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…

You have it in the 29. and 30. Chapters of Job, The candle of God shineth upon my head, I washed my steps in butter, and the rock poured me out Rivers of oil, my glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand, &c. But now (saith he) they that are younger then I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. &c. Thus he aggravateth his judgement because he was brought into a low condition having once been in a high one. The like aggravation of misery have we Lameat. 4. 2. The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers? and vers. 5. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets, they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills,

You have it in the 29. and 30. Chapters of Job, The candle of God shineth upon my head, I washed my steps in butter, and the rock powred me out Rivers of oyle, my glory was fre•h in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand, &c. But now (saith he) they that are younger then I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flocke. &c. Thus he aggravateth his judgement because he was brought into a low condition having once beene in a high one. The like aggravation of misery have we Lameat. 4. 2. The precious sonnes of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers? and vers. 5. They that did feede delic ately are desolate in the streetes, they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghils,

Thus the Scripture is clear in it, and your experience is enough to confirm it. For a man that hath been a bondslave in the Galleys, and after he should be ransomed by the liberality of his friends here in England, if he should be taken and brought back again to the galleys, oh how tedious and grievous would it be! but if he had lived long here, and flourished and gotten preferment and lived bravely, and had grown a great Merchant, & then after this to be brought again to the galleys, how sad a thing would this be! it would be very terrible to him. If some of you that have been beggars heretofore,¹