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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 5: VER. 5.
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.
Oh! thus it is with many of us, how foolishly, how 1wickedly have we thought and said it was better with us heretofore then now, let us return to our former condition! This is thy folly and thy desperate wickedness; But saith the text, He shall not return, though he thinks of returning; as if the holy Ghost should say, do not please your selves to think it is but to return to Egypt, ⟨p. 106⟩you cannot be worse than now you are, for God hath worser things for you.
Oh! thus it is with many of us, how foolishly, how 1wickedly have we thought and said it was better with us heretofore then now, let us return to our former condition! This is thy folly and thy desperat wickedness; But saith the text, He shall not return, though he thinks of returning; as if the holy Ghost should say, do not please your selves to think it is but to return to Egypt, ⟨p. 106⟩you cannot be worse than now you are, for God hath worser things for you.
- 1Use for England.
And my brethren, this is our case this day, let not us think of returning to our former condition, certainly if we should take such a course to return to our former condition, we should be far worse than we were before, our danger would be far greater; this is certain, to the view of any men that have their eyes open, that our condition 1in England must either be far better than it was, or far worse than it was: There's many say, Oh! we were thus and thus in former times, and if we were but as we were, we should do well enough; Oh! let's not think of that, we must certainly either be far better, or far worse than we were, for if we think of returning it will not be to Egypt, but to Assyria, which will be worse.