A77979:1457
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.
Expos. 1 As the morning cloud: and as the early dew.] In these words God charges this people for three things in which their notorious hypocrisy was expressed.1 For their vacuity and emptiness, their words were empty sounds, they were clouds without water as Jude expresses it; Jude, 12. 'tis the high commendation of Christians to be full of God, of Christ, and full of grace and knowledge: of which Ephraim had a show, but it was but a show.
Expos. 1 As the morning cloud: and as the early dew.] In these words God charges this people for three things in which their notorious hypocrisie was expressed.1 For their vacuity and emptiness, their words were empty sounds, they were clouds without water as Jude expresses it; Jude, 12. 'tis the high commendation of Christians to be full of God, of Christ, and ful of grace and knowledg: of which Ephraim had a shew, but it was but a shew.
- 1Clouds and dew passing, what they employ.Clouds and dew passing, what they imploy.
Expos. 2 For their falseness and dissembling, they had a heart and a heart towards God, they dealt treacherously with God, they were all in shows, but in the bottom nothing but vanity.
Expos. 2 For their falfness and desembling, they had a heart and a heart towards God, they dealt treacherously with God, they were all in shows, but in the bottom nothing but vanity.