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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 7: VER. 7.
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.
First, They are in suspense; that is, They being in straits know not what to do, I find in Deut. 28. 66. [Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.] The same word that here is translated [Bent] it is there [Hanging in doubt] and that makes me the rather think that this Interpretation may set out the mind of the holy Ghost in this Scripture; so ⟨p. 121⟩then the meaning must be this.
First, They are in suspence; that is, They being in straits know not what to do, I find in Deut. 28. 66. [Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee.] The same word that here is translated [Bent] it is there [Hanging in doubt] and that makes me the rather think that this Interpretation may set out the mind of the holy Ghost in this Scripture; so ⟨p. 121⟩then the meaning must be this.
They see themselves in a sad condition that they 1know not which way to turn themselves, they see their plots take not, their designs prosper not, they see God is out against them, they would fain fall upon new plots, but they see as great an unlikelihood to prosper in their new plots, as in the former, what the Issue of them may be they know not, thus they are in suspense, and in doubt not knowing which way to turn themselves.
They see themselves in a sad condition that they 1know not which way to turn themselves, they see their plots take not, their designs prosper not, they see God is out against them, they would fain fal upon new plots, but they see as great an unlikelihood to prosper in their new plots, as in the former, what the Issue of them may be they know not, thus they are in suspence, and in doubt not knowing which way to turn themselves.