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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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Though Ephraim the younger, yet when he got Authority in his hand, how imperious was he? And observe, The meaner the beginnings of men are, the more imperious often-times they are when they come in place of Power, none more imperious and insulting over men than such as have meaner beginnings: this was the younger Brother, and had power by a special providence of God, not according to ⟨p. 419⟩the ordinary common course, and very often we find it, that men of mean quality, and that were inferior to others, if any providences raises them above others, they grow more imperious than others.
Though Ephraim the yonger, yet when he got Authority in his hand, how imperious was he? And observe, The meaner the beginings of men are, the more imperious often-times they are when they come in place of Power, none more imperious and insulting over men than such as have meaner beginings: this was the yonger Brother, and had power by a special providence of God, not according to ⟨p. 419⟩the ordinary common course, and very often we find it, that men of mean qualitie, and that were inferior to others, if any providences raises them above others, they grow more imperious than others.
And then a Fifth is this, (which is a principal thing to be observed here, a Note from the change of the condition of Ephraim, when Ephraim spake, trembling, but after he sinned, he died.) That men which heretofore have 1been of very high repute, and of reverend respect, so as they had much power to prevail with people that they had to do with, yet by their sin they fall off from their dignity: Sin will bring mens honours down; though there was a time that every one reverenced him, had high esteem of him, and did much regard what they spake, yet they falling to sin and wickedness, it's just with God to bring their honour and esteem down, to bring it into the dust, and to make them vile and contemptible in the eyes of those that ere while did reverence them, we find this threatened both to those in the place of Magistracy, and in the place of