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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 3
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.
1First, Ephraim. By Ephraim (as you have heard heretofore) we are to understand, the Princes, the great ones amongst them, because Jeroboam was of the Tribe of Ephraim. I know Ephraim, that is, I know the politic ends of all the great ones amongst them:2 They bear men in hand that they desire to worship Me, and they say, Oh God forbid that they should change Religion, and they cry out of all men that should raise up such suspicions of them amongst their good people. But I […] Ephraim saith he, I know what his aim is, I know what hi• thoughts are, and what his counsels are, and what w•s plotted at such a time, and what his Chamber-counsels with such and such Priests were, I know what correspondence he hath with such and such that corrupt my worship, and all that •e••in to him and all that favour him, I know them all, I know all their devices and depths. I know what hath b•en working these many years;3 I know how he seems as it he would serve me, but I know that that he doth is merely to serve• •••wn ends and no further. I know the poor people they are deluded by his fair and solemn protestations, they think he means nothing but well, and there are ⟨p. 367⟩none but a company of precise people that are jealous of him, but I know what they intend and what their ways are whatsoever colour they put upon them. Ephraim, that is, the great ones, the Princes, they persuade the people that Jeroboam and his successors aim at nothing else but to reform things for the best, but I know that things are far otherwise, I know Ephraim.
1First, Ephraim. By Ephraim (as you have heard heretofore) we are to understand, the Princes, the great ones amongst them, because Jeroboam was of the Tribe of Ephraim. I know Ephraim, that is, I know the politick ends of all the great ones amongst them: