A30574:1101
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 › What then should a King do to us?
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This Scripture may well be a Comment upon that Text we have in Psalm, 146. 3. 1Put not your trust in Princes, &c. Do not put your trust in Princes, have no confidence in them; If you put your trust in them, they will be unuseful to you.2 And Chrysostom upon that very Psalm hath this Note:3 Whereas they would say, Oh! he is a Prince. Saith Chrysostom, Let me tell you that which you perhaps will wonder at: Because he is a Prince, therefore put not your trust in him (saith Chrysostom) And he gives this reason, Because (saith he) who is in a more unsafe condition than they? 4Are not they fain to have their Guards go about them to protect them? They in times of peace when they are in a City that is ruled by good Laws, yet they are fain to have the Instruments of War round about them, to protect them; and therefore put not your confidence in them, because they are Princes: but then in the Psalm, they are called to put their confidence in the Lord, who made Heaven and Earth, the Sea and all that therein is; 5which keepeth truth for ever. Alas you may put confidence in Princes, but they will not keep truth; they will make fair promises to you, that you shall have some great matters by them, but they use you for to serve their own turns; but put your trust in the Lord, and the Lord shall reign for ever; as it is in the 10. verse, Kings do not reign for ever, they are the children of men, the breath is in their Nostrils; but the Lord shall reign for ever.
This Scripture may well be a Comment upon that Text we have in Psalm, 146. 3. 1Put not your trust in Princes, &c. Do not put your trust in Princes, have no confidence in them; If you put your trust in them, they wil be unuseful to you.