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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 15 › I will drive them out of my house.
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.
I will drive them out of my house.
They shall remain no longer in a Church-State, they shall remain no longer so to be in my House.1
- 1Expos.
Those who under the colour of being under the Church of God, yet live in the ways of wickedness, God will unchurch them even in regard of the outward appearance of ⟨p. 273⟩a Church Estate; I'll drive them out of my House: It's a dreadful expression this, for a father to take his child or servant and drive them out of his house notes great indignation;1 to be driven out of Gods House is a sore evil, that makes all other evils indeed to be evil, as abiding in Gods House is a great blessing, and recompenses the want of many outward blessings. If any of you that have been servants to great men, and should be driven out of their houses, and especially for your conscience, yet if God takes you into his House you are well enough,2