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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 third Note is this, That It is a dangerous thing for children to follow the Example of their parents in wickedness.1
- 1Obser.
It is from hence that they are called strange children, they are strangers to God. It is not enough for them to plead, I did as my father or as my mother taught me. No, if thy parents be wicked and superstitious, and they bring thee up in wickedness and superstition, and so thou art wicked and superstitious thy self, know that notwithstanding this excuse, God looks upon thee as a strange child, thou hast no part nor portion in God, thou art an Alien, thou art estranged from God.
It is from hence that they are called strange children, they are strangers to God. It is not enough for them to plead, I did as my father or as my mother taught me. No, if thy parents be wicked and superstitious, and they bring thee up in wickedness and superstition, and so thou art wicked and superstitious thy self, know that notwithstanding this excuse, God looks upon thee as a strange child, thou hast no part nor por•ion in God, thou art an Alien, thou art estranged from God.
Children therefore had need to examine their parents ways and actions: And above all, Use. the children of superstitious people, for there is nothing more natural in succession, in a line, than Idolatry and superstition. Never plead thus then, we do but as our forefathers have done. That place we have in Peter, one would think should be a Scripture for ever to stop the mouth of that plea,