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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 5
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 now wisdom and humility,1 they likewise go together too. Prov. 11.2. With the lowly is wisdom. If the heart be brought under God, put in a gracious, humble, lowly frame, with the lowly there is wisdom, the Lord delighteth to reveal himself to the humble.
- 1Use from the contrary.
The pride of Israel doth testify to his face.] The Seventy they read the words otherwise than you have them in your books.1 The injury and the wrong that Israel hath done unto God, shall be brought down, shall be humbled: for I suppose their meaning in that translation i• this, that whereas Israel by his wicked ways hath wronged God, hath been injurious unto God, he shall be humbled for it, he shall be brought down and made to know what it is for him to wrong God so as he hath done. And indeed those that do corrupt Gods worship they are the greatest wrongers of God in the world,2 they do the greatest injury unto God that can be.
The pride of Israel doth testifie to his face.] The Seventy they reade the words otherwise than you have them in your books.1 The injury and the wrong that Israel hath done unto God, shall be brought down, shall be humbled: for I suppose their meaning in that translation i• this, that whereas Israel by his wicked waies hath wronged God, hath been injurious unto God, he shall be humbled for it, he shall be brought down and made to know what it is for him to wrong God so as he hath done. And indeed those that do corrupt Gods worship they are the greatest wrongers of God in the world,