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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.
The Second Observation is from the Scope that the Prophet brings this for, which is, to aggravate their sin so much the more; as if he should say, I have taken off the yoke from your jaws, and yet now you are wanton and kick and spurn with the heel against me. From whence Note;
That to grow wanton, to abuse our ease, when God is pleased 1to deliver us from yokes, is very sinful, a very great evil. What now when we come to have a little liberty more than we had before, to be freed from that yoke and bondage that we were in, and begin to feel our necks freed of those yokes that were before upon them, What! now to begin to frisk, and spurn, and kick, and against God Himself, that hath taken the yoke from off us, Oh! this is very dreadful. What, to abuse our liberty that we have from our bondage, to all manner of licentiousness in horrid and wanton Opinions, in wicked and abominable practises; certainly this is an ill requital of this fruit of Love, in lifting up the yoke from off our jaws. This is a very great evil which we are this day guilty of; if ever there were a people guilty of this evil, of kicking and spurning against God so soon as he hath taken off the 2yoke from their jaws, than we are at this day: Could any have believed that if it had been revealed from Heaven, but Six years since, That within six years this People of England should be delivered from those sore yokes that ⟨p. 94⟩they cried to Heaven because of the burden of them, and the Lord would work in a miraculous way to deliver them; but upon their deliverance there shall be such wantonness, such horrid, blasphemous opinions, and wicked licentious ways, yea, that those that make profession of Religion shall be guilty of, presently upon the taking off of their yoke, Could it have been believed? Certainly if our forefathers that were under the yoke, that were godly, and cried to God for deliverance, if they should rise out of their graves now, and as soon as ever they were risen out, ye should make a full Narration of all that Liberty that God hath granted to his people in England, in the breaking of all that yoke of Tyranny in the Civil State, and the yoke of Tyranny in the Ecclesiastical State, they would presently think that they should see wonderful glorious effects of this in England; but if within a month or two after they should have conversed with men they should hear of such monstrous opinions, they should see the extreme licentiousness and wantonness in the hearts of men, expressed in their ways, Oh! they would be ready to spit in the very faces of their children, of those that now live in such times as these are.