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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 15
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.
Come not to Beth-aven] The reason why they must not come to Beth-aven appears from the change of the name, it was once Bethel, 1and now it is Bethaven, and the difference betwixt these two names Bethel and Beth-aven is wide and great, Bethel is the house of God, and Bethaven is the house of iniquity, the house of vanity, the house of labour, and the house of affliction, for it signifies all these. That which was my house, which I did once own, being corrupted it is no other but the house of iniquity, and vanity, and the house that brings affliction. Bethaven was one of the places where Jeroboam set up one of his Calves, one of the eminentest places for the Calves, and he took the advantage of the conceit that the people had of the holiness of that place to set up one of hi• Calves there, & thought thereby to prevail with the people so much the more: now God chargeth them that they should not come there. There was indeed another Town as in Josh. 7. that before was called Beth-aven, but generally that by Interpreters is made another Town, not that of Bethel, but this Town here is no other than that Bethel of which we have such often mention in the Scripture. And some, as Aquila, 2and Symachus, they turn the word B•thaven, 3Domus inutilis, an unprofitable place, for indeed sin and Idolatry make places unprofitable.
Come not to Beth-aven] The reason why they must not come to Beth-aven appears from the change of the name, it was once Bethel, 1and now it is Bethaven, and the difference betwixt these two names Bethel and Beth-aven is wide and great, Bethel is the house of God, and Bethaven is the house of iniquity, the house of vanity, the house of labor, and the house of affliction, for it signifies all these. That which was my house, which I did once own, being corrupted it is no other but the house of iniquity, and vanity, and the house that brings affliction. Bethaven was one of the places where Jeroboam set up one of his Calves, one of the eminentest places for the Calves, and he took the advantage of the conceit that the people had of the holines of that place to set up one of hi Calves there, & thought thereby to prevail with the people so much the more: now God chargeth them that they should not come there. There was indeed another Town as in