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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 10
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 they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase.
And they shall commit whoredome and shall not encrease.
If we understand this of bodily whoredom, then the sense must carry it thus, that God will cross them in that, even in the way of their whoredom, they shall commit whoredom and not increase. You will say what great judgment is that, Whoremasters do not care for increasing? It is true now whoremasters do not desire increase, only to satisfy their lusts, ⟨p. 124⟩and in this thing they resemble evil and wicked Ministers as much as in any thing;1 as many Ministers desire only to please the fancies of their Auditors and never look after begetting any unto God; they are like harlots or whoremasters in this, they love to please the fancies of men and their own fancies too, but to get children unto God, that they look not after; as whoremasters & harlots when their lusts are satisfied, they have their ends, for to bring forth, that they care not for. This is now, but in former times, in the time when the Prophet did prophesy, increasing in a numerous of-spring was a special thing that all gloried in, therefore they sought it any way, not only by marrying many wives, but by their concubine• and whores too. But God threatens to send out a curse upon them that they shall not increase. And for this it is very observable (for you may take it more general) Gods curse upon a man in any thing he undertakes unlawfully, he can never expect to prosper in it;2 that is the Note from it, Whatsoever a man undertakes unlawfully he can never expect to prosper in it. And that is very observable for this one particular concerning Sol•••o• you know he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines a thousand in all, yet we read but of one son that Solomon