A30574:1124
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.
And secondly,1 It's an evil thing in straights for men that profess Religion to combine with wicked men. God professed he will not take the wicked by the hand, neither should we; it's a sign the cause is evil, when men can have no other help but by combining with wicked and ungodly men.2 Just thus it is for all the world with our adversaries (at this day) to the Parliament, all men generally that have any profession of Godliness they see they cannot have help that way, therefore combine and bring into Covenant Irish Rebels, Papists, any People in the world, If it were Turks, or Jews, or any in the world to help themselves withal; this is the wickedness of mens hearts.
- 1Obs. 2.
- 2Applic. to the Courtpartie.
And then thirdly,1 There is no trust to be had to wicked men in their Oaths and Covenants; let their Protestations be never so solemn, their Oaths, their Covenants, it is but only to gain time to work about some advantage, that they cannot work about for the present while they have any opposition: If they have not things under their power as they desire, they will promise you any thing in the world, but when once they come to get power in their hands, then who shall require the fulfilling of their Promises, their Oaths, their Covenants? And therefore certainly, when we have to deal with those that we have had experience to be false, we must ever retain this conclusion, except we see an apparent change in their hearts, for that's not enough that they are willing to take Covenants, that's no new thing; but till we see that God hath wrought some mighty work upon their hearts we must carry this conclusion, Certainly if they can they will ruin us, therefore our condition cannot be safe but to be so as they can do us no hurt. That's the third Note. And then the fourth is this: