A77979:1055
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 11
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.
WRATH in the former verse was threatened against the Princes of Judah, who removed the bound: And here the Lord returns again to Ephraim, in this 11. verse; and the 12. verse to Judah and Ephraim both together, they being both a provocation to God, are plagued both together.
WRATH in the former verse was threatned against the Princes of Judah, who removed the bound: And here the Lord returns again to Ephraim, in this 11. verse; and the 12. verse to Judah and Ephraim both together, they being both a provocation to God, are plagued both together.
1The word Oppressed, in the original is, Nashuk, translated by Hierom, Calumnia; Ephraim suffered and was oppressed by false accusations and slanderings, (for there is an opposition in mens names and estates) which the Seventy usually translate by Sycophantia; 2and then we may render i• thu•, Ephraim by Sycophants doth suffer a great deal of wrong. When there are false reports raised against men, they suffer wrong by it: false reports are as a false Medium, which represents things in another manner than they are: As put a staff into the water,3 and it shows to be crooked, but take it out and 'tis not so. So the actions of men in the reports of others may seem crooked, ⟨p. 463⟩when in themselves are strait and good. And thus was Ephraim, broken in judgment; though his cause was good, yet 'twas made bad, if he were wronged he could have no relief for himself. So that good causes by bad men are many times perverted: but the Saints may support themselves with Pauls comfort, who passed not much for mans judgment. In this signification the Seventy Translators do often take the word; but in this place they express it by another word, thus,