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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.
But surely, If this be a mercy that we should bless God for, That we are delivered from the yokes of men, and the abuse of it in our wantonness be great; Then this must needs be greater, That we should fall upon laying yokes one upon another. If it be the mercy of God to take off your yokes, we should seek to take off yokes from our Brethren, and to make their ways to be as easy to them as possibly we can, not to seek ways to pinch ⟨p. 98⟩their consciences; Conscience oppression of all opp•ssions 1is the worst, There was heretofore a generation of men who studied what would pinch conscience most, and that that they found would most pinch conscience, that they would urge to the uttermost upon men; this was devilish; I hope we have not many so vile as these 2were. But you should consider what though such and such opinions and ways will serve my turn, will they not be burdens to others?
But surely, If this be a mercy that we should bless God for, That we are delivered from the yokes of men, and the abuse of it in our wantonness be great; Then this must needs be greater, That we should fall upon laying yokes one upon another. If it be the mercy of God to take off your yokes, we should seek to take off yokes from our Brethren, and to make their waies to be as easie to them as possibly we can, not to seek waies to pinch ⟨p. 98⟩their consciences; Conscience oppression of all opp•ssions 1is the worst, There was heretofore a generation of men who studied what would pinch conscience most, and that that they found would most pinch conscience, that they would urge to the uttermost upon men; this was devilish; I hope we have not many so vile as these 2were. But you should consider what though such and such opinions and waies will serve my turn, will they not be burdens to others?