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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 1
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.
3. The nearer the ••lation is between any the more grievous is the controversy, if there be a controversy at all. Hear the Word of the Lord ye children of Israel. It is a sad thing for one Nation to have a controversy with another; much more for a people to be at controversy with it self; Yet more when when the controversy comes nearer, into the family, between husband and wife, between father and child, between dearest friends who were before to each other as their own souls, controversies there are very sore and grievous, Prov. 18.19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong City, and their contentions are like the bars of a Castle. Wind within the body is most troublesome and dangerous.
3. The neerer the ••lation is between any the more grievous is the controversie, if there be a controversie at all. Hear the Word of the Lord ye children of Israel. It is a sad thing for one Nation to have a controversie with another; much more for a people to be at controversie with it self; Yet more when when the controversie comes nearer, into the family, between husband and wife, between father and child, between dearest friends who were before to each other as their own souls, controversies there are very sore and grievous, Prov. 18.19. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong Citie, and their contentions are like the bars of a Castle. Wind within the body is most troublesom and dangerous.
Hear ye.] O Prophet (says Oecoloppdius upon the place) what is it thou hast to say that with so much earnestness thou ⟨p. 3⟩callest to have the word of the Lord heard; This is the solemn message of the Prophet to this people, The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.