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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 4
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.
VER. 4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
LUTHER upon this place,1 carries on these words as a further expression of mercy to this people Israel, and not in any way of reproof to them; as if the Lord had said to them thus: Oh Israel, my people, I have been very good and gracious to you in the Land of Egypt, and delivered you from that tyranny and oppression which you were under, and I have been with you in the wilderness, and I have brought you into the Land of Canaan, but what are these? all but temporal mercies, I have greater mercies than these to bestow upon you, the Gospel it shall reveal other manner of things to you. He carries it all along as in a way of mercy, but if this be the meaning, then this objection will arise.
- 1Luthers Exposit.
What shall we understand by the next words? your ⟨p. 568⟩goodness is as the morning cloud? how can this be said? Luther to this answers thus; Your goodness; that is, the goodness of God which is yours by Covenant and purchase prepared for you, this mercy of God shall refresh your parched souls, as the morning cloud doth the earth after a long drought; thus he carries it.