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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 10: VER. 10.
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First, Consider their extreme earnestness about it, if you read 1 Sam. 8. you will find that they were almost mad upon it, a King they must have, and would have. Oh! it was very grievous to Samuel's spirit, he told them their great sin, and the Lord said, They have rejected me, and not thee. Samuel told them what God said, and God bad Samuel go and tell them what a King they should have, that he would oppress them extremely, they shall have Arbitrary Government come in to the full, he will take away your servants and children, and do with them what he pleases, you will be brought to be slaves to him, any Parasite at Court may easily get your estates, you shall be accounted an offender for a word, and Fined what they please, you shall be in most miserable bondage if you have him. But now you shall find afterwards, after Samuel had told them all this; Nay say they, but let us have a King for all this, they answered him nothing: If any one should come and reason, Why do you desire a King so much? what shall you get by it? do not you think that he will have your Estates and all you have at his dispose, and your Liberties? ⟨p. 531⟩no man now could deny this, they did not deny the […] word that Samuel said, but they will hold their conclusion, Nay, but we must have a King say they. What's the matter that should make them thus?
First, Consider their extream earnestness about it, if you reade 1 Sam. 8. you will find that they were almost mad upon it, a King they must have, and would have. Oh! it was very grievous to Samuel's spirit, he told them their great sin, and the Lord said, They have rejected me, and not thee. Samuel told them what God said, and God bad Samuel go and tell them what a King they should have, that he would oppress them extreamly, they shall have Arbitrary Government come in to the full, he will take away your servants and children, and do with them what he pleases, you will be brought to be slaves to him, any Parasite at Court may easily get your estates, you shall be accounted an offender for a word, and Fin'd what they please, you shall be in most miserable bondage if you have him. But now you shall find afterwards, after Samuel had told them all this; Nay say they, but let us have a King for all this, they answered him nothing: If any one should come and reason, Why do you desire a King so much? what shall you get by it? do not you think that he will have your Estates and all you have at his dispose, and your Liberties?