A77979:176
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 4 › Verse 2
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.
They break out and blood toucheth blood.
They break out.] Erumpunt; That is, like the eruption of waters; As waters break over the banks wh•n it hath been kept in a while, so they break out thus, they overflow all bounds. When sin is not mortified, though it be restrained for a while, it will break out: As many young men that have lived in good families and have had good governors, then their sin was restrained, but afterward when they come to live at their own hand then they break out, Erumpunt then; sin groweth to that strength that nothing can restrain it, like that man that had an unclean spirit and lived among the ⟨p. 60⟩graves (Mark, 5.) no man could bind him no not with chains.
They break out.] Erumpunt; That is, like the erruption of waters; As waters break over the banks wh•n it hath been kept in a while, so they break out thus, they overflow all bounds. When sin is not mortified, though it be restrained for a while, it will break out: As many young men that have lived in good families and have had good governours, then their sin was restrained, but afterward when they come to live at their own hand then they break out, Erumpunt then; sin groweth to that strength that nothing can res•rain it, like that man that had an unclean spirit and lived among the ⟨p. 60⟩graves (Mark, 5.) no man could bind him no not with chains.