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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 5 › Verse 2
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.
1They are profound.] Profunda verunt, they are grown very deep in this their way of Idolatry. At first they began but with a little, but by degrees they are grown into the very depth. When men begin in the ways of Idolatry they know not whether they shall sink. They think perhaps at first to go but thus far and thus far, but before they are aware they are sunk into the very depth.
1They are profound.] Profunda verunt, they are grown very deep in this their way of Idolatry. At first they began but with a little, but by degrees they are grown into the very depth. When men begin in the waies of Idolatry they know not whether they shall sink. They think perhaps at first to go but thus far and thus far, but before they are aware they are sunk into the very depth.
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1It is a dangerous thin• to venture upon the beginnings of false worship, especially when the tide is flowing in. If a man stand upon the shore of the Sea when the tide is coming in, and thinks the water is but shallow now, I may venture to stand here, it is but a little depth here; The Sea still comes in more and more,2 he thinks it is not much deeper than it was: but if he venture too long he may soon be swallowed up and sunk into the very depth of the Sea.3 Thus it hath been with many; They have been deceived in their ways of superstition: They ⟨p. 355⟩