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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.
The wind is of great power and so is the judgments of God. ⟨p. 325⟩The observation from it shall be this,1 That the judgments of God toward wicked men who have been spared a long time, when they come they come swiftly, and violently, and suddenly, carries them as it were in a Hurry-cane.
- 1Obser.
And they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.
So long as they prospered in the way of false worship they were not ashamed, but they gloried in their way, and the ten Tribes, Israel, rather despised Judah, and sought to cast shame upon Judah who worshipped God in a right way, as appeareth plainly Amos, 7.12. Go to Judah (saith Amaziah there to Amos in a scorning way,) go your ways thither, and prophesy there. They scorned and contemned Judah and gloried in their own way of false worship.1 Such as are superstitious and Idolatrous they use to look upon Gods Ordinances as vile and contemptible, and their own inventions as the most glorious things; But God hath a time to honour his Ordinances and to cast shame upon their sacrifices. That is the Note. The true worship of God is many times in such a low esteem amongst men as that they that go th•• way are exceedingly vilified, and many are kept off from the ways of God because they cannot bear the shame of it, there is so much shame cast upon it, none but a company of mean, poor, unwise people that take such a course: But God hath a time to honour his Ordinances, to set up the beauty of them before all the world, and to cast shame and dirt upon all ways of superstition and idolatry, They shall be ashamed of their sacrifices; a time to make even those that did glory most in them to be ashamed of them.