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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 9
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.
And I will punish them for their ways.] The reading you have in your books of punishing them for their ways, it is otherwise ⟨p. 119⟩in the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew] I will visit them for their ways, and so it is I think translated in some of your books, Super vias ejus: I will visit them upon their ways, or visit their ways upon them, so the words are. God hath his days of visitation wherein he will narrowly enquire into the ways of men, 1and call to an account for sins long before committed; that's the Note from thence. Exod. 32.34. In the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them; I will spare them for the present, but I have a day to visit, and then I will come upon them even for this sin. God spareth sinners now, why? because the day of his visitation is not yet come, but when that is come then look to your old sins; look that now your repentance be thorough, for otherwise you may be spared a while, but when the day of visitation comes then all your old sins shall be called over. In some mens visitations of late, the more conscionable men were and godly, the more were they aimed at, and it always went worst with them in their visitations; But it shall be otherwise in this visitation of Gods, God will visit the visitors, and visit them for their visitations, and then as Esa. 10.3. What will you d• in the day of visitation? You knew what to do in the day when you your selves did visit, but what will you do in the day of Gods visiting of you? As Mic. 7.4. The day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh, now shall be their perplexity. Certainly those visitors did begin to be in perplexity, for their day was coming, and we hope their day is yet coming.
And I will punish them for their waies.] The reading you have in your books of punishing them for their waies, it is otherwise ⟨p. 119⟩in the Hebrew 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 I will visit them for their waies, and so it is I think translated in some of your books, Super vias ejus: I will visit them upon their waies, or visit their waies upon them, so the words are. God hath his daies of visitation wherein he will narrowly enquire into the waies of men,