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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 4
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.
Is in the ••lst of them] That is,1 it is come into them and sitteth as a King and ruleth in their hearts. An evil spirit may beset the godly, may compass them about, but it getteth not into the midst o• them, they keep it out from the throne, it doth not come to reign over them. The coming into the midst of them, noteth the full possession that this unclean spirit, that this Impetus and strong inclination of spirit hath over them. And therefore, you find in Prov. 8.20.2 that it is said of Wisdom, I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment. [In the midst of the paths] that is, wisdom doth not only bring men to the verge of Gods ways, to be a little taken with the outside of them; but brings them into the midst of the paths of judgment, that is, they come wholly into them, so as t••y are even possest of them. So here, the spirit of uncl •nness is in the midst of her. So in the 1. Sam. 4.3. you have the same word, Let us fetch the Ark unto us (say they there) that when it cometh among w it may save us, 3the words in the Hebrew are, that •he Ark m•y come in the midst of us, and there have the full operation to d• us good and save us. They depended much upon the Ark, and yet it failed them. By the ⟨p. 388⟩way then, we may depend too much upon a good cause, the cause may be good,4 and yet depending upon the goodness of the cause and neglecting our own persons in reforming our lives we may fail as they did here: (But that by the way.)