John Trapp on Hosea 10:2

Verſe 2. Their heart is divided,] ſc. From God; whoſe ſoul therefore is juſtly disjoynted from them, Ier. 6.8. They profeſſed to worſhip the true God, and yet they transferred the honour due to him alone upon dumb-idols: they halted between two, and would needs ſerve two Lords: but God would none of that. Be the gods of the Heathen good-fellows, ſaith One, the true God is a jealous God, and will not part ſtakes with another: The double-minded man is not for his ſervice: for he will be ſerved truely, that there be no halting; and totally, that there be no halving. Good therefore and worthy of all acceptation is the counſell of St. Iames to ſuch, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. chap. 4.8. Cleanſe your hands ye ſinners: and purifie your hearts ye double-minded, or ye cloven-hearted. Out with the corruption that cleaveth to your hearts: and then there will be a conſtancy and evenneſſe in your mindes, mouthes, and manners: which is abſolutely neceſſary to ſuch as draw nigh to God in holy duties, and the contrary abominable, Eſay 29.13.

Now ſhall they be found faulty,] Sinners againſt their own ſouls, procurers of their own ruth, and ruine. And this they ſhall ſo clearly be convinced of (as afflicti[illegible: 1 letter] dat intellectum, ſmart makes wit) that they ſhall cry out with Joſephs brethren, We are verily guilty, Gen. 42.21. and conſcience awakened ſhall anſwer as Reuben in the next verſe, Spake I not unto you ſaying, Do not ſin: (O do not this abominable thing) and yee would not hear? Did not the Prophets foretell you what would be the fruit of your idolatries? did they not even ſlit up your hearts with the ſacrificing knife of Gods word, (ſharper then any two-ed[illegible: 2 letters]d ſword) and lay all your evil thoughts naked and open, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. or diſſected, quartered, and cleft in the back-bone (as the Apoſtles word ſignifieth, Heb. 4.13.) but ye would not then be convinced of all, and falling down upon your face worſhip God, as 1 Cor. 14.24, 25? Now you are found faulty, or guilty, and cry peccavi: or now you are, that is, ſhortly ye ſhall be waſted and deſolated, as ſome render it: or now ſhall they die, Interibunt. (ſo the Vulgar) ſhall they periſh: how ſhould they do otherwiſe whoſe heart (that ſeat of life) is cut in twain, and whom the jealous and juſt God will cut in twain; [non-Latin text not transcribed]. tearing their ſouls from their bodies by death, Satans ſlaughter-man, and appointing them their portion with hypocrites, Matth. 24.51.

He ſhall break down their altars.] He, that is God, my God, chap. 9.17 for this Chapter is a continuation of that (though Gualter make it the beginning of Hoſea's ſeventh Sermon) He, that excellent He, that Aph-Hu, 2 King. 2.14. Even He, proved by five reaſons to be one of Gods Attributes, by Mr. Weemſs in his Expoſition of the Morall Law, Part. 1. pag. 162. Vide ſis. Others render it thus: It ſhall break down their altars, Ipſum cor. It, that is, their Heart, (which indeed is the next Antecedent) and happy had it been for them, if their heart divided from their wickedneſſe, had been active in breaking down their Altars in the Prophet Eſay's ſence, chap. 27.9. as a fruit of their true repentance: By this therefore, that is, by their affliction ſanctified, ſhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit (and good fruit too) to take [illegible: 1 letter]ay his ſinne: When (in teſtimony of his ſound repentance, and ſelf-abhorrency for former idolatry) he makes all the ſtones of the altar as chalk-ſtones that are beaten in ſunder, the groves and images ſhall not ſtand up. But it appears not any where that Iſrael was ſo well-affected though grievouſly afflicted: that his divided heart prompted him to any ſuch holy practiſe. Rather it brought ruine upon him, to the decolling of his altars, and ſpoyling of his images (which he ſo doted on, and delighted in) and ſo might well ſay to him, as Apollodorus the tyrants heart did, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. who dreamed one night that he was flea'd by the Scythians, and boyled in a caldron: and that his heart ſpake to him out of the kettle; It is I that have drawn thee to all this: thou mayeſt thank me for all.