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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.
yea, and they got the Benjamites to join with them, twenty six thousand Armed men to join with them to stand in defence of these notorious Delinquents, they got up an Army which one would not have thought that among the People God there should have been gotten up an Army to have defended such notorious villains as those were, yet they did, but the people of Israel joined all together and were resolved that they would have such notorious wickedness to be punished (there was four hundred thousand joined together) Now in the 18. verse, they asked counsel of God what they should do, & God gave them leave to go, and bid that Judah should go up first, so they went to require these Delinquents and went up against them, but the Benjamites the first day got the victory and slew two and twenty thousand men. Upon that the Children of Israel went up to ⟨p. 206⟩God again and wept before the Lord, and God gave them leave to go again, & they went, & the Benjamites came out again & slew eighteen thousand more of them: These wicked Malignants got the Victory two days and slew forty thousand of the Children of Israel that went not only by Gods leave,1 but by his sending, and yet for two days together they fell before those wicked and vile wretches; but yet afterwards they went and wept and fasted, they knew that their cause could not but be good, and they were resolved they would go to God again and humble their souls before God, and fast, and pray, and then they overthrew those wicked Bonjamites, and these of Gibeah; and whereas there were twenty six thousand came out against them,2 there was twenty and five thousand and an hundred men slain by the sword, and the City of Gibeah was burnt with fire; so God executed wrath upon them at length. This is the story that the Prophet hath reference to.
yea, and they got the Benjamites to joyn with them, twenty six thousand Armed men to joyn with them to stand in defence of these notorious Delinquents, they got up an Army which one would not have thought that among the People God there should have been gotten up an Army to have defended such notorious villains as those were, yet they did, but the people of Israel joyned all together and were resolved that they would have such notorious wickedness to be punished (there was four hundred thousand joyned together) Now in the 18. verse, they asked counsel of God what they should do, & God gave them leave to go, and bid that Judah should go up first, so they went to require these Delinquents and went up against them, but the Benjamites the first day got the victory and slew two and twenty thousand men. Upon that the Children of Israel went up to