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A77979	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1650 (1650)	Wing B6070; Thomason E588_1; ESTC R206293	515,009	635

God in Scripture are often set out unto us by this similitude of water as in Isa 28.17 Nahum 1.8 look as their anger ran like water so my wrath shall run upon them until they are consumed That Gods wrath is very hot against wicked Governours such as break the bounds of Religion Laws and Covenants the Lord is much displeased against great ones when wicked Numb 25.4 the people of Israel committed a great evil in provoking God by their Idolatry joyning themselves to Baal-Peor and the Lord said Take the heads of Israel The people offended and it was by the encouragement of the Governors therefore their heads must off the people sin and the Governors must suffer because they reproved them not nor restrained them but countenanced them Hence we may note That we had need to pray much for Princes Fearful are the examples which historiaans report of concerning the judgments of God upon wicked Princes Leander in the discription of Italy reports of a cruel Tyrant who perswaded himself that he must give an account to no man none could call him to an account for what he did at last God gave him into the hands of the people who strip'd him naked bound him upon a planck and drew him through the streets in the sight of all the people then made a great fire by him and heated tongs red hot in the fire when they had done thus then proclaimation was made in the Market place that seeing he had wronged so many that he was never able to make satisfaction for the wrong he had done therefore all that had suffered by him should come and have a pull at his flesh with the red hot tongs Another fearful example we have of latter times concerning Charls the 9th about the massacre in France who at that time pretended great love and kindness to the Protestant party invited them to a great marriage feast and at that time by his Commission calls in those bloody miscreants who cruelly murdered the Protestant party there he broke bounds but see how God met with him in a most grievous disease through the violence of which there spurted out blood from him in several parts of his body so that he wallowed in his blood before he died God powred out His wrath upon them in blood who in their life time thirsted after blood Secondly The bounds of Religion and Laws as they keep in obedience Obs 2 so they keep out judgments Pure Religion and good Laws as they are bounds to keep us in duty so they keep judgments and wrath from us And we ought to look upon Laws in both these notions not only to keep us in order and duty but also to keep out wrath if we break our bounds we must look that wrath should break in upon us therefore we had need to do as men that live neer the Sea when the Sea breaks in upon them they presently leave all their other businesses and go about that Our bounds are broken and who is the occasion of it the Lord knows and wrath is broken in upon u● at our breaches therefore let us now as one man set about the making up of our breaches Obs 3 Thirdly God punisheth according to mens sins They break the bounds God breaks in with wrath upon them are they resolute in sinning God will be as resolute in his judgments upon them see that text Jer. 44.25 You have sworn and vowed to your superstitions and I have sworn to bring judgment upon you and it shall come to pass Therefore when judgments are upon us Use if we would have them removed we should diligently observe what sins we are guilty of which answereth to the judgment which is upon us for many times we may trace the cause of a judgment by the sin that we are guilty of and if we ever look to have troubles removed we must first remove sin the cause of them VER 11. Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment because he willingly walked after the commandement WRATH in the former verse was threatned against the Princes of Judah who removed the bound And here the Lord returns again to Ephraim in this 11. verse and the 12. verse to Judah and Ephraim both together they being both a provocation to God are plagued both together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word Oppressed in the original is Nashuk translated by Hierom Calumnia Ephraim suffered and was oppressed by false accusations and slanderings for there is an opposition in mens names and estates which the Seventy usually translate by Sycophantia The 70. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and then we may render i● thu● Ephraim by Sychophants doth suffer a great deal of wrong When there are false reports raised against men they suffer wrong by it false reports are as a false Medium which represents things in another manner than they are As put a staff into the water simile and it shews to be crooked but take it out and 't is not so So the actions of men in the reports of others may seem crooked when in themselves are strait and good And thus was Ephraim broken in judgment though his cause was good yet 't was made bad if he were wronged he could have no releef for himself So that good causes by bad men are many times perverted but the Sain●s may support themselves with Pauls comfort who passed not much for mans judgment In this signification the Seventy Translators do often take the word but in this place they express it by another word thus * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 English translatiō Ephraim hath over-powered his adversaries and so hath trod down judgment they interpret it actively But the words are well rendred in your books in the passive participle and so they are to be read Ephraim is broken in judgment Concussus judicio concussio is a Law word signifying such a kind of breaking and oppression as threatneth the utter ruine and undoing of a man by Law As many rich men threaten poor men when they do them any wrong I 'le be even with you I 'l ow you a good turn Or as Magistrates that are corrupt and wicked when they cannot bring poor men to say or do what they would have them they will threaten to undo them or if ever it lie in their power they wil ow them a good turn of which carriage Samuel cleers himself 1 Sam. 12.3 Crimea cōcussionis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whom have I defrauded or whom have I * oppressed the word is the same here That is used my power to threaten men to yeeld up their liberties their rights their enjoyments by any power which was in my hands This was the sin of the great Princes here of the ten Tribes Broken in judgment That is Expos Not in Gods judgment upon them but in the judgment of their own cause they were crushed in their estates liberties and laws and that not only by their own Magistrates

