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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 4 › Verse 2
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.
But now in the ways of execution of justice there we must not account the shedding of blood to be killing. God hath not a controversy with a land for bloodshed in the execution of Justice; nay on the contrary the Lord hath a controversy against a people when there is not shedding of blood that way Jer. 48.10. Cursed be the man that withholds his hand from blood. such a case may be. And 1. King. 20.42. when Ahab let Benhadad go, the text saith that a Prophet came to him, in the name of the Lord saying, Because thou h•st let go out of thy hand, a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. So when we have men in our hands whom God hath appointed to destruction, who are guilty of death, who have sought not the blood of some few but the massacring of a City, if for private ends of our own we let them go, God may require our lives for theirs. And this is the cause it may be amongst others, that there is so much bloodshed at this day amongst us, because there is no execution of Justice upon offenders, and God requires the blood of many for many. It is true, Papist• for their Religion are not to be put to death: that we acknowledge, but the Lord because he intendeth the ruin of that party, will leave them to those ways that they shall be guilty of death by the Law of the Land, and by the Law of Arms, and then the putting them to death in that kind is the execution of Justice and not the breach of the sixth Commandment.
But now in the waies of execution of justice there we must not account the shedding of blood to be killing. God hath not a •ontroversie with a land for bloodshed in the execution of Justice; nay on the contrary the Lord hath a controversie against a people when there is not shedding of blood that way Jer. 48.10. Cursed be the man that withholds his hand from blood. such a case may be. And 1. King. 20.42. when Ahab let Benhadad go, the text saith that a Prophet came to him, in the name of the Lord saying, Because thou h•st let go out of thy hand, a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people. So when we have men in our hands whom God hath appointed to destruction, who are guilty of death, who have sought not the blood of some few but the massacring of a Citie, if for private ends of our own we let them go, God may require our lives for theirs. And this is the cause it may be amongst others, that there is so much bloodshed at this day amongst us, because there is no execution of Justice upon offenders, and God requires the blood of many for many. It is true, Papist for their Religion are not to be put to death: that we acknowledg, but the Lord because he intendeth the ruin of that partie, will leave them to those waies that they shall be guilty of death by the Law of the Land, and by the Law of Arms, and then the putting them to death in that kind is the execution of Justice and not the breach of the sixth Commandement.