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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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And then Fourthly, Then he died, when he sinned in Baal. 1Though God may suffer men to make some alteration in Religion, though it be to the worse, and let them prosper, yet if they will grow from one degree to another in ⟨p. 426⟩forsaking God, then God comes upon them with his wrath, then they die; if they know not where to hold, then God will not continue patient towards such a people any longer.
- 1Obs. 4.
And then the Fifth thing is this, That a Family or People 1from whence God hath withdrawn his protection and blessing, is a dead carcass.
- 1Obs. 5.
Then, He is dead, that I take to be the meaning of that in Mat. 24. 28. For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the 1Eagles be gathered together; though it's true, it's spoken about the coming of Christ, yet I do not think that the Carcass is Christ, and the Saints like Eagles, and so will be where Christ is, yet it hath been carried so by divers; now though it's spoken there of Christs coming, yet it's meant, of his coming against Jerusalem, there's a great part of that Chapter of the coming of Christ in his Judgments against the people of the Jews, and now they were as a dead carcass, God having forsaken them; And the Eagles, Birds of prey, would come upon them: And it might have reference to the Romans coming upon them, whose Ensign is the Spread Eagle, those Eagles would