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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 7: VER. 7.
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.
And consider, every one of you, how little he hath 1been exalted by you in all your ways. And why should you vex and fret that you have not honour and respect, when as the blessed God who is so infinitely worthy of honour and glory, yet none (almost) respects Him. Well, let this be the Meditation from it; The less glory I see God have from the children of men, the more let me labour to honour him.
And consider, every one of you, how little he hath 1been exalted by you in all your waies. And why should you vex and fret that you have not honor and respect, when as the blessed God who is so infinitely worthy of honor and glory, yet none (almost) respects Him. Well, let this be the Meditation from it; The less glory I see God have from the children of men, the more let me labor to honor him.
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None would exalt him] So the words are read in your Books, and I think that is the most proper sense. Yet I find Luther hath another reading, and so others, and that 1might likewise stand with the Original; for if you observe the words [him] is not there: But it may be (saith Luther) there is none that lifts up himself; he, and others turns it thus: That's thus, Men are in a sleepy, sullen mood, that when God calls them, they will not stir up themselves to listen to Gods Call; and so Luther makes use of this similitude: As a stubborn servant, or child when the master calls him, he will not stir and lift up himself 2to his call; There's none will lift up themselves; drossy, base, drowsy spirits, that are sleepy and sink down to base, low things, they will not lift up themselves when ⟨p. 133⟩