A77979:1699
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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › Verse 11
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.
1Idolatry is a horrible sin, and God makes it as horrible for judgment. But what was it that provoked the Lord thus against them? because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Gods judgments in Scripture cutting down a people, are compared to a harvest, Joel, 3.13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. But where was this captivity? in 2 Chron. 28.8. And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren, two hundred thousand men, sons and daughters. But when was their return? in the 9. verse, the Prophet comes to them, and tells them in the 11. verse, they must deliver up their captives which they had taken from their brethren; these were brethren as is clear, yet behold the rage of brethren! yet in the 15. verse, see how this took with them; they clothed, fed, and restored all their captives again presently. See the mighty power of the Word to still the rage of the stoutest spirits. Oh that it might do so with us at this time, as it did here with this people, this would be a kindly work indeed; so that by this you may see what the harvest is here in the text.
1Idolatry is a horrible sin, and God makes it as horrible for judgment. But what was it that provoked the Lord thus against them? because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Gods judgmemts in Scripture cutting down a people, are compared to a harvest, Joel, 3.13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. But where was this captivity? in 2 Chron. 28.8. And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren, two hundred thousand men, sons and daughters. But when was their return? in the 9. verse, the Prophet comes to them, and tells them in the 11. verse, they must deliver up their captives which they had taken from their brethren; these were brethren as is cleer, yet behold the rage of brethren! yet in the 15. verse, see how this took with them; they cloathed, fed, and restored all their captives again presently. See the mighty power of the Word to still the rage of the stoutest spirits. Oh that it might do so with us at this time, as it did here with this people, this would be a kindly work indeed; so that by this you may see what the harvest is here in the text.