A77979:1910
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 14
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.
In regard of the hideousness of their crying unto God, as the Heathens used to their Idols, and so the Hebrew seems to carry it, and to express something remarkable, setting a letter more than ordinary to this word howling. 1And thus the Heathen Indians at this day howl to their gods. And in this manner were the cries of Israel looked at but as howlings.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] the letter י is super added.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the letter י is super added.
They were howlings in regard of their distempered and unquiet spirits; they were in their spirits very turbulent ⟨p. 689⟩and unquiet in their lives, and froward in their carriage in prayer. Even thus it is with many in trouble of conscience, they are very boisterous and make troublesome noises, the shallowest waters makes the greatest noise, but the deepest rivers run the stillest; so those that have the deepest sense of sin, and are kindly troubled for it, are quiet, still and submissive under Gods hand, and certainly such a boisterousness of spirit under the sense of sin, is not from the Spirit, although there may be some legal terrors, but when God hath subdued the heart to himself, the heart will seek earnestly for mercy, and yet in a quiet humble way.
They were howlings in regard of their distempered and unquiet spirits; they were in their spirits very turbulent ⟨p. 689⟩and unquiet in their lives, and froward in their carriage in prayer. Even thus it is with many in trouble of conscience, they are very boisterous and make troublesom noises, the shallowest waters makes the greatest noise, but the deepest rivers run the stillest; so those that have the deepest sence of sin, and are kindly troubled for it, are quiet, still and submissive under Gods hand, and certainly such a boisterousness of spirit under the sence of sin, is not from the Spirit, although there may be some legal terrors, but when God hath subdued the heart to himself, the heart will seek earnestly for mercy, and yet in a quiet humble way.