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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.
The Thorn and the Thistle shall come up on their Altars.
This expression is, to note, the great vastation that shall be made in those places where they had Altars in Bethel: (especially, Samaria being besieged for 3. years together.) The enemies had Bethel in their own hands and they manifested their rage upon their Altars,1 and upon all their Religious things presently, they pulled them down and made them lie in heaps of rubbish, that in the space of three years the very thistles and thorns grew up in the place where they had their Alters. It's a usual expression of the devastation of a place, that the grass shall grow where their houses were, shall Corn grow where the City was, here there shall be Thistles and thorns grow where their Altars were.
This expression is, to note, the great vastation that shall be made in those places where they had Altars in Bethel: (especially, Samaria being besieged for 3. years together.) The enemies had Bethel in their own hands and they manifested their rage upon their Altars,1 and upon all their Religious things presently, they pull'd them down and made them lie in heaps of rubbish, that in the space of three yeers the very thistles and thorns grew up in the place where they had their Alters. It's a usual expression of the devastation of a place, that the grass shall grow where their houses were, shall Corn grow where the City was, here there shall be Thistles and thorns grow where their Altars were.
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