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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 11 › Verse 4: VERS. 4.
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.
As first, I have suited my self to their very dispositions, 1this is now to deal in a gentle way; as a Schoolmaster he looks upon his Scholars not as a company of beasts, but as the children of men, and therefore he considers their dispositions and tempers, and he suits himself with their temper, (if he be a wise Schoolmaster) and will draw them on with such ways and Cords as are suitable 2to humane Nature. So I do saith God.
As first, I have suted my self to their verie dispositions, 1this is now to deal in a gentle way; as a Schoolmaster he looks upon his Scholers not as a company of beasts, but as the children of men, and therefore he considers their dispositions and tempers, and he sutes himself with their temper, (if he be a wise Schoolmaster) and will draw them on with such waies and Cords as are sutable 2to humane Nature. So I do saith God.
- 11. Suits himself to their dispositions.1. Sutes himself to their dispositions.
- 2Simile
Secondly, I have observed when they were in the best 1temper, and have sought to work upon them then, I have observed what their dispositions are; but now though men and women are of such and such dispositions, yet always their good humour doth not work. If you that are wives will deal with your husbands like men, observe when they are in a good temper, and then deal with them and seek to draw them; God doth so; I