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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

they have cause to mourn it is a great m●sery for them when as it comes to that that God shall bid those th●t have to deal with them to strive no more with them when as men have rejected the admoniti●● of others that they think they have stopped their mouths I 'le warrant you say they such a one wil neve● come to me more Oh your misery is the greater F●● ●●st You have deprived your selves of a special Ordinance of G●● Admonition and reprehension even brotherly admonition and reprehension is an Ordinance of God Secondly T●ose who strive thus who admonish and reprove you they must give an account unto God what becometh of their admonition and reprehension You must give an account to God one day and so must they give an account unto God too yea they should do it for the present thus After they have done they must go to God and tel him how it hath sped for they have done it in his Name when they have done it right And when they go unto God if their admonition and reproof have prevailed with you they are to return to God with blessing to bless God that he hath been pleased to bless their admonition to such a one And on the other side if you reject their admonition they are to tell that too when they go unto God they are to tell a lamenting of your condition and to intreat God to look upon you and to tel God Lord I have been thus and thus admonishing such a one it hath been in thy Name but Lord he contemns it he rejects it When you are laughing at it that you have rejected such a friends admonition then he that hath been faithful to you he is telling God of it and do you not think there will come somewhat of this one day Lastly You are left to Gods striving and rebuking and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God It is better when God striveth with you by men than that he should come and strive with you himself As now if a father send his servant to go and fetch in a child to rebuke a chile and he comes and tells the father he cares not what I say No saith the father I will go my self and then it is worse with the child the child then smart● for it So God sends thy brother to rebuke thee and to fetch thee in thou carest not for him thou lookest upon him as thy fellow-creature and so thy brother goes to God Lord he doth not regard what I say No saies God I will rebuke him my self and Gods rebukes in this case will be furiou● rebukes Ezek 5.15 When I shall ●x●●●te judgments in anger and in fury and in fur●●us rebukes Mark it furious rebukes The rebukes of a brother are loving reb●kes but if thou reject them Gods rebukes may com●nd they wilt prove furious rebukes The rebukes of a brother are out of ●●●e but Am●s 7.4 The Lord calls to contend by ●●●e When 〈◊〉 friends did strive with him they could not pr●vail but Job 38.1 God calleth out of the whirlwind to answer to him and who is this that darkneth words without counsel The Lord out of the whirlwind calleth to contend with Job and so overcometh him If thou regardest not friends contending with thee the Lord himself out of the whirlwind may come and contend with thee Take heed how thou rejectest the strivings of a brother with thee tor God may not only say he shall strive no longer but my spirit shall no longer strive with thy soul This people are as one that striveth with the Priest That is the reason why they must not strive one with another Here are only these two things by way of explication Quest 1 1. Why it is said with the Priest rather than with the Prophet Quest 2 2. Why it is said For this people are as they that strive with the Priest did not they strive with the Priest why then is it not said this people are a people that strive with the Priest For the answer to these two briefly Answ 1 First It is said that they strive with the Priest rather than with the Prophet though the Prophet did rebuke them and strive with them upon this reason Because the Priest was a standing office in the Church of God the Prophet that was an extraordinary office and they could not be sure of the Prophet whether he were a true Prophet or no but according to the event of the Prophesie Quere but the Priest they acknowledged him to be an officer of God and that is the reason that the Priest is here named rather than the Prophet Answ And then As those that strive with the Priest It may be the Priests were generally so bad that there was scarce any Priest that did strive with them at all those Priests being Jeroboams Priests they did joyn with them in their wickedness therefore he could not say they did strive with the Priests but yet thus their hearts were as vile God saw this in their hearts that if there were Priests to strive with them they would strive with them Or secondly thus As those that strive with the Priest because indeed those Priests of Israel at this time they were not such as were called of God for in 1 King 12.31 the text saith of Jeroboam that he made Priests of the lowest of the people which were not of the sons of Levi and chap. 13. ver 33. Whosoever would he consecrated him and he became one of the Priests of the high places But the people received them as Priests still for indeed they thought that the Kings authority was enough for all because the king would have them to be Priests they would receive them as it the King had the absolute power to make all Church Officers if they were sent by the Kings Authority they must be acknowledged to be Church Officers So it was then and that may seem to be the reason of that expression as those Now from hence the Notes are these for you must take it that this is imploied here that suppose there were Priests faithful and godly that did strive with them yet their hearts were so hard that they would strive against those Priests and this sets out the grossness of the hardness of their hearts Take then the sense thus and here we may have these Notes First Observ That it is the work of the Priest to contend against men for their sin That is the proper work of a Priest to strive with men against their sin They are the salt of the earth and so they should have some acrimony in them In 1 Tim. 3.3 1 Tim. 3.3 It is said indeed of the Minister of God that he should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mo striver A Minister of God should be one that is in office to look to the souls of people and he should be no striver How will you say then that

