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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.
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⟩have thought they might yield thus far, and yield thus far; but they little thought of the tide that was coming. It is true if the tide had been going out, it had not been so much danger. Therefore they are deceived in that their opinion of the first Reformers; 4they would yield for peace-sake thus and thus far; but then the tide was rather going out; and yet it was not without danger that they yielded so far as they did: But of late times the tide was coming in;5 and then the yielding but thus far and thus far, hath swallowed up many into the very depths of those ways of superstition, they have even been choked and drowned by them.
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.