John Trapp on Hosea 1:9

Verſ. 9. Now when ſhe had weaned Lo-ruhamah] That is, after that the patience of God had waited and long looked for their converſion; but all in va[illegible: 1 letter]ne, he reſolved upon their utter rejection. And firſt he ſent for his love tokens back againe:Eſa. 66.11. he weanes them and takes them off from thoſe breaſts of conſolation, the holy Ordinances, deprived them of thoſe dugs (better then wine, Cant. 1 4.) that they had deſpiſed, carried them far away from that good land that abounded with milk and hony: the men of the Eaſt ſhould be ſent in upon them to eat their fruit and drink their milk, Ezek. 25.4. This nation (ſaith a Divine) is ſick of a ſpirituall pluriſie: we begin to ſurfet on the bread of life, the unadulterated milk of Gods word, and to ſpill it. Now when God ſeeth his mercies lying under table, 'tis juſt with him to call to the enemy to take away. Say not here with thoſe in the Goſpell threatned with this judgment,Luk. 20.16. God forbid. Think it not a thing impoſſible, that England ſhould be thus viſited. The Sea is not ſo calme in ſummer, but it may be troubled with a ſtorme: the mountain ſo f[illegible: 1 letter]me, but may be moved with an earthquake. We have ſeen as fair Suns as ours fall from the midſt of heaven, for our inſtance, Lege hiſtoriam, ne fias hiſtoria. Surely except we repent and reforme a little better then we have done yet; a removall of our Candleſtick, a totall eclipſe of our Sun, may be as certainly foreſeen and foretold, as if viſions and letters were ſent us from heaven, as once to the ſeven Churches of Aſia, who ſinned away their light, &c. And bare a ſonne,] Not a daughter as before, but a ſonne, becauſe under Hoſea, the laſt King of Iſrael, that Kingdom began a little to lift up the head, and to ſtand it out againſt the Aſſyrian. But this was but extremus niſus regni, the laſt ſprunting of that dying State. For ſoon after, Samaria the chief City was cloſe beſiege[illegible: 1 letter]: and although it held out three whole yeers, with a Maſculine reſolution, yet at length it was ſacked, and all the people of the land carried captive, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, &c. as it is ſaid of their confederates the Egyptians, Eſay 20.4. and as it ſhall be done at length to that purple whore of Rome, who ſhall be ſtript naked, broil'd and eaten, Revel. 17.16. A cold ſweat ſtands already upon her limbs: and, for a preſage of her future ruine, it is obſerved, that Rome, ſince it became Papall, was never beſieged by any, but it was taken; As for their late Maſculine attempts and atchievements (if any) it is but as here in the Kingdom of Iſrael, a lightning before death, as the blaze of a candle a little afore it goes out, the bulging of a wall that's ready to come down, or as it was ſaid of Carthage, a little afore it was taken, Morientium beſtiarum violentiores eſſe morſus, dying beaſts bite cruelly.

Verſe 9. Call his name Loammi] Nomen extremum & deploratum, ſaith Pareus, the laſt and moſt lamentable name of all, containing a moſt heavy, but ſpiritual, and therefore leſſe ſenſible puniſhment, viz. an utter abjection and abdication from the covenant, from grace, from God, from life eternall. For ye are not my people] But, being totally caſhiered, and diſcovenanted; Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Iſrael, ſaith the Lord? Have not I brought up Iſrael out of the land of Egypt, and the Philiſtims from Caphtor, Amos 9.7. and the Syrians from Kir? q. d. True it is, I have brought you up out of Egypt (and therein you greatly glory) but have I not done as much as all this, for thoſe profane Nations here mentioned? with and amongſt whom, henceforward I ſhall reckon you, for you are no people of mine, but diſcarded, and diſpeopled? Till the Covenant made with Abraham, all Nations were ſuffered to walk in their own wayes, as fiſhes paſſe at liberty thorow the paths of the Seas, Pſal. 8.8. One perſon was no more reſpected then another. But as ſoon as it was ſaid, I will be thy God, and the God of thy ſeed after thee, the Church became as fiſh caſt into a Pond for peculiar uſe: and was divided from other Nations,Act. 14.16. no otherwiſe then light was from darkneſſe in the firſt creation, or then Goſhen was from Egypt, in that wonderfull ſeparation. But here God ſeems to reſcind his own act, to caſt off the people of his purchaſe, and utterly to diſown them; as once before he alſo did, when he fathered them upon Moſes, ſaying, Thy people, which thou haſt brought out of Egypt, &c. Exod. 32.7. But this (we muſt know) is no other then mutatio rei non Dei, effectus non affectus, facti non conſilij, not a change of Gods will, but onely of his works. For hath God indeed caſt away his people? God forbid. Rom. 11.1, 2. God hath not caſt away his people, whom he foreknew. Thus ſaith the Lord God, If heaven above can be meaſured, and the foundations of the earth ſearched out beneath, I will alſo caſt off all the ſeed of Iſrael, for all that they have done, ſaith the Lord. Jer. 31.37. And albeit (by an angry Apoſiopeſis) he ſay here, I will not be your God. (The word God, is not in the Original, ab irato omittitur, ſaith Mercer) yet to ſhew that he is Bagnal Chemah, One that can rule his wrath, as Neb. 1.2. he ſubjoyneth here, verſe 10.