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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.
You will say then,1 Oh! let us make peace upon any terms.
- 1Object.
No, let it rather be your care to make your peace with God,1 that's your way to deliver your children from being brought forth to the Murderers; for if it be a false peace it may be but a further way to bring forth your children to the Murderers. It is an extreme sad Curse of God, in this especially, when it shall come before their very Parents sight, for so the Prophet speaks as if they should be brought ⟨p. 260⟩forth even before them: Many of the Heathens have very Pathetical expressions about the sad condition of Parents when their children are slain before their eyes: as that of Priamus Son Polites that was slain by Pyrrhus, 2he cries to his gods, Oh! if there be any thing in Heaven that doth take care of such things, come and revenge this (saith he,) when as Pyrrhus slew his Son before his eyes. Thou hast before the very face of the Father even sprinkled the blood of the child upon his face: he was not able to bear it though he saw himself ready to die next, but cries to the very Heavens to revenge it. And that was a very sad story of the Emperor Mauritius, 3that his Sons, and Wife, and Daughters were brought before his eyes and slain before him: This is the woeful evil that falls upon Kingdoms.4 And if your children did but understand this very text that now I am opening, they would even look upon you and cry with tears in their eyes, Oh Father! Oh Mother! Repent, repent, and seek God for your selves and for us, Oh! repent, and make up your peace with God that we may not be brought forth to the Murderers.