A77979:1712
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 7 › Verse 1
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.
THIS Chapter is filled with complaints wholly against Israel. The two former Chapters brought in Judah with them; but this Chapter is spent wholly against Israel. Luther 1saith, that by the reading of this Chapter we may see, that the Church hath always evils of one and the same kind, even at this day that it had in those times, even as one egg is like to another egg. We have had a clear and lively pattern of this held forth to us in our times concerning our evils.2
THIS Chapter is filled with complaints wholly against Israel. The two former Chapters brought in Judah with them; but this Chapter is spent wholly against Israel. Luther 1saith, that by the reading of this Chapter we may see, that the Church hath alwaies evils of one and the same kind, even at this day that it had in those times, even as one eg is like to another eg. We have had a cleer and lively pattern of this held forth to us in our times concerning our evils.2
- 1Luther
- 2Expos.
When I would have healed Israel] Before God took upon him the person of a husband, that would have recalled his adulterous wife: but in this Chapter He compares Himself to a Chirurgeon who would have cured a wounded person: and His people He compares unto such. But coming to cure them He found the wound in them worse than He expected; as when a Chirurgeon sometimes first comes to a wound, he thinks it not so bad and dangerous as indeed it is upon the ⟨p. 637⟩searching of it, and all this while perhaps the patient is very mild and quiet and struggles not at all, but when they are put to pain by searching of their wound, then they are froward and struggle: so saith God, so many ways and means have I used to do them good, judgments, reproofs, and exhortations, and nothing doth them good, but they grow worse and worse, then the sins of Ephraim did break forth, the sins of the Court they work out: and the sins of Samaria (which was the chief City) show themselves; in