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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.
It is God that is infinitely above the sinner, who hath the controversy wi•h him, Isa. 45.9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker. Let the potsherds of the earth strive with the potsherds. Yet thus doth every sinful impenitent soul, and every sinful impenitent Nation, they strive with their Maker. The Lord is above them: therefore to intimate the distance between God and us in this controversy; saith the text, The Lord hath a ⟨p. 5⟩controversy with the inhabitants of the land, poor earth-creeping creatures that have dwellings here below whose houses are houses of clay, and God is the great God of Heaven and Earth.
It is God that is infinitely above the sinner, who hath the controversie wi•h him, Isa. 45.9. Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker. Let the pots•e•rds of the earth strive with the potsheards. Yet thus doth every sinful impenitent soul, and every sinful impenitent Nation, they strive with their Maker. The Lord is above them: therefore to intimate the distance between God and us in this controversie; saith the text, The Lord hath a ⟨p. 5⟩controversie with the inhabitants of the land, poor earth-creeping creatures that have dwellings here below whose houses are h•uses of clay, and God is the great God of Heaven and Earth.
The controversy that God hath with a sinner is a just controversy, §2God ha h right on his side, and the injury is great that is done unto him.