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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

it is against God ibid Obs 5. The more directly a sin is against God the greater is the sin Page 688 VERS XIV Opened Page 689 Obs 1 The vilest men will assemble to prayer in publick miseries Page 691 Obs 2 When hypocrites assemble 't is for themselves not for God ibid Obs 3 Hypocrites seek God more for sensual things than for others ibid VERS XV. Obs 1 It is God only can bind up broken arms Page 693 Obs 2 To be sinful after mercies is a great aggravation of sin ibid Obs 3 It is an excellent thing to glorifie God after strength is restored ibid Obs 4 A true repenting sinner should have God alwaies before his eyes Page 605 For then 1 He would be serious ibid 2 He would abhor himself ib. 3 He would see the infinite evil of sin ibid 4 There is no standing out against God ibid 5 God is worthy of all he can do ibid 6 Slight sorrow will not serve the turn Page 696 7 God hath power to raise the soul ibid 8 There is enough in God to make him blessed ib. AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA CHAP. VI. VERSE I. Come and let us return unto the LORD for He hath torn and He wil heal us He hath smitten and He wil bind us up IN this Chapter we have these things considerable First Parrs of the Chap. The work of Israels true repentance from the first verse to the third verse Secondly A sad complaint of the overly repentance of many in Israel in the fourth verse Then here is a further upbrading of Israel for their unkind dealing with God The first part sets out Gods peoples resolution to return to Him who had sm●tten them their confidence in His mercy and their blessing themselves in their happy condition now they were returned to him To come to the first verse Come and let us return c. These words are an excitation of the mind not the body to return to God as also they shew the mighty spirit which came upon this people at this time what a turn there was in them as if they had said Well our Princes have deceived us and our Prophets have deluded us and led us aside we have been false in our worship wrong in our practises for which God hath been displeased with us but now Come and let us return we are resolved to fall down and humble our selves He hath smitten us and he will bind us up The Seventy Translators and also Hierom take these words from Chyrurgions which use to put deep and long tents into great sores Septuag Hierom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But the common Septuag saith not this word but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the former is in Hierom. simile who intends not to skin but throughly to heal it by eating out the corrupt flesh and filthy matter so that these words note Israels dangerous disease and their great corruptions and that in their afflictious but God would not let them die of this disease or perish under his hand in the curing but he would heal them and that throughly A woman whose breasts are sore must be throughly tented before it be healed and she bids the Chyrurgion cure her well and thoroughly though it be long and painful So saith God this people are very sorely wounded but I will take them in hand and heale them but their cure will be very long and teadious sore and painful Now saith this people seeing it is thus Come let us return it matters not though our healing cost us dear and it be painful it is enough that God will heal us Let our disease be never so grievous Come and let us return A man that hath a mortal wound about him what pain will not he be willing to endure in healing so he may be sure of cure This people conceived themselves so wounded that if God had not taken them to cure they must have perished but in that God had undertaken the cure they were confident they should be healed When Gods time of mercy is come to a people He puts a mighty Obs 1 spirit upon them to seek to Him Gods time was come for Israels deliverance now God put an active stiring spirit into them therefore they say Come let us return before their spirits were dull and lumpish like unto men in a Lethurgie but now they have a spirit quickened for God like unto those in Isa 2.3 And many people shall say Come and let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob. The like prophesie we have Isa 60.1 and 44.3.5 they shall come off very willingly cheerfully and subscribe themselves by the name of Jacob simile As a Ship which is filled with a full strong wind in the sails goes against all oppositions of wind and stormes there is such a spirit put into them as the Apostle prayes to be in the Colossians chap. 4. ver 12. that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God Now is reformation like to go on to some purpose Fall of Antich At the time of Antichrists destruction God hath promised to put such a spirit into the hearts of the people that all his tyranny shall not be able to stand before them God will blow upon the spirits of men and they shall be very powerful Now considering Gods power let not us despair concerning the great Works adoing in our times Use Let men be never so base and perfideous yet when Gods time is come He will speak the word for deliverance What a miserable sottish condition was the world in a little before Luthers time But when he came what a spirit was raised in the people And what a spirit hath there been raised amongst us and that on a sudden To consider what bondages we were in and greater like to fall into and that we were not made for slavery to be slaves and vassals subjected to the wills of some Twenty or Thirty men And what a spirit did God raise in our brethren of Scotland when he was about to do them good and to break the neck of the yoke of their tyranny Oh then what a cursed thing is it for any to quench keep under or resist such a spirit as this when it arises in people A joynt turning to God is very honorable to God Come and let Obs 2 us return It is much honor to God when but one soul is turned to him but when many are converted there is much glory a multitude of praises then are offered up to God a● in Revel 5.11 And the number of them which stood about the throne was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands And so Revel 19 6. The multitudes of voices saying The Lord God reigneth Allelujah to the highest Obs 3 Times of mercy are joyning times Oh 't is very sad when men will go every one their own way but when men joyn

