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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 12 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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.
WE read in the 8th Chapter of this Prophecy, the 7th Verse, that they had sown the wind, and should reap the whirlwind, and now they feed according to what they sowed, and of what they reaped; according to our proverb, (They drink according to what they have brewed) They did sow the wind, and here they feed upon the wind.
WEE reade in the 8th Chapter of this Prophesie, the 7th Verse, that they had sown the wind, and should reap the whirlwind, and now they feed according to what they sowed, and of what they reap'd; according to our proverb, (They drink according to what they have brewed) They did sow the wind, and here they feed upon the wind.
By feeding on the wind, is a proverbial speech, to note the following after vain, unprofitable things, that's to 1feed upon the wind, when men please themselves in their own conceits, and in their own counsels, and plots, and 2ways that are unprofitable, [and will certainly be unprofitable to them] these men feed upon the wind. When men have vain confidences in such ways of their own, leaving the ways of God, and blessing themselves in foolish plots, and hopes of their own, these men feed upon the wind. When men think to please God with their own ⟨p. 200⟩inventions, they feed upon the wind; when they think to escape danger by their own shifts they feed upon the wind; when they think to prevail against the Saints by their deep Counsels, and fetches, these men feed upon the wind; when they promise to themselves great matters by ways of their own, that are not Gods, these men feed upon the wind: And the Prophet rebuk•h the ten Tribes for this.
By feeding on the wind, is a proverbial speech, to note the following after vain, unprofitable things, that's to