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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 9: VER. 9.
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.
Many carry the words in a mere threatening way, and no otherwise. I did indeed bring you from the Land of Egypt, but I'll bring you into Tabernacles again, as if God should say, I'll cast you out of your brave stately Palaces, your City and Country Houses, and you shall come into the wilderness again, and dwell in Tents and Tabernacles. Thus many.
Many carrie the words in a meer threatning way, and no otherwise. I did indeed bring you from the Land of Egypt, but I'le bring you into Tabernacles again, as if God should say, I'le cast you out of your brave stately Pallaces, your City and Country Houses, and you shall come into the wilderness again, and dwell in Tents and Tabernacles. Thus many.
But rather I think the scope and meaning of the words, is a consolatory Promise, whereby the holy Ghost invites 1them here to-Repentance, as if God should say thus, Though you have indeed deserved to be cast out of your dwellings, you have deserved to be brought into Tents and Tabernacles in the Wilderness again, yet I remember my ancient goodness towards you, and my Covenant with your Father Abraham, I am the same God that brought you out of the Land of Egypt, and therefore return and repent, and I'll be with you in as much mercy as ever I was, what ever the breaches have been for time past, I'll be as gracious to you as ever I was; as you have celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles with abundance of rejoicing, so I'll continue this your prosperous estate, ⟨p. 339⟩you shall from year to year have cause to rejoice, hav• •ause to rejoice in the Feast of Tabernacles: For this Feast of Tabernacles it was the principal Feast of their rejoicing that they had, and therefore all their Feasts were Feast of rejoicing, in Lament. 2. 7. They have made a noise in the House of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn Feast. There was Triumph and Joy in their solemn Feasts. But now this Feast of Tabernacles was a special Feast of rejoicing, and that you have in Deut. 23. 40