An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

All their Princes are revolters.

This is a very strange expression: What all? Yes, even from Jeroboam to Hoshea's time, every one of them, th• Princes of Israel were wicked men, for two hundred and fifty years space, in all successions every one were naught, and false,¹ and ungodly, all were revolters. It's an elegant Paronomasia that in the Original, Princes revolters, the words have a greater elegance in the Original than in our ⟨p. 276⟩English;² the Seventy they turn it by this word, Men that could not be persuaded, they were all of them men that could not be persuaded, they were set upon their own way, their own ends, and would have their own politic fetches, and let Prophets, let any of the Godly come to show them the mind of God, they were resolved in their way, they would not be persuaded, but were wilful, and they would have this way, and whatever came of it they would venture their lives and the loss of their Kingdom but they would have it, in a desperate way they were set upon their wills, come of it what would they would go on in this way.

This is a very strange expression: What all? Yes, even from Jeroboam to Hoshea's time, every one of them, th• Princes of Israel were wicked men, for two hundred and fifty yeers space, in all successions every one were naught, and false,¹ and ungodly, all were revolters. It's an elegant Paranomasia that in the Original, Princes revolters, the words have a greater elegancy in the Original than in our