A77979:882
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.
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, Esa. 29.1. Woe to Ariel the City where David dwelt &c. and vers. 2. Yet I will distress Ariel, and there shall be heaviness and sorrow, and it shall be unto me as Ariel. The Text seemeth to be obscure at the first reading, therefore the meaning is this. By Ariel, 2is meant Jerusalem, the City where David dwelt, the place where the sacrifices were offered unto God; And Ariel 3signifies an Altar of God, Gods Altar that did devour the sacrifices like a Lion: Now saith God, Thou shalt be to me as Ariel, thou Jerusalem ⟨p. 414⟩where my famous Altar was, where so many famous sacrifices were offered, thou shalt be to me as Ariel, that is, you indeed offer many sacrifices unto me, and you continue still in your hypocrisy, in your wicked lives, know saith God, I will make that City as an Altar upon which your blood shall be offered, and I will take as much pleasure in the sacrifice of your blood offered upon this Altar, as in all the sacrifices that were offered upon the Altar from whence the City had its name, your name shall be Ariel, that is, your City shall be stained with your blood as the Altar was with the blood of the sacrifices. God rejecteth and casteth out the services of such as are superstitious and ungodly.