A77979:1913
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.
Howling; to note, that God regarded their cries no more §4than the howlings of beasts: Amos, 8.3.1 The songs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day: as the prayers, so the sacrifices of such, how pleasing they are to God we find, Isa. 66.3. they are but as the cutting off a dogs neck; and their cries were but as the cries of that dog whose neck was cut off: They in their pride were wont to speak contemptibly of God, his ways, and servants, contemning them, and God, ⟨p. 690⟩he contemns and scorns them, their prayers, and their sacrifices; therefore that in Prov. 1.26. is verified here, He will laugh at their destruction, and mock when their fear cometh. Oh how vile are wicked men in God eyes, when they are in trouble and misery. None so vile but we pity them, and relieve them; but for the infinite, merciful, pitiful God, who is full of goodness and hath bowels of tender love and compassion, for him to have them in derision and to jeer (as we may so speak) the cries of his creature, Oh the consideration of this is most sad; Oh vile is the sin which makes man thus odious.
Howling; to note, that God regarded their cries no more §4than the howlings of beasts: Amos, 8.3.1 The songs of the Temple shall be howlings in that day: as the prayers, so the sacrifices of such, how pleasing they are to God we find, Isa. 66.3. they are but as the cutting off a dogs neck; and their cryes were but as the cries of that dog whose neck was cut off: They in their pride were wont to speak contemptibly of God, his waies, and servants, contemning them, and God,