his Message to King Joash and was slain for it and saith the text Acts 7.52 Which of the Prophets have not your fathers murdered But now here is their encouragement against al the il usage the hardships which they meet withal in their work I look upon it saith God as I doing it I had a hand in it therfore certainly God will not let them go unrewarded 1 Sam. 22.23 David said to Abiathar Abide thou with me fear not for he that seeketh thy life seeketh my life but with me thou shalt be in safeguard David was the occasion of Abiathers fathers death Consololation to those Ministers the friēds of those that are perished in the Cause of God and because of that what respect had David of him for this and shall not God much more So that have you a friend a brother or a father slain for the Cause of God or in it standing for Him shall not God take his part yea He will Ahim●lech was slain accidentally for the Cause of David yet he would deal wel with Abiathar but saith God thy friend was slain standing for Me and owning My Cause he shall lose nothing by it for I will deal well with thee and preserve thee alive for his sake I have slain them That is thus Their Ministry hath been Expos 3 so heavy that it hath even kild them I have followed them on so with work that I have even slain them so that this people cannot say they have not been warned or that they have had no Prophets among them or that their Prophets have been idle that they have had no work to do and certainly it is a good death for a Minister to die preaching Pareus makes much use of this Oportet Episcopum concionantem mori saith he How much more honorable to die in doing Gods work than by cōmitting sinful acts of intemperance uncleanness c. they cannot spend their strength better than in Gods service O let that people who have such Ministers look to it that they bring forth fruit answerable in some proportion to the cost that is bestowed on them and if you take the sense thus then God seems to speak grievingly Oh what shall I do with this people what means hath been used what losses have I sustained by them I have spent many choice Servants among them the lives and strengths of such spirits have bin spent upon them of whom the world was not worthy Oh what shal I do unto such a people Surely such a people enjoying such a Ministry had need look to their profession May not this be said of many Congregations in London Congregations in London hath not God sent many choice spirits among you to do you good and have they effected the end for which they were sent among you If not wo to you God hath a special regard unto this when he shall spend the lives of his choicest and most precious servants and if he have not a considerable vallue and return in peoples fruitfulnes it wil mightily provoke and incense him against them God hath an high esteem of his Ministers lives and strengths they are vallued more than so to be spent and wasted upon unfruitful people who neither care for them nor their Ministry Expos 3 But to come more particularly and according to the genuine sense of the words This slaying refers it self to the people How the word slaies Now the Word slaies in these two respects In its deonouncing of judgement upon men for what the Word threatens it is said to do Jer. 18.7 8. At what instant I speak concerning a Nation or concerning a Kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy and when God promises mercy good he is said to give life and we should look upon them as performing of it In the operation and working of it it hath a mighty efficasie in it for the working impenitent sinners to ruin it is as a twoedged sword which doth execution every way Isa 11.3 It makes men of quick understanding in the fear of God and God is said to consume Antichrist by the breath of his nostrils and by the Word of his mouth 2 Thes 2. the Word is of such a force that sometimes if brings death in a litteral sense to some who withstand and oppose it Ezek. 11.2 Pelatiah gives wicked counsel in the City and the Prophet is commanded to prophesie against him and in the 13. verse we reade that when the Prophet prophesied Pelatiah died so many times God makes the Word so powerful in the mouths of his servants that it strikes men dead presently Gualter Gualter hath this Note from hence that the power of the Word appears in this that it awakens convinces and terrifies the consciences of men so that they go home and make away themselves and become self-murderers and the truth is it is nothing else but the word working powerfully to the ruin and destruction of men Or the words may be taken hyperbolically as men that Expos 4 are oppressed and in misery Oh ye kill me I am not able to endure it you wil be the death of me the Prophets came so close to them that they cryed out Oh they will kill us we are not able to suffer them Luther Luther saith that these words Thou hast slain them by the words of my mouth that is meant the Law by the Law thou hast slain them and by the word Prophets he saith is meant that part of Doctrine which is necessary to be preached to prevent the abuse of the Doctrine of the Gospel which otherwise men would be ready to pervert and he further adds that those men which deny the use of the Law were not fit so much as to be suffered I mention this of Luther the rather because those who deny the use of the Law urge him so strongly for the upholding of them in their way It follows Thy judgments are as the light That is passively thy threatnings Expos 1 upon them or the execution of those threatnings upon them shall break out as the light though they have slain my Prophets and think thereby to free themselves from those judgments which they threatned against them no saith God for all this I will make known my threatnings which they have denounced against them when the Prophet Jeremiah had delivered the message of God to the Princes and the Priests they laid hold on him and said he should surely die Jer. 26.8 Now see what the Prophet saith in the 14 and 15. verses As for me behold I am in your hands do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you but know ye for certain that if ye put me to death ye shall bring innocent blood upon your heads for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you You think perhap● that when the Minister is gone his words are gone and there is an end of them no they shall lie upon you

