A30574:921
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.
Some of them there were that made some kind of show at their first coming in,1 when they came first to the Crown they gave great hopes (some of them) that they would have better times than they had before,2 and that things that were evil in former Princes Reigns would now be reformed, but within a while they went all the same way; you know Jehu, and so some others went in a fair way at first, but they all turned to be revolters; from whence our Notes are: First, See what CREATURE ENGAGEMENTS are: 3see what engagements will work in the hearts of men when they are engaged in their honours, and in their preferments ⟨p. 277⟩in their great places of Dignities and Powers, and Profits and Gain▪ see what they will do: evil Princes being engaged and afraid of losing their power; if any should go to Jerusalem to worship, they all went in one stream, not one of them was taken off from their great Engagements; indeed many in smaller matters may be taken off to God, but if it come to a great matter, then none; perhaps some poor Ministers that had little livings (you know) heretofore, they would be taken off, and see the Truths of God, and the sinfulness of Ceremonies; but where did your Deans, and Bishops? where did any of the Prelates that had great Engagements? they would never see the Truth that now almost every body sees, their great Engagements hindered them. And so the great Engagements of Princes hindered them though the Truth was clear enough.
Some of them there were that made some kind of shew at their first coming in,1 when they came first to the Crown they gave great hopes (some of them) that they would have better times than they had before,2 and that things that were evil in former Princes Reigns would now be reformed, but within a while they went all the same way; you know Jehu, and so some others went in a fair way at first, but they all turned to be revolters; from whence our Notes are: First, See what CREATURE ENGAGEMENTS are: