An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

And the word that is translated back-sliding, cometh of [Greek or Hebrew] ¹It signifies perverseness as well as backsliding. It is translated in Scripture stubbornness, rebellion, as in that place of Deuteronomy about the stubborn and rebellious child,² there is the same word that is here, and many other Scriptures might be shown how this word is taken otherwise than here for back-sliding: Israel is a stubborn, a rebellious, a perverse people, therefore let not Judah be so. And I find the Seventy translate it thus, [Greek or Hebrew]. Israel, the ten Tribes, they were like a stung Bullock, Juvenca oestro percita, as if so be they had by a kind of witchery, or by the biting of some venomous thing been put into a fury or madness; that is the force of the word according to the translation of the Seventy, they translate it (I say) by such a word whereby they would signify that Israel was not now like a Heifer only wanton, but like a Heifer that was bit with some venomous thing, and ran up and down like a mad thing. There is a great deal of difference between the wantonness of a beast, and a beast that runs up and down in a fury and madness as being bit with a mad dog. Thus this people was. Ephraim goeth on madly: As many wicked men go on in ways apparently against light and conscience, and against the Word, though they know it will prove to be their eternal ruin and destruction, Conscience tells ⟨p. 193⟩them so, yet they go on in a madness violently in a rage even down to the pit. This was Ephraims condition here

And the word that is translated back-sliding, commeth of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ¹It signifies perversness as well as backsliding. It is translated in Scripture stubborness, rebellion, as in that place of Duteronomy about the stubborn and rebellious child,² there is the same word that is here, and many other Scriptures might be shewen how this word is taken otherwise than here for back-sliding: Israel is a stubborn, a rebellious, a perverse people, therefore let not Judah be so. And I find the Seventy translate it thus, . Israel, the ten Tribes, they were like a stung Bullock, Juvenca oestro percita, as if so be they had by a kind of witchery, or by the byting of some venemous thing been put into a fury or madness; that is the force of the word according to the translation of the Seventy, they translate it (I say) by such a word whereby they would signifie that Israel was not now like a Heifer only wanton, but like a Heifer that was bit with some venemous thing, and ran up and down like a mad thing. There is a great deal of difference between the wantoness of a beast, and a beast that runs up and down in a fury and madness as being bit with a maddog. Thus this people was. Ephraim goeth on madly: As many wicked men go on in waies aparantly against light and conscience, and against the Word, though they know it will prove to be their eternal ruin and destruction, Conscience tels