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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 14
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.
Others I confess carry it thus, They have separated themselves §2from their God: first in spiritual whoredom: and then from their wives in bodily uncleanness.
Others I confess carrie it thus, They have seperated themselves §2from their God: first in spiritual whoredom: and then from their wives in bodilie uncleanness.
Or else thus, Separated: That is, gone alone in secret where §3they might not be known, as the filthiness of that sin causeth men to desire to be hid, and when they have got into a secret place or separated themselves from all that know them, then they commit that bodily uncleanness; as many men when they are gone abroad from their own houses, in their journeys in their Inns, that is a fit opportunity for their filthiness.
Or else thus, Separated: That is, gone alone in secret where §3they might not be known, as the filthiness of that sin causeth men to desire to be hid, and when they have got into a secret place or separated themselves from all that know them, then they commit that bodily uncleanness; as many men when they are gone abroad from their own houses, in their journies in their Inns, that is a fit opportunity for their filthiness.
Thus God gives the reason why their daughters and their wives commit this uncleanness, because they themselves do so. Thence the Note is, When parents are filthy and unclean,