we should fall in these times yet we shall fall into the bosom of our Father and into the arms of Jesus Christ How much better is it seeing that men are like to fal to take such a course before their fall cometh that when they do fall they may fall soft fall into the bosom of their Father and into the arms of Jesus Christ and not fall in their iniquity And if we fall thus if our fall be not in our iniquity but in the cause of God and rather for our grace than for our iniquity then we may be of more use in our fall than we were in our standing As it is with the Corn simile the Corn that falls into the ground doth fructifie and is of more use when it is fallen than it was when it was in the granary Young men fallen in this war And so many godly men many young ones that are fallen within these two or three yeers but God knows it hath not been in or for their iniquity but in the Cause of God and in the exercise of their graces they are fallen but they are fallen into the arms of God and into the bosom of Christ and they are as fruitful in their fall as they were in their standing for no question but there is much fruit to be reaped from their falls and God hath a plentiful harvest for England that will come out of their falls Judah also shall fall with them Mark Exposit first Ephraim shall fall and then Judah for indeed Ephraim was first in sin the ten Tribes they first forsake the true worship of God and they brought in Judah together with them and the text saith that Judah shall fall with them This is here mentioned to aggravate Ephraims sin and the judgment of it thus Oh this shall lie heavy upon Ephraim one day that not only he hath ruined himself but he hath ruined Judah too he hath brought Judah into his sin and involved him in plagues together with himself From hence the Note is That It is a great aggravation for any one to think what misery be Obs 1 bringeth others into If God do but enlighten any ones conscience it may be Gods hand is upon thee for thy sin This is grievous Oh but together with the sin have not I by my counsel by my example by my countenance brought others into s●n and I have brought them into misery as well as my self It may be there be many in hell at this time that I have holpen thither It is true Gods hand is upon me I am falling and whither I shall fall I know not I see hell open and I may fall into it how ever I am afraid of this that there are some fallen into hell already of whose sin I was the cause and is it possible that I should be preserved out of it must I not follow them and fall thither too when they are already fallen thither through my wickedness You therefore that have been Company-keepers and ringleaders to wickedness and many of your companions are dead and gone without any manifestation of repentance you had need to be throughly humbled Obser 2 Further It is no plea you see for any one to say I will follow the example of others If you will follow the example of others you must perish with others Judah followeth the example of Ephraim and Judah must fall with Ephraim Obs 3 And further If Gods people even Gods people I say if they comply with wicked men Gods people suffer if they sin with others defile themselves with their pollutions they must except to fall with them in outward judgments Judah was the only people God had upon the earth and as Israel is a type of the Apostate Church so is Judah a type of the true Church yet it seems that Judah though the true Church and the only people of God that did preserve the worship of God in the greatest intirenes that was in the world yet I say Judah they did very much comply with Israel and complying with Israel in false worship they must fall with them Come out from amongst them my people lest being partakers of their sins you be partakers of their plagues too And this I make no question is the reason why so many of Gods servan●s fall at this day Use why so many fall in these times they have complied with the times and defiled themselves though we cannot say so of every one of them that fall in this Cause yet it is to be feared in many And it may be though we dare not determin of Gods waies for the thoughts of Gods waies in mercy are higher than our thoughts higher than the Heavens are above the Earth yet we have cause to fear that many if not most of this generation shall fall before God bringeth forth this glorious work of his in saving Zion Chap. 1. 7. and chap. 5. 5. reconcil'd But here is a difficulty In the first Chapter you heard there that God though he threatned Israel yet he saith I will have mercy upon Judah but here he saith Ephraim shall fall and Judah also shall fall with him Now for the reconciling of that we are to know that though Judah fall with Israel yet there shall be a great deal of difference in their falling Israel the ten Tribes shall fall be brought into captivity so as never to return again I mean never to return from their captivity in that way as Judah did Judah was to return again after seventy yeers so Judah fell with them Observ but they fell not as they fell Though the Saints therefore may be scourged with rods yea with scorpions as they are at this day as well as wicked men yet the Lord doth not he will not take his loving kindness from them There is yet one particular more to be observed and it is from the Hebrew particle Gam Judah also shall fall with them and I make no question but the Spirit of God holds forth this Note from it viz. That The falling of the Saints together with wicked men it is of special consideration Observ There is much in it some special matter to be considered of in the falling of Gods people together with the wicked Indeed it is that which in these daies puts us to a stand we admire at the waies of God his judgments are past finding out we must adore them in what we do not understand That the hand of God should be stretched out against wicked ones against such as have corrupted his worship by their own superstitious waies it is no mervail but that so many of his dear Saints so precious in his eyes in all Countries about should suffer such hard things and fall together with the wicked we are at a stand and we know not what it meaneth What Judah fall also with Israel when God had no other people upon the face of the earth surely there is some

