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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.
First,1 Who is meant by the King of Princes. We are here to understand the King of Assyria, because he was a great King whose Nobles were Princes, and we find this both by Scripture and likewise by humane Story; in 2 King. 18. 24. How then wilt thou turn away the face of one Captain of the least of my Masters Servants. And in Isa. 36. 13. Hear the word of the great King, the King of Assyria. And how wilt thou turn away the face of the Captains of the least of my Masters Servants. His Captains and Nobles were as Princes.2 And so Josephus in his 1. Book, 10. Chapter, as I remember saith, That at the time before Sodoms destruction, the Assyrians were Lords of All Asia, so that the Assyrian was a great King, and here called the King of Princes.
- 1King of Princes, i.e. The King of Assyria.
- 2Joseph. lib. 1. cap. 10. Antiq. à Princip.
Thus God suffers his enemies to grow great in the world,1 an Assyrian, a dog, a wicked wretch under the curse of God, and yet is he the great King, even the King of Princes; as Luther hath such an expression concerning the Empire of Turkey, 2it is (saith he) but one crumb that the great Master of the family doth cast to dogs. What are your estates then? Certainly though you be never so great in the world, what's any of your estates to the whole Turkish Empire? and if that be but a crumb that the great Master of the family casts to a dog, you should never then bless your selves in the enjoyment of a little of the world. But though the Assyrian may be called the King of Princes in regard of his power over some great men,