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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 5: VER. 5.
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.
Why you will say? What a man doth profess when he is ready to die, certainly it must needs be a truth.
There is a notable story concerning this that Bishop Latimer hath, in one of his Sermons, he tells of the desperate stoutness of a certain mans heart even when he was to die: as he was •iding he comes to a place where the execution of a man was to be,1 he turns aside, and when the people saw him they made way, and he comes to speak with the man, and both he and all that were about him could not get out of him to give glory to God for the guiltiness of the fact for which he was to be executed, but stood out in it, that he was not guilty; and when they could get nothing out of him they turned the ladder,2 and the rope being cut and he down, they thought the life had been gone from him, but at length they saw a little motion in him, and by rubbing and cha•ing of him they got life, so as he was able to speak, and then he confessed all; that he was guilty of those very things that he had took upon his death that he was not. Thus it's possible for men in the stoutness of their hearts even at the last rather to venture their souls upon it; and well may they that ventured their souls so much before upon other things, think that they may make bold with God at such a time as this is. But howsoever there is much dejection of spirit, and they know not in the world what to do. Well, it's happy for us to consider what we do, and to lay to heart what we have done, that so in such a day of the Lord as this, we may know what to do; the Servants of God who have walked conscionably before him, they know what to do in the day of public calamity.
There is a notable story concerning this that Bishop Latimer hath, in one of his Sermons, he tels of the desperate stoutness of a certain mans heart even when he was to die: as he was iding he comes to a place where the execution of a man was to be,