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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.
They shall be ashamed of their own Counsels.
When they are come to times of affliction they shall be ashamed of their own Counsels.1 Times of affliction makes men ashamed of what they would not be ashamed of before, Jer. 2. 26. Zeph. 3. 11. I remember a notable expression that Sr. Walter Rawleigh hath in his Story;2 When death comes (saith he) which hates men and destroys men, when that comes, that's believed; But God that loves men, and makes men, he is not regarded. Oh Eloquent! Oh! Mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou art able to persuade. That's thus, men that would never be persuaded by any thing else to believe that they were not right, yet when death appears that can persuade them: now afflictions are an evil, but how eloquent are afflictions? what power have afflictions to persuade men that they were wrong, that would not be persuaded by all the arguments in the world before? Then they shall be ashamed of their own Counsels. Oh! I beseech you let us take heed of this, let not us go on headily in our own Counsels till God bring us into misery, and then we should be forced to cry out of our own Counsels and be ashamed of them.
When they are come to times of affliction they shall be ashamed of their own Counsels.1 Times of affliction makes men asham'd of what they would not be asham'd of before,