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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 14
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.
Or else thus, Separated: That is, gone alone in secret where §3they might not be known, as the filthiness of that sin causeth men to desire to be hid, and when they have got into a secret place or separated themselves from all that know them, then they commit that bodily uncleanness; as many men when they are gone abroad from their own houses, in their journeys in their Inns, that is a fit opportunity for their filthiness.
Or else thus, Separated: That is, gone alone in secret where §3they might not be known, as the filthiness of that sin causeth men to desire to be hid, and when they have got into a secret place or separated themselves from all that know them, then they commit that bodily uncleanness; as many men when they are gone abroad from their own houses, in their journies in their Inns, that is a fit opportunity for their filthiness.
Thus God gives the reason why their daughters and their wives commit this uncleanness, because they themselves do so. Thence the Note is, When parents are filthy and unclean, 1what can be expected from the children but that they should be so too? Take it either in bodily or spiritual uncleanness. In bodily, David commits adultery, and Amnon commits incest; and in spiritual, Jer. 7.18. The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven. If fathers and mothers be Idolaters children will be so too; so it is at this day, in superstitious places, take any that are superstitious that stand upon the old way, if the father and the mother do so, the children will do so too, any that are Malignants, if the parents be so, the children though young it is strange to hear in what a way they will speak, because their parents are so. Which should be a good caveat unto all parents to make them take heed what they do before their children, he that sins before a child sins twice, Use. for the child will do as his father doth, he thinks it enough that my father said so, or my father did so. Tke heed how you sin before your children.