A77979:534
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.
The Lord cometh with thousands of his Saints, the word in the original there is atha *So that you have in Scripture these two words Maran and atha; what then is the meaning of that, Let him be Anathema Maranatha? That is thus, when men shall forsake Christ and the ways of his worship after means have been used with them then Anathema Maranatha, that is, let all the Saints of God leave them to the coming of Jesus Christ, let them alone, do not meddle with them, when you have used all means you can then withdraw your selves from them and leave them unto the coming of Christ, and Christ will deal with them well enough; Let them not only be excommunicated, Use. for some when they were excommunicated though the Saints withdrew themselves from them yet they sought to gain them again, but some were so direfully excommunicated that they were to be let alone to the coming of Christ; so when those that are godly shall first labour to deal with such as are wicked and ungodly by admonition, and persuasion, and counsel, and they shall be refractory, and stout, and stubborn, and be as swine to trample under feet those pearls, or as dogs to turn again and rend ⟨p. 204⟩them, they are then to let them alone, that is, to let them alone to the coming of Jesus Christ; and even in their own hearts say, well we see no means can do them any good, Maranatha, the Lord cometh and he shall deal with them himself when he comes.
The Lord cometh with thousands of his Sains, the word in the original there is atha *So that you have in Scripture these two words Maran and atha; what then is the meaning of that, Let him be Anathema Maranatha? That is thus, when men shall forsake Christ and the waies of his worship after means have been used with them then Anathema Maranatha, that is, let all the Saints of God leave them to the coming of Jesus Christ, let them alone, do not meddle with them, when you have used all means you can then withdraw your selves from them and leave them unto the coming of Christ, and Christ will deal with them well enough; Let them not only be excommunicated, Use. for some when they were excommunicated though the Saints withdrew themselves from them yet they sought to gain them again, but some were so direfully excommunicated that they were to be let alone to the coming of Christ; so when those that are godly shall first labour to deal with such as are wicked and ungodly by admonition, and perswasion, and counsel, and they shall be refractory, and stout, and stubborn, and be as swine to trample under feet those pearls, or as dogs to turn again and rend