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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.
Obs. 7 It is not enough to worship God better than others, if we be of perverse spirits. This was the sin of Judah, because they had the Ordinances in a purer way, and worshipped God better than Ephraim,1 they thought they might continue in this their sin: Oh that this were not Englands sin at this day: Let us be humbled for it that we may escape their judgment.
Obs. 7 It is not enough to worship God better than others, if we be of perverse spirits. This was the sin of Judah, because they had the Ordinances in a purer way, and worshiped God better than Ephraim,1 they thought they might continue in this their sin: Oh that this were not Englands sin at this day: Let us be humbled for it that we may escape their judgment.
- 1Applicat. for Engl.
For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
1Your goodness] That is, your kindness, or your mercy, as the word signifies, in the Original it is [chesed] the same word which we have in the sixth verse, your mercy, I will have mercy, that is, your piety, and godliness in the strict signification of it, but mercy in the large sense: The Seventy Translators render the words, your mercy, your goodness: but why your goodness? yours, because either of Gods goodness towards them, or their goodness, their holiness which was in them: Gods goodness towards them; which is called ours,