A77979:844
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 6
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.
They shall go] Ibunt huc & illuc, modo ad hunc, modo ad illum montem, as Interpreters render it, They shall run up and down from one place to another, from one sacrifice to another, in a kind of hurrying of their spirits. And from that word there may be this noted, That Those who depend upon duties,1 are in a hurry and distraction of spirit, when they do not prevail with their duties in that they desire.
They shall go] Ibunt huc & illuc, modo ad hunc, modo ad illum montem, as Interpreters render it, They shal run up and down from one place to another, from one sacrifice to another, in a kind of hurrying of their spirits. And from that word there may be this noted, That Those who depend upon duties,1 are in a hurry and distraction of spirit, when they do not prevail with their duties in that they desire.
- 1Obs. danger of dependence on duties.Obs. danger of dependance on duties.
They often change their duties, but they do not change their hearts. Many think, Well, I have done thus and thus, yea but if I shal ad to what I have done and do thus and thus, ⟨p. 404⟩then I shall prevail: whereas those that do their duties in obedience unto God, and go out of themselves and depend for their acceptance upon a higher sacrifice, upon Jesus Christ; these go on with much sweetness and quietness of spirit, though for the present they see not the thing performed which they aim at in their duties: their spirits are not in a hurry and in a distraction so as the spirits of others that depend upon their duties are. This is to be noted from the clause, They shall go; Cursitando, running up and down.