A77979:1507
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.
I have hewen them. And the longer men continued in their sins the knottier they are; as timber which hath lain long soaking in the water is tough & hardened; so mens spirits that are soaked in their evil ways, Oh how untoward are they, and how hard a thing is it to fasten any thing that is good upon them? so that when we see mens spirits tough, stubborn and hard to be wrought upon think of this text, I have hewed them by my Prophets.
I have hewen them. And the longer men continued in their sins the knottier they are; as timber which hath lain long soking in the water is tough & hardened; so mens spirits that are soaked in their evil waies, Oh how untoward are they, and how hard a thing is it to fasten any thing that is good upon them? so that when we see mens spirits tough, stubborn and hard to be wrought upon think of this text, I have hewed them by my Prophets.
That this is spoken of a people whose goodness was as the morning cloud, and the early dew which passeth away: The Note is, That many people although their goodness be but as the dew, Obs. 3 soon off, yet their evil is hard and settled: the goodness of many is like the *softness of a plumb soon crushed; but their wickedness is like the stone in the plumb hard and unflexable; so that you may here see grace & truth doth not consist in good motions, stirrings, and desires, for these may be where the heart is not melting, soft, nor tender; the heart is not changed, for were the heart kindly wrought upon, it would kindly yield and buckle under the power of the Word, when it comes against their sins, there would be a taking part with the Word.
That this is spoken of a people whose goodness was as the morning cloud, and the early dew which passeth away: The Note is, That many people although their goodness be but as the dew, Obs. 3 soon off, yet their evil is hard and setled: the goodness of many is like the *