A77979:1192
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.
As in the sin of Judas, the most horrible that ever was Act. 2.23. God doth not only permit, but order all, and so far as an evil of punishment works in it: and so far as any natural action is in the sin; as in opening the mouth the natural act of speaking; drawing the sword (the natural act towards fighting) &c. This is Gods glory, and yet to be free from the evil of sin. Many knots there are about this, that men exercise their wits to untie; but cum veneit Elias (as the Hebrews use to say when they are gravelled, when Elijah cometh we shall understand, there is a time when all difficulty shall be easy to reconcile) let us look to Gods hand, not cry out on such and such wicked men. You whose estates have been torn from you, and it may be many of your dearest friends, consider that it is God that is the Lyon tearing.
As in the sin of Judas, the most horrible that ever was Act. 2.23. God doth not only permit, but order all, and so far as an evil of punishment works in it: and so far as any natural action is in the sin; as in opening the mouth the natural act of speaking; drawing the sword (the natural act towards fighting) &c. This is Gods glory, and yet to be free from the evil of sin. Many knots there are about this, that men exercise their wits to untie; but cum veneit Elias (as the Hebrews use to say when they are gravel'd, when Elias cometh we shall understand, there is a time when all difficulty shall be easie to reconcile) let us look to Gods hand, not cry out on such and such wicked men. You whose estates have been torne from you, and it may be many of your dearest friends, consider that it is God that is the Lyon tearing.
From the duplication of the words, we may observe this Note, That the hand of God is more immediate in some judgments than Obs. 4 in others, and the more immediate the more remarkable, there shall not only come judgments upon you, but I will bring ⟨p. 506⟩them, they shall be such, that you shall see, that I am in them. In some judgments upon men, God makes so much use of the creature, that sinners can see little of Gods hand in them, but in some others, they can easily see the hand of God in them; Belshazzar trembled at the hand-writing, and his thoughts were troubled within him, why so? the hand struck him not at all, only he saw it to be the hand of God, the hand of the Deity was in it,