A77979:1668
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 8
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. 8. Gilead is a City of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
WE read in Numb. 32.1. of the Land of Gilead which was on the other side of the river, which Reuben and the false Tribe of Manasseh possessed, in it were divers Cities of refuge, which were the Cities of the Levites, and one of them the most famous which had the name of the whole Country, was Gilead: which thing is usually among us at this day, that whole Countries receive their names from some eminent place in that Country, as Northampton, Northamptonshire, Leicester, Leicestershire: in this City of Gilead the Priests were, and should have been holier than the rest, but it was polluted, and from thence the rest of the places of the Kingdom.
VVEE reade in Numb. 32.1. of the Land of Gilead which was on the other side of the river, which Reuben and the false Tribe of Manassah possessed, in it were divers Cities of refuge, which were the Cities of the Levites, and one of them the most famous which had the name of the whol Country, was Gilead: which thing is usually among us at this day, that whol Countries receive their names from some eminent place in that Country, as Northampton, Northamptonshire, Leicester, Leicestershire: in this Citie of Gilead the Priests were, and should have been holier than the rest, but it was polluted, and from thence the rest of the places of the Kingdom.
The word translated [They have wrought] is drawn from a word that signifies, they have wrought iniquity, that is, vain ⟨p. 627⟩things. And is polluted with blood, or supplanted with blood, or overturned with blood;