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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.
Thus you have this very phrase in Isa. 31. 5. 1As birds flying, so will the Lord of host defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it, and passing over he will preserve it. [As birds flying] it's a metaphor taken from the bird when she sees the young ones in any danger of the Kite she flies with speed to save them, As birds flying, so will I defend Jerusalem. Your glory gets away and flies from you in your prosperity, but the glory of the Saints flies to them in their adversity.
Thus you have this very phrase in Isa. 31. 5. 1As birds flying, so will the Lord of host defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it, and passing over he will preserve it. [As birds flying] it's a metaphor taken from the bird when she sees the yong ones in any danger of the Kite she flies with speed to save them, As birds flying, so will I defend Jerusalem. Your glory gets away and flies from you in your prosperity, but the glory of the Saints flies to them in their adversity.
- 1Isa. 31. 5. enlightened▪Isa. 31. 5. enlightned▪
Secondly, The Glory of their posterity shall flee away like a bird▪ that is,1 The Lord will cut off their numerous posterity, their young men, that there shall be few enough left among them. They gloried in their number. The blessing of God upon Abraham's seed came very swiftly after it began to come; and now God threatens it shall go away as swiftly: As you may find it if you observe the story of the increase of the Seed of Abraham, if you reckon it from the time of their going into Egypt: there was (you know) but threescore and ten souls that went into Egypt of Abraham's seed: