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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 13 › Verse 6: VER. 6.
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.
And lastly, All the use they make of what they do enjoy 1now more than before, it is to get higher and higher, there's all the use they make of all. Those that have bin low and mean in their estates heretofore, now they begin to be filled, their hearts are exalted, and thus do they discover the exaltation of their hearts. Oh! but this is a great and a sore evil, for so 'tis rebuked by the Prophet. Oh thou that hast thy heart exalted, being filled it is a 2sign thou hast a poor, low spirit of thine own, to be lifted up with those things that thou doest enjoy.
And lastly, All the use they make of what they do enjoy 1now more than before, it is to get higher and higher, there's all the use they make of all. Those that have bin low and mean in their estates heretofore, now they begin to be filled, their hearts are exalted, and thus do they discover the exaltation of their hearts. Oh! but this is a great and a sore evil, for so 'tis rebuk'd by the Prophet. Oh thou that hast thy heart exalted, being fill'd it is a 2sign thou hast a poor, low spirit of thine own, to be lifted up with those things that thou doest enjoy.
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- 2Why we should not be exalted by prosperity. 1.
For First, What low and mean things are they? What are they but crumbs that the Master of the Family casts to Dogs? They are such things as make thee never a whit 1the better, nor the more excellent; Indeed it's said, that knowledge puffs up the heart, for that puts an excellency upon the man: The heart of the wicked is little worth, let him have never so much prosperity. Those things that thou pridest thy self in, they are no other than may be the portion