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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 4
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.
Again, Let no man strive with his brother.] You may see that this people were grown to a worse pass than they were before, for in the second Chapter of this prophecy, Say to your brethren Ammi, and to your sisters Ru•hamah. There those that were godly amongst them were admonished to speak to their brethren and their sisters, though they were naught yet the godly that were dispersed amongst them must be admonishing those they lived withal; but now it is come to such a pass that there must be no more striving, no mo•• […] admonishing. Here we may take this note, That sin doth increase in ••aces where Obs. 4 it is let alone. Those that were capable of admonition one while, going on in sin and hardening their hearts, grow quickly past all admonition.
Again, Let no man strive with his brother.] You may see that this people were grown to a worse pass than they were before, for in the second Chapter of this prophesie, Say to your brethren Ammi, and to your sisters Ru•hamah. There those that were godly amongst them were admonished to speak to their brethren and their sisters, though they were naught yet the godly that were disperst amongst them must be admonishing those they lived withal; but now it is come to such a pass that there must be no more striving, no mo•• 〈…〉 ••monishing. Here we may take this note, That sin doth increase in ••aces where Obs. 4 it is let alone. Those that were capable of admonition one while, going on in sin and hardning their hearts, grow quickly past all admonition.
Fifthly, There is a time when men may, you men should Obs. 5 leave their striving and admonishing and reproving of others, when they should let them alone. Especially in these two cases; when those that they should admonish scorn their admonition, when they grow scorners; when they trample