A77979:1246
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 15
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.
Obs. 1 In the forest and greatest afflictions which befall the people of God, God intends their good in them. I will return unto my place, that they may seek me early: in all this that is come upon ⟨p. 523⟩them, I intend them no hurt, but every way much good, Isa. 27.9. By this the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of their sin, Isa. 16.14.1 compared with the 9.2 and there we may see Gods different dealing in afflicting the wicked and the godly, in the 14. verse we have Gods dealing with the wicked, They are dead, they shall not live; they are diseased, they shall not rise. The wicked they are dead, and being dead, shall never rise: but in the 19. verse, when he speaks of the Saints he saith, Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they rise. Gods word shows a great deal of difference between the anger of God, and the anger of men, men when they are angry seek the destruction sometimes of those with whom they are angry; but God loves them in his anger; the spring of Gods anger to his people is love: the outward administrations of God both to the wicked and the godly may be one and the same, yet the root from whence they come much different, they may be love and kindness to the one, but wrath and hatred to the other.
Obs. 1 In the forest and greatest aff•ictions which befal the people of God, God intends their good in them. I will return unto my place, that they may seek me early: in all this that is come upon ⟨p. 523⟩them, I intend them no hurt, but every way much good, Isa. 27.9. By this the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged, and this is all the fruit, the taking away of their sin,