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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. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 7 › And they shall reap the whirlwind.
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.
As we sow, so shall we reap. The word in the Hebrew (Tremelius upon this place notes) hath a syllable added more than ordinary;1 and that saith he is to increase the signification of it: To note, that this is not only a whirlwind, but a most terrible whirlwind. And mark: he doth not say they sow the wind, and they shall reap the wind; no, there is more in the Harvest than in the Seed; if men will sow the wind, they must expect to reap the whirlwind. ⟨p. 42⟩If thou hast but a little pleasure in thy sinful ways, thou must expect a great deal of miseries in the fruit of thy ways. Their labour shall not only be in vain, but much evil shall come, sudden and violent destruction shall come of their labours. All sinful actions are like unto the sowing of the wind in the earth: Now we know if windy vapours be got into the earth, they cause Earthquakes, they break forth into whirlwinds, into violence: and so wicked actions they break forth into violence and irresistible evils, and will cause heart-quakes at last. Great is the power of the whirlwind, the Scripture sets it out as very great in 1 Kings, 19. 11. 2A strong wind th•• rent the mountains and tore in pieces the rocks, overturned the mountains by the roots. Job, 28. 9. this it is that breaks the Cedars. Sabelicos reports that upon a time, Cambyse's Soldiers being at dinner in a sandy place, there rises up a whirlwind and drives the sand upon them so that it covered them and chokes them all: And yet, what's the wind, but many vapours being put together? and yet, Oh the mighty strength that there is in them! By the way this meditation may be raised here: What, shall the addition of many such weak things as vapours are come,3 to such a mighty strength? Oh then, what's the strength of the infinite God unto which nothing can be added? Ad many vapours together and it causes strong winds that rends up the Mountains by the roots; if many weak things put together (I say) come to that strength, what's the strength of an infinite God unto which no strength can be added?