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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 6: VER. 6.
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 Sword hath abode upon us divers years; the wisest amongst us did not think the Sword would have continued so long as it hath don; And yet who can tell when there will be an end of these things?
The Sword hath abode upon us divers years; the wisest amongst us did not think the Sword would have continued so long as it hath don; And yet who can tel when there will be an end of these things?
Among other evils, certainly this evil of our own Counsels is a great evil, that hath made the Sword to abide 1upon us: Every man follows his own Counsel, one man for his friend, and another for his friend: Mens own Counsels, both in Parliament, in City, in the Army, in the Country, throughout the Kingdom hath been a great cause of the abiding of the Sword so long a time upon us. Their own Counsels.
- 1Our own Counsels a cause of Englands lasting war.
The old Latin hath it, Shall eat up, or destroy their heads, those men that had heads amongst them, that seemed to 1be the wisest, the chief Heads that were the wisest and most full of Counsel, they were the cause of the continuance of this evil upon them. So Montanus hath it, ⟨p. 117⟩Their Counsellors. And so Vatablus. Because of those that put them upon those Counsels were the cause of the abiding 2