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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.
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 *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 yeeld and buckle under the power of the Word, when it comes against their sins, there would be a taking part with the Word.
- *A fit simile.
Gods Ministers are hewers. I have hewed them by my Prophets; Obs. 4 elsewhere they are called Gods Workmen, and here Hewers, and that in these two respects: Either to prepare them for Gods building, or to cast them into the fire, these are Gods ends in sending His Ministers, His Hewers; now they hew all, good and bad, to take them off from their own rootings and make them as beams in Gods building, or to be as an axe laid to the root of their souls. 'Tis recorded that in the building of Solomons Temple there was no noise of knocking with hammers or tools, the materials being prepared, fitted, and squared beforehand: so those which will be members