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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 1 › Set the Trumpet to thy mouth.
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.
Ministers must not only be Trumpeters of the Gospel, Trumpeters of Mercy and Peace,1 but Trumpeters of Judgment and of War; they are set to give warning to people of danger, and woe to them if they do not, God will require the blood of people at their hands. How ever peoples spirits may be against it, against the free and bold work of the Ministry in denouncing Judgments, yet the spirits of Gods Ministers must go on in their way:2 Luther in his time for the freedom and boldness of his spirit inveighing against the sins of the times, he was called the very Trumpet of Rebellion, he inveighs against their sins and threatens Judgments, and they exclaim against him, they are as loud against him, and trumpet out their exclamations against him, calling of him the Trumpet of Rebellion and sedition. If a Town be besieged by the enemy, it is not the crying of children or women that must hinder the beating up of the Drums,3 nor the roaring of the Canon. God takes it exceeding ill at his Ministers hands to be mealy mouthed, when his wrath is incensed; and therefore he calls the Watchmen that did not give warning by an ignominious name, DUMB DOGS, that cannot bark, 4in Isa. 56. 10. I remember Pliny in his 29. Book, 4. Chapter, tells of the Dogs in Rome, that were set to keep the Capitol, because when the Gauls did scale the Capitol, the Dogs being fed too full, lay sleeping and did not give warning; they therefore not only hanged them up, but every year the Romans observed that time of the year, and on that day, hanged up certain Dogs in the City for exemplary Justice, by way of crucifying of them alive upon an Elder tree, 5and upon this ground it is thought that the Romans did so hate that kind of death, of hanging upon a tree. And therefore it was the more cursed death that Christ died to hang upon a tree. It is that that God is exceedingly provoked against his Watchmen for, if they give not warning.
Ministers must not only be Trumpeters of the Gospel, Trumpeters of Mercy and Peace,