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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.
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 ⟨p. 594⟩of Gods Temple hereafter, must be hewed and fitted for it here; therefore John is said to be one sent to make rough things plain, to level great mountains, mountains of sins, crabbed and rugged spirits.
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 ax 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 ⟨p. 594⟩of Gods Temple hereafter, must be hewed and fitted for it here; therefore John is said to be one sent to make rough things plain, to level great mountains, mountains of sins, crabbed and rugged spirits.
1By this work you may see what a hard task the Ministers labour is, this made Jeremiah to complain, when he saw the dullness and stupidity of the people, resolved that he would speak no more in the Name of the Lord to this people. The work of a Minister it is more laborious than the work of a Carpenter, as Chrysostom