Ezekiel 5:1-4

The type is very expressive, and full to the purpose. And if we consider the judgment here spoken of spiritually, (and no doubt it was so intended), the head and the hair, represent Christ and his Church. During the separation of the people by captivity, they were as hair shaven off and carried away: and the Lord's anger is most strongly expressed under the image and figure. The relief to the soul under this view the Holy Ghost hath given, Romans 11:15. I would have the Reader look at Christ's commendation of his Church, under the similitude, Song of Solomon 7:5. The different exercises of the Church, are as strongly represented, under the threefold sentence of the hair. See Zechariah 13:9. And I cannot forbear adding, that according to my view of this scripture, the few in number, the Prophet was commended to bind in his skirts, carries with the precept a strong presumption, that the Lord thereby referred to that few chosen, which in the worst of times the Lord hath reserved among the remnant of his people. Isaiah 11:16.