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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 19
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.
But rather we are to take the expression Metaphorically to signify the power, the suddenness, the violence, the swiftness of Gods judgments, carrying them into captivity and into misery. The wind hath bound the people of Israel, the ten Tribes up in her wings, that is, the judgments of the Lord shall come upon them with power, suddenly, swiftly, violently and take them away from their own Country and carry them into captivity and misery. The power and violence of the judgments of God are set out in Scripture by the wind, by storms and tempests often times. There is a mighty power of the wind, 1 King. 19.11. A strong wind that rent the mountains and t•re in pieces the rocks. Job. 38.9. That overturneth the mountains by the roots. The winds are the voice of the Lord, that breaks the Cedars, even the Cedars of Lebanon, and shakes the wilderness Psal. 29. Sabelicus 1telleth us that Cambyses his soldiers being in a wilderness, in a sandy place, suddenly a violent wind came and drove the sand with such force as that thousands of them were buried in it. There is a great deal of strength and power in winds. And here by the way we may have hinted unto us a very profitable meditation. Oh how great is the glory and the power of the infinite God then!2 For the wind what is it but a vapour? and what more weak than a vapour? We use to say, what is weaker than water? but many drops together will make the waters terrible, and the Seas are called the mighty waters; But vapour is weaker than the water, and yet the winds are nothing but a company of vapours joined together, and many being joined together what a mighty power have they to re•d the rocks and turn up the mountains by the roots? Oh then what is the power of the Mighty God? for in him there is nothing but infinite, and nothing can be added unto him. If a weak vapour being multiplied have such strength, what power then is there in God that hath nothing in him but infinite, so as nothing can be added to him.