A30574:1189
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.
For the people thereof shall mourn over it.
The people thereof] Here he speaks about the Calf of Beth-aven in the singular Number,1 for so I find it's referred by most Interpreters, The people of the Calf. (Of it) not of Samaria.
The people thereof] Here he speaks about the Calf of Beth-aven in the singular Number,1 for so I find it's refer'd by most Interpreters, The people of the Calf. (Of it) not of Samaria.
- 1Expos.
From thence the Note would be thus,1 That wicked men, Idolaters did dedicate themselves to their Idols, they are the people of the Idol. Those that were the very peculiar of God and his Treasure, the People of God, now they are called the people of the Calf, for they have none to go to for help but only that Idol of theirs; they had forsaken God.
- 1Obs.