A77979:1077
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwin, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the prophesy of Hosea· Being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil London. By Jeremiah Burroughs. Being the fifth book, published by Thomas Goodwyn, William Greenhil, Sydrach Simson William Bridge, John Yates, William Adderly.
London: printed for Peter Cole, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 5 › Verse 11
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Here we may see the ill nature of wicked men. Jeroboam and his Obser. 6 Princes are very fair and square and give good words to the people, and all to gain their own ends, and when they had their own ends, then they broke them in judgment, and oppressed them exceedingly, the more they are yielded to, the more they oppress: 'tis a sign of a base spirit for men thus to abuse poor people, The wicked boasteth himself of his hearts desire, and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhors, Psal. 10.3.
Here we may see the ill nature of wicked men. Jeroboam and his Obser. 6 Princes are very fair and square and give good words to the people, and all to gain their own ends, and when they had their own ends, then they broke them in judgment, and oppressed them exceedingly, the more they are yeilded to, the more they oppress: 'tis a sign of a base spirit for men thus to abuse poor people, The wicked boasteth himself of his hearts desire, and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhors, Psal. 10.3.
It is an old way of Satan to get false worship backed with the commands Obser. 7 of authority. Satan's chief design is to get his worship into the throne and for the effecting of this, he labours to corrupt the pure worship of God, and presseth his own upon the people, backed with the command of authority; the Devil knows that there is no way so prevalent as this to take with the people, that if authority commands it, that overpowers all reason brought to the contrary; and this is the aspersion which is laid upon the godly at this very day, that they rebel against authority,1 this hath been the Devils old plot which in all ages he hath used to get advantages against the ⟨p. 470⟩Saints; this was Hamans argument, that it was not for the Kings honour to suffer the Jews to live in his provinces. Sanballet and Tobiah would not suffer the people of God to build the Temple, why? because they were factious people, disobedient to authority. So Paul himself was accused of sedition: and the false Prophets tell the King, that Amos was such a turbulent fellow that the Land would not bear his words he uttered.