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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 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.
Secondly, Mark what is between these two, being a moth Expos. 2 and a Lyon; between these two it is said, Ephraim saw his sickness and his wound, and he went to the Assyrian and sent to King Jareb, and now saith God, I will be a Lyon unto Ephraim. Hence Note,
That seeking out shifting ways for our selves in times of affliction, provoketh God very much and makes our affliction to be very great. 1The Lord looks upon this with indignation; what, when I appear in My displeasure, do they seek to shift me off by sending to the Assyrian and to King Jareb? upon this the indignation of God riseth high,2 and He becometh a fierce Lyon to them. Josephus reports in the factions that were in Jerusalem, Antiochus being called in by one party who proved the ruin of both. This is the honour God expects, that in our affliction we should not fly from, but humble our selves before Him; if we do not, His anger, His jealousy ariseth to a fearful height, He will pursue in the fierceness of His wrath. The way is not to fly from God, but to fall down before Him, to lie at His feet.3 If a Lyon should come roaring upon us, the way is not to run away shrieking, but to fall down before him.4 There is no man can abide the slighting of his anger; if a parent or a master should be slighted by the child or the servant, this makes him more angry: so when men make light of the anger of God and think that there is power enough in any creature to pacify Him, this causeth the wrath of God burn more fiercely against them: you have as not able an example as any in the book of God; in Isa. 7.17.5 if you compare the story there with the