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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 13
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.
You will say, When did they do so? Quest.
For the showing the meaning of this we must refer to the story of the Kings, Answ. for though you have this Prophecy of Hosea in your books placed in a great distance from the book of the Kings, yet this Prophet and so others did prophesy in the time of the Kings, and therefore the history of the Kings will much help to understand the meaning of the Prophecy. First then for Ephraims beginning to send to the Assyrian and to King Jareb, you have it in the 2 King. 15.19.1 There you shall read that Menahem who was King of the ten Tribes, gave Pull that was King of Assyria a thousand talents of silver, ⟨p. 490⟩that his hand might be with him, to confirm the Kingdom in his hand. Mark, that his hand might be with him to confirm the Kingdom; It seems this King that was the King of Israel, he saw his Kingdom to be in a crazy condition, he saw his sickness and his wound, therefore he sends to the King of Assyria whose name was Pull, and gave him a thousand talents of silver that he might confirm the Kingdom in his hand; and in the 20. verse, you shall find that the Subject was fain to pay for it, he exacted the money (saith the text) of all the mighty men of wealth in Israel.2 Oh what things do Subjects suffer many times for the satisfying the humours of those that are above them: And in 2 King. 17.4. you shall find that Hoshea another King of Israel, he sent messengers to So King of Egypt to help him. And for that which is named here, Jareb, 3I find most to understand it to be but the very §1