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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.
So it is now, because those that are faithful, out of conscience, ⟨p. 80⟩labour to declare to you the mind of God, and to draw you to those duties that God calls for, (this indeed enrageth the adversary, they are the more incensed when you follow what your Ministers teach,) and you are ready to think, they h•ve brought us into this way, they have kindled the fire, they have told us it is the Cause of God, they have exhorted us to come in with our Estates, and now the King is exasperated against u•, and our adversaries are enraged against us and we are like to be in some misery; And so even all the strivings of the better sort are ready to devolve upon the Ministers, and they strive with them as the only incendiaries and troublers of the places where they come. Well, howsoever Ministers may meet with hard dealing from some, even from professors, yet their way is with the Lord, and their judgment is with the Almighty: As there is a most admirable promise to help those that have been most forward to rebuke sin & in a zealous way for God, though men are enraged against them. Isa. 49.2.1 He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his hand hath he bid me. This text is true of every faithful Minister: Mark it, He hath made made my mouth like a sharp sword; why if I did speak smooth things I were not like to be in so much danger, but if speak sharp things do not I hazard my self much?2 I shall incur the rage and anger of all kind of people; but mark, He hath made my mouth as a sharp sword, But in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me. Ministers whose mouths are as sharp swords they are in a great deal of danger, yea but let such be comforted, here comes a promise presently, in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me. So that those Ministers whose mouths are sharpest in the Name of God, and who speak but the Truth of God, those are under Gods protection more than any other Ministers that have held their peace, they are in more safety, they are hid in Gods hand, in the shadow of his hand more than any other. So God comforted Jeremiah, Chap. 10. vers. 15. after he had cried out, woe is me, I am a man of strife, well saith God, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant, I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.