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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.
Sixthly, Why should you be so curious and strict; The most, the ten Tribes do thus, there is but only Judah and Benjamin that go another way, the multitude go this way, and why should you when only a poor handful go another way desire to do as they do?
Sixtly, Why should you be so curious and strict; The most, the ten Tribes do thus, there is but only Judah and Benjamin that go another way, the multitude go this way, and why should you when only a poor handful go another way desire to do as they do?
Seventhly, We have prospered a long time in this way. Hath not Israel prospered as much as Judah? hath not God been with us as much as with them? Judah pretends he worships God in the right w•y, we are sure God is with us.
Eighthly, They would raise reproaches upon the true worshippers of God, as in the 7. Chapter of this Prophecy, vers. 3.1 They make the King glad with their wickedness, and the Princes with their lies. That is, this was their cunning devise, to raise all the reproaches that possibly they could, against those that were true, forward, and zealous worshippers of God, especially against the Prophets and Ministers, and therefore in Amos you shall find (and he prophesied at the same time) that Amaziah said, the Land could not bear his words, they are a company of seditious men, that the Country could not bear their words, but they were even enough to set the people together by the ears, yea what are these men that oppose the Kings Laws but such and such? These were the snares that they set to catch the people, to make them out of love with the true worship of God. Thus they were a snare set upon Mispah and a nt upon mount Tabor.