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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.
Secondly: But the Calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
No God surely.1 He speaks here with indignation (it is not God, it is a Calf) as he doth in that of the Psalmist, he made a Calf that eat grass, It shall be broken in pieces, it shall not be able to help it self, much less help them; it shall be as Dagon before the Ark, broken all to pieces.
No God surely.1 He speaks here with indignation (it is not God, it is a Clalf) as he doth in that of the Psalmist, he made a Calf that eat grass, It shall be broken in pieces, it shal not be able to help it self, much less help them; it shal be as Dagon before the Ark, broken all to pieces.
Hierom upon the place saith, that he learned from an Hebrew (this word, broken in pieces, the word is not a Verb, but a Noun, shall be breakings in pieces) he learned from an Hebrew, that this word signified a thin web, 1like Spiders webs in the air, As you see in some times of the year in the Fields, thin Webs, and upon the grass, thin webs like Spiders webs that presently dissolves into Atoms; so that their Calf shall be like unto those thin Webs, like unto Spiders Webs that dissolves it self and comes to nothing. All the confidence and hopes in any thing we set up in the place of God,