A77979:1713
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.
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 Isa. 7.9. The head of Ephraim is Samaria: as if the wickedness of the Court should be complained of by some in the Country.
When I would have healed Israel] Before God took upon him the person of a husband, that would have recalled his adultrous wife: but in this Chapter He compares Himself to a Chyrurgion 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 Chyrurgion 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 strugles not at all, but when they are put to pain by searching of their wound, then they are froward and strugle: so saith God, so many waies 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 sinnes of Ephraim did break forth, the sins of the Court they work out: and the sins of Samaria (which was the chief City) shew themselves; in Isa. 7.9. The head of Ephraim is Samaria: as if the wickedness of the Court should be complained of by some in the Country.