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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
Now this evil of Self destruction is so much the more 1grievous, when men destroy themselves in things that they most bless themselves in, in things that they do most seek themselves in, they most glorify themselves in, I mean, in which they do most glory, and in which they do promise to themselves greater good, if this proves to be their destruction, it is so much the more grievous.
Now this evil of Self destruction is so much the more 1grievous, when men destroy themselves in things that they most bless themselves in, in things that they do most seek themselves in, they most glorifie themselves in, I mean, in which they do most glory, and in which they do promise to themselves greater good, if this proves to be their destruction, it is so much the more grievous.
- 1An Aggravation of selfdestruction.
Oh! it is a sad thing to be a self-destroyer, for what 1pity can there be? Who will pity a man or woman that is the cause of all their own evil, wilfully brings it upon themselves? You will say, Thank your selves, who will pity you? Oh! this will be the condition of all that perish; Neither God, nor Angels, nor Saints shall pity them: neither the Father out of whose loins they came 2shall pity them, nor the Mother out of whose body, for they shall see that they have undone themselves.
Oh! it is a sad thing to be a self-destroyer, for what 1pity can there be? Who will pity a man or woman that is the cause of all their own evil, wilfully brings it upon themselves? You will say, Thank your selves, who will pity you? Oh! this will be the condition of all that perish; Neither God, nor Angels, nor Saints shall pitie them: neither the Father out of whose loyns they came