the seventy yeers were at an end ibid Answered 2 In their captivity by the Romans ibid Answered 3 At the calling of the Jews ibid Quaere 2 How did they seek God in any of these times ibid Answered from several Scriptures ibid Obs 1 In the sorest afflictions which befals the people of God he intends their good in them Page 522 Obs 2. God hath little honor in this world Page 523 Use God takes it ill when he seldom hears from us but in our extremities ibid Obs 3 Times of affliction are times of seeking God ibid Obs 4. When God is pleased to work grace in the heart that heart is taken off from all creature helps ibid Obs 5. We are not to be discouraged in seeking God though afflictions drives us to it ibid Use Despair not in afflictions ibid Obs 6 We must seek God early else not sufficient Page 525 Opened in Three particulars ibid Quest What is it to seek God diligently Page 526 Answered in Five particulars ibid Use Admonition to England Page 527 AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA CHAP. 4. VER 1. Hear the Word of the LORD ye Children of Israel for the LORD hath a Controversie with the Inhabitants of the Land because there is no truth c. IN this Chapter we have 1. A suit commenced 2. God declares 3. Judgment is pronounced 4. Exhortation to Jud●h to beware she comes not into the same condition 5. Execution the giving up Ephraim to himself and unto Gods wrath For the fi●st Israel is cited Hear ye the W●rd of the Lord ye children of Israel The knowledge of any truth hard and grievous to flesh and blood to be the Word of the Lord Obs is a special means to prepare the heart to receive it with reverence and all due respect It was a hard Message that Hos●● had to bring to tell them of Gods Controversie he therrefore makes thi● preface 〈◊〉 Word of the Lord. Hard truths are hardly born but when the Authority of the Infinite God appears in them be they either making for us or against us our hearts must bow to them they lay bonds upon the conscience and bind over to eternal death if you reject them 2 Chron. 26.12 Zedekiah a King is charged that he did not humble himself before the Prophet Jeremiah Though the Prophet be never so poor and contemptible in himself yet if he brings the word of the Lord Zedekiah the king must humble himself before him Ye children of Israel In this appellation God puts them in mind of the covenant he had made with them and the● with him you are not Heathens you are the children of Israel in covenant with me a people neer to me yet I have a controversie with you Obs The neerness of a people to God exempteth them not from Gods contending with them for sin Neither should neerness to us exempt any from our contending with them Deut. 13.6 If thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wise of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thy own soul intice thee secretly to worship a strange god Verse 8. thine eye shall not pity him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou conceal him but thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death Controversies between those that are neare are very grievous Quid dicturus es ò Propheta qui tanta diligentia vocas ut audiatur verbū Domini Oecolōp in locum 3. The neerer the ●●lation is between any the more grievous is the controversie if there be a controversie at all Hear the Word of the Lord ye children of Israel It is a sad thing for one Nation to have a controversie with another much more for a people to be at controversie with it self Yet more when when the controversie comes nearer into the family between husband and wife between father and child between dearest friends who were before to each other as their own souls controversies there are very sore and grievous Prov. 18.19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong Citie and their contentions are like the bars of a Castle Wind within the body is most troublesom and dangerous Hear ye O Prophet saies Oecoloppdius upon the place what is it thou hast to say that with so much earnestness thou callest to have the word of the Lord heard This is the solemn message of the Prophet to this people The Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the land The word translated Controversie signifies a debate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his expostulatio judiciū The Sepuag in t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 judicium the same word trāslated by them also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iob 29.16 Ministers must plead for God take heed they plead not against him a contention it comes of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Contendere vel privatim vel coram judice to contend privately or to come before a Judge somtimes a cause pleaded in Law As Exod. 23.3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause That 's the same word with this here a Controversie The Lord hath a cause to plead with this people it is the controversie of the Lord the Prophet stands up for God in his Name to plead against them he pleads for the King the King of Heaven So should all faithful Ministers be sure they be on Gods side pleading his cause For all Ministers are Gods Sergeants at Law his Attourneys his Soliciters The Kings Lawyers are sworn they shall never plead against him or take fee on the other side And yet how many even in the exercise of their Ministry shew that they have taken fee on other side How do many plead against God against his Sabbaths against his Ordinances yea plead somtimes against the power of Godliness against those things wherein the chief dignitie glory of God consists somtimes perhaps pleading for them but pleading more against them at another time The Devil hath not more cordial Solicitors and pleaders for him than those who would be accounted the Prophets of the Lord. The Lord. As if the Prophet should say Know you have not to do with me nor with Amos who was contemporary with Hosea a Prophet to Israel though you think you can make your parts good with me and with the other Prophets know God will not now stand pleading with you so much by his Ministers he will take the cause into his own hand and will plead by his Judgments he will now take up the controversie himself The Lord tells the people Gen. 6.3 that his Spirit should no longer strive with them what 's that That is it should no longer strive in the way of No●h's Ministry but he would come and strive himself after another manner by bringing the flood upon them 〈…〉 God 's pleading is the more dreadfull It is most dreadful for sinners for God to take the

