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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 7
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.
The Lord is here further charging these ten Tribes, but especially their Priests, he aimeth at them most in this his Charge. They had before rejected the knowledge of the Lord, and the Lord threatened rejection of them. The knowledge [Greek or Hebrew] that knowledge, Scientiam illam, that knowledge of God in the way of his worship, that he was to be worshipped at Jerusalem alone, that truth was a suffering truth, therefore that truth they did reject, they rejected others but especially that; And in this seventh verse here is some ground of their rejection of the knowledge of God, As they were increased, so they sinned against me. God had increased them, they were grown first into a great multitude, and as their number increased so their sins increased. But especially that which I take to be the meaning of the holy Ghost here is, As their prosperous condition increased; they were grown up to an height of prosperity, and that was the thing made them sin against God and reject the knowledge of God.
THe Lord is here further charging these ten Tribes, but especially their Priests, he aimeth at them most in this his Charge. They had before rejected the knowledg of the Lord, and the Lord threatned rejection of them. The knowledge 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 that knowledge, Scientiam illam, that knowledge of God in the way of his worship, that he was to be worshiped at Jerusalem alone, that truth was a suffering truth, therefor• that truth they did reject, they rejected others but especially that; And in this seventh verse here is some ground of their rejection of the knowledg of God, As they were encreased, so they sinned against me. God had encreased them, they were grown first into a great multitude, and as their number encreas'd so their sins encreas'd. But especially that which I take to be the meaning of the holy Ghost here is, As their prosperous condition encreas'd; they were grown up to an height of prosperity, and that was the thing made them sin against God and reject the knowledg of God.
The first is not to be rejected viz. As they increased in multitude: [Greek or Hebrew]: so the Seventy turn it, according to their fullness. And it may be turned both ways, fullness of number, or fullness of their prosperous estate.