A77979:1715
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.
Their wickednesses. In the Original it is in the plural number, When I would have healed Israel, 1then the sin of Ephraim did break out, and the wickedness of Samariah appeared.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉
In great Cities where there is such concourse of people, 1there is all manner of evils.
- 1Obs.
But now, when was the time that God was about to heal these ten Tribes? to what time doth this refer? some interpret this to be the time when God went about to cure the evils and the abominations that were in Rehoboams time which was a very sad time,1 had he hearkened to the counsel of his wise, grave Counsellors, it had been well for him, and his people; but he giving credit to the counsel of his young green heads, he endangered the very life of his Kingdom by it, and when he would not hearken through the pride of his heart, God rent the greatest part of the Kingdom from him, and gave it to Jeroboam, and now when there were such hopes of delivering them from these their oppressions,2