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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 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.
First, That he would bring shame in stead of glory. So God useth to do. If any one glory in beauty, God brings that which makes them contemptible many times in stead of that beauty. That is a notable text for women that glory in their beauty and in their bravery, Isa. 3.16.24. Because the daughters ⟨p. 101⟩of Zion are haughty &c. therefore there shall be destruction upon them; and ver. 24. There shall be burning in stead of beauty, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, and in stead of their brave dressing, sackcloth. If any will glory in parts, the Lord justly brings shame upon them, blasting of their parts,1 as it is said of Albertus Magnus that great Scholar, that for five years before his death he did dote and was so ignorant that he did not know letters, he could not read. God can soon blast the parts of men that glory in them and turn that to shame. If any glory in riches, God can soon turn that into shame too, As histories tells us of an Earl of Exeter 2that married the sister of King Edward the Fourth, and yet Philip de Commines reports of him, that he was seen begging of his bread in the Low Countries barefoot. God can soon take away the riches of men and turn that their glory into their shame. And then if any boast in honour, glory in that, God can soon turn that into shame, as in that example of Herod that gloried in the applause of the people when they cried out the voice of God and not of man, and presently he was consumed by worms.
First, That he would bring shame in stead of glory. So God useth to do. If any one glory in beauty, God brings that which makes them contemptible many times in stead of that beauty. That is a notable text for women that glory in their beauty and in their bravery, Isa. 3.16.24. Because the daughters ⟨p. 101⟩of Zion are hauty &c. therefore there shall be destruction upon them; and ver. 24. There shall be burning in stead of beauty, and instead of well-set hair, baldness, and in stead of their brave dressing, sackcloth. If any will glory in parts, the Lord justly brings shame upon them, blasting of their parts,