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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 4 › Verse 1
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.
No truth in your dealings one with another. First there is abundance of flattery amongst you. You flatter one another in your sin, you do not deal unfeignedly one with another. You flatter your Princes, and your Princes have little truth in their Courts. It was once a speech of one, All things were plentiful in the Court but only truth. And this is the unhappiness of great men that those that are about them usually deal ⟨p. 24⟩falsely with them. You shall seldom know one that deals truly with great men, they tell them that their bloodshedding and ruining of Kingdoms is but the maintaining of their just Honour and Prerogative. I have read of Dionysius his flatterers, that when he spit upon the ground they would lick it up and then tell him that that spittle was sweeter than any Ambrosia and Nectar, the sweetest that ever they tasted, merely to please him: And so you have many that are near to great men, though they see them do things never so abominable; things that make never so great breaches between God and them, between them and people, yet they tell them that they do more bravely than ever any of their Ancestors did. There is no truth.
No truth in your dealings one with another. First there is abundance of flattery amongst you. You flatter one another in your sin, you do not deal unfainedly one with another. You flatter your Princes, and your Princes have little truth in their Courts. It was once a speech of one, All things were plentiful in the Court but only truth. And this is the unhappiness of great men that those that are about them usually deal ⟨p. 24⟩falsly with them. You shall seldom know one that deals truly with great men, they tell them that their bloodshedding and ruining of Kingdoms is but the maintaining of their just Honor and Prerogative. I have read of Dionisius his flatterers, that when he spit upon the ground they would lick it up and then tell him that that spittle was sweeter than any Ambrosia and Nectar, the sweetest that ever they tasted, meerly to please him: And so you have many that are neer to great men, though they see them do things never so abominable; things that make never so great breaches between God and them, between them and people, yet they tell them that they do more bravely than ever any of their Ancestors did. There is no truth.