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A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that…
A brief exposition with practical observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes by that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton ... ; published by Anthony Tuckney ...
London: printed by T.C. for Ralph Smith, 1654
A BRIEF EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › VersesA BRIEFE EXPOSITION UPON ECCLESIASTES. › Verses
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Application: 1. To the prisoner, to help his conscience to sight and sense of his sins, and so to repentance. His servant was diseased with the scurvy which maketh the body weak, and listless; and when nature is grown weak, the retentive faculty is weakened that he hath no hold of his excrements. In this case, compassion would have looked out heating Medicines, wholesome Diet, warm keeping! what compassion was there in immoderate whipping? Its Egyptian cruelty, Exod. 5.7, 8, 14. 2. Striking on the head with a Cudgel, leaving wounds and bruises. 3. Diet with the Lights of a dead beast. 4. Washing his naked body in ⟨p. 77⟩cold water, when Ice and Snow lay upon the ground, and putting on a cold and wet shirt, and kept out from fire. 5. Hanging him over the fire in the smoke, 6. Binding him on horseback, and he not being able to sit fell on one side till blood issued at mouth, nose, and ears, denying him a draught of water; upon this he dyeth.
Application: 1. To the prisoner, to help his conscience to sight and sense of his sins, and so to repentance. His servant was diseased with the scurvey which maketh the body weake, and listlesse; and when nature is grown weak, the retentive faculty is weakned that he hath no hold of his excrements. In this case, compassion would have looked out heating Medicines, wholesome Diet, warme keeping! what compassion was there in immoderate whipping? Its Egyptian cruelty, Exod. 5.7, 8, 14. 2. Striking on the head with a Cudgel, leaving wounds and bruises. 3. Diet with the Lights of a dead beast. 4. Washing his naked body in ⟨p. 77⟩cold water, when Ice and Snow lay upon the ground, and putting on a cold and wet shirt, and kept out from fire. 5. Hanging him over the fire in the smoake, 6. Binding him on horseback, and he not being able to sit fell on one side till blood issued at mouth, nose, and eares, denying him a draught of water; upon this he dyeth.