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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 6: VER. 6.
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But if it be such a fearful judgment for the Sword to 1Abide; how vile are they that seek to prolong the abiding of the Sword upon a people, and that for their own advantage? Oh! that is a cursed thing, these men live upon blood, every draught they drink they drink blood, that have endeavoured the prolonging of the Sword upon this Kingdom for their private advantages.
But if it be such a fearful judgment for the Sword to 1Abide; how vile are they that seek to prolong the abiding of the Sword upon a people, and that for their own advantage? Oh! that is a cursed thing, these men live upon blood, every draught they drink they drink blood, that have endeavored the prolonging of the Sword upon this Kingdom for their private advantages.
- 1Use. Against protractors of the War.
My Brethren, we have cause to bless God, that God 1hath raised up instruments for us, who have hazarded the shortening of their own lives for the shortening of the War, who have done their work of late this year, as 2if they took it by the great; there is a froward and envious Generation of men that will say of some kind of men because they differ from them in somethings, they would be glad that these troubles might continue because they might have the more liberty. But we see that men, though of different judgments, they do not take a course to have the trouble continue, you see how they hazard themselves to make all the hast possibly they can, and that to admiration, and doing things in the winter season, that is not ordinarily heard of among other Nations, and all this, that the Sword may not abide upon