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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. › Chapter 9 › Verse 5: VER. 5.
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.
The day of execution of Gods wrath upon wicked men is a day of feast,1 upon this ground.
- 1Why a day• of Feast to• God.
First, Because the day of their feasts were days of slaying sacrifices, so they should now be slain, and God would §1account even their bodies that were slain to be as sacrifices ⟨p. 174⟩for this great feast of his,1 In Isa. 34. 6. The Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the Land of Idumea. And in Zeph. 1. 7. 2The day of the Lord is at hand, the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. And then it shall come to pass in the day of the Lords sacrifice, that I will punish the Princes, and the Kings Children &c. He hath bid his guests; so here's the feast of God, and the slaughter of great men are here, the dishes as it were of sacrifice that God would have at this his feast,3 the Executioners of Gods wrath are now his Priests to kill his sacrifices. Soldiers and Executioners they are turned the Priests of God for to kill his sacrifice for this his feast.4 Hence in