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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › Verse 5
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. 5. Therefore have I hewed them by my Prophets: I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgments are as the light, that goeth forth.
Therefore have I hewed them.] We would think there were little dependence upon these words,1 yet there is a very fit one. Therefore, that is, because they are so fickle and unconstant, so off and on, therefore have I caused my Prophets to deal sharply with them to cut them to the quick; I would not have dealt thus wth them, but that I have no other way to ⟨p. 588⟩take with them, seeing that they are so vain, so slight in their spirits I deal thus with them, that if it were possible I might fit them, and they might be brought to see what a God it is they have to deal withal. The Apostle in Titus, 1.13. is commanded to reprove them sharply that they might be sound in the faith; sharply, that is, cuttingly, rebuke them cuttingly. My Prophets have been as an axe, [in Prophets] as an axe that cuts hard knotty wood, or as the instruments of Carvers in stone, which cuts rough things.2 And have slain them by the words of my mouth; the seventy Translators carry these words thus, Have slain the Prophets, that is, have hewn the Prophets; and Hierom 3refers it to the time of Elijah, 1 Kings, 18.40. who slew so many of Baals Prophets, and unto J•hu's time, that slue also many of Baals Priests, 2 Kings, 10.25. thus they carry it; and in this you have an objection answered that the people might plead thus.