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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 Princes are Revolters: and Ephraim is smitten.
Only a word more from the connection of these two, All their Princes are revolters: and Ephraim is smitten.
Only a word more from the connexion of these two, All their Princes are revolters: and Ephraim is smitten.
From thence the Note is,1 If God leaves those who have the chief Government in their hands to revolt, the people then will be smitten. Oh! pray much for them, and let not them that have the chief Government in their hand think much that people enquire into their way, and that they use all means that they can to keep them upright; for if they should revolt they would not only undo themselves, but undo us, it concerns us to enquire how it is with them, and to be solicitous ⟨p. 283⟩about them, and they must not bid us that are beneath them to let them alone and meddle with our own business, and follow that which concerns us, certainly it concerns us much what they do: were it indeed that if they miscarried they only should be smitten,2 then we had less to do to look after them; but if they revolt we are smitten: If a child should in all humility and reverence beseech his father to leave off such and such a sinful way, or to take heed of it that he be not carried by such and such counsels, if his father should say, Meddle you with what you have to do: the child might well answer, Oh father! I hear in the Word of God, that God doth visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, and I may feel of these sins of yours when you are dead and gone, therefore I beseech you, Oh father, consider what you do? (I say) the same might be answered if we should Petition and labour with our Governors in all humility to take heed of any evil Counsel, and if they should bid us lock to what concerns us, we may well answer, We have heard in the Word that when the Princes are Revolters, the People are smitten, that if Governors should any way revolt from any former Protestations the People is like to be smitten; it is we know from the revolting of many of our Lords and Members of that High Court that we have been smitten so as we have been,