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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.
But now shall they be among the Gentiles, as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
But now shall they be among the Gentils, as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
By these words, Vessel of no pleasure, is meant, a vessel that is for the carrying up and down of excrements; only the Scripture when it mentions such vile things, speaks in a modest way; but that's the meaning of the word: as if he should say, Even my people shall be in a vile contemptible condition among the Gentiles, as a vessel that is fit for nothing but excrements. Jehoiakim is threatened in Jer. 22. 18. though a great man, yet he is threatened to be as a vessel wherein is no pleasure, they had wasted their substance in seeking help from the Egyptians and Assyrians, and these made a prey of them; so long as they had any thing of value continued, then they made much of them, but their estates being once wasted, and they swallowed up in their very estates,1 they look now upon them as vile and contemptible in their eyes. And this is the way of wicked men, while wicked men are serving their own turns upon any, they will hug them and make much of them, but if that be done, then they scorn them & contemn them; non are more scorned and contemned than Professors of Religion ⟨p. 48⟩who have basely crouched to wicked men, and sought to shelter themselves under them, when their estates are once consumed and gone, they are more scorned by those that served themselves of them than any; and therefore let us learn wisdom, and how far we venture to make use of men, and do not please our selves in this, that they hug and commend us, if it be but to serve their own turns, when they have gotten what they would have, they will then scorn you, and look upon you as base people, and kick you out.