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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
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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.
First, That creature comforts avail little in the day of Gods wrath. Obs. 1 Gods wrath was out against Ephraim and Judah, and they would fain seek to help themselves in some creature way, but it would do them no good. Creatures are little helpful in the day of Gods wrath, they are all as a broken reed that rather ⟨p. 496⟩runneth into a mans hand th•n any way relieveth him. So the Scripture saith of riches, that they avail not in the day of wrath. All the creatures will then say to you, if God help you not how can we help you? They are but as a tree in the time of a storm; you may run under the tree, and perhaps a few droppings may be kept from you for a while, but if the storm be great and continue, what good can the leaves of a tree do you to keep you from it? The creature may refresh you a little, but if Gods wrath continue what good can the creature do?
First, That creature comforts avail little in the day of Gods wrath. Obs. 1 Gods wrath was out against Ephraim and Judah, and they would fain seek to help themselves in some creature way, but it would do them no good. Creatures are little helpful in the day of Gods wrath, they are all as a broken reed that rather ⟨p. 496⟩runneth into a mans hand th•n any way releeveth him. So the Scripture saith of riches, that they avail not in the day of wrath. All the creatures will then say to you, if God help you not how can we help you? They are but as a tree in the time of a storm; you may run under the tree, and perhaps a few droppings may be kept from you for a while, but if the storm be great and continue, what good can the leaves of a tree do you to keep you from it? The creature may refresh you a little, but if Gods wrath continue what good can the creature do?
But the word which the Seventy translate [he could not heal you] [Greek or Hebrew]. Non sedabit dolorem vestrum, he shall not so much as ease or mitigate your grief, or give you a little refreshment. It's true, sometimes by seeking to creature comforts a man may think he hath some refreshing, but the truth is, it endeth in trouble and sorrow. A man in this case that seeks for help to the creature when God hath struck him,