A77979:1452
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 6 › Verse 4
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.
Let us take heed of such a disposition which is so great an evil;1 we when together sometimes can join in love and unity, pitying each other, and bearing with each others infirmities, ⟨p. 574⟩bearing Christian admonition patiently, but these good words and fair shows are vanished & come to nothing, where are those refreshing showers of love & friendship which you were wont to water each other withal in your Christian societies? In the room of these there now grows nothing but the lusts of pride, passions, and sad dissentions among us, which parch and dry up all these good seeds of love and gentleness.
Let us take heed of such a disposition which is so great an evil;1 we when together sometimes can joyn in love and unity, pittying each other, and bearing with each others infirmities, ⟨p. 574⟩bearing Christian admonition patiently, but these good words and fair shows are vanished & come to nothing, where are those refreshing showers of love & friendship which you were wont to water each other withal in your Christian societies? In the room of these there now grows nothing but the lusts of pride, passions, and sad dissentions among us, which parch and dry up all these good seeds of love and gentlenesse.
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I desire to press this the more, because the Scripture is pleased to make use of this expression of the dew, to set out the sweetness of a Christian spirit,