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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
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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.
1Secondly, When Ministers do reprehend and strive with people, they must expect to be striven withal by people. These are as a people that strive with the Priest, they have such vile hearts that had they never such faithful and godly Officers that were set over them by God, they would strive with them. And indeed all faithful Ministers must expect that if they strive with men for their sins, men will strive with them. If there had at any time any faithful ones been sent amongst them by God, they would have been ready to have cried out of them and have told them, You are the cause of our misery, for you will not yield to Jeroboam, you are so strict and precise, and 'tis you that make this disturbance, you threaten us that there will judgments come upon us but you are the cause of our misery, were it not for you we should have all the people yield to what the King hath set up, but you stir up the people against it and so our disturbance comes from you. Thus no question but they would be ready to strive with the Priest at that time. And thus they did with Amos, chap. 7. ver. 12. Go to Judah and prophesy there; they strove with Amos that was contemporary with Hosea, prophesying at this time unto this people, the land say they cannot bear Amos his words, let him go to Judah, he were best be gone, he tells us we are a superstitious people, and that we do not worship God in the right manner and in the right place, let him go thither, we wish he were out of the Country; he and such as he is raise a fire in the land. Thus when Ministers discharge their consciences showing people their sins and the mind of God, this is ordinarily the recompense that they have. Thus it was with Jeremiah, chap 15. ver. 10. We is me saith he, that my mother ever bear me, for I am (saith he) a man of strife and of contention to the whole earth, and every one curseth me. Jeremiah a grave and holy Prophet, yet a man of contention to the whole earth, and every man cursed him: A strange thing that he should meet with ⟨p. 77⟩such hard dealing, and yet he appealed to God in the matter of his sincerity, he desired not the evil day, and he prayed for the people so long till God bid him pray no more; when thy were railing upon bim he was praying for them. This was the ill condition he was in for that respect. And so it was with other Prophets besides him. I might name other texts in Jeremiah, as chap. 20.