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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

after he had killed Nabal and telleth him of his sin he fals down and humbleth himself in so much that God himself takes notice of it and upon it pronounceth a transmission of his punishment That he would not bring the evil in his daies but in his sons God bids the Prophet see how he humbled himself that not in a show as if his heart were not touched and affected he did truly humble himself in his kind but now was there no reformation followed upon this No none at all great men not easily reformed Theodos 'T is very hard to bring great men to reforming where have we such an example since Theodosius the Emperor who being a man guilty of rash effusion of blood coming upon a Sabbath day to the place of publick worship and would have received the Sacrament Ambrose Ambrose seeing him a coming goes and meets him at the door and speaks thus to him How dare those bloody hands of yours lay hold of the body and blood of Christ who have been the sheders of so much innocent blood Which speech did so startle him that he went away and was humbled for his sin and afterwards came and made his publick confession and then was received in Whence we may see that Kings An Emperor may be kept back frō the Sacrament yea Emperors have been kept back from the Sacrament But did this humiliation of Ahab come to nothing If we look but into the 22. chap. we shall find him of a proud hauty spirit resolved upon his own will contrary to the will of God he would go up to Ram●th Gilead and when Jehoshaphat asked him if there were not a Prophet of the Lord more that they might enquire of him and he said there is one but I hate him and this was in the time of his humiliation And is it not thus with us Applica many times when judgments are upon us how penitent are we and then humbled presently but if the rod be off us we grow proud and stout again presently So in Judah what beginnings did that young King Joash Joash make in the 2 Chron. 24.6 what care was there taken in reparing the Temple gave commandement to the Priests and the Levites to gather mony for the building the House of the Lord and commanded it to be done spedily he was a very young Prince but very zealous in so much that he blamed the high Priest for his want of zeal and verse 10. 't is said the Princes and all the people rejoyced and brought in and cast into the chest now what did this produce surely some glorious effect mark in the 17. verse After the death of Jehojadah came the Princes of Judah and made obeisance to him and what then the King hearkened to them they then began to get him on their side by complying with him for the text saith that he hearkened to them and then wrath came upon them 't is very likely they said after this manner to him Consider who you are a Prince the head of a people and you do all that the old man Jehojada commanded he was a subject to you and you be commanded by him The Princes discourse to Joash and besides he is now dead and gone therefore shew your self a man like a Prince in your Kingdom stand upon your own legs be like unto the rest of the Princes about you Now such words as these might please the King and be hearkened to and then they presently forsook the House of the Lord God of their fathers and served groves and Idols they forsook their Religion while they kept the truth it preserved them and they followed the rule but turning from the rule what outrages do they commit verse 21 22. conspire against Zaccariah and stoned him the blood of a Prophets son is now nothing to them they can down with it and the King stood and saw him stoned Oh what a height of sin is this young zealous Prince come unto How many sad examples have we in these our daies which second this of Joash Young ones of our times how many young ones are there who in their youth give very good hopes but it proves to be but a morning cloud their timely beginnings end in apostacy Another example we have in Amaziah in the 2 Chron. 25.2 Amaziah Amaziah in the 6. verse had hired an hundred thousand of Israel to go to the war with him and for their hire he had given them an hundred talants of silver now after he had hired them and paid them all their monies there comes a Prophet of God tels him that he must not use a man of them why saith he what shall I do for my mony the hundred talents which I have paid the Army with the man of God answered the Lord is able to give thee much more than these he had no security for it but only G●●s word for it and that from the mouth of a man what now Amaziah obeyed presently and separated the armies of Israel But what became of this Vers 14. after he returned from the slaughter of the Edomites he brought the gods of the children of Seir and set them up to be his gods and bowed down to them and the 15. verse God sends him another Prophet and now see how the spirit of the man is changed In the former verses the other Prophet coms to him and crosses his design and turns his mind he hearkens presently unto him and obeys the command of God in that thing which was for his present and eminent losse but this Prophet speaks as mildly with as much love as possibly could be and he speaks as much reason to him as a man can desire Why hast thou relied and sought after the gods of the