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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 14: VER. 14.
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, Engaging numerous parties in matters Controversial.
Secondly, Engaging numerous parties in matters Controversal.
These going both together are very dangerous, for men they will carry on what they have begun, if once they be engaged in it.1 To engage a rude multitude in a business especially if it be controversial, it's a very dangerous thing; for they being once engaged we do not know what they may do to pursue and follow their engagements, the evil it is inconceivable. When the multitude is in a rage, they are like to a tiled house that is on fire; when houses are on fire in the City the great part of the evil is,2 if the flame have gotten to the tiles you cannot come near the house the tiles flies so about your face: so it is in tumults, there's no coming near to talk to them,3 to convince them, but they are ready to fly presently upon you. And there are none so cruel as the vilest of people when they are got together in a head; men of no blood care not what blood they shed. In Prov. 28. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food. 4When a poor man comes to oppress; it's true, Oppressions are great, the evil of Tyranny it's very great;5 but the evil of Tumults is greater than the evil of Tyranny: We see it many times in men that are of mean rank, sometimes in those Committees that some of you complain of. Now men could bear oppression a great deal more if it were from those that are much above them, rather than from those that are their equals, or it may be under them in estate, and those that are most under men, if they come to get power any way they are like to be more oppressing than others: we have cause to bless God for delivering of us from tumults in this regard.