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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.
It is observed of the Lyon when he comes upon the prey (because it's named here the second time) that it 1rends the body asunder, and loves to suck the blood and the fat that is about the heart, and as for other parts of the body, except it be in very great hunger, it leaves them for other beasts to prey upon, but the heart, and the blood and the fat that is about the heart that the Lyon loves to suck: and therefore saith God here, I will rent the caul of their heart, and there will I devour like a Lyon.
- 1The Lyon's property.
Luther hath an excellent Note upon this, saith he, The Lord here will do as a Lyon doth, he more immediately 1will strike out their hearts, and punish them with spiritual Plagues and Judgments, and as for their estates and bodies he will leave them to other beasts and they shall plague them and punish them that way: they had a film upon their hearts (saith he) and instructions could not get to their hearts; but God will tear that caul, will ⟨p. 505⟩tear that film from off their hearts that kept off instructions. Oh! let us take heed of this film of our hearts that keeps out the Word of God, take heed of that for ever, for God hath ways to tear this film from off thy heart.
Luther hath an excellent Note upon this, saith he, The Lord here will do as a Lyon doth, he more immediately 1will strike out their hearts, and punish them with spiritual Plagues and Judgments, and as for their estates and bodies he will leave them to other beasts and they shall plague them and punish them that way: they had a film upon their hearts (saith he) and instructions could not get to their hearts; but God will tear that caul, will