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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.
1But that which will be more useful unto us, will be, to enquire the m••ning, What it is for God to be a m•th and rottenness to […] people: •ot indeed there is the same thing signified in both these expressions, only (as I told you) the fi•st signifies a quicker dispatch of Israel, and the second, a more slow dispatch of Judah, but in the effect the same is signified. Now God is a moth and rottenness unto a people many ways. As,
1But that which will be more useful unto us, will be, to enquire the m••ning, What it is for God to be a m•th and rottenness to 〈…〉 people: •ot indeed there is the same thing sign•fi•d in both these expressions, only (as I told you) the fi•st signifies a quicker di•patch of Israel, and the second, a more slow dispatch of Judah, but in the effect the same is signified. Now God is a moth and rottenness unto a people many waies. As,
- 15. What i• is for God to be a moth & ••ttenness
1First, He is a moth in the very spirits of people. There is a secret way of God wrath upon a people in their spirits which is not perceived in the world. As thus: When the spirits of men in a Nation grow weak and cowardly. The weakness and cowardliness of mens spirits shows a judgment of God upon them that is a a moth to them: And so it was in Israel, as you may find it in that