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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 1 › Israel is an empty Vine.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. The Lord hath justly struck this Vine here in England, and our Vine bleeds; it bleeds, and is in danger to bleed to death, and what though it doth, it hath brought forth little fruit, and therefore it's just with God that he should let this Vine even bleed now to death.
10. According to the greatness of the opportunities that any man hath, or any society of men, so is the greatness of the evil of emptiness: Oh! now to be empty, when God puts great opportunities of great service into our hands, now to be empty when God expects great services, Oh! it is the most vile thing of all. Oh my brethren, that we were but sensible of this.
But if this be an evil thing to be empty,1 than what is it to bring forth the Grapes of Sodom, and the Clusters of Gomorrah? to bring forth the Wine of the Gall of Asps, wild Grapes? And yet a great deal of such fruit there hath been brought forth; And truly the fruit that most men have ⟨p. 307⟩brought forth now, they are wild Grapes at the best. If men do any thing, yet they do so mingle the vanity of pride, the sourness of their own spirits, the rigidness of their own nature with what they do, that all is but sour before God.
But if this be an evil thing to be empty,1 than what is it to bring forth the Grapes of Sodom, and the Clusters of Gomorrah? to bring forth the Wine of the Gall of Asps, wild Grapes? And yet a great deal of such fruit there hath been brought forth; And truly the fruit that most men have ⟨p. 307⟩