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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.
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.
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 profaness and enmity unto God. It is usually so.
1Therefore let those children that are born of, and brought up under godly parents, bless God that they were not born and brought up by wicked parents. It may be if thou hadst been born and brought up of Papists, thou wouldst have been a Papist thy self. If thou hadst been born of one that is a stranger to God, of a Malignant, of a contemner of God, thou wouldst have been so too.
- 1Use for those that are well educated.
And seeing this is ordinary for children to be as their parents, Oh then what a mercy is it for any child that is born of wicked parents,1 yet that God should work His grace in him. This is not any ordinary mercy. There are some that are born of godly parents that do bless God that they are kept from wickedness that way: but there are some that are born of wicked parents, and so brought up by them in the family; yet so gracious is God unto them, that in a more than ordinary way, He goes further in mercy to them and works grace in their hearts notwithstanding. This is His extraordinary mercy, a mercy that thou art to admire at unto all eternity, that notwithstanding thy birth and education, yet God should reveal himself unto thee.