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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.
Israel is as a back-sliding heifer.] The word that is translated ⟨p. 194⟩heifer here, it is in the feminine gender, though it is spoken of the ten Tribes, because being stubborn and raging mad in wickedness, though they did seem to themselves and others to be of brave spirits, yet the Lord looks upon them as people of base and effeminate spirits, of poor and weak spirits. There is none that are stubborn and proud but they think themselves to be of more than ordinary spirits, they are the only brave spirits;1 but the Lord looks upon those that are stubborn and proud as base and weak spirits, and therefore speaks of them here in the feminine gender.
Israel is as a back-sliding heifer.] The word that is translated ⟨p. 194⟩heiser here, it is in the feminine gender, though it is spoken of the ten Tribes, because being stubborn and raging mad in wickedness, though they did seem to themselves and others to be of brave spirits, yet the Lord looks upon them as people of base and effeminate spirits, of poor and weak spirits. There is none that are stubborn and proud but they think themselves to be of more than ordinary spirits, they are the only brave spirits;1 but the Lord looks upon those that are stubborn and proud as base and weak spirits, and therefore speaks of them here in the feminine gender.
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Now the Lord will feed them as a Lamb in a large place.