(seq. 6)

& make sweet melody. {Zechariah} 1.3.7.
Awake o Sword agt my shepherd -
smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered - God says to Hosea,
{Chapter} 1. Go, take thee a wife of Whore-
dom - This is not a command, that
ye prophet should take a lewd wo-
man for his companion; but a
prediction, yt the wife whom he
should illegible take, would prove
false to ye marriage covenant, as
ye nation of Israel had been un-
faithful to yr covenant with God.

//-Gods {Judgements} are often fortold in a
way of imprecation - Peter says
to the illegible Sorcerer, Thy money pe-
rish with thee; i.e - it will perish
with thee, - Paul says concerning
Alexander who withstood his words:
The Land reward him, i.e. The Land
will reward him, according to his
works - In this sense we are to
understand these many imprecatory pas-
sages in the Psalms, not as expressing
the pious Psalmists' desire, yt such
evils should, but his persuasion
yt they would, befall his enemies.

//When we hear David saying con-
cerning his enemy in ye 109 Psalm.
Set thou a wicked man over him, &
let Satan stand at his right hand --
let him be condemned -- let his prayer
become sin -- let his children be
fatherless & his wife a widow -- and