A77979:1731
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.
What a spirit of division is there among us? we should have thought that in a time of public calamity we should have soldered together, when there was private persecution more love was expressed, and that which makes the rents the more ⟨p. 643⟩sad, is, that they are between the best people.
What a spirit of division is there among us? we should have thought that in a time of publick calamity we should have sodered together, when there was private persecution more love was expressed, and that which makes the rents the more ⟨p. 643⟩sad, is, that they are between the best people.
What an oppressing, tyrannizing spirit is there now in many; §7men who have been formerly oppressed by oppressors are now turned oppressors themselves: what doth this but presage what these would do, had they the power in their hands? this iniquity is now discovered.
A spirit of envy and jealousy: if any man be in public place §8and active in it, how are they envied and spited, how many stand neuters now? and upon this very ground, because they see others not so rich in estates as they made use of, therefore they fit still, and fret themselves and seek to hinder them that are active in public service, and so the work is hindered.