A77979:1853
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 9
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.
Grey hairs are here and there upon him.
Gray hairs are here and there upon him.
That is, Such miseries as make them grey, there were at §1this time many troubles upon the ten Tribes,1 often afflicted by the Assyrians plundering and spoiling of them: and it is no strange thing to see men grey with very grief and sorrow. Scaliger tells us, of a young man who through the extreme trouble of his spirit, was turned all grey in one one night. How much more should our spirits be affected with the miseries of our times.
That is, Such miseries as make them gray, there were at §1this time many troubles upon the ten Tribes,1 often afflicted by the Assyrians plundering and spoiling of them: and it is no strange thing to see men gray with very grief and sorrow. Scaliger tells us, of a young man who through the extream trouble of his spirit, was turned all gray in one one night. How much more should our spirits be affected with the miseries of our times.
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Grey hairs] That is, their miseries were so long upon them, that made them grey, they were lasting sorrows, they were old in sin, and God made them old in miseries and punishments for their sins. Thus Germany hath been grey-headed for many years together, in respect of the length of their miseries.