WE here present thee with a continuation of Expositions and Observations upon other Four Chapters of the Prophet Hosea, delivered by that Worthy Man, now with God. Himself in his life-time published the Three first Chapters; These now made public, were compiled out of the Manuscripts which Himself under His own Hand left, which being short, have been filled up and enlarged out of the best Copies of Sermon Notes taken from His own mouth. We must not undertake for all imperfections or mistakes that haply may be found, though a diligent and a skilful hand had the collecting of them. We only give Letters of Credence to them, that they are genuinely the Authors, and that they are singularly worthy of all acceptation, especially by such Readers as have their thoughts exercised in observing the ways of Gods proceedings in and towards the Nations of the world where His Name is called. One great piece of His Dispensations under the Old Testament, was that towards the Ten Tribes, who remain in captivity to this day,1 and who were set up (as their Predecessors in the wilderness) as Types •f Gods dealing in like cases with us under the New Testament; as we may see in the instance of the Eastern and Gracian Churches that have groaned under the Mahometan Tyrannies and Oppressions,2 of whom the Ten Tribes may seem to be the livelyest pattern, as the condition of the Saints in the Western European Churches under the Pope was exemplified in the captivity of Babylon which befell the other two Tribes. Yet so, as both in ⟨image 3⟩sins and punishment the one and the other are general examples unto us upon whom the ends of the world are come, in which God acts over with a quick and swift motion, as being the last act, what was done more slowly under the Old. The worthy Author was one of the most accurate spectators in his time, that with a curious and searching eye beheld what God was a doing in the World. He was as one of those Wise men that knew the times, (as 'tis said of Ahasuerus his sev•n Counsellors, Esth. 1.13.) and skilled therein, not as they in an humane or political way, but as the transactions in the world do relate unto Gad, who governs this world by the rules and presidents in His Word. He was one of those who as the Psalmist speaks,3 had pleasure to seek out the great works of the Lord, and to parallel those in these times with those of old under the Old Testament;
WEE here present thee with a continuation of Expositions and Observations upon other Four Chapters of the Prophet Hosea, delivered by that Worthy Man, now with God. Himself in his life-time published the Three first Chapters; These now made publick, were compiled out of the Manuscripts which Himself under His own Hand left, which being short, have been filled up and enlarged out of the best Copies of Sermon Notes taken from His own mouth. We must not undertake for all imperfections or mistakes that haply may be found, though a diligent and a skilful hand had the coll•cting of them. We only give Letters of Credence to them, that they are genuinely the Authors, and that they are singularly worthy of all acceptation, especially by such Readers as have their thoughts exercised in observing the waies of Gods proceedings in and towards the Nations of the world where His Name is called. One great piece of His Dispensations under the Old Testament, was that towards the Ten Tribes, who remain in captivity to this day,1 and who were set up (as their Predecessors in the wilderness) as Types •f Gods dealing in like cases with us under the New Testament; as we may see in the instance of the Eastern and Gracian Churches that have groaned under the Mahumetan Tyrannies and Oppressions,2 of whom the Ten Tribes may seem to be the livelyest pattern, as the condition of the Saints in the Western European Churches under the Pope was exemplified in the captivity of Babylon which befel the other two Tribes. Yet so, as both in ⟨image 3⟩sins and punishment the one and the other are general examples unto us upon whom the ends of the world are come, in which God acts over with a quick and swift motion, as being the last act, what was done more slowly under the Old. The worthy Author was one of the most accurate spectators in his time, that with a curious and searching eye beheld what God was a doing in the World. He was as one of those Wise men that knew the times, (as 'tis said of Ahasuerus his sev•n Counsellors, Esth. 1.13.) and skilled therein, not as they in an humane or political way, but as the transactions in the world do relate unto Gad, who governs this world by the rules and presidents in His Word. He was one of those who as the Psalmist speaks,3 had pleasure to seek out the great works of the Lord, and to paralel those in these times with those of old under the Old Testament;
- 12 Cor. 10
- 2Rev. 7.
- 3Psa. 111.
