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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 2: VER. 2.
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.
At first, when he hegan to speak about the alteration of Religion, the people trembled to think of it, but it 1seems afterwards they could swallow it down well enough, they could join with Jeroboam, yea, and Ahab too, more and more, let them impose what they would upon them, they could yield to it.
At first, when he hegan to speak about the alteration of Religion, the people trembled to think of it, but it 1seems afterwards they could swallow it down well enough, they could joyn with Jeroboam, yea, and Ahab too, more and more, let them impose what they would upon them, they could yeeld to it.
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From whence the Note is, That men at the first apprehension 1of things they are much affected, and it may be think that they will never yield to them, yet within a while when they have been a little used to them, then there's a mighty alteration in mens spirits both to yield to this, and indeed to yield to any thing. How many mens hearts and ways are so different from what they seemed to be? If one had mentioned ⟨p. 429⟩hereto[…]uch things as now they do, they would have trembled at them, If about six years since one could but have presented in a Map all our speeches and ways one against another, and told us how things should be, our hearts would have shaken, and we would have trembled at the thought of it: but now more and more we go on, and God knows whither we shall go; Oh! the alteration that a little time makes in mens spirits! now (saith he) they are a dead, heartless people, now you may do what you will with them, now they will do things so disagreeing to their former principles, as nothing can be more; a man would wonder, What, that this people that were so astonished at the very thought of the change of Religion, now that they should be swallowed up in Idolatry.