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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 13 › And visit their sins.
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.
It follows: They shall return (or as some translate) they will return to Egypt.
And so it notes their sin for which God will visit them,1 and the course that they would take when God was about to visit them, They will return to Egypt. Whither will ye flee in the day of visitation? We will fly into Egypt say they, if the Assyrians power grow too great we will go into Egypt for help, and this may seem to have reference to that story in the 2. of Kings, 17. 4. 2The King of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So King of Egypt.
- 11. It notes their sin.
- 22. King. 17. 4.
The Note from hence is this;1 Carnal hearts when God is visiting them for their sins they have plots in their heads to shift this way and that way for themselves. Vain deluded soul! thy thoughts should be, how should I make up my peace with God? how should I seek the face of God? thou art ⟨p. 125⟩thinking of this and the other shift, whereas thou shouldest only be thinking of making up thy peace with God. And thus it is with Kingdoms, when God is visiting Kingdoms you shall have many that sit at the Stern, that all their thoughts are about carnal helps, whereas their great thoughts should be, how they might fall down before God, & seek to make peace wth God & the Kingdom: thus it was here, I will visit them, and they think to return to Egypt. And if you take it as a Judgment,