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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
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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.
They shall fall.] Idolatrous people shall fall; that's the next note. An Angel proclaimeth this, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. It is fallen already (my brethren,) how ever Idolaters seem to lift up their heads high yet they are falling, and fall they shall, God hath pronounced it, and the time is at hand; they have fallen off from God, and fall they shall by the hand of God, ⟨p. 169⟩and the prouder they grow the nearer they are to their fall; Pride goes before a fall: while the Gospel of Christ and his pure Ordinances that are now so opposed, they shall stand; and all superstitious ways, and persons, they shall fall. That is observable that place before named, Revel. 14.6.1 An Angel flye• in the midst of Heaven and preacheth the everlasting Gospel; and within a vers. or two, another Angel cries out, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. When Babylon with all their Idolatrous ways shall be fallen, then shall the everlasting Gospel be preached; the Gospel and the Ordinances of Christ shall be everlasting, shall continue for ever when all superstitious vanities shall fall. We find it so; how ever they thought to bear up all their superstitious ways by all the means that ever the devil or wicked men could devise to keep them up to perpetuity, yet have we not found that God hath blasted them, and many of them are fallen? and though God bring his people into affliction, yet they shall rise, the ways of God shall rise, Zion shall rise, Babylon shall fall: the people that understand not, they shall fall.
They shall fall.] Idolatrous people shall fall; that's the next note. An Angel proclaimeth this, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. It is fallen already (my brethren,) how ever Idolaters seem to lift up their heads high yet they are falling, and fal they shal, God hath pronounced it, and the time is at hand; they have fallen off from God, and fall they shall by the hand of God, ⟨p. 169⟩and the prouder they grow the nearer they are to their fall; Pride goes before a fall: while the Gospel of Christ and his pure Ordinances that are now so opposed, they shall stand; and all superstitious waies, and persons, they shall fall. That is observable that place before named,