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An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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Yet how vile are the spirits of men in forgetting the condition the sad condition they lately were in, forgetting the Taxes and Monopolies, and uncertainty of enjoying an thing that was your own; and now if there be but a little charge coming, you presently fall a murmuring and repining, Oh these are heavy burdens, the Parliament burdens the kingdom and the Country, and as good have ship-money and other taxes as these burdens. Oh unworthy, unworthy are you to live to see the goodness of the Lord in these days: unworthy to have thine eyes open to see what God hath done, and thus to murmur. Thou shouldest magnify Gods mercies, and not murmur at his proceedings.
Yet hovv vile are the spirits of men in forgetting the condition the sad condition they lately were in, forgetting the Taxes and Monopolies, and uncertainty of enjoying an thing that was your own; and now if there be but a little charge comming, you presently fall a murmuring and repining, Oh these are heavy burthens, the Parliament burthens the kingdome and the Couutrey, and as good have ship-money and other taxes as these burthens. Oh unworthy, unworthy are you to live to see the goodnesse of the Lord in these dayes: unworthy to have thine eyes open to see what God hath done, and thus to murmur. Thou shouldest magnifie Gods mercies, and not murmur at his proceedings.
We have a notable parallel to this Numb. 16. in the story of Corah, Dathan and Abiram, those murmurers, when they were but in a little strait, they come to Moses, and say, ver. 13. Why hast thou brought us up out of a land that floweth with milks and honey? What land was that, that Moses brought them up out of, that they said flowed with milk and honey? It was the land of Egypt, the land of their bondage• indeed they were promised a land of Canaan that should flow with milk and honey, and they put that upon the land of Egypt; though they had been in bondage and slavery in Egypt ⟨p. 185⟩and were now going to Canaan,