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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.
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,1 is as a Deer that is shot with an Arrow, the Deer runs up and down from one bush to another to seek for case, but the blood falls all along, and perhaps by and by his bowels run out; what ease can bushes do to a poor Deer when the arrow sticks in his body? God many times strikes his arrows into the sides of people, and they run up and down to the creature, to this bush and to the other bush for help, but little or none can they have form any.
But the word which the Seventy translate [he could not heal you] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Non sedabit dolorem vestrum, he shall not so much as ease or mittigate 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,1 is as a Deer that is shot with an Arrow, the Deer runs up and down from one bush to another to seek for case, but the blood falls all along, and perhaps by and by his bowels run out; what ease can bushes do to a poor Deer when the arrow sticks in his body? God many times strikes his arrows into the sides of people, and they run up and down to the creature, to this bush and to the other bush for help, but little or none can they have form any.
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