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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 17
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.
Let him alone] Demitte eum, Let him go saith God, he is joined to his Idols, let him go. First, This is a speech to Judah, let Expos. 1 Ephraim go saith God to Judah. Ephraim, they indeed are the ten Tribes, the most of the people of the Jews, but yet seeing they set up false worship, let them go, have nothing to do with them, do not converse with them. It is a heavy judgment of God upon a people when the Saints shall let them alone,1 when they shall withdraw from them. If God had any Saints in the world they were in Judah, and saith God to these Saints of his, let Israel alone and withdraw from them have nothing to do with them, though they be your brethren and Country men yet let them alone. Many wicked men they make nothing of this, and say when as Gods people that are the most strict, and holy, and gracious, shall withdraw from them, and as heretofore they went out of the land because they saw it so defiled with superstitious vanities, let them all go say they,2 we are well rid of them; And who knows but you may meet with such expressions before you die? that you may have many that will be willing to be •id of those that are most godly and gracious. Well, whatsoever men think and say, let them know it is a dreadful curse of God ⟨p. 203⟩upon a Nation for the Saints of God to withdraw and go from them, for so God threateneth it as one of the most, dreadful curses; Judah, let them alone, have nothing to do with them: so when God shall speak to his Saints that they shall withdraw from others of their brethren, (I say) it is one of the most dreadful judgments of God upon a people whatever they think of it. You know that expression that you have of the most fearful curse of God upon those that are wicked in the 1 Cor. 16.22. He that loves not the Lord Jesus, let him be Anathema Maranatha. Anathema, let him be accursed,3 but Maran-atha the meaning of that is, the Lord cometh; Maran it signifies the Lord, in the Chaldee and Syriac; therefore in