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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.
Again, A further Note from hence is this:
Israel is defiled (He spe• srael that is ready to fall, for so it follows verse 5. Israel a•• Ephraim shall fall, and here just before he tells us, that Israel is defiled.) When clothes are filthy and nasty and will not be purged, are not worth the cleansing,1 we usually cast them upon the dunghill; so when there is defilement and filth amongst a people and they will not be ⟨p. 375⟩purged, and are grown even rotten in their filthiness, the Lord casteth them upon the dunghill.2 While God is indeed purging of a Nation (I beseech you observe it) there is all that while hope of that Nation. As for example, though a piece of cloth be very soul, yet if you see the servants of the house washing that cloth, you will say, surely this piece of cloth is not intended for the dunghill: It is soul indeed and it is noisome, but you see there is care taken and cost bestowed upon it for the purging of it, and that is an argument that there is an intention for the preserving of it. So while the Lord is taking care and bestowing cost to purge a Nation, there is much hope that the Lord intends to save that Nation. And we may comfortably hope that this is Gods intention toward us. God knows we have been a defiled people,