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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.
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah.
They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the daies of Gibeah.
This must cost us a little further time for the opening of it fully: Rooted in their evil ways as in the days of Gibeah. What hath this reference to? the Scripture doth note the City Gibeah for two notable things; one, that it was the City of Saul, and so then upon that some carry it thus: That as heretofore they cast off my Government when they chose Saul to be their King over them,1 so now they cast me off as then formerly they did.
This must cost us a little further time for the opening of it fully: Rooted in their evil waies as in the daies of Gibeah. What hath this reference to? the Scripture doth note the City Gibeah for two notable things; one, that it was the City of Saul, and so then upon that some carry it thus: That as heretofore they cast off my Government when they chose Saul to be their King over them,1 so now they cast me off as then formerly they did.
- 1Expos. 1.
But I think that's not the scope, but rather, As in the days of Gibeah; This hath reference to that notable story that you have in the 19. and 20. chapters of Judges, 1there you shall find what was done in the days of Gibeah. You shall find the story of a Levite that had his Concubine gone from him and playing the whore, he went to fetch her again, and as he was returning home (the substance of the story is this) as he was coming home he would not go by no means (as his servant would have had him) to Jebus, because those that lived there were not of the Children of Israel, but he would be sure to lodge in a City that did belong to the Children of Israel, and when he comes to Gibeah, there expecting to have protection from that City, being they were of the Children of Israel, yet he found it quite otherwise, the people of the City were notorious abominable wicked people and they came by violence in the night