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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.
You have not only done thus and thus your self saith he, but you have educated your son amongst those that were intemperate in riotousness, in feasting, in drinking amongst wantons and unclean persons, and by this means saith he you have not only wronged your child, but the Common-wealth. Thus he laid his action against him. Now how might Heathens shame us in this thing, they account those men to deserve punishment not only from God but from men that are not careful of the education of their children? There is a great de•• ⟨p. 426⟩of reason for it, and it were very good now that there might be a Law enacted to that purpose, upon this ground, because the Common-wealth hath a part in the children as well as the parent, and the parent not being careful to bring up the child in the fear of God, he wrongs the Common-wealth as well as the child, therefore to be punished by the Common-wealth.
The second is this. That 1Children usually are as their parents are, and as their education is.
- 1Obser. 2.
The parents they were Idolaters, they were ungodly and strangers from God, their children are so too. In many families we see that the father is an enemy unto God, and the son an enemy unto God, and his son is an enemy unto God, and his son after him is an enemy unto God, and so there goes a line and a succession of wickedness and profaneness and enmity unto God. It is usually so.