A77979:1762
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 3
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.
It is a vile wickedness to flatter Princes. Yet how hath this Obs. 3 been the constant course of Courts? It is reported of Dionysius, that when he spit, his flatterers would lick it up and say, it was sweeter than Honey. This is vileness in people to do, and more vile in Princes to love to be flattered. Cyril 1upon this text saith, That the fear and love of God, had it been in this people, it would have kept both them and their Princes, to have withstood such wicked commands, it would have balanced their spirits.
It is a vile wickednesse to flatter Princes. Yet how hath this Obs. 3 been the constant course of Courts? It is reported of Dionysius, that when he spit, his flatterers would lick it up and say, it was sweeter than Honey. This is vileness in people to do, and more vile in Princes to love to be flattered. Cyril 1upon this text saith, That the fear and love of God, had it been in this people, it would have kept both them and their Princes, to have withstood such wicked commands, it would have ballanced their spirits.
- 1Cyril
Obs. 4 It is a most most wicked and vile thing, to make any glad with their wickedness, or to be made glad by wickedness. Yet how many are guilty of this sin? some are so hardened in their wickedness that they will make others drunk, and then laugh at them when they have done so; How far are these from Davids temper? whose eyes ran down with tears, because men kept not the Law, and horror took hold on him; there is no greater sign of a desperate heart hardened in sin, than to laugh at sin in others, and make a sport of it in themselves; and the higher men are in place and dignity the greater is the aggravation of their s•ns; for Princes to be glad at wickedness and to be made merry by iniquity, who are set to be punishers of sin and a terror to evil doers, this is most horrible wickedness,