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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 17
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.
Secondly, The evil is great, because they are then let alone Reas. 2 when they are going a pace unto misery. To let a man alone when he is at home in his house and all things convenient about him, is not so much,1 but if you should see a man in a mad humour running to the water to drown himself, and then to let him alone this were a great judgment. Though when a man walks in the street in an ordinary way no man will meddle with him but let him alone, but if you should see a man ⟨p. 208⟩running into the fire, or running to cast himself into a Well or a Pond, no one then would let him alone: But now the Lord sees sinners running headlong into misery, in•• the bottomless pit, and even then God saith, Let them alone.
Secondly, The evil is great, because they are then let alone Reas. 2 when they are going a pace unto misery. To let a man alone when he is at home in his house and all things convenient about him, is not so much,1 but if you should see a man in a mad humor running to the water to drown himself, and then to let him alone this were a great judgment. Though when a man walks in the street in an ordinary way no man will meddle with him but let him alone, but if you should see a man ⟨p. 208⟩running into the fire, or running to cast himself into a Well or a Pond, no one then would let him alone: But now the Lord sees sinners running headlong into misery, in•• the bottomless pit, and even then God saith, Let them alone.
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