A77979:1725
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 7 › 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.
By a bitter spirit of malignancy, against the power of godliness. No §1people so wicked as we were before, but now it is much more, ⟨p. 642⟩our wickedness is now grown to a spirit of malice, and opposition against the Word and the Saints. At the first men cried out for a reformation, and cried down Bishops, but when Gods people began to rejoice and thought that they should have a day, of a sudden, what a desperate spirit of pride, a spirit of malignancy was there raised to oppose with all the might that could be the way of reformation so much desired, and this so much the more vile, because of their malice against reformation.
By a bitter spirit of malignancy, against the power of godliness. No §1people so wicked as we were before, but now it is much more, ⟨p. 642⟩our wickedness is now grown to a spirit of malice, and oppoposition against the Word and the Saints. At the first men cried out for a reformation, and cried down Bishops, but when Gods people began to rejoyce and thought that they should have a day, of a sudden, what a desperate spirit of pride, a spirit of malignancy was there raised to oppose with all the might that could be the way of reformation so much desired, and this so much the more vile, because of their malice against reformation.
11. Blind mens eyes, so that they cannot see their misery, by reason of the falsities, and flatteries, and treacheries which is used against Scotland, Ireland, and England, nay .2. these men rather than they will be subject to the yoke of Christ they will be slaves to men, any men, yea the worst of men, and that to their vilest lusts rather than yield to the way of Christ, and doth not this show a desperate spirit against God?