A77979:1829
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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 7 › Verse 7
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.
Expos. 2 Others carry it thus: They having mischieved and ruined their Judges that did oppose them,1 therefore Mercer that learned Interpreter, for the furtherance of this sense, brings a tradition of the Jews, That the Princes and Rulers had so ⟨p. 671⟩wrought about with the people, that they should come to the King & bring a humble petition to him, in which they should desire & entreat the King to give them leave to set up an Idol, which they did; and when they came, the King put them off & told them it was late in the evening now, & bid them come in the morning: in the morning they came, and bid him, Arise, and set them up an Idol. No (saith he) your* Synedrium will not give consent to it, nor suffer it. No say they, we have taken a course with them, we have kill,d them; which is the old way and course which persecutors take with those which might seem to oppose them in their plots.
Expos. 2 Others carry it thus: They having mischieved and ruined their Judges that did oppose them,1 therefore Mercer that learned Interpretor, for the furtherance of this sense, brings a tradition of the Jews, That the Princes and Rulers had so ⟨p. 671⟩wrought about with the people, that they should come to the King & bring a humble petition to him, in which they should desire & intreat the King to give them leave to set up an Idol, which they did; and when they came, the King put them off & told them it was late in the evening now, & bid them come in the morning: in the morning they came, and bid him, Arise, and set them up an I•ol. No (saith he) your* Synedrium will not give consent to it, nor suffer it. No say they, we have taken a course with them, we have kil,d them; which is the old way and course which persecutors take with those which might seem to oppose them in their plots.