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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 9 › Verse 1 › As other people. Why?
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That's the Note from thence, if it hath reference to the ⟨p. 139⟩time when people have been worn out with Wars, they are greedy of any kind of peace, they care not with whom they make it, Oh nothing but peace, let us have that, and if there be but a peace concluded once, upon never such unsafe terms, Oh! the Bells must ring, and Bonfires must be made. This seemed to be the condition of the people at this time, but saith God, you are deceived, this peace you have made will prove your undoing, Rejoice not therefore as other people? for you have gone a whoring from your God.
That's the Note from thence, if it hath reference to the ⟨p. 139⟩time when people have been worn out with Wars, they are greedy of any kind of peace, they care not with whom they make it, Oh nothing but peace, let us have that, and if there be but a peace concluded once, upon never such unsafe terms, Oh! the Bells must ring, and Bonfires must be made. This seem'd to be the condition of the people at this time, but saith God, you are deceived, this peace you have made will prove your undoing, Rejoyce not therefore as other people? for you have gone a whoring from your God.
But those Observations that we may take from either of these two times,1 from the time that they got conquests over their enemies, or secondly from the time of their peace, put them both together are such as these.
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