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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 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.
In many places they have no means, many Towns and Countries have scarce a Sermon in half a year.
In many places they have no means, many Towns and Countries have scarce a Sermon in half a yeer.
In many places where there is most means there they are negligent of it, they rebel and shut their eyes against it and are weary of it.
And others that have had knowledge heretofore, have resisted their light, are grown sottish: yea it is to be •eared that God hath delivered many amongst us over to a sottish spirit, it is impossible they should remain so ignorant as they are if God in his just judgment had not delivered them up unto a sottish spirit. To instance in this, Is it not a sottish spirit of men that after all their oppression and misery that they have suffered, yet they will not understand, but join with those that have oppressed them and lay all the blame upon them that venture their lives to deliver them. Surely this is most gross sottish ignorance, that when men shall come and spoil them of their goods and ravish their wives and children, yet in the mean time they rather cry out of those that venture their lives to do them good as if the cause of their misery was from them. Surely these people do not understand, can it be expected but that these people should fall, themselves and their posterity, into the depth of misery to be made slaves for ever?
And others that have had knowledg heretofore, have resisted their light, are grown sottish: yea it is to be •eared that God hath delivered many amongst us over to a sottish spirit, it is impossible they should remain so ignorant as they are if God in his just jugment had not delivered them up unto a sottish spirit. To instance in this, Is it not a sottish spirit of men that after all their oppression and misery that they have suffered, yet they will not understand, but joyn with those that have opprest them and lay all the blame upon them that venture their lives to deliver them. Surely this is most gross sottish ignorance, that when men shall come and spoil them of their goods and ravish their wives and children, yet in the mean time they rather cry out of those that venture their lives to do them good as if the cause of their misery was from them. Surely these people do not understand, can it be expected but that these people should fall, themselves and their posterity, into the depth of misery to be made slaves for ever?