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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 6 › 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.
Now considering Gods power, let not us despair, concerning the great Works adoing in our times. Use. Let men be never so base and perfideous, yet when Gods time is come He will speak the word for deliverance: What a miserable sottish condition was the world in a little before Luther's time? But when he came, what a spirit was raised in the people? And what a spirit hath there been raised amongst us and that on a sudden? To consider what bondages we were in, and greater like to fall into, and that we were not made for slavery, to be slaves and vassals subjected to the wills of some Twenty or Thirty men: And what a spirit did God raise in our brethren of Scotland, when he was about to do them good and to break the neck of the yoke of their tyranny? Oh then what a cursed thing is it for any to quench, keep under, or resist such a spirit as this when it arises in people?
Now considering Gods power, let not us despair, concerning the great Works adoing in our times. Use. Let men be never so base and perfideous, yet when Gods time is come He will speak the word for deliverance: What a miserable sottish condition was the world in a little before Luthers time? But when he came, what a spirit was raised in the people? And what a spirit hath there been raised amongst us and that on a sudden? To consider what bondages we were in, and greater like to fall into, and that we were not made for slavery, to be slaves and vassals subjected to the wills of some Twenty or Thirty men: And what a spirit did God raise in our brethren of Scotland, when he was about to do them good and to break the neck of the yoke of their tyranny? Oh then what a cursed thing is it for any to quench, keep under, or resist such a spirit as this when it arises in people?
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