people which could not deliver their own people out of thy hand they could not rescue or save their people from thee and wilt thou serve them yet in the 16. vers mark what he saith Medle not with this matter Art thou made of the Kings Councel forbear why shouldest thou be smitten Dost thou know what a plot and design there is in this thing The Prophet forbears but what follows I know by this the Lord hath determined to destroy thee Because thou hast done this Wilfulness after enlightening a note of d●structiō and hast not hearkened to my counsel The truth is when we see men unruly stubborn and wilful rejecting counsel and very unreasonable in their way especially after some good workings and stirrings it is a fearful sign God hath a purpose to destroy them So that wicked King at one time could call the prophet his father yet how was he afterward inraged against him Some may be friends to the Saints at one time and bitter enemies to them at another And as the Scripture is full of such examples as these so also are Ecclesiastical histories 'T is storied of Domitian Domitiā a most

the brow of a hill that was upon the side of the Citie and would have thrown him down and broke his neck that was the reward he should have had And Paul that was one of the excellentest preachers that ever was It was one of Austins wishes that he could but see Paul in the pulpit yet when he came to preach What will this babler say and he is a pestilent fellow one that is of a furious spirit and an incendiary and where ever he goes he turns the world up-s●de down Such kind of entertainment had the Apostles And Luther I remember hath such an expression Quid est praedicare Evangelium What is it to preach unless it be this to derive all the fury of people upon ones self if one would preach conscienciously And Mat. 5.12 there Christ tels his Disciples what they were like to meet withal how they were like to be reviled and persecuted for so saith he persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Acts 7.53 Which of the Prophet h●ve not your f●thers pe●secuted Thus those that are in office those that are sent to speak unto the people they must expect if they would be faithful in their administrations to be striven withal But though wicked men do strive yet as Samson said unto the men of Judah that came to binde him that they might deliver him into the hands of the Philistins Do not ye fall upon me your selves It were well if faithful Ministers were not striven withal many times by those that are godly It is not so much for a faithful Minister to have wicked and ungodly men to strive with him Though they bind them Oh brethren do not do not you bind them after that in conscience of their duty and in love to your souls they have hazarded all the hatred and malice that may be of the adversary even to stand in the fore-front as the But to their mallice yet in requital of all even many that are godly if they see them grow troublesom they are ready to strive with them because wicked men are exasperated by the Word of God preached therefore they could wish that even such Ministers had never come amongst them and this even such as make profession of godliness do Is here a requital of he hazard that faithful Ministers undergo I appeale unto you Are there any people in the Kingdom that stand as a But against the malice of the Adversary so much as godly and faithful Ministers do Do not think that it is out of that precipitancy that ra hness that we do not consider what danger we stand in in doing what we do yes we consider it beforehand But out of conscience of our duty and in faithfulness unto your soul● we hazard our lives we hazard all the rage and malice of the Enemy Now when we have done all this we expect a far better r●quittal from many people than we find When Moses and Aaron came unto the people of Israel when they were in Egypt to deliver them for that was their message but because for the present their bondage was increased and the wr●th of Pharaoh more incensed therefore they were weary of Moses and Aaron and they fall to striving with them as if they were the cause of their misery Why 't was better with us before than three you came if you had never come amongst us it would have been better with us So it is now because those that are faithful out of conscience labor to declare to you the mind of God and to draw you to those duties that God calls for this indeed enrageth the adversary they are the more incensed when you follow what your Ministers teach and you are ready to think they h●ve brought us into this way they have kindled the fire they have told us it is the Cause of God they have exhorted us to come in with our Estates and now the King is exaspered against u● and our adversaries are enraged against us and we are like to be in some misery And so even all the strivings of the better sort are ready to devolve upon the Ministers and they strive with them as the only incendiaries and troublers of the places where they come Well howsoever Ministers may meet with hard dealing from some even from professors yet their way is with the Lord and their judgment is with the Almighty As there is a most admirable promise to help those that have been most forward to rebuke sin in a zealous way for God though men are enraged against them Isa 49.2 Isa 49.2 He hath made my