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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 4 › Verse 2
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.
And so those Irish Rebels that in Ireland have tasted so much blood, and now are come over hither to join with Papists, you cannot in any way of sense and reason imagine any safety but by subduing that party. Is that a way to prevent the shedding ⟨p. 52⟩of your blood to lay your necks upon the block, for that which cometh under such a specious name, may be in truth no other but a laying your necks upon the block, and giving up your wives and children to be a sacrifice to their malice.
And so those Irish Rebels that in Ireland have tasted so much blood, and now are come over hither to joyn with Papists, you cannot in any way of sense and reason imagin any safety but by subduing that partie. Is that a way to prevent the shedding ⟨p. 52⟩of your blood to lay your necks upon the block, for that which commeth under such a specious name, may be in truth no other but a laying your necks upon the block, and giving up your wives and children to be a sacrifice to their malice.
The Lord hath a controversy for Blood. We know when we have to deal with Papists what they have been of old, and therefore we hope God hath a controversy with that party, that as they have drunk the blood of the Saints, so they shall at last swell and burst themselves in pieces. In France they had as good terms of Agreement as we can expect in the time of that Massacre, and yet Histories tell us of more than ten thousand Protestants that were murdered in one night in Paris, and that at that time when they were in as fair a way of peace as possibly could be, and there was a Marriage solemnized and a great deal of rejoicing for the Union of one party with another, and yet (I say) in that night so many were slain; and you may expect no other if the Malignant party get power. You will say, They have not done so to other Cities which they have taken. No, they have not got the day yet, they are but in their design yet if once they get this City, then they have got the day, and having gotten the day, you may expect all manner of cruelty from them. And this Massacre in France went on to other Cities, for within a few days after there were forty thousand more computed to be murdered. I remember that History of France tells us of that King Charles the 9th by whose Commission this was done, that afterward God struck him with such a disease, as that there issued out of his body at several places nothing but blood, so that in that sickness he would sometimes fall down and wall-himself in his own blood, Be men great or small, yet being guilty of blood, at one time or other the Lord will manifest that he hath a controversy against them. And so much for that third Charge.