A30572:112
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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3. This being so, we see the way of God in putting the Prophet in the very first service upon a very difficult work:1 It could not but be a thing exceeding tedious and irksome to his spirit to marry such a one, yet God put him upon it.
3. This being so, wee see the way of God in putting the Prophet in the very first service upon a very difficult work:1 It could not but be a thing exceeding tedious and irksome to his spirit to marry such a one, yet God put him upon it.
- 1Obser.
It is the usual way of God, when he calleth any to great services, at the beginning, to put them to such difficult works, to try them thereby, that if they go through them, then they may be confided in, that they will go through more afterward.
It is the usuall way of God, when he calleth any to great services, at the beginning, to put them to such difficult works, to try them thereby, that if they goe through them, then they may be confided in, that they will goe through more afterward.
But we shall rather take this in a way of vision, as others do; not that indeed Hosea did really marry such a wife, but this did appear to him in a vision, as if such a thing were really done, only to declare what the condition of the people of Israel was at this time in respect of God: As if God should say, Hosea, this people of Israel is to me no other then as if thou shouldest have a wife that were the most notorious whore in the world, and all their children are to me as if thy children were the children of whoredom and fornication. And this I conceive to be more directly the mind of God, and I will not give you my mere conception of it neither, but reasons for it why it must be so.