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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 4 › Verse 1
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.
1Gods controversy with Covenant-breakers, with those that betray their trust, is very dreadful. I will show you an example or two out of the Scripture and out of History.
1Gods controversie with Covenant-breakers, with those that betray their trust, is very dreadful. I will shew you an example or two out of the Scripture and out of History.
- 1Observ.
First that notable place in 2 Sam. 21. when there was a famine in the days of David three years together, David would know what the matter was, God gave him this answer, That twas for Saul and his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites; ⟨p. 27⟩Because Saul would not keep that trust to the Gibeonites that was promised them, God therefore brings a famine upon the whole Land for three years together: And I beseech you mark the aggravation here of Gods displeasure against any that break trust; first this promise was not made by Saul, but by Sauls Progenitors, and it was made above three hundred years before his time, And then to whom was it made? unto a Heathenish people, to the Gibeonites; And this promise they got deceitfully, they deceived Joshua and so got it by craft; further it was a promise made them without asking counsel of God, so the text saith, Josh. 9.14. Again, this promise was against the mind of the congregation, verse 18. All the congregation murmured against the Princes: Again, Saul when he slew the Gibeonites he did not do it out of a perfidious spirit, but out of a good intent, for so the text saith,