mouth like a sharp sword in the shaddow of his hand hath he bid me This text is true of every faithful Minister Mark it He hath made made my mouth like a sharp sword why if I did speak smooth things I were not like to be in so much danger but if speak sharp things do not I hazard my selfe much Opened I shall incur the rage and anger of all kind of people but mark He hath made my mouth as a sharp sword But in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me Ministers whose mouths are as sharp swords they are in a great deal of danger yea but let such be comforted here comes a promise presently in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me So that those Ministers whose mouthes are sharpest in the Name of God and who speak but the Truth of God those are under Gods protection more than any other Ministers that have held their peace they are in more safety they are hid in Gods hand in the shadow of his hand more than any other So God comforted Jeremiah Chap. 10. vers 15. after he had cryed out wo is me I am a man of strife wel saith God Verily it shall be well with thy remnant I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction It may be many of you think it is a weaknes in Ministers to appear so much as they do and discover themselves for they endanger themselves and cannot they be quiet as others are there are many of more moderate spirits and deal wiselyer for themselves they keep in and say nothing and so they may scape of either side looking which side will prevail May not these scape No they are in more danger than the other for the other are under a promise these are not they are so studious for themselves and for their owne safety that God will take no care of them Our Savior Christ takes care to encourage his Disciples against the st●●ings of people with them we have in Luk. 6. many blessings pronounced blessed are the poor blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness blessed are they that mourn c. But they that understand the Original shall find that the word ye is not in only blessed are the poor and blessed are they that mourn c. But when he cometh

wel or immediately after an act of uncleanness but God at that very instant looks upon thee as drunken unclean and filthy though the act may be past many yeers before VER 3. They make the King glad with their wickedness and the Princes with their lyes THey make the King glad That is Expos 1 By their willing yeilding to his commands by the way of their false worship the King and the Princes were glad to see their edicts yeilded unto and obeyed at the first when the commands came from Jeroboam to change the way of Gods worship they had cause to fear that it might not take with the people there would be something to do to make them change the way of Gods worship but when they saw it go on currently without contradiction they rejoyced Expos 2 By their flattering of him in his wicked waies they did not only yeild to his unlawful edicts but commended them and applauded him for his care and tender respect which he had to them in shortening their journy that they should not go so far as Jerusalem to worship they flattered him in this extreamly telling him that this was the way to establish his Kingdom He was glad when he saw the people wicked in their waies Expos 3 and their lives loose and prophane at this the King was glad and why because he knew they were for his turn his design was accomplished now he had made them wicked in their lives by letting them have their will in evil and now he never feared their scrupling or making question of the thing he never once doubted of their unwillingnesse to worship at the Calves to go to Dan and Bethel Thus they made the King glad The Notes First observe That carnal and wicked people are Obs 1 easily led aside by the examples of those that are their Governours Which way Superiors go the multitude will go if they do that which is good in the outward part of it for externals they will do the same if they do wickedly they will do so likewise though they do not love their Prince yet that they may have their Princes favor they will sin against God It is wickednesse for any people to obey the unlawful commands of Obs 2 their Governors This people might think this was no sin in them What must we not obey our Governors and be subject to authority yet we see the holy Ghost calls it wickedness So how many are there who for their worship have no other authority but their superiors their Governors this wil never pass for currant in Gods account It is a vile wickednesse to flatter Princes Yet how hath this Obs 3 been the constant course of Courts It is reported of Dionysius that when he spit his flatterers would lick it up and say it was sweeter than Honey This is vileness in people to do and more vile in Princes to love to be flattered Cyril Cyril upon this text saith That the fear and love of God had it been in this people it would have kept both them and their Princes to have withstood such wicked commands it would have ballanced their spirits Obs 4 It is a most most wicked and vile thing to make any glad with their wickedness or to be made glad by wickedness Yet how many are guilty of this sin some are so hardened in their wickedness that they will make others drunk and then laugh at them when they have done so How far are