A30574:1504
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.
Till I come and rain Righteousness upon you.
The word that is here translated [Rain] it doth sometime signify to Teach, 1it is of the same root; and the Scripture makes use of that similitude of Rain, for Doctrine; because of the likeness of Doctrines distilling as the Rain, therefore one word in the Hebrew is used for both.2 And therefore I find divers in Interpreters go that way, Ply the work until he teaches Righteousness; and so it is a Prophecy of ⟨p. 479⟩the Messiah, do you Sow Righteousness, and plough up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till the Messiah shall come and teach you the Righteousness of God. So they carry it. But take it is it is here.
The word that is here translated [Rain] it doth sometime signifie to Teach, 1it is of the same root; and the Scripture makes use of that similitude of Rain, for Doctrine; because of the likeness of Doctrines distilling as the Rain, therefore one word in the Hebrew is used for both.2 And therefore I find divers in Interpreters go that way, Ply the work until he teaches Righteousness; and so it is a Prophesie of ⟨p. 479⟩the Messias, do you Sow Righteousness, and plow up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, till the Messias shall come and teach you the Righteousness of God. So they carry it. But take it is it is here.