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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 6: VER. 6.
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.
And then, The Sword shall abide on his Cities.]1
- 1Obs. A sad thing for the sword to be in a City.
It is a sad thing for the Sword to be in the Field, but for the Sword to be in the Cities it is sadder; for in the Cities there is the strength of the Kingdom: when the Sword comes into the Cities, Oh! the fearful sights of houses fired, of streets running with blood, the hideous noise of shrieking and cryings out of women and children: I remember Joseph us in his story of the Jewish Wars, reports of Jerusalem when the Romans came against it and took it, 1that the narrow streets of the City of Jerusalem was so filled with dead bodies, that there was no passage, and he saith, That the streets ran with the blood of men, and there were many things set on fire, that were quenched with the blood of men and women that ran in the streets, so dreadful was the Sword there; and the number of those that were slain, & died in that time that the sword was stretched out against that one City, he saith was, Eleven hundred thousand, because it was that time that 2the people came-up to the Passover, and then he saith it was that they were surrounded. Oh! for the Sword ⟨p. 114⟩to come to populous Cities is very dreadful.
It is a sad thing for the Sword to be in the Field, but for the Sword to be in the Cities it is sadder; for in the Cities there is the strength of the Kingdom: when the Sword comes into the Cities, Oh! the fearful sights of houses fired, of streets running with blood, the hideous noise of shreeking and cryings out of women and children: I remember Joseph us in his story of the Jewish Wars, reports of Jerusalem when the Romans came against it and took it,