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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. › Chapter 9 › Verse 13: VER. 13.
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.
verse, When thy Wares went forth out of the Seas thou filledst many people, thou diddest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy Merchandise. Now saith the Lord here, Ephraim is ⟨p. 255⟩thus, she said to her self, that she was so prosperous, and strong, and rich every way, she was like to Tyre, I grant it saith the Prophet, and I have seen it so, Ephraim is the very same even then when I am departing from her.
verse, When thy Wares went forth out of the Seas thou filledst many people, thou didest enrich the Kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy Mercandize. Now saith the Lord here, Ephraim is ⟨p. 255⟩thus, she said to her self, that she was so prosperous, and strong, and rich every way, she was like to Tyrus, I grant it saith the Prophet, and I have seen it so, Ephraim is the very same even then when I am departing from her.
So that from hence we may see,1 That at the very time when God is departing from a Kingdom, or a particular man or woman, they may be in the greatest prosperity that ever they were in all their lives: When thou art nearest eternal misery thou mayest be in the highest degree of outward prosperity that ever thou wast in all thy life.2 Physicians say that the uttermost degree of health in the body, is next unto sickness. It's true here, that the highest degree of outward prosperity, it's but the forerunner of ruin; Oh! let us learn never to trust in our prosperity,3 but always to walk with fear and trembling before the Lord,4