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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 3: VER. 3.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VER. 3.
For now they shall say, We have no King.
WHAT, break down our Altars, and spoil our Images! no, the King will maintain them against you all, let the Prophets say what they can and a company of precise fools be against them what they will,1 we have the King will stand for that, he will rather lose his Crown than he will lose these things, he will stand for them to his very life, and therefore we do not fear that they shall be broken down. No, that will not serve your turns (saith the Prophet) your King shall not be able to help himself, much less to help you in those superstitious ways that you would have. For now shall they say, We have no King. They rejoiced and gloried much in their King, they bore themselves altogether upon their King, no matter for the Prophets; they have the Kings Commandment to do what they do, they can show the Kings broad Seal for what they have done, and they were sure that they had the Kings heart with them, their King would bear them out in all. They cared not therefore whatsoever they did, so be it they have the countenance of their King that he would defend them, and not only defend, but by being zealous and forward for his ways they hoped to have promotion by him, they did not fear to be questioned for any thing, no matter whether they went against Law or not, they could shelter themselves under the power and favour of the