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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 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.
The controversy that God hath with a sinner is a just controversie, §2God ha h right on his side, and the injury is great that is done unto him.
Thirdly, It is a controversy that we have begun, God did §3not begin it with us, but we began it with him, we have the worst of it.
Thirdly, It is a controversie that we have begun, God did §3not begin it with us, but we began it with him, we have the worst of it.
Fourthly, It is an old controversy a controversy of our §4forefather•, a controversy that God hath had with one generation after another, and we as a wretched generation stand forth to hold up the old controversy. As in England in former times there hath been wars for hundreds of years (as in the Barons wars) and when one generation was gone, the generation after stood forth to hold up that controversy; so it hath been between God and man, God hath had a controversy with the children of men ever since the fall of Adam, and one generation after another hath stood forth to hold up the controversy, and thou wretched sinner standest up in thy generation in thy place to hold up the controversy that mankind hath had with God since his calling out of Paradise.