the iniquity of his covetousnesse was I wrath with him and smote him I hid my face from him and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart Now what may we think will become of him surely now nothing but desolation and distruction No saith God I have seen his way and will heal him I will lead him and restore comforts unto his mourners Jer. 3.22 Return ye back-sliding children and I will heal your back-slidings Oh that the answer of this people might be ours Behold we come unto thee for thou art our God How God heals Now the Lord cures accuratly as Chyrurgions do by purgation and allaying the misery so the Lord heals his people by taking away the cause and the malignancy of that trouble which is upon them So thou that art under any particular trouble or affliction if God sanctifie that trouble by taking away the cause of it God may be said to heal though the affliction be not quite taken away Then God may be said to heal by Foementation as Chyrurgions use to do when the part is able to resist and oppose that which would feed the humour so when the Lord puts strength into the soul to oppose disquieting and vexing thoughts that sinks into the soul from its afflictions now where this work is accomplished the soul is healed That God in willing things doth not alwaies will them according Obs 3 to his Omnipotent power I would have healed Ephraim That is I would and I did use all the means that was possible to heal them and which might have done it But it may be objected Object If God see that we are unable of our selves to be healed how can we be healed when we have no power to be healed Now for answer to this we must know Answ That men are not so much healed it proceeds not so much from the want of ability as their will men do not do what they can therefore they do not will to be healed God doth not make men unwilling but speaks to us after the manner of men though there be also an inability yet because men think not of that in not turning or because the inability is chiefly in the perversness of the will 't is not a metaphysical inability as I may so speak but a formal wilfulness though men think that God is in all the fault that they are not healed but God wil make this one of his works at the day of judgment to cleer Himself from those aspersions now men are so proud that they think themselves too good and too lofty for God but God will cleer and shew Himself to be righteous in their destruction There is much wickedness lies hid many times in a Kingdom or Obs 4 person till the means appear to cure them It was thus with Paul Rom. 7.9 he was sinful before but when the Law came sin revived and I died yet notwithstanding God by his almighty power helped him over them all As when a man comes to repair an old house which is rotten and decayed simile he doth not conceive the trouble of it till he comes to remove the rubbish Who would imagine the wickedness that is in many mens hearts which discovers it self when the means comes had not God set many servants in good families the vileness and the vanity of their spirits had not discovered it self Servants Englands wickedness certainly this is our condition some few yeers since there appeared much wickedness in England but how much more since God hath sent the means to cure it As appears By a bitter spirit of malignancy against the power of godliness No people so wicked as we were before but now it is much more our wickedness is now grown to a spirit of malice and oppoposition against the Word and the Saints At the first men cried out for a reformation and cried down Bishops but when Gods people began to rejoyce and thought that they should have a day of a sudden what a desperate spirit of pride a spirit of malignancy was there raised to oppose with all the might that could be the way of reformation so much desired and this so much the more vile because of their malice against reformation agravated 1. Blind mens eyes so that they cannot see their misery by reason of the falsities and flatteries and treacheries which is used against Scotland Ireland and England nay .2 these men rather than they wil be subject to the yoke of Christ they will be slaves to men any men yea the worst of men and that to their vilest lusts rather than yeild to the way of Christ and doth not this shew a desperate spirit against God What a base sordid spirit is there now among us that rather than men will be contented to suffer a little trouble will rather endure perpetual enslavery by vile men A most treacherous spirit appears in the most for their own private gain and advantages when men shall betray Kingdoms overthrow States and deceive the trust and confidence that is put in them undermine and destroy Parliaments doth not this manifest a most vile spirit in the people of this Kingdom Heretofore the rascality of the people could not be brought to fight against the Scots yet now there can be found a Gentry to fight against the Parliament What a blasphemous spirit is there abroad this sin abounded before but how much more is it now encreased nay are there not now new oaths invented and pressed A cruel bloody spirit is now risen in the people of the land some few yeers since who could have imagined the cruelties that have been used by English men What a spirit of division is there among us we should have thought that in a time of publick calamity we should have sodered together when there was private persecution more love was expressed and that which makes the rents the more sad is that they are between the best people What an oppressing tyrannizing spirit is there now in many men who have been formerly oppressed by oppressors are now turned oppressors themselves what doth this but presage what these would do had they the power in their hands this iniquity is now discovered A spirit of envy and jealousie if any man be in publik place and active in it how are they envied and spited how many stand newters now and upon this very ground because they see others not so rich in estates as they made use of therefore they fit still and fret themselves and seek to hinder them that are active in publick service and so the work is hindered A spirit of superstition Would ever any man have thought that the Parliament should ever have met with such a party to oppose them in their way of reforming we might rather have thought that there should have been a general spirit rising against these superstitious vanities to have kickt them out Oh what misery doth these rotten teeth put this Kingdom unto at this very