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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
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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 observe, It is a heavy and sad condition when Obs. 2 God withdraws himself from his creature seeking him, yea seeking him and that in a time of distress. As in 1 Sam. 28.5. when Saul was seeking God, and God was departed from him, mark what Saul saith, I am sorely distressed, for God is departed from me. And in the 9. Chapter of this Prophecy, vers. 12. Woe unto them when I depart from them saith God. Oh that is a sad condition. It is a sign,
And then observe, It is a heavy and sad condition when Obs. 2 God withdraws himself from his creature seeking him, yea seeking him and that in a time of distress. As in 1 Sam. 28.5. when Saul was seeking God, and God was departed from him, mark what Saul saith, I am sorely distressed, for God is departed from me. And in the 9. Chapter of this Prophesie, vers. 12. Wo unto them when I depart from them saith God. Oh that is a sad condition. It is a sign,
First, of a dishonour that God puts upon a people (as I Reas. 1 showed you more largely when I spake of the rejecting of their sacrifices.) What greater dishonour can it be unto a people, than for God to take more pleasure in their howlings under his wrath than he doth in their cryings unto him for mercy? And yet to such a condition may a people, a particular soul be brought into, I say that God may take more pleasure in your howlings under his wrath than in your cryings unto him, and that in your Temples, if you do not reform as well as cry unto him: and for that you have that evident place in Amos, 8.3.1 In that day saith the Lord, shall the songs of the Temple be howlings; As if he should say, the songs of the Temple were loud, but I will take more pleasure in their howlings than in their songs. And that place is very famous,