these from Davids temper whose eyes ran down with tears because men kept not the Law and horror took hold on him there is no greater sign of a desperate heart hardened in sin than to laugh at sin in others and make a sport of it in themselves and the higher men are in place and dignity the greater is the aggravation of their s●ns for Princes to be glad at wickeness and to be made merry by iniquity who are set to be punishers of sin and a terror to evil doers this is most horrible wickedness Prov. 29.22 If the Prince hearken to lyes all his servants are wicked They make the King glad with their lyes Note Obs 5 The King is in a sad condition when his ends and plots must be accomplished by the wickedness of the people Such are the dispositions of these men that they will do any thing rather than suffer the least evil of punishment for saith a Prince these men they have no conscience left in them to check them but these precise Puritans they will suffer and die rather than sin against God and wrong their consciences Now these Priests and their officers which the Prophet here speaks of they would reason thus If I should crosse the Kings mind I should lose my place and be put out of my office and suffer a great deal of trouble and rather than they will run upon these straights they wil run upon any design for the ruining of that which crosses them yea though it be the worship of God Oecolampadius saith that bad Princes are alwaies enemies to to the strict waies of religion and unto such as are the strictest in those waies and walk most agreeable to the Word and are tender in their conscience fearful to sin against it these are disregarded and discount●●anced but those that are most wicked they are accounted the best subject● Irreligion slavery companions and these they will trust Therefore where there is no religion slavery soon follows that people may be brought to any thing who have lost their religion but where profession is maintained it will teach men to stand for their liberties and not to yeild against the truth But what doth Religion teach men rebellion doth it deny obedience to Governors No by no means Religion teaches obedience to Governors and the more religious any man is the more obedient he will be to lawful Authority the Gospel commands obedience to Governors but not to Tyranny to the wils and humors of men God never made such difference between men Religion never teaches disobedience to lawful authority to such as rule in the Lord yet this was the case of this people It follows And the Princes with their lyes Expos 1 Luther Luther carries this to the lye of their false worship their Idolatry which the Scripture cals a lye Rom. 1.25 Who changed the truth of God into a lye and worshiped the creature more than the Creator But this is not the full meaning and scope of the words but thus They put their false glosses upon their false worship to Expos 2 make it to take with the people and with the Princes as thus The Priests did not only submit and yeild to them themselves but encouraged the people telling them it was decent and comely in the worship of God Or thus By denying whats●●er may hinder them in their Expos 3 false worship If the Prince should by any means hear that his Commands were not like to take with the people

the morning of their time and seek me For the further opening these words What time doth this seeking of God refer it self unto when did the Jews thus seek God 1. This refers it self unto these three times as first when the seventy yeers were at an end this was fulfild in Dan. 9 Ezr. 9. and Nehem. 9. than they sought God early when their sorrows and oppressions were greater than in Egypt as Jeremiah in the Lamentations expresses it 2. Under their captivity oppression by the Romans which was when Christ came into the world at that time when three thousand were converted at one Sermon which Peter preached to them Act. 2. And multitudes came in daily Act. 21.20 3. At the calling of the Jews who are now in a most sad and deplorable condition and at their calling shall this be principally fulfilled How did they seek God in any of th●se times early Quaere 2 How for in Daniels time he saith All this evil is come upon us yet made we not our prayers before the Lord chap. 9. ver 13. they never prayed to God in all the time of their captivity with any seriousness till the end of it came Then for the second time how did they seek God early when Christ came when the Scripture tells us John 7.11 That he came unto his own but his own received him not they crucified him and were very bitter enemies to him even to the death And for the third time at the calling of the Jews how did they seek him early for it 's two thousand three hundred yeers since this prophesie was spoken and yet they have not sought God how then is this fulfilled that they sought God early Answ 1 For resolution Interpreters answer that this is to be understood not in respect of the time but assoon as they came to be illuminated to have their eyes open to see any thing of the truth in the morning of their day of grace as in Cyrus his time and upon a sudden in Peters Sermon and hereafter the coming of the Son of man shall be as the lightning this time seems to be called the day-star arising in their hearts 2 Pet. 1. The calling of the Jews shall be suddenly therefore in the 2. of the Revelation 28. they are promised to have the morning star to arise that is some beginnings of a day of grace those which overcome shall partake of the good of that day and then shall be the time in which the people shall seek God early Answ 2 Seek me early that is seek me diligently Prov. 7.15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee I came forth to seek thee early in the morning the word is the same with this in the text and thus this was fulfilled in the time of their captivity Nehem. 