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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 6 › Verse 2
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.
Yet for the further opening of them, know that interpreters differ, they keep a great stir to know what's meant by two days, some think it spoken of the Jewish captivity, others of the second coming of Christ, the Messiah therefore: Luther 1seems to contemn their inceties, saying, he thinks them not worthy to find out the meaning of a text, who stand so curiously upon such inceties.
Yet for the further opening of them, know that interpreters differ, they keep a great stir to know what's meant by two daies, some think it spoken of the Jewish captivity, others of the second coming of Christ, the Messias therefore: Luther 1seems to contemn their inceties, saying, he thinks them not worthy to find out the meaning of a text, who stand so curiously upon such inceties.
- 1Luther
The meaning1 therefore of the words are, after two days, that is, although God do not come presently, after two days, yet he will come, mercy though it stays long yet it will come; two days in Scripture signifies a little and a short time; as Numb. 9.22. whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud stayed upon the Tabernacle: two days, that is, when we shall be in any great extremity of pain or misery, Mercer 2quotes R. Abrah. 3Ezra filium, who says, that wounds and gashes in a mans body pain and smart more at two days end than at the first; so God may let us lie in the smart of pain and sorrow two days, but in the third day mercy shall follow.