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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.
And Judah shall plough.
And Judah shall plow.
That is,1 Judah shall take pains and go through many difficulties in the ways of my Worship, and shall suffer much while Ephraim lives delicately for a long time, yet Judah suffered more difficulty, Judah suffered much more difficulty and hardship than the ten Tribes did. And I think that this Scripture hath reference to those two Scriptures that we find,2 the first is in 2 King. 18. from ver. 3. to ver. 9. and the other Scripture is in 2 Chron. 28. 6. Judah shall plough and be kept in a great deal of hardship in that time when Ephraim was so frolic as he was. In 2 King. 18. you shall find the great Reformation that Hezekiah made in the Worship of God in Judah, and Jerusalem: And then for his suffering that you have in 2 Chron. 28. 6. and 2 King. 14. 13. 3In 2 Chron. 28. 6. it is said, That Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men. It's a very strange Scripture, Israel, the ten Tribes they were worse than Judah: Israel forsook the true Worship of God; Judah kept themselves to the true Worship; and yet God let Israel so prosper that they did prevail against Judah and the Tribe of Benjamin, so as to slay in one day an hundred and twenty thousand valiant men. Oh! what crying and shrieking was there in the Country then, that of two Tribes an hundred and twenty thousand valiant men should be slain in one day. We think it's a dreadful battle to have three thousand slain in the Field, but here's a battle of an hundred and twenty thousand slain in one day, and that of two Tribes. And in