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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.
And then thirdly, Insensibly; 1They shall not so much as perceive it, they shall not see for a long time how My wrath is out against them, and yet it shall consume them. That's the scope.
- 1insensibly
But what is the reason of the difference of the expression.1 that's the third? If God intended only to show his secret, gradual, insensible judgment, then one expression might have been enough; a moth, or rottenness, either of them. But the reason of the different expression is this, Israel was to be destroyed sooner than Judah: Judah should hold out a time longer than Israel should though both of them were to be destroyed at length. As strong wood, heart of Oak, it holds out longer though there should be a worm in it, than a garment doth when a moth is in it; so Judah held out above a hundred years after this threat, after this rottenness began in them, longer than Israel did; for the time that this moth was in Israel (of which we shall speak presently) unto Israels captivity, it was but some two or three and forty years; but it was one hundred and threescore years from the time of Gods being a rottenness unto Judah.
But what is the reason of the difference of the expression.1 that's the third? If God intended only to shew his secret, gradual, insensible judgment, then one expression might have been enough; a moth, or rotteness, either of them. But the reason of the different expression is this, Israel was to be destroyed sooner than Judah: Judah should hold out a time longer than Israel should though both of them were to be destroy•d at length. As strong wood, heart of Oak, it holds out longer though there should be a worm in it, than a garment doth when a moth is in it; so Judah held out above a hundred yeers after this threat, after this rottenness began in them, longer than Israel did; for the time that this moth was in Israel (of which we shall speak presently) unto Israels captivity, it was but some two or three and fourty yeers; but it was one hundred and threescore yeers from the time of Gods being a rottenness unto Judah.