A77979:191
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.
Hierome here allegorizeth it, and would not take it literally, but to be the expressions of several sorts of men suitable to this. But we must not stand to that, but rather take the words at they are literally. Only for the reading of them a word or two first.
Hierome here allegorizeth it, and would not take it litterally, but to be the expressions of several sorts of men sutable to this. But we must not stand to that, but rather take the words at they are literally. Only for the reading of them a word or two first.
With the beasts of the field] In the Hebrew [Be] which is translated with, is as much sometime as, for, in that tongue, for the beasts of the field; so it is in the 5. chapter and the 5; vers. Israel and Ephraim shall fall in their iniquity, or,1 for their iniquity, there it is Be too. So that if we should translate it so, for the beasts of the field, then we might have this Note;2 Here we may see the poor condition that we are in, that when but the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air are destroyed, our comforts are gone quickly. The comforts of natural men depend upon poor things, upon the beasts of the field, the fishes of the Sea, the fowls of the air, if Gods hand be but upon them, they languish for them; Now the cups are taken from their mouths and their full dishes from their tables, now they languish. It is otherwise with a gracious heart, according to that in Habak. 3.17. Although the figtree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines, the labour of the Olive shall sail, and the fields shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. A gracious […] doth not languish because the beasts of the field and th• […] of the air are taken away: let them be taken away yet he can rejoice in God, his spirit will be kept up.