An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Lyra thinks that this Prophecy was fulfilled when they were carried captive, and in their journey many ¹died, and so they were cast into fields and devoured by wild Beasts: and it's likely it may be fulfilled in part so: as usually when Soldiers carry an Enemy captive, Why if they be sick, let them die, and if they die, throw them into a ditch, there's all they care for them: and so it was with this people, that the Lord though he knew them in the wilderness, and his protection was over them, yet now to forget them, and lets them be carried into captivity and cast to wild beasts, and so their carcasses was torn.

Lyra thinks that this Prophesie was fulfill'd when they were carried captive, and in their journey many ¹died, and so they were cast into fields and devoured by wild Beasts: and it's likely it may be fulfill'd in part so: as usually when Soldiers carry an Enemy captive, Why if they be sick, let them die, and if they die, throw them into a ditch, there's all they care for them: and so it was with this people, that the Lord though he knew them in the wilderness, and his protection was over them, yet now to forget them, and lets them be carried into captivity and cast to wild beasts, and so their carkasses was torn.

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And some think that the expression of Gods wrath by these Beasts, hath reference to the four Monarchies, ¹which God would make use of to be very terrible to his Saints. In Dan. 7. you shall find the four Monarchies of the world, the Babylonian, the Persian, the Grecian, and Roman Monarchies set forth in the same manner, as here the holy Ghost sets out the wrath of God against Israel; for the truth is, Those things that we have here in Hosea were to set forth Gods ways to his people in after-times, not only when they were to be carried captive. In