A77979:1115
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.
And it is like the same cause might be for the rottenness God would be unto Judah. Had they resisted the unlawful commands of those that were above them in power: They thought there might have been some disturbance in the State, Oh it is better for us to obey, to be quiet, that we may be at peace; but in the mean time while they, to free themselves from some disturbance and to enjoy their own quiet, would obey unlawful commands, the secret curse of God was upon their estates: Therefore (saith the Lord) will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. A secret curse there was upon that peace so procured.
In the opening of these words, and presenting the mind of God unto you in them, there are these Five or Six things to be done.
1. The reading of the words. 2. The scope of the words, what it is that God aimeth at in them. 3. The reason of the difference of the expression, A moth to Ephraim, and rottenness to Judah. 4. When this was, what time this referreth to, when was God a moth to Israel and rottenness unto Judah? 5. How and in what respects God may be said to be a moth and rottenness to a people. ⟨p. 476⟩6. The several observations to be drawn from it.