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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 16
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.
Verse 16. For Israel slideth back as a back-sliding heifer.
Verse 16. For Israel slideth back as a back-sliding heiser.
Here first Israel, the ten Tribes, is compared to a heifer, and to a back-sliding heifer. A heifer,1 that ••red the wantonness of Israel. And here is one argument why Judah must not offend a• Israel doth, let not Judah offend as Israel doth, for Israel as […] back sl•ding heifer Israel through his sin hath […] to be a vile, a wanton heifer, but the emblem ⟨p. 192⟩of Judah is to be a Lyon, Gen. 49.9. Judah is a Lyons whelp, he stooped down, he couched as a Lyon, and as an old Lyon; who shall rouse him up? It is true that Judah should not refuse the yoke thorough wantonness and perverseness, but through a magnanimous spirit, he should not be willing to be brought under the yoke of bondage. Israel is as a heifer that through wantonness doth refuse to be brought under the yoke, but let not Judah do thus, for Judah is as a Lyon, and although Judah be a Lyon, yet he should come under Gods command, to be subject unto him; but when it comes to be in bondage unto men and that in matters of Religion, Judah should have a magnanimous spirit, a Lyon like spirit and should cast off the yoke of men in that regard, Let not Judah be like Israel; Judah is as a Lyon, Israel as a heifer.