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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.
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This shows how he comes to be an empty Vine; not because Gods mercy is scant to him, but he makes himself so by his sin, what juice & moisture he hath he doth empty it forth into other things, and so is empty.
This shews how he comes to be an empty Vine; not because Gods mercy is scant to him, but he makes himself so by his sin, what juyce & moisture he hath he doth empty it forth into other things, and so is empty.
Israel was a Vine full of clusters, refreshing God himself, as you heard in the ninth Chapter, that he was to the Lord as Grapes in the Wilderness, as a Vine that did bring forth Grapes in the Wilderness, that was so sweet to a weary and thirsty traveller. Israel was once such a one, yea, but now he is come to be an empty Vine, though he grows in the Vineyard of God, and not in the Wilderness.
Israel was a Vine full of clusters, refreshing God himself, as you heard in the ninth Chapter, that he was to the Lord as Grapes in the Wilderness, as a Vine that did bring forth Grapes in the Wilderness, that was so sweet to a weary and thirsty traveller. Israel was once such a one, yea, but now he is come to be an empty Vine, though he grows in the Vinyard of God, and not in the Wilderness.
Empty] and no marvel,1 for as you have heard in the latter end of the former Chapter, he would not hearken to the Lord, he would not hear the Word of the Lord, the Lord threatens to cast him away, because he hearkened not to him,2 from whence Luther hath this Note, The Word is like a fruitful rain, there can no true fruit be without the Word, those that will not hearken to the Word, no marvel though they be empty, it is the Word that makes fruitful, it is that that is as the fruitful rain: Those that leave and forsake the Word, observe them how fruitless they are, what empty spirits they have;