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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 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.
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 ⟨p. 504⟩whelps: As it is observed that there's no Creature loves her young ones more than the Bear, and yet the mo[…] deformed of any; and an emblem it may be of a man that loves his own deformed fancies, it's a Note that one Interpreter 1hath upon it: Oh how will the Lord be in an holy rage, if his Children be wronged! if you do any hurt to his own Children, that hath his Image in them, when the instinct of Nature is so in this Creature, the Bear, to be in such a rage when she is robbed of such ugly things as her whelps are.