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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.
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.
As a lamb in a large place.] That is, dispersed among the ⟨p. 195⟩Countries, amongst the Assyrians and Medes in their captivity, which was a very large Country. They, would not be satisfied with Canaan (which was a narrower Country) and with that Sheep-fold of mine that was there, they shall have more room saith God, they shall go into a large place, but it shall be into their captivity.
As a lamb in a large place.] That is, dispersed among the ⟨p. 195⟩Countries, amongst the Assyrians and Medes in their captivity, which was a very large Countrey. They, would not be satisfied with Canaan (which was a narrower Countrey) and with that Sheep-fold of mine that was there, they shall have more room saith God, they shall go into a large place, but it shall be into their captivity.
Or rather, which I conceive to be the full scope of the holy Ghost in these words, I will feed them as a lamb in a large place, That is, as a lamb that shall be alone; one lamb, he speaks of a lamb singly, because they shall be scattered. They had society and might have made good use of their society where it was, but they did not regard to make good use of it, to edify themselves in the fear of God, they shall be scattered one in one place and another in another, and they shall be as a lamb alone in the wilderness, succourless, helpless, shiftless, bleating up and down in the wilderness, in the wide vast wilderness, and none to have any regard unto them.