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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 6
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.
For want of knowledge] As if he had said, if they had the knowledge of God they might have prevented all this, but they were ignorant and sottish people and this was the forerunner of their misery and destruction.1 The Heathens were wont to say, If their god Jupiter would destroy one, he would first besot him; so these people were first besotted and then destroyed: Ignorance is not the mother of devotion but rather the father and mother too of destruction. How diametrically cross is the language of the Scripture and the Doctrine of Papists! Ignorance is the mother of devotion say they, Ignorance is the mother of destruction saith God, they perish for want of knowledge. In the beginning of this Chapter we have the sin of ignorance set forth, here we have the danger of ignorance set forth. There we had the charge, that they had no knowledge of God in the land, here we have the judgment, that they are destroyed for want of knowledge.
For want of knowledg] As if he had said, if they had the knowledg of God they might have prevented all this, but they were ignorant and sottish people and this was the forerunner of their misery and destruction.1 The Heathens were wont to say, If their god Jupiter would destroy one, he would first besot him; so these people were first besotted and then destroyed: Ignorance is not the mother of devotion but rather the father and mother too of destruction. How diametrically cross is the language of the Scripture and the Doctrin of Papists! Ignorance is the mother of devotion say they, Ignorance is the mother of destruction saith God, they perish for want of knowledg. In the beginning of this Chapter we have the sin of ignorance set forth, here we have the danger of ignorance set forth. There we had the charge, that they had no knowledg of God in the land, here we have the judgment, that they are destroyed for want of knowledg.
- 1Quos perdere vult Jupiter dementat prius. Obs.Quos perdere vult Iupiter dementat prius. Obs.