A77979:1842
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 8
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 were mixed in their societies with other people; Psal. 106.35. §5they were mingled among the Heathens and learned their works, they served their Idols which were a snare unto them. It is a very dangerous thing to be mixed with a wicked society,1 And the mixed multitude which were amongst them (people that came out of Egypt) fell a lusting; The mixed multitude fell a murmuring; this is an affliction in any society, but especially in Church societies. But suppose providence cast me into a family where there are such as these? In such a family thou mayest be as oil in water unmixed,2 put never so much water amongst oil, the oil will be above it, swimming upon the top, Psal. 26.9.3 Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men; if you would not be gathered with them in the day of judgment, do not you gather to them now in communion in Ordinances, nor in intimate society. The Lacedaemonians 4would not suffer a stranger to be with them above three days; and shall we associate our selves with such ar are strangers to God? God had made a great difference betwixt Israel and other people, they were a people separated from all the people of the earth, Exod. 33.16. in the Original it is marvellously separated, or set apart for God,5 they were a people whom God did own in a more peculiar manner, and his eye was upon them for good, therefore it did not become them to mix with other people.
They were mixed in their societies with other people; Psal. 106.35