A30574:86
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.
He shall come as an Eagle against the House of the Lord.
Interpreters differ much about this, Against the House of the Lord: 1because Hosea prophesied against the ten Tribes, therefore Luther and divers others think that this clause must be meant against Judah, as if God threatening Israel should say, do not you think to escape, for the enemy shall come as an Eagle even against the house of the Lord.2 But we need not strain it so, for it may be meant against the ten Tribes notwithstanding this expression, upon this ground: because they called that place, the Eminent place, §1where one of their Calves were set up, they called it Bethel, the House of God: and so ironically here the houses of their Idols may be called the House of the Lord, because they chose those Houses and Places instead of the House of the Lord. He will come against the House of the Lord; that is, against that which you account so. But I think that is not §2satisfactory, but rather this: the Church of Israel though very corrupt, yet before their actual divorce, is called the House of the Lord, so that from thence then the note is:
Interpreters differ much about this, Against the House of the Lord: 1because Hosea prophesied against the ten Tribes, therefore Luther and divers others think that this clause must be meant against Judah, as if God threatning Israel should say, do not you think to escape, for the enemy shall come as an Eagle even against the house of the Lord.