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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 12
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.
VER 12. Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth; and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
GOD made a great difference between Judah and Israel;1 but they joined in the same ways of sin, and God coupleth them in the same way of wrath: Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
GOD made a great difference between Judah and Israel;1 but they joyned in the same waies of sin, and God coupleth them in the same way of wrath: Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
- 1Why Ephraim and Judah coupled.
Therefore] Why? wherefore? It hath reference unto the words we spake of the last day [they willingly followed the commandment] Because they followed the unlawful commands of Jeroboam and his Princes, Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth: That for Ephraim.