A77979:1501
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 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 2hath this Note from hence, that the power of the Word appears in this, that it awakens, convinces, and terrifies the consciences of men, so that they go home and make away themselves, and become self-murderers, and the truth is, it is nothing else but the word working powerfully to the ruin and destruction of men.
In the operation and working of it, it hath a mighty efficasie in it, for the working impenitent sinners to ruin, it is as a twoedged 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 litteral sense to some who withstand and oppose it, Ezek. 11.2