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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.
Gods goodness to them was as the morning cloud, that is, They by Expos. 2 their sin had drove away Gods mercy and goodness from them, even as the wind carries the dust before it: God was in the way of mercy to them in appearances, and they by their sins put them all away from them. Bernard 1saith, that the wind of their unthankfulness did drive away the floods of mercy from them, much more the dews of mercy. Now God forbid that this should be our condition, the clouds of mercy are over us, and the dews of mercy are upon us, now should we by our sins drive these away from us, what a woeful case should we be in? Therefore let us not only pray to have the dews of mercy, but also the clouds to shower down rivers of mercy.
Gods goodness to them was as the morning cloud, that is, They by Expos. 2 their sin had drove away Gods mercy and goodness from them, even as the wind carries the dust before it: God was in the way of mercie to them in appearances, and they by their sins put them all away from them. Bernard 1saith, that the wind of their unthankfulness did drive away the flouds of mercy from them, much more the dews of mercy. Now God forbid that this should be our condition, the clouds of mercy are over us, and the dews of mercy are upon us, now should we by our sins drive these away from us, what a woful case should we be in? Therefore let us not only pray to have the dews of mercy, but also the clouds to shower down rivers of mercy.
- 1Bernard
Though I do not think this to be the principal scope and sense of the words, ye: it may be noted and afford us useful Expos. 3 meditation; but the proper meaning of the words seems to signify their own goodness, which may betaken, 1. more strictly for mercy and compassion towards one another; because in the sixth verse God calls upon them so earnestly for mercy; notwithstanding all their shows and promises of reformation it was but in hypocrisy, like those in