A77979:1449
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.
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, ⟨p. 573⟩sometimes Gods goodness, as in Rom. 11.31. That through your mercy they might obtain mercy; by that mercy which God bestowed on you, you may encourage the gentile; to come in; 2. Their goodness: which is double, either to their brethren, or their piety & holiness, both these were as the morning cloud, or as the early dew that goeth away. If the first signification of them be taken, then the sense runs thus.
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 sixt verse, your mercy, I will have mercy, that is, your piety, and godliness in the strickt 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, ⟨p. 573⟩somtimes Gods goodness, as in Rom. 11.31. That through your mercy they might obtain mercy; by that mercy which God bestowed on you, you may encourage the gentile; to come in; 2. Their goodness: which is double, either to their brethren, or their piety & holiness, both these were as the morning cloud, or as the early dew that goeth away. If the first signification of them be taken, then the sense runs thus.