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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 7 › As foam.
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.
The word that is translated Foam, 1sometimes signifies the foam that is in a man that is extremely angry, so you have it in Zach. 1. 2. 2Oh the King when he was crossed he was in a foam. Your King that is crossed and doth foam in anger when he is crossed, he shall be as foam upon the water (saith God.) Now the Note that is from hence it is this;
The word that is translated Foam, 1sometimes signifies the foam that is in a man that is extreamly angry, so you have it in Zach. 1. 2. 2Oh the King when he was crost he was in a foam. Your King that is crost and doth foam in anger when he is crost, he shall be as foam upon the water (saith God.) Now the Note that is from hence it is this;
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
- 2Zach. 1. 2.
That ungodly men in their greatest power and rage, 1yet if God comes upon them, are nothing but as foam, are poor weak creatures that vanish and come to nothing. The foam when the waters makes a noise, is above it, and hath a great show above the waters, but stay a while and it is vanished and comes to nothing. Your King that rages and is above others, and thinks he hath a great deal of power; stay a while he comes to nothing. The Scripture compares men in their greatest power to things of the greatest vanity; there are in Scripture, that I'll mention to you, a matter of 19. or 20. several particulars wherein the Scripture compares men in their greatest power, unto that which hath nothing but vanity: