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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 9
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.
I have read of some of the Papists, (to give you an instance or two that you may see what way they went, ju•t as they did here of late) one Riconius hath this passage,1 The Priest ex•elleth the King as much as a man a beast; yea as much as God is above a Priest so is a Priest above the King; these very words he hath. And Pope Innocent the second, he would have Lotharius the Emperor painted in his palace as a vassal lying down at his feet. And so Becanus he calls the Pope the chief Priest their Shepherd,2 and Emperors and Kings are their Dogs and Curs saith he, and if they will be faithful and be at the hand of the Shepherd well and good, they must be made of, but if they will be lazy and troublesome, they must be removed. Is it possible now that Kings and great ones should ever love Popery and think to bring in that for their honour when as they do advance their Priesthood far above themselves; only for the present they would puff them up to procure what lies in them an Arbitrary government, but still that that Arbitrary government of theirs must be Arbitrary under them, and then it suits very ⟨p. 118⟩well with their ends. There is a spirit of fornication (as follows afterward) upon men, or otherwise it were impossible they should be so besotted as they are.
I have read of some of the Papists, (to give you an instance or two that you may see what way they went, ju•t as they did here of late) one Riconius hath this passage,1 The Priest ex•elleth the King as much as a man a beast; yea as much as God is above a Priest so is a Priest above the King; these very words he hath. And Pope Innocent the second, he would have Lotharius the Emperour painted in his pallace as a vassel lying down at his feet. And so Becanus he calls the Pope the chief Priest their Shepheard,2