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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 10 › Verse 1 › Israel is an empty Vine.
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.
Fourthly, The Vine it is the most depending creature in the world, it is not able to under-prop its self, but must have props more than other Plants,1 and therefore Nature hath given unto it strings by which it catches hold upon any thing next it: And so the Church, the Church is weak in its self, and is the most depending thing in the world, depends upon its props that God affords unto it; you have an excellent place to set out that in Isa. 27. 2, 3. ver. there the holy Ghost speaks of a Vineyard of red Wine, and in the 4. verse,2 Fury is not in me; which shows that there should come a kind of great storm and tempest, but he would not have his People to be discouraged. Fury is not in me. And then in the 5. verse, Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make his peace with me. 3Let him take hold of my strength; that is, speaking to his Church as a Vine, in the time when my fury is abroad, yet do you like the Vine, which catches hold upon a pole, and there under-props its self, so let him take hold of my power, let him act faith upon my power in time of storms and tempests and he shall make peace, though he hath never so much trouble abroad in the world with others, yet he may, he shall have peace with me. That's the nature of the Vine to catch hold upon that which is next it, and especially in time of storms, when the strongest Oaks are rent in pieces, yet the Vine catching hold upon the props it hath, rests there.
Fourthly, The Vine it is the most depending creature in the world, it is not able to under-prop its self, but must have props more than other Plants,1 and therefore Nature hath given unto it strings by which it catches hold upon any thing next it: And so the Church, the Church is weak in its self, and is the most depending thing in the world, depends upon its props that God affords unto it; you have an excellent place to set out that in Isa. 27. 2, 3. ver. there the holy Ghost speaks of a Vinyard of red Wine, and in the 4. verse,