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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 11 › I'le make Ephraim to ride.
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.
I'll make Ephraim to ride.
I'le make Ephraim to ride.
Still take this in a way of threatening; in Scripture it's applied both to a way of Mercy and Judgment,1 in Isa. 58. 14. Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the Earth. And I find it in a way of Judgment,2 in Job, 30. 21, 22. With thy strong hand thou opposest thy self against me, thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to Ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. And so there might be shown other Scriptures where this expression is in a way of Judgment, and so it's thought by Interpreters that it hath reference to the speedy captivity of the ten Tribes that they shall be carried out of their own Country. As if God should say, by his ease, and by his much feeding, in treading out the Corn he is grown so fat and lusty that there's no ruling of him; yea, but saith God,3 I will ride him: though he kicks and spurns and is so unruly with his fat feeding, yet I'll put such a Curb into his mouth, as I'll order him and rule him according as I please.4 He is so fierce; for so I find that the word in the Hebrew that is for fierceness, tumultuousness, and insolency, it is by divers taken for the word that signifies, to be at Peace, because that Peace, and Ease, and Rest makes the hearts of men and women insolent. It was so with Ephraim, just like a pampered horse that is kept at full feeding, none can ride him; I but, I'll cause him to ride, saith God.