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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
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.
Yea though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their Womb.
The word translated Beloved fruit, 1it is Desirable, the Desires of their womb; Children are the desires of the womb, that is,2 women are very strong in their desires after them, Give me children or else I die (saith Rachel:) Indeed Harlots are not, they care only for their lust, and would have no fruit of their womb: It's an excellent Emblem for the expression of the vanity of many Preachers that care for nothing but to satisfy their lusts,3 and show their wit and parts, but care not for any fruit at all, care not for beget-any children to God; like Harlots they desire not the fruit of the womb, but Wives that are faithful to their Husbands, they do desire it. And the same word that is here for desires, 4and translated beloved, it is likewise in other Scriptures translated beloved, that in Dan. 9. 23. Oh man, greatly beloved▪ Oh man of desires. And so in Dan. 10. where the Angel saith, great beloved, it is a man of desire. And so in