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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.
Yes, Though they cannot love thee as thou art godly, 1yet godliness hath something in it that is common to the excellency of mans nature.
- 1Answ.
Yea, and those that are in place of power in the Magistracy, they should labour to gain those that are under 1them by love: as the greatest in a family if he be a Lord, or an Earl, should not think it too much to gain a servant by Love; so those that have the greatest power in Government, they should not think it too much to gain their meanest Subjects in a way of Love: we see it was thus with David, 1 Chron. 28. 2. Then David the King 2stood up and said, Hear me my Brethren, and my People. See what a sweet expression is here of a great Prince, Then 3David the King stood up, and he said, Hear me my Brethren, and my People; he did not sit down Majesterially and say, My People, and you that are my Subjects, and that are under me, I command you to do thus and thus; but he stands up unto them and saith, Hear me my Brethren, my People: This was a way to gain the hearts of people unto him. You know Absalom he sought in a false way to steal away the hearts of people by a gentle carriage. I remember I have read of John the Second, a 4King of Portugal, he chose his Emblem to be a Pelican, that he might express his love to his Subjects upon this ground; for the Pelican when her young ones have been 5