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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.
And in the multitude of their Mighty Men.
This made them very confident in their way: Why, they had an Army to back them,1 they had an Army to fight for them, to maintain that way of theirs, they had countenance from men of Power, they had strength enough to crush any that should oppose them.
- 1Expos.
That's the Note that lies plainly before us:1 When the outward strength of a Kingdom goes along with a way of Religion then men think it must needs be right, and that all men are but weak men that appears against it. Mark the connection: They trusted in their way: that is, (as I find generally Interpreters go) The way of Religion. And then, their Mighty Men, these two are put together: so that you see the Note is very evident before you,2 that's the way that generally men will trust in, and men will go that way; were the scale turned and the strength of the mighty men went another way; As now, Suppose that the strength of the Kingdom of the ten Tribes had been bent to go up to Jerusalem to worship, and not to worship at Dan & Bethel, Do you think there would have been almost any considerable party that would not have gone up to Jerusalem, but worshipped at Dan & Bethel? but when the strength of the Kingdom held the other way, when the mighty Men and the way of Religion went both in one, the generality of the people went that way that the mighty men went. This is the vanity and the exceeding evil of mens hearts, that which way soever the mighty men go, that way they will trust in. There are very few that will deliberately say so, I will go that way that I see the mighty men go in: But this is a secret bias & poise upon the spirits of men wch inclines them to hearken to what may be said for that way, & not willingly to what may be said for another. And secondly, It is such a poise upon their