John Trapp on Hosea 13:6

Verſe 6. According to their paſture ſo were they filled:] Saturity bred ſecurity; fulneſſe, forgetfulneſſe. This was a foul fault, and is much complained of, Deut. 32.13, 14, &c. Pſal. 78.10, 11, &c.Acts 14.17. God had brought them out of a place of great drought into large and fat paſtures, a land flowing with milk and honey, where he filled their hearts with food and gladneſſe, where he fed them among the [illegible: 1 letter]i[illegible: 2 letters]ies, daily and daintily. But they, as if God had hired them to be wicked, baſely abuſed his bounty to luxury, and having fulneſſe of bread, and abundance of idleneſſe, grew proud as Sodom, and out of meaſure ſinfull; forgetting God and his will,Ezech. 16.49. themſelves and their duties, and running out into all exceſſe of riot, though they had been fairly warned, and commanded to the contrary, Deut. 8.10, &c. Their heart grew fat as greaſe, and became as a foul ſtomach, which the more you fill it, the more you ſpill it: or like fed horſes, they grew fierce and filthy, Jer. 5.7, 8. [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Hippoc. there was no hoe with them. See Ezek. 34 16, 18, 20. Whiles they were in the wilderneſſe God knew them, yea he knew their ſouls in adverſity: They both knew God, and were known of him. But now, God neither knew them ſo much, nor they him: they lived not upon him now, as once in the wilderneſſe;Gal. 3. but being filled, yea filled (you have the word here twice together) to note how they fell upon thoſe allowed delights, and even glutted themſelves, gorg'd themſelves, they flew upon them, as thoſe in Sauls time did upon the ſpoil of the Philiſtines: they fed without fear, as thoſe Pſeudo-Chriſtians in Jude verſ. 12. they gormandized as thoſe fleſh-mongers afore the floud, more like beaſts then men, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. as the Greek word ſignifieth, Luke 17.27. And hereupon their hearts were exalted,] P[illegible: 1 letter]oſperity and plenty will eaſily blow up ſuch a blab as pride, in the beſt hearts, if care be not taken to the contrary, as Agur knew, and therefore prayed, Give me a mediocrity, leſt I be full and deny, and proudly ask, W[illegible: 2 letters] is the Lord? and as Solomon felt, whoſe wealth did him more hurt then his wiſdome did him good, Eccleſ. 2.Prov. 30.9. and as Hezeki[illegible: 1 letter]h experimented to his coſt, Eſay 3[illegible: 1 letter]. [illegible: 1 letter]ndeed of Iehoſaphat it is noted, 2 Chron. 17.3. that he walked in the ſ[illegible: 1 letter]ſt wayes of David his father. (for the truth is, Davids firſt wayes were his beſt wayes: neither was he ever ſo good and tender. as when he was hunted as a Partridge in the mountains) and of Veſpaſian it is ſtoried,Verſpaſianus unus accepto imperio melior factus. that he was made the better man by being made Emperour: but he was a rare bird, and had ſcarce his fellow again. It is the property of proſperity to tumour the heart: and ubi uber, ibi tuber. See Pſal. 73.3, 6. & 1 Tim. 6.17. they eat and are ſwelled as being poyſoned with pride: they are are fatted, but it is for the ſlaughter.

therefore have they forgotten me,] Non tam theoreticè quàm practicè, they remember there is a God, but they honour him not as God: they forget their ingagements to him, and through the pride of their countenance, they ſeek not after him, Pſal. 10.4. they conſider not their diſtance, their dependance, &c. Now of all things God cannot abide to be forgotten, Eſay 1.2, 3. it is a ſin that he can hardly pardon, Ier. 5.7, &c. See the Note on chap. 8.14.