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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 6: VER. 6.
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Fifthly, They see all others desire what they have, 1they see a great distance between them and others, and those that are under them do highly esteem of them, They call the proud, happy, they have many flatterers. They were filled, and their hearts were exalted, not only above 2men, but above God. Psal. 73. 9. They set their mouths against Heaven, and their tongue walketh through the Earth. (speaking of wicked men in prosperity) They will speak against every one when they are high themselves, scorning at the ways of God, and at his Saints; When is the time wherein wicked men that are of scornful spirits, do scorn and speak most roughly against the people of God and the ways of God, but when they are filled, when they are at Taverns and have filled themselves with Wine and good Cheer, then they scorn, and blaspheme, and set their mouths against Heaven, and their tongues walk throughout the City and Country, against Parliament ⟨p. 461⟩and all; their tongues are free at that time, it is when they are filled. Hence that Scripture in Psal. 35. 16. 3With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth: in the time of their feasts when they were filled, then they were mockers, and then they gnashed upon me. Oh abundance of evil is done by scorning and contemning at Feasts, and in that respect their Wine that then they fill themselves withal may be called by the name of that in Deut. 32. 33. Their Wine is the poison 4of Dragons, and the cruel venom of Asps; for as it fills their bodies with heat, so then their spirits are filled with rage, and malice; and especially those who were heretofore low, if They come to be filled, Their hearts are most exalted: Oh! the sad examples we have of this at this day, many that were not long since we know in a low and mean condition, and they have gotten places, they have got estates and power in their hands, Oh how are their hearts exalted! Would you ever have thought to have lived to the time to have seen such a change in their spirits as at this day? how do they discover their pride