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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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For the first then, What was the blood of Jezreel that here God threateneth […]?
For the first then, What was the blood of Jezreel that here God threatneth 〈…〉?
You may read the History of it in 2 King. Chap. 9, 10, 11. (for the way of opening the Prophets is to compare them with the Scriptures that went before) read those Chapters and you shall find what this blood was. It was the blood of the house of Ahab, the blood of Jezebel, the blood of the 70. sons of Ahab, whose heads the Elders of Jesreel sent to Jehu in baskets. This was the blood that was shed here in this place, which God saith he will avenge.
You may read the History of it in 2 King. Chap. 9, 10, 11. (for the way of opening the Prophets is to compare them with the Scriptures that went before) read those Chapters and you shall find what this blood was. It was the bloud of the house of Ahab, the bloud of Iezabel, the bloud of the 70. sons of Ahab, whose heads the Elders of Iesreel sent to Iehu in baskets. This was the bloud that was shed here in this place, which God saith he will aveuge.
God will certainly avenge blood, and if God will avenge the blood of Ahab, 1he will surely avenge the blood of Abel; if the blood of Jezebel then surely the blood of Sarah; if the blood of Idolaters, then the blood of his Saints.2 Oh what vengeance then doth hang over that Antichrist, for all the blood of the Saints that hath been spilt by him! the scarlet whore hath dyed her self with this blood, yea and vengeance will come for that blood that hath been shed of our brethren's in Ireland upon any whosoever have been instrumentals in it great or small: Certainly the righteous God will not suffer that wicked and horrid work to go unavenged, even here upon the earth. Let us wait a while, and we may live to see that time wherein […] shall not only be said by the voice of faith, but by the voice of sense itself, Verily there is a God that judgeth the earth.