A30572:971
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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After Gods taking this people to himself as his own, it follows. ver. 11, 12. I decked thee also with ornaments, & I put bracelets upon thine hands, and a chain on thy neck; And I put a jewel on thy fore-head, and earrings in thine ears, & a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment of fine linen, and silk & broidered work, and thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty. Thus God did with the people of Israel, he had added to what they had when they were born. Miserable they were when they were borne; but the mercies of God toward them are thus set out, And now he cometh to threaten that he will strip them naked and set them as in the day wherein they were born.
After Gods taking this people to himselfe as his own, it followes. ver. 11, 12. I decked thee also with ornaments, & I put bracelets upon thine hands, and a chaine on thy necke; And I put a jewell on thy fore-head, and earrings in thine ears, & a beautiful crown upon thine head. Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy rayment of fine linnen, and silk & broidred worke, and thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty. Thus God did with the people of Israel, he had added to what they had when they were born. Miserable they were when they were borne; but the mercies of God toward them are thus set out, And nowhee cometh to threaten that he will strip them naked and set them as in the day wherein they were born.
Yet further for the opening of this, we must know that it was the custom among the Jews, when any married, what they brought to their husbands, and their dowry was written down in a table: and if afterward he should divorce his wife, except there could be proved some gross and vile thing against the woman, though she should go away, yet she was to go away with her Table, with her dowry and what she brought, she must not go away naked. But if there could be proved some notorious villainy that she had committed, then she was sent away Sine Tabulis, naked without those tables wherein her dowry and other things were written, and destitute of all things, as being unworthy of them, because she had played the harlot.