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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.
And so for you that have any under you, your servants 1and children, instruct them, show them the evil of their ways, do not fly upon them with your rage and passion, but deal with them like men in way of instruction.
And so for you that have any under you, your servants 1and children, instruct them, shew them the evil of their waies, do not fly upon them with your rage and passion, but deal with them like men in way of instruction.
- 1Parents and Masters must use more Conviction than Correction.
The third Note is this, It's a great aggravation of mens sin, not to be drawn by these Cords of men; for a man to stand 1out against reason is a great aggravation: so men stand out against many ways of God, and yet their consciences fly in their faces and condemn them. Oh! thou art ⟨p. 53⟩a wretch, that though the Lord hath sought to draw thee with the Cords of a man, with Reason, and hath convinced thee, he hath gotten the cords into thy conscience, and God pulls, and thou pullest, and wilt not be drawn with those Cords, Oh! this is a wickedness for men to go on in ways that their own consciences do condemn them in▪ Some vain reasonings can draw men to sin as a Cart-rope, that's the meaning of that place, They draw iniquity as it were with a Cart rope; that is, their vain reasonings that they have for their sin twisted together make a strong Cart-rope to draw iniquity; Oh! shall not Gods Cords be as strong as the Devils Cords, or Mans Cords? Many there are, though God seems to draw them with these Cords of a man, yet their lusts are so strong like pampered horses in a Team, they will break the Cart-ropes, break all their harness to pieces; and so do many unruly Spirits even say like those in