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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 16 › Their Root is dried up.
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 Covenant that God made with him,1 that was his Root in the first place. And when God intends to break his Covenant with them,2 (because they broke theirs) then he dries up the Root; and therefore in the next Chapter you shall find that God charges them with dealing falsely in making a Covenant.
- 1Answ.
- 2Hos. 10. 4
And then, The Godly among a People are as the Root of that People,1 in Isa. 6. 13. But yet it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a Teil Tree, and as an Oak, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. So here, the holy seed shall be the substance of it. The holy seed in a Kingdom is as the root and substance of it; and yet such is the wretchedness of men, that what do they do but in stirring against them, they would root out the very Root of the Nation.
And then, The Godly among a People are as the Root of that People,1 in Isa. 6. 13. But yet it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a Teyle Tree, and as an Oak, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves: so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. So here, the holy seed shall be the substance of it. The holy seed in a Kingdom is as the root and substance of it; and yet such is the wretchedness of men, that what do they do but in stirring against them, they would root out the very Root of the Nation.