A77979:419
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 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.
but now when men of vile and malignant spirits are by a better Authority put out for their wicked lives, and godly and holy men are put in their rooms, yet these they will not hear though it be in their own parish Church, but if a malignant Preacher be in the City, to him they will flock: Who is the Separate or Schismatic now? they separate themselves now to such men, and now they think they may hear those men they can most profit by, that is those that preach things suitable to their spirits. When the case come• to be mens own how partial are they in their judgments? I know nothing sets out the condition of these men as these words do, though as they are read in your books there is no such thing appears, but the words according to the Original signifies separating themselves to unclean Priests.
but now when men of vile and malignant spirits are by a better Authority put out for their wicked lives, and godly and holy men are put in their rooms, yet these they will not hear though it be in their own parish Church, but if a malignant Preacher be in the City, to him they will flock: Who is the Separate or Schismatick now? they separate themselves now to such men, and now they think they may hear those men they can most profit by, that is those that preach things sutable to their spirits. When the case come• to be mens own how partial are they in their judgments? I know nothing sets out the condition of these men as these words do, though as they are read in your books there is no such thing appears, but the words according to the Original signifies separating themselves to unclean Priests.
Therefore the people that do not understand shall fall.