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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 13 › Verse 8: VER. 8.
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.
VER. 8.
I will meet with them as a Bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rent the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a Lyon: the wild beast shall tear them.
I will meet with them as a Bear bereaved of her whelps, and will rent the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a Lyon: the wildbeast shall tear them.
THE Third Creature is the Bear: I will meet with them as a Bear bereaved of her whelps, &c.1
- 1Aelian. lib. 5. cap. 14. Plin. l. 8. c. 36
This Creature (you know) is very fierce and terrible too; therefore we read in the 2d of Kings, that there were two she Bears came out of the wood and tore in pieces forty two Children. Prov. 17. 12. Let a Bear robbed of her whelps meat a man, rather than a fool in his folly: She is fierce at all times, but above all if she be robbed of her