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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
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.
Thus Judgment springeth up as Hemlock in the furrows of the field.
What the meaning of Hemlock in the furrows of the field is, you have heard already: From whence the Note is this,
That People is in a sad condition, 1and it is a sign the Lord hath forsaken them, that they are near ruin, when those places where there is most likelihood of Justice and Equity, that there should be Injustice and Oppression. Oppression and Injustice in places ⟨p. 373⟩where God expects Righteousness and Equity, is a sad Omen, a forerunner of great evil to places. It's Gods complaint in Isa. 5. 2Just before he threatened the utter spoiling of his Vineyard, he gives this reason, I (saith he) looked that it should bring forth Grapes; and behold, it brought forth wild Grapes: and he mentions among the wild Grapes, Injustice: there it's called wild Grapes, as Hemlock here, for both are very sour, and bitter before the Lord; Injustice in places from whence Justice may be expected, is by the Lord accounted a most fearful,3 a ruining sin: In Amos, 5. 12. I know (saith the Lord) your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins. Now the word that is translated [mighty sins] it is in the Hebrew your Bony sins, because the strength of a man it is in his bones; and therefore he calls the strength of that sin bony; it is a very strong sin, it cannot easily be resisted; your sins have great bones in them (saith he) and what are they? You afflict the Just, you take a Bribe, that you may turn away the poor in the gate from their right: that's their great and their mighty sins.