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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 4 › 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.
And a notable expression we have of the withering, the languishing of the spirits of wicked men in the time of their adversity, that whereas now in their prosperity their tongues are their own and they must speak and will speak, who is the Lord? &c. they are loud then in their Oaths and blasphemies, but mark now in their adversity how they are, Esa. 21.4. Thou s•alt be brought d•wn and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech s••ll be ••w out of the dust, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust This is the fruit of the languishing of their spirits in the time of their trouble. As many a riotous and boisterous gallant that would so mouth it when he wa• in prosperity, yet set God but lay his hand upon him in sickness and his ⟨p. 65⟩conscience then accusing of him, he whispers and speaks low out of the dust. It follows,
And a notable expression we have of the withering, the languishing of the spirits of wicked men in the time of their adversity, that whereas now in their prosperity their tongues are their own and they must speak and will speak, who is the Lord? &c. they are loud then in their Oaths and blasphemies, but mark now in their adversity how they are, Esa. 21.4. Thou s•alt be brought d•wn and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech s••ll be ••w out of the dust, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust This is the fruit of the languishing of their spirits in the time of their trouble. As many a riotous and boisterous g•llant that would so mouth it when he wa• in prosperity, yet set God but lay his hand upon him in sickness and his ⟨p. 65⟩