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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 Secondly,1 What was this burden? This burden was those Taxes that were upon the people, whereby they maintained their correspondence with this King of Assyria: correspondence with wicked men it is burdensome: for the the more they are sought to, and yielded to, ordinarily the more burdensome they are: and whatsoever they do for you for a while, it is indeed to serve their own ends, and this they brought upon themselves: for they would go to Assyria, and they found the Assyrians to be burdensome to them.
But Secondly,1 What was this burden? This burden was those Taxes that were upon the people, whereby they maintained their correspondence with this King of Assyria: correspondence with wicked men it is burdensom: for the the more they are sought to, and yeelded to, ordinarily the more burdensom they are: and whatsoever they do for you for a while, it is indeed to serve their own ends, and this they brought upon themselves: for they would go to Assyria, and they found the Assyrians to be burdensom to them.
- 12. Burden.2. Burthen.
When men will follow their own ways,1 and think to have more ease in their own way than in Gods, it is just they should find those ways to be burdensome to them. I am persuaded there is not one in this Congregation but hath found the experience of this; when you think your ways will bring more ease to you than Gods ways, have not you found your ways burdensome?
When men will follow their own waies,1