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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.
And never chastise Children nor servants but with grief, and put a difference between weakness and wilfulness in your Children and Servants, and let your hand be heavy upon them only upon mere necessity, when all other means are tried, never but then let your hand be heavy upon them: Thus you should do with those under you, as God deals with his people, with the Cords of a man, gently.1
And never chastife Children nor servants but with greef, and put a difference between weakness and wilfulness in your Children and Servants, and let your hand be heavie upon them only upon meer necessity, when all other means are tried, never but then let your hand be heavie upon them: Thus you should do with those under you, as God deals with his people, with the Cords of a man, gently.1
- 13. Gentle meaus rejected aggravate sin.3. Gentle meaus rejected agravate sin.
Thirdly, From hence it is a great aggravation of sin, That we stand out against gentle means, the fair glosses of temptation they take our hearts. As now, if you can bring gifts to a man you can quickly blind his eyes: we 1have found these cords of men, we have found that mans nature loves gifts, and those in the place of Justice if they have bribes and gifts brought them; Oh! those are the Cords of men, those are suitable to their natures indeed. Now God doth thus (as I may so speak) bring gifts, but if God shall not prevail with his gifts, this will be a great aggravation of your sin.2
Thirdly, From hence it is a great aggravation of sin, That we stand out against gentle means, the fair glosses of temptation they take our hearts. As now, if you can bring gifts to a man you can quickly blind his eyes: we