A77979:1179
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 14
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.
Yea the truth is the Lord had been to England 1as a moth and rottenness; And this very text I make no question but some of you have heard many years ago applied unto England, when as those Ministers that preached upon this text did little think that ever there should be such a hand of God against many parts of England as now there is at this day. In many parts of this Kingdom the Lord is at this day as a Lyon. We all hear the roaring of the Lyon, and who can but tremble! Oh it is time for us all to fall down to the ground before the Lord. It is true God hath not yet come to this City as a Lyon to tear and rend it as other places in the Country;2 but yet we have heard the roaring of the Lyon abroad, and God calleth us to fall down before Him that He may not be so to us, that he may not come and tear us likewise. Certainly, the Lord will have glory of His creature; God hath sworn by Himself and the word hath proceeded out of His mouth in righteousness, that every knee must bow to Him, and every tongue confess His Name: Every creature must submit unto Him, and if lesser judgments will not do it, God will lay every sinner upon His back, He will come as a Lyon to tear him in pieces.
Yea the truth is the Lord had been to England 1as a moth and rottenness; And this very text I make no question but some of you have heard many yeers ago applied unto England, when as those Ministers that preached upon this text did little think that ever there should be such a hand of God against many parts of England as now there is at this day. In many parts of this Kingdom the Lord is at this day as a Lyon. We all hear the roaring of the Lyon, and who can but tremble! Oh it is time for us all to fall down to the ground before the Lord. It is true God hath not yet come to this Citie as a Lyon to tear and rend it as other places in the Countrie;2 but yet we have heard the roaring of the Lyon abroad, and God calleth us to fall down before Him that He may not be so to us, that he may not come and tear us likewise. Certainly, the Lord will have glory of His creature; God hath sworn by Himself and the word hath proceeded out of His mouth in righteousness, that every knee must bow to Him, and every tongue confess His Name: Every creature must submit unto Him, and if lesser judgments will not do it, God will lay every sinner upon His back, He will come as a Lyon to tear him in pieces.