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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 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.
How shall I make thee as Admah? How shall I set thee as Zeboim?
Admah and Zeboim, they were the names of two Cities, that were two of the five Cities that were together with Sodom and Gomorrah; now four of these five Cities were destroyed by fire from Heaven, for the wickedness of them, and one of them only was spared for Lot's sake. But this Admah and Zeboim were two of the Cities that the judgments of God was most terrible upon; the Apostle Jude in his Epistle, the 7. verse, saith, That they did suffer the vengeance of eternal fire. Now saith God here, The truth is, you have provoked me as much as Admah and Zeboim have done, their sins were not greater than yours, and there is as great wrath that belongs to you as to them, but oh! how shall I do it? how shall I make thee as Admah and Zeboim? how is it possible for me to find in my heart to yield to do it?
Admah and Zeboim, they were the names of two Cities, that were two of the five Cities that were together with Sodom and Gomorah; now four of these five Cities were destroyed by fire from Heaven, for the wickedness of them, and one of them only was spar'd for Lot's sake. But this Admah and Zeboim were two of the Cities that the judgments of God was most terrible upon; the Apostle Jude in his Epistle, the 7. verse, saith, That they did suffer the vengance of eternal fire. Now saith God here, The truth is, you have provoked me as much as Admah and Zeboim have done, their sins were not greater than yours, and there is as great wrath that belongs to you as to them, but oh! how shall I do it? how shall I make thee as Admah and Zeboim? how is it possible for me to find in my heart to yeeld to do it?
Hierom upon the place doth move this Question. Why doth he mention Admah and Zeboim, and not Sodom and 1