controverse into his own hand to contend with them in a way of judgment It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hand of the living God You think Ministers are hard they preach terrible things but if you have to deal with God immediately if he should not speak to you by man but come himself and plead with you you would find it harder to deal with him When Jobs friends were pleadi●g with him he could easily make his part good with them but Chap 38. ver 1 2. God himself comes and speaks out of the whirlwind Who is he that darken●th counsel by words without knowledg and so goes on in a chapter or two Chap. 42. ver 5. Job falleth down now and saith I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye s●eth thee wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and as●es Psal 130.3 is a notable scripture for this purpose If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity Oh Lord who should stand Mark the words how Lord is twice here repeated it would have been full sense thus If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity who shall stand There would have been a mighty emphasi● in the word Jehovah who shall stand for it is thou oh Jehovah but it comes in again to Note that herein lies the Emphasis if thou Lord shouldst mark iniqity Oh Lord who shall stand This Oh Lord seems to be a pleonasme one would think that it breaks the sense but the scope is to shew that the sight of having to deal with God in our sins is very terrible If thou Lord ma●kest sin causes a dreadful controvercy between God and man then Oh Lord who shall stand But further that which is the main thing in this is That sin causeth a most dreadful controversie between God and the soul between God and a Nation For this God comes to strive to contend for his glory the siner strives contends against God It is God that is infinitely above the sinner who hath the controversie wi●h him Isa 45.9 Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker Let the pots●e●rds of the earth strive with the potsheards Yet thus doth every sinful impenitent soul and every sinful impenitent Nation they strive with their Maker The Lord is above them therefore to intimate the distance between God and us in this controversie saith the text The Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the land poor earth-creeping creatures that have dwellings here below whose houses are h●uses of clay and God is the great God of Heaven and Earth The controversy that God hath with a sinner is a just controversie God ha h right on his side and the injury is great that is done unto him Thirdly It is a controversie that we have begun God did not begin it with us but we began it with him we have the worst of it Fourthly It is an old controversie a controversy of our forefather● a controversie that God hath had with one generation after another and we as a wretched generation stand forth to hold up the old controversy As in England in formertimes there hath been wars for hundreds of yeers as in the Barons wars and when one generation was gone the generation after stood forth to hold up that controversie so it hath been between God and man God hath had a controversy with the children of men ever since the fall of Adam and one generation after another hath stood forth to hold up the controversie and thou wretched sinner standest up in thy generation in thy place to hold up the controversie that mankind hath had with God since his calling out of Paradice Fiftly It is such a controversie as stirreth up all the Power all the Wrath of God against a sinner if God have any power in him it shall be put forth in making his cause good against a sinner Levit. 26. diver● places in that chapter If ye walk contrary unto me I will walk contrary unto you my Power my Wisdom all mine Attribu●es are against you A man that hath a controversy with another imployes and improves all the strength he hath against him that he is at controversy with This controversie is a deadly controversie it is such as strikes at our lives at our souls at our eternal e●●ates A controversy with God who is set upon it to h●ve satisfaction for all the wrong we have done to him he will have it one way or other Such a controversie as only the Lord Christ that great Mediator that great Peace-maker is able to make up None can reconcile God and a sinner but Christ God-Man He must stand before God to satisfie for the wrong the sin of man hath done unto him A controversie with him who hath thee at infinite advantage who hath thee under his feet and the point of the sword of his Justice is at thy heart A controversie that if thou look not to it is like to prove an everlasting controversie Psal 57.16 I will not contend for ever neither will I alwayes be wroth for the Spirit should fail before me This is spoken to those that are in Covenant with God in regard of the lesser controversies that after their reconciliation may be between God and them But with thee if not reconciled to God in Christ who art yet in the great controversie that God hath with sinful man I say if thou lookest not to it it may prove an everlasting controversie to thee Certainly God will overcome thee God will have the day of thee the Lord will overcome when he judgeth Julian strove a great while against the Lord but at length Vicisti Galilae vicisti he was forced to acknowledg with his blood cast up into the air The Lord hath overcome the Lord will overcome It is a vain thing for thee to stand out striving with this great God Job 40.2 Shall he that comendeth with the Almighty instruct him So it is translated in your books but according to the words in the Hebrew and so translated by Pagnin and others Is there any wisdom or any learning in contending with God any knowledge shewed in that No certainly there is no knowledge no wisdome no learning in contending with the Almighty Our greatest wisdome is to fall down to be humbled before the Lord. The Lord hath appointed a certain period for thy coming in to make up thy peace with him to satisfie him if thou neglectest that time thou art lost undone for ever My brethren this is no time to have any controversie with God to stand out against him in waies of enmity It is time now when such blackness of darkness is upon us even storms of blood hang over our heads It is time now I say however to be at peace with Heaven to make our peace with God Job 36.18 There is wrath beware therefore that he take thee not away with his stroke The Lord is come forth from his place he is pleading his cause and now