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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 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.
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 2observed when they were in the best temper of all, and then I came upon them with the most strength, to draw them at such a time rather than another.
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 alwaies their good humor 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 2observed when they were in the best temper of all, and then I came upon them with the most strength, to draw them at such a time rather than another.
- 12. Observed when they were in a good temper.
- 2Wives
Thirdly, I gave them time to consider; though they were never so untoward, yet I did not come instantly upon 1them with blows, but I gave them time to consider, to bethink themselves: many Scriptures we might show for either of these: you do not give beasts time to consider.