A77979:1735
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.
A wanton erroneous spirit: such opinions as were never §10known before, doubting of the Immortality of the soul, that there is no visible Church upon the face of the earth, and all this under the Name of Christ and free grace. Now what doth all this but show thus much, that when God would have healed us, then our iniquities did appear: what sad passages are these of our miseries approaching?
A wanton erronious spirit: such opinions as were never §10known before, doubting of the Immortallity of the soul, that there is no visible Church upon the face of the earth, and all this under the Name of Christ and free grace. Now what doth all this but shew thus much, that when God would have healed us, then our iniquities did appear: what sad passages are these of our miseries approaching?
What an unmerciful spirit is there among us. Every one seeking §11his own, and how he may make him and his great in the world, and neglecting the poor and those that are in distress, we have cause to say, Oh Lord, what shall become of us? Know this, that I may not altogether discourage you; though our times are miserable, yet are they not like unto Israel altogether, it cannot be denied but that our Court hath seconded Ephraim, which was their Court,1 and though the City of Samariah did join with Ephraim, yet the City2 with us hath not joined with Ephraim but the bulk of it hath kept faithful with their God; for which mercy the children ⟨p. 644⟩3yet unborn will have cause to bless God.