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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
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.
But now they shall say, We have no King.
Had they no King?
Yes;1 Hoshea was their King, but the meaning is, It's all one as if we had no King, his power is so broken that the truth is,2 he cannot help us. Saith Drusius upon the place; he cannot protect us, which is the property of the King, and therefore it is as if we had none; now they shall say, We have no King; Alas he is not able to save himself, he can do nothing for us, his Pomp, his Power, Bravery is in the dust, he is distressed himself, and we are miserably disappointed of our hopes, we are undone, who can help us now?3 whither shall we go? what shall we do? our consciences upbraid us now for our bold presumptuous wickedness, Oh! how far were our hearts from the fear of the Lord, we dared the God of Heaven and all his Prophets, we boldly ventured upon those ways which we were told, yea which we knew in our very consciences were a provocation to the Lord, we set up our own worship, we pleased our selves, we made our wills to be the rules of all our actions that we did, we took liberty to satisfy our lusts, we mingled our own ways with Gods Ordinances, we subjected Religion to public ends, we were rigged, we were cruel towards those who differed from us, we upheld the Authority of the King against God and his People, and now God hath justly brought this distressed estate upon us, that now the Kings Power that we trusted so in, is