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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.
Their glory shall fly away like a bird.
Men glory in their outward pomp and prosperity, and their children,1 but both these shall fly away like a bird. That is, 1. Suddenly. 2. Swiftly. 3. Irrecoverably.
- 1Expos. 1.
A Bird that you have in a Cage, you have kept it perhaps many months, and upon some advantage gets out and in a moment she is gone, suddenly, and then she goes away swiftly that you cannot follow her, and then Irrecoverably ⟨p. 223⟩that you can never take her. All outward glory is uncertain; 1in Prov. 23. 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? 2Certainly riches they make to themselves wings, and fly away as an Eagle into Heaven; fly away like a Bird,3 and that Bird, the Eagle, that flies so swiftly that there is no getting her again: How many lately in Ireland, and in our own Land, that have had estates in the evening, and all hath been gone away swiftly like a bird before the morning? They have been rich in the morning and have been even beggars in the evening. Let us take our hearts off from glorying in all outward excellencies, and seek that glory that is abiding, that is constant, that is everlasting: We should look upon all outward comforts now as upon the wing; if ever you had cause to look upon all the outward comforts in the world as upon the wing, you are to do it now, never make account of any settlement in any comforts in the world, at this day they are all upon the wing; we cannot reason thus, We have enjoyed such prosperity thus long, and therefore we shall still enjoy it longer: No, all outward comforts flies away like the bird: that comes in one moment that before came not in many years.