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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.
First, My Instructions was ever more than my blows, I never struck more blows than I gave them Instructions, 1if I struck them one blow, I gave them twenty, forty instructions to one blow. When you have children or servants, and perhaps you will give them forty blows to one instruction, you deal with them not like men, but like beasts. That's the first. It's a dishonour to mankind, for any Superior to give more blows than instructions, but I dealt with them like men, suitable to that respect that is in a kind due to humane Nature.
First, My Instructions was ever more than my blows, I never struck more blows than I gave them Instructions, 1if I struck them one blow, I gave them twentie, fourtie instructions to one blow. When you have children or servants, and perhaps you will give them fourty blows to one instruction, you deal with them not like men, but like beasts. That's the first. It's a dishonor to mankind, for any Superior to give more blows than instructions, but I dealt with them like men, sutable to that respect that is in a kind due to humane Nature.
- 11. Instruction more than correction.
Secondly, Whatsoever spark of ingenuity remained in them, 1I took care to preserve it; that's the second thing; If there were but a spark of ingenuity in any of them I took great care to preserve that ingenuity, and not to quench that spark in all my dealings towards them.
Secondly, Whatsoever spark of ingenuity remained in them, 1I took care to preserve it; that's the second thing; If there were but a spark of ingenuitie in any of them I took great care to preserve that ingenuitie, and not to quench that spark in all my dealings towards them.