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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 8
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.
First the heart of the P••ests, they lift up their hearts to the §1iniquity of the people, so it may be understood, for so this phrase, lifting up of the heart to a thing, doth note in Scripture the earnest desire that there is in the heart for the attaining of such a thing; as in Deut. 24.15. speaking of poor men He is poor saith he, and sets his heart upon his wages. A poor man that wants provision for his family, he sets his heart upon his wages, Oh when shall I have my wages that I may provide for my family! now the word is here in this text of the poor man, he lifteth up his heart to his wages, Oh my wages that it might come. And Jerem. 22.27. the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return, that is, the land whereto they lift their hearts; so the word is the same here in the text, they have an earnest desire unto the land; And Ezek. 24.25. I will take from them the desire of their eyes and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters; it is spoken of their love unto their children, they lift their minds or their hearts to their children. So that then it notes thus much, the earnest desire the Priests had unto the sins of the people, that they might have the greater advantage by them; As it is noted of some who are of poor servile spirits and whose greatest means comes in by burials,1 that they are glad and rejoice when they hear the bell ring, and they are ready to desire the death of men out of respect to their own •ees, because the more die and the richer they die the more ad••••age cometh in to them. So the Priests at this time they […] •he multiplying of the sins of the people that they […] have •he more sacrifices thereby.
First the heart of the P••ests, they lift up their hearts to the