when
settled in some Isles, would lose a portion of themselves, and still the
"children which thou shalt have _after thou hast lost the other_, shall
say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me, give place to me
that I may dwell." The simple and natural interpretation of such a
passage is, that the Isles referred to were the British Isles. The
children lost refer to Manasseh, the Pilgrims, and Puritans who came from
England. And the cry for more room after they have left, shall lead
England to look for lands in which to colonise her surplus population,
all of which she has done and is doing.

Surely in these things there is something more than chance. Yes, there
is a divine purpose fulfilled. Seeing, then, that God will put the land
into Israel's hand, there will run another blessing parallel with
this--namely, a peculiar increase of the seed, or children of Israel, so
that they may occupy and control these lands. These two prophecies are
to be fulfilling on a parallel line at the same time. Are they so
fulfilling? We answer, Yes; and the answer all the world may verify, for
the facts are of such a nature that if they are not so fulfilling it can
be very easily disproved.

The prophet tells us in the text that the children of Israel are to be
numerous--to be numerous in an extraordinary degree--so much so that it
shall appear partly miraculous when such increase is compared to other
people or judged by the common methods of reasoning. Hosea had three
children; the first a son. He called him Jezreel. This son was set for
a witness that God would cause to cease the House of Israel in
Palestine--that Israel should cease to be a nation for a time. This idea
Isaiah points out under the type of an abandoned wife. God styles
Himself the Husband of Israel, and that He had given the wife a bill of
divorcement. Thus the two prophets agree, and history ratifies both.

Hosea's second child he calls Lo-Ruhamah. She was set for a witness that
God would take away His mercy from the House of Israel for a time, and
that God would utterly take them away out of the land. So He did; for a
few years after this we find the children of Israel were carried captive
into Assyria by Shalmaneser, and the Assyrians were brought and put in
their place. And from these Assyrians, who were planted in the cities
and country left by the children of Israel, we get the Samaritans, who
were, as you see, not Jews nor Israelites