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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.
But further, This that the Prophet saith [I know Ephraim] is brought in to be a means to humble Ephraim, to humble Israel. From thence the Note is, That
No more powerful means in the world to humble the heart than to behold God looking upon our hearts and ways. The discovery of our evil to others may be some means to humble us. O how would it abase men if God should discover to all their friends and acquaintance all that evil that is in their hearts. And hereafter at the great day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall come to be disclosed, how will the wicked and ungodly be abased before men and Angels! We read of the adulterer in Job, •4.17. that the morning is unto them even as the shadow of death, and if any one know them they are then in the terrors of the shadow of death. Wicked men (especially adulterer• for it is spoken of them) they hate the light, and the morning is unto them as the shadow of death, and if they come once to be discovered they are terrified as with the shadow of death Now I argue thus, if the knowledge that me• h•ve of ou sect wicked ways is so terrible unto a guil connce, what is it then when this guilty conscience shall […] apprehensions of the infinite God? He hath s en thee […] hat been sn wretch in such an n, in […] T in such a set place. He hath seen wh thou […] and plotted, yea what thou hast thought and plotted. Look upon God thus seeing thee and