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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
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 4 › Verse 6
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.
Ignorance is not only the deformity of the soul as blindness is the deformity of the face, though a man or woman have never such a comely visage otherwise, yet if they be blind it mars their comeliness, if they have but one eye it takes away their beauty; so ignorance takes away the beauty of the soul, and not only so but it is dangerous; it is destructive; And that in these regards.
Ignorance is not only the deformity of the soul as blindness is the deformity of the face, though a man or woman have never such a comely visage otherwise, yet if they be blind it mars their comliness, if they have but one eye it takes away their beauty; so ignorance takes away the beauty of the soul, and not only so but it is dangerous; it is destructive; And that in these regards.
The rational creature is very active of it self and will always be in motion, always working, and it is in the midst of pits and snares, if then it be blind how dangerous will it be for it! As now if you have a mettled horse that is in the middest of deep snares and pits, and blind, and he will be curvetting and dancing and will not stand still, in what danger is ⟨p. 91⟩he? no creature is so full of activity as the rational creature is, he will be active in the world, and then wanting knowledge, in what danger is he?
The rational creature is very active of it self and will alwaies be in motion, alwaies working, and it is in the midst of pits and snares, if then it be blind how dangerous will it be for it! As now if you have a metteld horse that is in the middest of deep snares and pits, and blind, and he will be curvetting and dancing and will not stand still, in what danger is ⟨p. 91⟩he? no creature is so ful of activity as the rational creature is, he will be active in the world, and then wanting knowledg, in what danger is he?