A77979:1795
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 7 › Verse 5
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This wine is like that in Deut. 32.33. Their wine is the poison of Dragons, and the cruel venom of Asps: this wine of Asps it makes the spirits warm, and the body sick. Job knew the danger of feasting, therefore when his children were a feasting, he was in sacrificing. They made the king drunk with wine. This was the way which they took to gain the King. And is not this the course which is taken now in our days, to betray the young Gentry into base filthiness? This was the plot of these Priests, first to make the King drunk, and then they could do any thing with him, could get any edict from ⟨p. 663⟩him to serve their base ends and intentions, to suppress the precise people.
This wine is like that in Deut. 32.33. Their wine is the poyson of Dragons, and the cruel venime of Asps: this wine of Asps it makes the spirits warm, and the body sick. Job knew the danger of feasting, therefore when his children were a feasting, he was in sacrificing. They made the king drunk with wine. This was the way which they took to gain the King. And is not this the course which is taken now in our daies, to betray the young Gentry into base filthiness? This was the plot of these Priests, first to make the King drunk, and then they could do any thing with him, could get any edict from ⟨p. 663⟩him to serve their base ends and intentions, to suppress the precise people.
Drunkenness is an old Court sin. See how the Prophet, Isa. Obs. 2, 28.1. fills his mouth, with woes and threatenings against the drunkenness of Ephraim; Woe to the Crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim. The Court, the Crown of Ephraim was at Samaria. A miserable thing it is that those which have the most opportunity for God should spend their time in such beastly vanities, and do to their bodies and souls as Richard the third