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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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Indeed when there is a change in an outward condition from prosperity to afflictions, then wicked and carnal men will not regard those that they did honour before. As in Job's case, in Job, 29. Job tells us how he was honoured, and regarded, and reverenced where he lived in prosperity, but when he was in affliction, in Job, 30. 1. Now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, that's a wickedness to change our minds of the esteem of men, because of their prosperity, or adversity; it shows a great vanity of spirit, and where the heart is right, if one that hath been godly and in public place heretofore, and now God by his providence 1hath brought him down in regard of his outward estate, yet he is to be honoured still continuing in his integrity and holiness. But now this is that which I speak of as a Judgment of God upon men, when God casts out their names from the very hearts of the Saints, and that worthily too, when they shall be worthy to be looked upon as dead carcasses, though heretofore much honoured and respected, heretofore they were as Gardens that had many sweet Flowers, excellent common gifts they had for which they, were respected; but now like Gardens over-grown with Weeds that no body doth regard; As Houses that were hung with costly Hangings, but afterwards pulled down and nothing left but the bare walls: so their gifts were very precious, but now as those Houses ⟨p. 421⟩having their Lord and Prince gone away there's nothing but bare walls, and it may be Mice and Vermin 2run up and down in those rooms that were hung so bravely: So it is with many that had excellent gifts which were highly honoured and esteemed of by people that knew them, but now the hangings are gone, now there's nothing but Vermin running up and down in their spirits; Oh! what a mighty havoc sin will make in the honour and esteem of men!
Indeed when there is a change in an outward condition from prosperity to afflictions, then wicked and carnal men will not regard those that they did honor before. As in Job's case, in