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

Thirdly, When there was much vanity and folly in him, as there is in children.

Fourthly, When he was helpless and succo[…]ss, and shy[…]ess, and knew not how to provide for himself.

Fourthly, When he was helpless and succo〈…〉ss, and shi〈…〉ess, and knew not how to provide for himself.

And further, Tarnovius, a learned Commentator upon this Prophecy, thinks that the Hebrew word that is here ¹translated a Child, is a word that notes the stubbornness of Israel against God, one that hath often shaken off the yoke of parents, or of a master, and so [Ky] that is translated [when] is sometimes [although] Although Israel was a Child, a Froward and Perverse Child, that shook off the Yoke, yet then I loved him. And what a child Israel was when God loved him you may find, in Ezek. 16. 4, 5. &c. ²And as for thy Nativity in the day that thou wast born, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee, thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. (and then in the 5. verse) None eye pi•ed thee to do any of these unto thee, to bave compassion upon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person in the day that thou wast born: then in the 6. verse, And when I passed by tree and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Liv•: yet, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Again and again, (and then in the 8. verse) Now when I