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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
VER. 9.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild Ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath hired Lovers.
THE Lord by the Prophet proceeds on in his charge against the ten Tribes here.
They are gone up to Assyria for help.
They are gone up] 1they look not up to the high God for their help, but they are gone up to Assyria, Assyria is higher in their eyes than the God of Heaven is. How vile a thing is it to forsake confidence in God out of suspicious thoughts of him; for so it was here, they retained suspicious thoughts of God, as if He would leave them in their extremity, and out of those suspicious thoughts of him,