4.17 18 19 20. they built the walls diligently or inflamedly having their weapons in one hand and their tools in the other so the spouse she sought Christ diligently and in the Apostles time Acts. 2. they cry out Men and brethren what shall we do They were wonderfull solicitous in their seekings of Christ and when the Jews are cald 't is prophesied of them that they shal be as doves flying to the wind●ws Isa 60 8. Hence observe Obs 1 In the forest and greatest aff●ictions which befal the people of God God intends their good in them I will return unto my place that they may seek me early in all this that is come upon them I intend them no hurt but every way much good Isa 27.9 By this the iniquity of Jacob shall be purged and this is all the fruit the taking away of their sin Isa 16.14 Isa 26.14 compared with the 9. opened and there we may see Gods different dealing in afflicting the wicked and the godly in the 14. verse we have Gods dealing with the wicked They are dead they shall not live they are diseased they shall not rise The wicked they are dead and being dead shall never rise but in the 19. verse when he speaks of the Saints he saith Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they rise Gods word shews a great deal of difference between the anger of God and the anger of men men when they are angry seek the destruction sometimes of those with whom they are angry but God loves them in his anger the spring of Gods anger to his people is love the outward administrations of God both to the wicked and the godly may be one and the same yet the root from whence they come much different they may be love and kindness to the one but wrath and hatred to the other We may note the little honor which God hath in the world Obs 2 God here speaks of his own people they seek him but it is but seldom except when in afflictions and if the service be but small which they perform what is it he hath from other men If men make use of you for their necessities and in their extremities only you take it unkindly simile and think they serve themselves more than respect you Oh how ill may God take it then from us Use when he seldome or never heares from us but in our extremities Times of afflictions are times of seeking of God this is the Apostles Obs 3 advice Is any afflicted let him pray James 5.13 and Isa 26.16 They powred out a prayer unto thee when thy chas●ening was upon them and in their affliction they visited thee they powred out a prayer to thee it was not dropping now and then but it was violent and it was a powring and it was continual a prayer not prayers in the singular number noting that they made their prayers but a● one continued act the word prayer in this text signifies inchantment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in the speaking of three or four words there is much efficacy being an inchantment so here their prayers were very powerful to prevail with God Reas In the time of affliction the soul sees that it hath to deale with God the false medium of things are then taken away they see sin as sin the false glosses wherewith sin was wont to be set out withal Luther Paul's Epistles are then removed Luther saith that many of Pauls Epistles could not be understood but by the cross Men in prosperity can dispute against the Truth and grow wanton with it but let God but lay his hand upon them how easily wil they yeeld Afflictions awaken the conscience so that the Truths of God come with more power Job 33.16 and Job 36.10 Job 36.10 He openeth their ears to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity He commandeth them in another way to return from iniquity then opened Did not God command them before but not with that power and efficacy the voice of prayer is very pleasing to God when fervent Obs

4 When the Lord is pleased to work grace in the heart that heart is taken off from all creature helps they dare not go with Ephraim to King Jareb How are they then to be blamed who seek to the Devil for help in distress they dare not go to Councels or to Armies for releef but to God it is too much to rest upon men much more upon the Devil Do any of you go to Inchanters or Wisards to find God you may seek him but shall not find him Obs 5 We are not to be discouraged in our seeking of God though our afflictions drive us to it This people sought God but their afflictions did drive them to it yet God accepted them Use Sit not down despairing in your afflictions saying God will never be gracious our seeking Him is to no purpose It is true God may justly say to us as Jeptha said to the people Do you now come to me in your distress So God may say do you now come to me in your sorrows and miseries and cast me off in your prosperity Caution I confess it is very dangerous venturing the putting off our seeking of God