A77979:1891
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 13
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.
VER. 13. Woe unto them, for they have fled from me: destruction unto them, because they have transgressed against me, though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
VER. 13. Wo unto them, for they have fled from me: destruction unto them, because they have transgressed against me, though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lyes against me.
WOE in Scripture sometimes signifies pity, and misery; here it is to be understood of misery, destruction to them.
WO in Scripture sometimes signifies pity, and misery; here it is to be understood of misery, destruction to them.
They forsake me] The word here interpreted, forsake, signifies to wander; it is a woeful thing to depart from God, much more to wander from God: Woe be to you, when I depart from you, but if you depart from me, what will you do? In wandering from God, thou wanderest from the only Infinite good, and then, where wilt thou rest the sole of thy foot? what shall comfort thee in the time of thy distress? It is evil to wander from God, but much more to make hast from God. It is the Devils plot and custom, to hurry backsliding sinners from God, that they should not consider what they do, and whither they are going, he posteth them on in their evil ways as a bird to the snare, and knoweth it not that it is for his life, Prov. 7.23. Oh how much more should the Saints be put on for God? not to be kept off with impediments, but let our souls with Davids, in Psal. 63.8. follow hard after God; and