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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 11 › Verse 4: VERS. 4.
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.
With the Bonds of Love.] That is, with such Bonds as 1have many Wreaths in them, have many things joined together to make it to be a strong Cord, a Cord as strong as a Cart rope: for so I find the same word is used in Isa. 5. 18. where it is said, They draw iniquity with the Cords of 2vanity, and sin as it were with a Cart rope. The word that is translated there, Cords, it is the same that is in the former part of our verse, The Cords of a man; But now the other: And sin as it were with a Cart rope, that's the same word that here you have in the text, translated The [Bonds] of Love. With a thick Rope of a Cart, with a Rope that hath many Wreaths in it; so that though the former word in your English [CORDS] seems to have as much as the latter [BONDS] yet according to 3the Hebrew this latter hath more in it, and signifies such Cords, as have many twisted and wreathed together; As indeed we shall find when we come now to open the Bonds of Love that God did draw this people withal, we shall find many Cords wreathed and twisted together ⟨p. 59⟩to bind this people fast to God; you have a suitable expression 4somewhat parallel to this in Jer. 31. 3. With loving kindness have I drawn thee, saith God.
With the Bonds of Love.] That is, with such Bonds as 1have many Wreaths in them, have many things joyned together to make it to be a strong Cord, a Cord as strong as a Cart rope: for so I find the same word is used in Isa. 5. 18. where it is said, They draw iniquity with the Cords of 2