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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.
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,3 yet most properly our Lord Jesus Christ he is the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords: in Revel. 19. 16. and he hath on his Vesture, and ⟨p. 64⟩on his Thigh a name written,4 KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
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 Turkie, 2it is (saith he) but one crum 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 whol Turkish Empire? and if that be but a crum 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,