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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 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.
In its denouncing of judgement upon men; for what the §1Word threatens it is said to do, Jer. 18.7, 8. At what instant I speak concerning a Nation, or concerning a Kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy, and when God promises mercy & good he is said to give life; and we should look upon them as performing of it.
In its deonouncing of judgement upon men; for what the §1Word threatens it is said to do, Jer. 18.7, 8. At what instant I speak concerning a Nation, or concerning a Kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy, and when God promises mercy & good he is said to give life; and we should look upon them as performing of it.
In the operation and working of it, it hath a mighty efficacy in it, for the working impenitent sinners to ruin, it is as a two-edged sword which doth execution every way Isa. 11.3 ⟨p. 591⟩It makes men of quick understanding in the fear of God; and God is said to consume Antichrist by the breath of his nostrils, and by the Word of his mouth,1 the Word is of such a force that sometimes if brings death in a literal sense to some who withstand and oppose it, Ezek. 11.2. Pelatiah gives wicked counsel in the City, and the Prophet is commanded to prophesy against him, and in the 13. verse we read that when the Prophet prophesied, Pelatiah died: so many times God makes the Word so powerful in the mouths of his servants that it strikes men dead presently: Gualter