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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.
First, Because this hardens the hearts of former Oppressors: 1Our former Oppressors, our Prelates and others, will not they say, (or do not you give them occasion to say) Now you see what is the fruit of casting of us out, Was there such wantonness before? were there such horrid Opinions before when we had power? We kept down all such things, we could easily curb these, when we had power; but you see what extravagancies there are, how men run wild as soon as our power is taken from us. By this means they are hardened: And others that are of Prelatical spirits, they are hardened, and begin to ⟨p. 95⟩think surely the other way is the better way; and indeed 2if this be a good argument, That the keeping men in union, and the keeping down errors by violence shall prove the truth of any way, or of any Government, it may as well prove Prelatical, as any other, for we know that they kept men from venting of such notorious errors by violence; but shall we, because there is not this violence upon us, shall be more erroneous, and more wanton in our spirits?
First, Because this hardens the hearts of former Oppressors: 1Our former Oppressors, our Prelats and others, will not they say, (or do not you give them occasion to say) Now you see what is the fruit of casting of us out, Was there such wantonness before? were there such horrid Opinions before when we had power? We kept down all such things, we could easily curb these, when we had power; but you see what extravegancies there are, how men run wild assoon as our power is taken from us. By this means they are hardened: And others that are of Prelatical spirits, they are hardoned, and begin to ⟨p. 95⟩think surely the other way is the better way; and indeed 2if this be a good argument, That the keeping men in union, and the keeping down errors by violence shall prove the truth of any way, or of any Government, it may as well prove Prelatical, as any other, for we know that they kept men from venting of such notorious errors by violence; but shall we, because there is not this violence upon us, shall be more erronious, and more wanton in our spirits?