till then but if then God be pleased to work upon your hearts be not discouraged but seek him still So Joel saith That in his affliction he sought the Lord But did the Lord answer him Yea his requests were granted Note That every seeking of God is not sufficient it must be early Obs 6 seeking of Him Early seeking acceptable Now men are said to seek God early When 1. It is in the morning of their years 1. In youth when young ones shal make this text true in the letter of it it is wonderful pleasing to God It may be God laid his hand upon thee in thy youth and then God revealed the knowledge of Himself to thee thy misery by sin thy remedy in his Son so that the Churches prayer was thine Psal 90.14 O satisfie us early with thy mercie How many sins are by this prevented Your father or master if godly would give a world if they had it that they had begun sooner to serve the Lord and to seek him early therefore bless God who hath put it into your hearts to seek him John was the young Disciple and he in his youth began to know Christ and of all the Disciples none had that respect shewed them as John had for it is said that he lay in Christs bosom and Christ loved him 2. As this is acceptable in the morning of our years 2 At first enlightning so in the morning of Gods revealing Himself as soon as ever God begins to discover Himself we should then seek Him early when the soul saith as Paul said Acts 26.19 I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision neither consulted I with flesh and blood Hath God set up a light in your consciences and hath it discovered to you your misery and have you hearkened unto the voice of your consciences What have you done since Is sin reformed Are you changed in the inner-man Is Christ formed in you and exalted upon his throne in your hearts Is your will subjected to the will of God and your whole man delivered up to the government of God This were happy if it were so But contrariwise is sin let in and liked of as well as ever after these stirrings and convictions of consci●nce Then are you far from the number of those who are early seekers of God 3 With fervency and diligence 3. When we seek Him with diligence and with fervency not in a formal way When Gods hand is out against us He then looks that we should seek him with intentiveness of spirit See how the Church seeks God with diligence Isa 26.9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night season yea with my spirit within me will I seek the early When was this In a grievous night of affliction when they were in great troubles then to seek God early with their spirits within them this is most emphatical So Acts 12.5 prayer was made by the Church for Peter without ceasing it was continued prayer prayer stretched out even so ought our prayers to be lifted up with fervency true prayer is active and working the fervent prayer of the righteous prevails much with God Jam. 5.16 Lively working prayers are prevailing prayers Quest But what is it to seek God diligently Answ 1 When we seek God with all other things under our feet when all other things are sought in order to this Contemn all for God The soul is carried after the seeking of God with a panting and longing desire as the Hart after the water brooks Answ 2 To seek God early is to seek him with our whole heart The heart is not divided in the work With our whol heart every part is imployed as Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 20.23 feared and set himself to seek the Lord he gave his whole self to the duty Answ 3 When the soul bears down all difficulties in seeking of God when nothing shall keep him off his wook Vanguishes all difficulties as Jacob wrestled with God and would not be put off without the blessing Gen. 32.24 So the woman of Canaan how earnestly did she seek to Christ for her daughter and would not be put off by difficulties Matt. 15.22 23 24 25. Answ 4 When no means is neglected to be used whereby that may be had which we seek for No means neglected The soul tries this means and the other duty and follows God in all his waies that it may find him as the poor woman which followed Christ from place to place to touch the hem of his garment Christ could not be hid from her Resolve to die in persuit of him 5. Resolutions for to die seeking of God is earnest seeking of God it 's our constant practice living and our resolutions dying as Jacob the nearer the dawning of the day approached the more earnest was he How contrary are the practises of too many who at the first seek God early and earnestly too yet after a while leave off and grow cold Oh that it were not thus with us at this day Use England the Lord hath brought us low at this time yea how sad is our condition at this time 'T is true there is a spirit of seeking abroad in the Land but now God calls for a quickning of this we should now put an edg upon our seeking of God Be fervent in spirit serving the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Seeking in the original 't is boyling in spirit let us so seek him now that hereafter we may praise him Psal 22.26 Ps 22.26 they shall praise the Lord that seek him your hearts shall live for ever illustrated How sweet are those mercies which are won by prayer and worn with praises Therefore now stir up the gift that is within you you that never prayed before pray