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ch tbc firat a the Lord a tuToiug; to her with graciousaindcuuirortiiblewvrflft, Ver, 14: " I will (dlore h«;r, and bring her into the wilden)«s«, aod speak comforlably to her;" or, as it is in the mafKin, "speak to her heart." The meaning of briugiDp her into the wilderne»», ia explained, in the' ,x ii th chapter, to be this: — that when she hath thus beea delivered frcmi tier present dweUing-pltce, wherever it 19, and brought into the wildcmasa beyond Jordan, and there dealt with accoMiog to the riches of thct^raceand lovmg-kindocsa of the Lord, he proceeds to invest her in her ancienl hereditament^!. *' And 1 will give her her vtoe* yard, front thenee. and the valley of Achor (which the ed^e vf tlie land of promJtic) for a I^PMtAf hope: and she shall »iag therein, ajiin tlte daya of her yotllh, and as in the day when she 'came up out of tlic land ol' Egypt/' And ihco follow her solemn e!b[k>usalv to tlieLord. (ver. 16.) " And it shall (jeal that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Uhi,' thai ia, " My hiuband." And tolhc*ame effect (ver. I'o), '* I will betroth Ihce unto mc for ever; yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteoiLsncsa. and injud(rinent, and in loring^ktndDCM, and in roerciea. 1 will ev«a Iketroth thoe onto int? in faithfulness: and tbou khalt know the Lord/' And therewithal thefie 'vutcast tribes of Israel do receive a special bond 'over tbecTenture^, suchasAdam in thcbcgiDniog VXJ .OR TH8TKK TRIBU; '~ 1137 had, Ver, 18: *' la llmtduy will I make a co- vt'i^aul ivT tJiee with the beasU ot the held, ftnd with the fo^i-ls of hca^-en, and %riih the cr^cpiD^ thjni^iif the ^ound/' And at the same time h« promiites to undo all vin)ei>rc, und bring n\\ remt- unci; to <tn end ; no duiibt by their ineHiis, as we shall elsewhere see: '* 1 will break the bow and I hu sword, and the battle oiu of the earth; and will makcthcc to lie down safely/' And thcnfol- iow:» the serenity of peace, fulnea^ of bles»edne«ft, and »poQtancous ahowerings of tlie heaTcns, and ii|iriii)^in^ of the e;irtli beneath, which of old witw dmrtca^d into Joncph's line. Vcr 21 : " And it yball come to pass, in that day 1 will faf^ar, saith |he l^ord, I will hear the heavens, and they Bball bear the earth ; and the earth shall hear the corn and the wine, and the oil; and they nhi^ll hear Jezreel." And finally h added, that exceeding populousncss which shall make EphraJm u miilti- tudc of nations ; " And I will mjw her unto me in Ibe earth." And to shut up the whole of t