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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 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.
And then it follows, He hath withdrawn Himself from them.
1When the Saints of God seek Him in a holy way, He is presently found. Esa. 58.9. They shall cry and he shall say, here I am: Perhaps they do not take notice of God, he is many times with us and standeth by us, He is present and we do not know that he is there; But now that we may know that he is there, he makes that promise, that when we seek him as we ought to seek him, he will say, here I am.
- 1Exposit.
1He hath withdrawn himself. The word that is here translated [withdrawn himself] may as well be translated, Divisit see; or Eripuit see; He hath divided himself, yea snatched himself from them: that's the propriety of the word; they go to seek him and cry after him, God snatcheth himself from them, as one that refuseth their friendship, he turns his back upon Obs. 1 them. This noteth, That God hath no delight in the services of superstitious and formal professors. 2But to the humble and contrite heart, he delighteth to be with them. The flocks and the herds of the wicked are rejected and God withdraweth himself from them; but small things from the Saints are accepted. As you shall observe in 1 Sam 7.9. when holy Samuel there did but offer a sucking lamb for a burnt offering unto the Lord, presently followed that the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines and discomfited them, and they were smitten before Israel. Here are herds and flocks and yet God withdraweth himself; but Samuel there offers but a poor sucking lamb, and presently the Lord thundereth with a great thunder upon their adversaries.