A77979:1672
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.
2. By refusing to take in those, which of right they should, except they had good store of money to give them, when some that were poor came to be let in, they would refuse them and put them by, and by that means they were often taken by the pursuer of blood: for these priests were to judg of it.
2. By refusing to take in those, which of right they should, except they had good store of mony to give them, when some that were poor came to be let in, they would refuse them and put them by, and by that means they were often taken by the pursuer of blood: for these priests were to judg of it.
3. By casting those out which were in, and could not be gainful to them, and many times they did deliver those out to the avenger of blood, when they should have protected them.
4. By their cruelty to those that would not join with them in their false worship; perhaps they might some of them be men of tender consciences and could not join with them in their superstitious worship? now these Priests perhaps would make complaints of them to the Magistrate, that they were troublesome persons and bred divisions, and by this means they got them out of the Cities of refuge. And hath not this been our case of late? thus they supplanted these Cities of refuge. The Notes of Observation are,
4. By their cruelty to those that would not joyn with them in their false worship; perhaps they might some of them be men of tender consciences and could not joyn with them in their superstitious worship? now these Priests perhaps would make complaints of them to the Magistrate, that they were troublesom persons and bred divisions, and by this means they got them out of the Cities of refuge. And hath not this been our case of late? thus they supplanted these Cities of refuge. The Notes of Observation are,