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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.
I find some, Mercer and Vatablus, they would carry it thus: Lautè ut Agnus pastus, mox mactatur. As a Lamb when it hath large food it is soon slain, so God threateneth Ephraim here that he will soon make an end of them, only he will let them prosper for a while and feed them largely, but it shall be for the slaughter. Many men that are fed largely and are in their prosperity, they think themselves blessed, God intends them only for the slaughter; But I think that is not the meaning of the place,1 they shall be fed as a Lamb. But thus,
I find some, Mercer and Vatablus, they would carry it thus: Lautè ut Agnus pastus, mox mactatur. As a Lamb when it hath large food it is soon slain, so God threatneth Ephraim here that he will soon make an end of them, only he will let them prosper for a while and feed them largely, but it shal be for the slaughter. Many men that are fed largely and are in their prosperity, they think themselves blessed, God intends them only for the slaughter; But I think that is not the meaning of the place,1 they shall be fed as a Lamb. But thus,
- 1Obser.
As a Lamb.] They are as a heifer raging mad, but I will make them as a Lamb, I will bring such affliction upon them as that I will tame the pride of their hearts. Have you not seen experiences of this kind? did you never see a ruffianly, blasphemous, proud, stubborn spirit, when the hand of God was upon them, tamed?
Fed as a Lamb.] Parce ac tenuiter, not fed as a heifer, that noted their prosperity, but fed as a lamb, that notes their adversity, for the food of a lamb differs from the food of a heifer, that which will feed a lamb will starve a heifer. Now saith God, they have been proud and wanton by their prosperity, but now they shall have short Commons, I will bring them down, I will lay them low, they shall be but as a lamb that picks up the grass in the wilderness.