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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 5 › 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.
Now both these Mountains, Mispah and Tabor were very eminent among the people of Israel.1 Mispah, so Judg. 20.1. The children of Israel were gathered together unto the Lord in Mispah, an eminent place. It was that mountain where Laban and Jacob met Gen. 31.49. so some think it to be, and called Mispah by Laban, For (saith he) the Lord watch between me and •hee when we are absent one from another. That for the mountain, Mispah.
- 1Mispah.
1So Tabor, that was very ancient too, Psal. 89.12. Tabor and Hermon are joined together. Hermon was famous too, as C•nt. 4.8. Come with me from Lebanon my spouse, look from the t•p •f Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon: Therefore it is very ill turned in your metre in the Psalms, (as there are a great many ⟨p. 347⟩ill places in the metre in the Psalms, that are not only poor kind of rime;2 but are turned against the very sense of the text, against the meaning, as may be showed in many places, so in that one) in Psal. 42.6. The little hill Hermon; whereas the truth is, Hemon was an high and famous hill; A mistake in the reading, for in the reading Psalms it is, I will remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mister, that signifies small indeed; but they make it as if Hermon and Mister were all one: but the Psalm i rather to be interpreted thus, I will remember thee O Jerusalem where ever I am, in all quarters of the world, from Jordan, that was eastward from Jerusalem, and Hermon, that was an high mountain in the North, and Missr, that is, of the South, because the mountains of the South were small; As if he should say,