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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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When he sinned in Baal: But though it's meant of Jeroboam presently, including his Calf, yet especially is it meant of that special sin that was afterwards in this Princely Tribe, in the successors of Jeroboam, and that was in Ahab in a more special manner, • Kings, 16. 31. there he did not satisfy himself in worshipping of the Calves, but added this, to worship Baal, the God of the Sidonians. When he sinned, then he died.
When he sin'd in Baal: But though it's meant of Jeroboam presently, including his Calf, yet especially is it meant of that special sin that was afterwards in this Princely Tribe, in the successors of Jeroboam, and that was in Ahab in a more special manner, • Kings, 16. 31. there he did not satisfie himself in worshiping of the Calves, but added this, to worship Baal, the God of the Sidonians. When he sin'd, then he died.
He died.] His spirit even died; he was of a stout spirit, but afterwards came to be of a low, base, and sordid 1spirit, and died. They were under the sentence of death, Jeroboam's house was cut off, and Ahab's house 2cut off, and the people died at last: They came to be vile and contemptible at last, so that every body could insult over them. When a Lyon is alive and roars, he is terrible to all the Beasts; but a Lyon that is dead, the most timorous thing that is will run over, or trample upon him; So Ephraim was terrible to all about him, but when he had sinned in Baal, his honour was taken from him, and every one would insult over him, and then he was fain to crouch to every one, and the wrath of God did pursue him till it never left him, nor his family, nor the people, but they died and came to nothing; Oh the poor spirit that there was in this Tribe afterwards, When they sinned in Baal! In 1 Kings, 20. you shall see what a low and mean spirit they had, whereas before when they spake, men trembled, none could