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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 16
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And that which made Ephraim do so, it was his prosperity. Reas. Ephraim was grown prosperous and had plenty of food, was fed full and large, and that made them go on in such a fury and rage in the ways of wickedness and sin. That was now fulfilled of Ephraim that was prophesied of him Deut. 32.15. Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Ro•k of his salvation. 1Oh when a people is waxen fat and grown prosperous, then they kick and spurn and forsake God that made them, and lightly esteem the Rock of their salvation; God and his Truth and his Saints and his Ordinances, they are nothing with them, they lightly esteem them, why? because they are waxen fat, they are in their prosperity.2 You shall have many men upon their sick beds highly esteem of the Ministers of God and of the ways of God and of his word and worship, and then, Oh send for such and such to come to us; but when they are in prosperity they lightly esteem God and all that concerns God. This was the condition of Ephraim. Where have you a man almost but if God let him prosper, except he come in with abundance of his grace, but he grows wanton in his prosperity? Judah was almost in the same way, though here the Lord would not have Judah to be like Ephraim as a wanton heifer spurning and kicking with the heel, yet it appears in Jer. 2.24. that Judah was not much unlike them, Judah is there compared to a wild Ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure, all they that seek her will not weary themselves, but says God, in her month they shall find her; take her when she is full of spirit and strength and there is no dealing with her, but in her month, when she is more weakened then they shall find her; So many men, take them at some times when they are in the ruff of their pride and prosperity, there is no dealing with them, but when God hath tamed them by affliction then you may talk with them and then they will hear you.
And that which made Ephraim do so, it was his prosperity. Reas. Ephraim was grown prosperous and had plenty of food, was fed full and large, and that made them go on in such a fury and rage in the waies of wickedness and sin. That was now fulfilled of Ephraim that was prophesied of him