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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 › He shall come as an Eagle.
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 first was, that they had made a league with Egypt which §1was nigh hand, as for the Assyrian he was a great way off, and there was not so much danger to be thought of the Assyrians.
Secondly: As they imagined they had the house of the Lord with them, and did worship the true God. Now the Prophet takes away these two, He shall come as an Eagle, against the House of the Lord: 1that is, the Assyrian, Salmanesser he is called an Eagle, and because he was to come with an Army, therefore an Eagle; (and it may be his §1Ensign might be an Eagle) you know the parts of Armies are called Wings, and so is compared to an Eagle, to show to them that their danger is not so far off as they imagine. §2He shall come as an Eagle, that is swiftly, with a mighty §3force and vehemency; and he shall have an Eagles spirit, §4an Eagles eye: the Eagle is quick sighted, and the spirit §5of an Eagle is not easily daunted: and yet it is observable that in the Law the Eagle was an unclean bird,2 though the Eagle the King of Fowls, and of a brave spirit, yet he was unclean, God would not have the Eagle offered in sacrifice, but rather the Dove, God many times doth not regard Eagles spirits,3 those that sore aloft and fly on high, but he doth receive Dove-like spirits, such as are of meek and quiet spirits.
Secondly: As they imagined they had the house of the Lord with them, and did worship the true God. Now the Prophet takes away these two, He shall come as an Eagle, against the House of the Lord: