A77979:1828
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 7
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.
This is the vile, base, and low spirits of men in honour, and this honour depending upon the favour of Kings, that rather than they will hazard their places, and lose their gains, will yield to any thing, and for the pleasing the King will tell him the Law is for him, the bonds of the Kingdom do not forbid him. Mica. 3.11. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity; the Heads thereof judge for reward, and the Priests thereof teach for hire, and the Prophets thereof divine for money: the Princes and the Prophets ask for a reward. The Princes have a mind to such and such a thing of their subjects, but to cover the vileness of the action and his injustice,1 he would ask the Judges whether it were not Law or no; now the Judges for their own profit encouraged him, and told him it was lawful, he might do it. How have our Judges imitated these? Though men had some integrity at the first,2 yet the heat arising so high in the Princes and Nobles, yea and in many of the High Court of Judicature, that they could not endure it. Thus we see how one time answers to another in wickedness, The Princes designs go on with strength, when they have got the Judges to side with them, and to give sentence for them in their unjust designs.
This is the vile, base, and low spirits of men in honor, and this honor depending upon the favour of Kings, that rather than they will hazard their places, and lose their gains, will yeeld to any thing, and for the pleasing the King wil tel him the Law is for him, the bonds of the Kingdom do not forbid him. Mica. 3.11. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity; the Heads thereof judge for reward, and the Priests thereof teach for hire, and the Prophets thereof divine for money: the Princes and the Prophets ask for a reward. The Princes have a mind to such and such a thing of their subjects, but to cover the vileness of the action and his injustice,1 he would ask the Judges whether it were not Law or no; now the Judges for their own profit encouraged him, and told him it was lawful, he might do it. How have our Judges immitated these? Though men had some integrety at the first,2 yet the heat arising so high in the Princes and Nobles, yea and in many of the High Court of Judicature, that they could not endure it. Thus we see how one time answers to another in wickedness, The Princes designs go on with strength, when they have got the Judges to side with them, and to give sentence for them in their unjust designs.