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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.
The Lord.] As if the Prophet should say, Know, you have not to do with me, nor with Amos (who was contemporary with Hosea, & a Prophet to Israel) though you think you can make your parts good with me and with the other Prophets, know God will not now stand pleading with you so much by his Ministers, he will take the cause into his own hand and will plead, by his Judgments he will now take up the controversy himself. The Lord tells the people (Gen. 6.3.) that his Spirit should no longer strive with them: what's that? That is, it should no longer strive in the way of No•h's Ministry, but he would come and strive himself after another manner, by bringing the flood upon them.
The Lord.] As if the Prophet should say, Know, you have not to do with me, nor with Amos (who was contemporary with Hosea, & a Prophet to Israel) though you think you can make your parts good with me and with the other Prophets, know God will not now stand pleading with you so much by his Ministers, he will take the cause into his own hand and will plead, by his Judgments he will now take up the controversie himself. The Lord tells the people (Gen. 6.3.) that his Spirit should no longer strive with them: what's that? That is, it should no longer strive in the way of No•h's Ministry, but he would come and strive himself after another manner, by bringing the flood upon them.
1It is most dreadful for sinners for God to take the controversy into his own hand to contend with them in a way of judgment; It is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the living God You think Ministers are hard, they preach terrible things; but if you have to deal with God immediately, if he should not speak to you by man but come himself and plead with you, you would find it harder to deal with him. When Jobs friends were pleading with him, he could easily make his part good with them, but Chap, 38. ver. 1, 2. God himself comes and speaks out of the whirlwind, Who is he that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? and so goes on in a chapter or two; Chap. 42. ver. 5. Job falleth down now and saith, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seth thee, wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ases.