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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.
No men are so deeply rooted in wickedness as Apostates are. The •evolters are grown deep, that i•, are deeply roo•ed in this their way of wickedness, and amongst o•her wickedness, above all in the ways of superstition and Idolatry. Apostates if th•y grow superstitious and Idolatrous they are the most deeply rooted in those ways, yea and the most profound and ⟨p. 358⟩subtle in them. Hence you might observe in your own experiences the practices of our Prelates,1 they would choose to themselves Chaplain to be their Agents such as had bin heretofore Puritans, and so falling off and apostatizing from that strictness that they seemed to profess in former times; they made account that these would be thei• choicest and best Agents of all men; they thought their sittest men were such as did arise out of the as•e of a Puritan, as they themselves were wont to express it: they knew that such men as those that were formerly seemingly strict in their practice, were best acquainted wherein the consciences of godly men were most tender, and that they knew their ways and what would pinch their consciences most, and therefore these were the fittest Agents for them.