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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.
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 s•eth thee, wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and as•es. Psal. 130.3. is a notable scripture for this purpose, If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity, Oh Lord who should stand? Mark the words, how Lord is twice here repeated, it would have been full sense thus, If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity who shall stand? There would have been a mighty emphasis in the word Jehovah, who shall stand, for it is thou oh Jehovah; but it comes in again, to Note that herein lies the Emphasis, if thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, Oh Lord who shall stand? This Oh Lord seems to be a pleonasm, one would think that it breaks the sense, but the scope is to show that the sight of having to deal with God in our sins, is very terrible, If thou Lord ma•kest,2 then Oh Lord who shall stand?
1It is most dreadful for sinners for God to take the controverse into his own hand to contend with them in a way of judgment; It is a fearfull 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 pleadi•g 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 darkenth counsel by words without knowledg? 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.