A77979:1647
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.
And were this knot rightly understood and untied, the Antinomians and we might easily be reconciled; for we grant that Believers are delivered from the Law in respect of the power of it, as condemning; from the rigour of it, but not from the duties of the Law; for the things commanded in the Law were duties before the Law was given, the Law was written in the hearts of the Saints from the beginning. But the opening of this point would require a whole Exercise, and I shall reserve this to some other time.
And were this knot rightly understood and untied, the Antinomians and we might easily be reconciled; for we grant that Believers are delivered from the Law in respect of the power of it, as condemning; from the riger of it, but not from the duties of the Law; for the things commanded in the Law were duties before the Law was given, the Law was written in the hearts of the Saints from the beginning. But the opening of this point would require a whol Exercise, and I shall reserve this to some other time.
Now then the Covenant which they transgressed,1 was the Covenant at large, but especially that Covenant which God made with them when they came into the Land of Canaan.
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They transgressed] the word is, They went over it,1 the Covenant was betwixt them and their sins, and they went over it to their sins, the bank was not high enough to keep them and their sins asunder. Expos. 1