A77979:1187
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.
My brethren, time it is for us all to rend our hearts, even ⟨p. 504⟩to tear and rend our very hearts within us, because the Lord is come out against us as a tearing Lyon, rending and tearing this way and that way. The Jews were wont when they heard the Name of God blasphemed to rend their garments presently. We hear of the dreadful blasphemies of our adversaries, rending and tearing of the Name of God, Oh how should we rend our hearts rather than our garments! It is dreadful to hear of the tearing of mens estates and bodies, but much more dreadful should it be to us to hear of the tearing of the Name of God. It's time then for sorrow to be in our hearts, and not ordinary sorrow neither, but rending of our hearts now; and now we should even be ready to tear the heart out of our bowels to see that we have been no more affected hitherto than we have. And the rather because we have scaped for the present & our estates and bodies are yet whole. Our sins have had an influence into the miseries of our brethren; our sins have been those claws and teeth that have torn our brethren. Thus the Lord is raised from a moth and worm even to a tearing Lyon.
Obs. 2 And note, Though the Assyrians and cursed Babylonians did this, yet saith God, I will be as a Lyon to tear them.
Hence another observation, That God hath a righteous hand in the worst actions of men.