A77979:412
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.
But this word translated Whores, and the other that follows Harlots, have a further signification than our English here expresseth it. According to most Interpreters it hath this meaning. It presents to u• those women that worshipped B•al Peor, or Priapus that unclean god. In 1 King. 15.13. it is said ⟨p. 162⟩of Asa that he took away Maachah his mother from being Queen,1 now it is interpreted by some that he removed her that she might not be a special Queen in the solemnity of that unclean god Baal Pe•r, which Idol she had set up in a grove. So then those women that were devoted to the service of that unclean god, in whose worship there was most abominable filthy uncleanness, yet these people did separate themselves to those women, not to ordinary whores, but to those that were consecrated to the service of that unclean god, and so went to worship that unclean god, and committed uncleanness with the women devoted to that service.
But this word translated Whores, and the other that follows Harlots, have a further signification than our English here expresseth it. According to most Interpreters it hath this meaning. It presents to u• those women that worshiped B•al Peor, or Priapus that unclean god. In 1 King. 15.13. it is said ⟨p. 162⟩of Asa that he took away Maachah his mother from being Queen,1 now it is interpreted by some that he removed her that she might not be a special Queen in the solemnity of that unclean god Baal Pe•r, which Idol she had set up in a grove. So then those women that were devoted to the service of that unclean god, in whose worship there was most abominable filthy uncleanness, yet these people did seperate themselves to those women, not to ordinary whores, but to those that were consecrated to the service of that unclean god, and so went to worship that unclean god, and committed uncleanness with the women devoted to that service.