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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 3
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.
The word it is translated by some, infirmabitu, they shall be made weak. When wicked men are in prosperity their hearts are stout and strong to sin, they can stand out against God and against all threats, but when the hand of God is upon them then their spirits are poor, they are weak, they are presently down. Oh the difference between the jolly, brave, stout spirits of wicked men in their prosperity against God, and their poor, weak, withered, dejected spirits in the time of their adversity, In Ps. 39.11. When with rebukes thou corrects man for iniquity thou makest his beauty consume away like a moth, surely every man is vanity, Selah.
The word it is translated by some, infirmabitu, they shall be made weak. When wicked men are in prosperity their hearts are stout and strong to sin, they can stand out against God and against all threats, but when the hand of God is upon them then their spirits are poor, they are weak, they are presently down. Oh the difference between the jolly, brave, stout spirits of wicked men in their prosperity against God, and their poor, weak, withered, dejected spirits in the time of their adversity, In Ps. 39.11. When with rebukes thou corrects man for iniquity thou makest his beauty c•nsume away like a moth, surely every man is vanity, Selah.
And a notable expression we have of the withering, the languishing of the spirits of wicked men in the time of their adversity, that whereas now in their prosperity their tongues are their own and they must speak and will speak, who is the Lord? &c. they are loud then in their Oaths and blasphemies, but mark now in their adversity how they are, Esa. 21.4. Thou s•alt be brought d•wn and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech s••ll be w out of the dust, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust This is the fruit of the languishing of their spirits in the time of their trouble. As many a riotous and boisterous gallant that would so mouth it when he wa in prosperity, yet set God but lay his hand upon him in sickness and his