A30574:1114
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 4: VER. 4.
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.
When they are taken off from their hopes one way,1 see how they set upon another.2 Luther upon those words, saith: it's an Hebraism; they have anxiously consulted. It's the way of the Hebrews so to express an anxious consultation, and for that he quotes that place in Isa. 8. 10. Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught &c. So then the meaning would be this:3
- 1Obs. 1.
- 2Luther in loc. hebrasmus est, pro anxie consultant.
- 3Isa. 8. 10.
They have spoken Words:] That is, they get together and contrive one with another what they shall do in such a case as this, how they may any way help themselves. As we read sometimes of the People of God in Malac. 3. 16. those that feared God met one with another and spake together;1 so these wicked wretches that were thus disappointed of their hopes, they met together, and spake one to another, some such kind of word as these:
They have spoken Words:] That is, they get together and contrive one with another what they shall do in such a case as this, how they may any way help themselves. As we reade sometimes of the People of God in