A77979:1635
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 7
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.
VER. 7. For they like men have transgressed the Covenant.
Here is an argument, that mercy in the former verse is to be understood in a large sense: Why? Because it is the very substance of the Covenant; they have been hard-hearted, cruel and unmerciful, and thereby they have transgressed the Covenant: I am merciful in the Covenant, and my grace is free and full to sinners there; but they have transgressed the Covenant by being cruel and unmerciful, for they like men have transgressed the Covenant.
HEre is an argument, that mercy in the former verse is to be understood in a large sense: Why? Because it is the very substance of the Covenant; they have been hard-hearted, cruel and unmerciful, and thereby they have transgressed the Covenant: I am merciful in the Covenant, and my grace is free and full to sinners there; but they have transgressed the Covenant by being cruel and unmerciful, for they like men have transgressed the Covenant.
Like men] That is, like Adam, these men have sinned after Expos. 1 the similitude of Adams transgression; Rom. 15.14. speaks of those who had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression: But these, as they have old Adam in them, so they have dealt with me as he did; and as he for his sin was cast out of Paradise, so these men have deserved to be cast out of Expos. 2 the good Land. But Vatablus, & Tremelius