Page 345 Riches How riches are fatal to Church-men Page 100 Rule The rule of our actions must be known and why Page 341 Rulers Rulers and Governors should be men of good mettle Page 229 Romans see Education Resurrection We live in Christs Resurrection Page 543 Relations What relation God stands in to the Saints Page 547 Revealing We must take notice of Gods revealing himself to us Page 557 Reformation see Hypocrisie Religion see Unconstancy S Saints see Good works Sacrifices The sacrifices of the wicked are slaughters Page 3●● What sacrifices should be rendred up to God Page 332 Satan Satans way to get in false worship Page 469 See Temptation Admonition Sensual see Ministers Sensuality Sensuality is a besotting sin Page 129 Self-love Self-love is sinful Page 409 Sermons Sermons must be preached to the life Page 439 How to know when a Sermon works really Page 440 Ministers in their Sermons must denounce war if peace be slighted Page 441 Secret sins see Beware Services Former services are not to be presumed on Page 402 Shame Causes of shame what they are Page 326 Sin Sin causeth a controversie between God and man Page 4 Sin not mortified will break out again Page 59 God punisheth sin with sin Page 152 Sin after rebuke is very sinful Page 363 Sin acts more on the will than on the power Page 376 Sin see Controversie Stealing What stealing is Page 52 Strife Strife against God is dreadful Page 7 Strive see priest Striving Striving against God is vain Page 6 Scornfulness Scornfulness reproved Page 19 Scripture see Papists Society The Society of the Saints is to be improved Page 196 State A State is hard to be stood out against in matter of Religion Page 365 State see Failing Subjects Subjects suffer for Princes sins Page 490 Superstition Curiosity to see Superstition is dangerous Page 187 See Preaching Command Superstitious How Superstitious men look upon Gods Ordinances Page 325 Superstitious people must be heeded when they come with greatest shew of reason Page 358 Superstitious people are abundant in services Page 406 Superstitious people spare no cost in their services Page 407 See Admonition Stubborn Stubborn people have base spirits Page 194 Swearing Whence swearing proceeds Page 41 The evil of swearing Page 42 Swearing in its self is lawful Page 189 See Lying Salutation The ancient form of the Saints salutation Page 549 Saints What the Saints shall know Page 553 See Experience Sacrifice see Mercy Scornful Evil men are scornful Page 665 Seasonableness Seasonableness commends duty Page 565 Service see Judgment Sin Sin disturbs Heaven and Earth Page 511 Slanders The evils of slanders Page 659 Sluggish A Sluggish spirit in the men of our times Page 556 Soul see Form Suffer see Help Steward see Vertue Superstition see England Spirit God hath sent choice spirits to London Page 590 T Take heeed How men ought to take heed to the Lord Page 126 Ten Tribes Why the ten Tribes had never a good King Page 469 Temptation Satans Temptations are an aggravation to sin Page 386 Terrified see Dying Thought Our Thoughts must be accounted for Page 120 Toys Men contend about toys Page 23 Threatnings see Real Treachery Treachery against God is dangerous Page 419 Treachery is the greatest sin Page 420 Trust see Avenged Truth Suffering truths go hardly down with Ministers Page 94 A hint of Truth prevails much with a subdued heart Page 389 See Hard Terror Terror to Hypocrites Page 551 Thoughts see Penitent Tryal see Repentance Turning Joint turning to God is very honorable Page 531 U Understanding What evil want of understanding doth Page 167 Ugly The ugly face of sin Page 63 Unfaithfulness Unfaithfulness provokes God to cast men off Page 96 Universities Univers ties corrupted Page 628 Why Universities are corrupted Page 116 Unlawful We can never expect unlawful undertakings to prosper Page 124 Vertues Vertues requisite in a steward Page 609 Unbeleef Lay up for time to come against unbeleef Page 546 Unconstancy Unconstancy in Religion provokes God Page 592 Unworthiness Faith sees worthiness in our unworthiness W Way When God is in a way of wrath he can reach the most remote creatures Page 68 Wicked The different spirits of wicked men in prosperity and adversity Page 64 Many wicked Parents are loth their children ' should be wicked Page 156 Wicked men shall need God Page 407 See Children Dogs Wickedness Thoughtful wickedness is the worst wickedness Page 120 God remembers wickedness a long time Page 649 It is a wickedness to flatter Princes Page 653 It is a wickedness to obey unlawful commands Page 653 See Apostates Whoremongers Whoremongers and plausible Ministers are alike Page 124 Works see Good Wine How Wine takes away the heart Page 130 Worship In point of Gods Worship we must not do as others do Page 177 By whom the Worship of God is disesteemed Page 325 See Institution Will Will-worship is abominable to God Page 360 The more will to sin the greater is the sin Page 472 Willing see Obedience Wrath No creature can help in time of Gods wrath Page 68 Wicked men Wicked men are led aside by their Governors Page 653 Wicked men are of no use Page 690 Wilfulness Wilfulness after enlightning is a note of destruction Page 579 Worthiness see Unworthiness Word How the Word slaies Page 590 The Word slaies either the sin or the soul Page 596 Worship see False Y Young Young Converts and weak Christians are soon deceived Page 409 Young ones Young ones are the hope of a Nation Page 429 Young ones must not be corrupted Page 430 Young ones are subject to m scarry Page 578 FINIS