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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 7
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.
1First, Parents, have by God committed to them the charge of their children.
- 1Obser.
That is implied here, That is, it is their duty to look to beget their children unto God, and to take heed that their children be not begotten to the Devil: For Ephraim here, the ten Tribes are charged, that whereas they should have brought forth their children for God, and so they should belong to Gods Inheritance and God should have owned them, now they beget them to their Idols, and they are strange children. God certainly doth not give you children to beget them for the Devil and for Hell. It should be a sad thing to parents to think here is a child coming from my loins, conceived in my womb, and what, shall an enemy unto God come out of my loins? shall a firebrand of Hell be conceived in my ⟨p. 425⟩womb? Certainly it should go to the heart of a parent to see his child to be estranged from God, though he were not the cause of it: But much more when a parent shall come to be convinced, this child is thus wicked and ungodly, and as he hath received the seed• of his corruption from me at the first, so those seeds were nourished up by my example, and encouragement, I have led him to such wickedness. Woe to such parents, and such children may even curse the time that they were born of such parents, and rather wish they had been of the generation of Dragons, and off spring of Vipers, than begotten of such parents. God when he gives you children, expects that you should labour that there may be a succession of godliness in the world, that not only you should be godly, but that you should bring up your children to be so too. Psal. 78.5. He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which •e commanded our fathers; that they should make them Known to their children, that the generation to come might Know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children. This is the way of God, He commandeth you to make known His Statutes and Laws to your children, that the generation to come might know them, and not that you should bring up your children in ways of wickedness and superstition. I have read of the Romans,