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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.
Secondly,1 Hence we may learn how great is the misery of falling into the hands of our enemies, for that's the meaning; when the Assyrians should come against them, and they were besieged for three years together, they knew how savagely the Enemies had used others in the Country, so that they desired to die under the Mountains rather than to fall into their hands; the great misery there is in falling into the hands of Enemies.2 And I remember Josephus in one of the forenamed places gives us a notable story of this, he tells us of some that did run into the Mountains and Holes for safety, and Herod he pursued them, and among others there was an old man, and he had seven Children and his Wife with him,3 but rather than he would fall into Herod's hands, he called his Children one by one unto the mouth of the Cave that he had made in the Mountain, and when one came he killed that before the Enemy, and he called another and killed him, and so he did till he had killed all the seven, and killed them Himself, and afterwards his Wife, and when he had cast their dead bodies down the Rock, he threw himself down head-long after them, and so he slew himself, and all this rather than he would fall into the hands of his Enemies. Certainly there is wonderful misery. Some of you perhaps have seen or felt somewhat, but that that you have felt and seen hath been nothing to what was like to be, had the Enemies gotten full power; He was fain to deal fairly to get people to himself, but cruelty doth break out now and then, and by that you may see what should have been generally if the Lord should deliver you into the power of the Enemy: Let us bless God then that we are delivered from that, that we have no such cause to cry out to the Mountains to cover us and the Hills to fall upon us.
Secondly,1 Hence we may learn how great is the misery of falling into the hands of our enemies, for that's the meaning; when the Assyrians should come against them, and they were besieged for three years together, they knew how savigely the Enemies had used others in the Country, so that they desired to die under the Mountains rather than to fal into their hands; the great misery there is in falling into the hands of Enemies.