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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 a Vine emptying its self.
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.
That is an aggravation of emptiness when we empty our selves, when God is not wanting to us in means, but we are the Cause of it. And what is the cause of emptiness, but the emptying out our strength and spirits to our lusts and the world? No marvel though we have no fruit for God, and strength in his service, when we let out all to other things.
That is an aggravation of emptiness when we empty our selves, when God is not wanting to us in means, but we are the Cause of it. And what is the cause of emptiness, but the emptying out our strength and spirits to our lusts and the world? No mervail though we have no fruit for God, and strength in his service, when we let out all to other things.
And the old Latin here turns it,1 A levy vine. And the Seventy they have it, A Vine that brings forth goodly branches: And yet it's said here empty, that is, all the strength and juice of it is let out in the goodliness of the branches and leaves. Oh! so, many Professors in these days they empty out all their strength that they have and all their parts merely into leaves, and have goodly branches, make goodly outward profession,2 and goodly words they give, and ⟨p. 308⟩will speak much of Religion, but nothing but leaves, nothing but words all this while.
And the old Latin here turns it,1 A leavie vine. And the Seventy they have it, A Vine that brings forth goodly branches: And yet it's said here empty, that is, all the strength and juyce of it is let out in the goodliness of the branches and leaves. Oh! so, many Professors in these daies they empty out all their strength that they have and all their parts meerly into leaves, and have goodly branches, make goodly outward profession,