophet having comforted Gods people returns again to the denouncing of judgements against the wicked And because similitudes do make a deeper impression than plain speeches therefore hee useth similitudes Vers. 13. hee sets forth their distress by the pains of a woman in travel and in this 15. verse hee sets forth the spoil and havock that should bee made amongst them by Salmanser King of Assyria which hee illustrates by a double similitude But first hee prevents an Objection which Ephraim might make I am fruitful and abound with riches honours strength and therefore I fear no fall Answ. Admit it bee so though Ephraim bee fruitful amongst his brethren yet an East-wind shall blow upon him and make him wither c. On this Verse there are almost as various Interpretations as there bee Interpreters so that I may say of it as Maldonate said sometimes of another Text Nescio an hic locus facilior fuisset sinemo eum exposuisset This Text had been plainer if some had not medled with it 1 Some make the words a promise of great blessings to Ephraim after all his sorrows Yet hee shall bee fruitful amongst his brethren After the Assyrian had spoyled him of all his Treasure yet by the might of him that ransometh men from the grave they shall bee raised up But this is a forcing of the words contrary to their genuine sense and meaning 2 Others apply it to Christ and say Hee shall increase and multiply his Elect both in number and glory at the last day The very rehearsal of this is confutation sufficient 3 The Vulgar Latine