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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
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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.
I have withdrawn my self saith God, I have done with them, and afterward he telleth us, that they shall be desolate, and this is the reason, they have begot strange children: The children, the generation that is coming after they are idolaters too, they go as their fathers did, and what hope is there of them?1 When in a Vineyard or an Orchard not only the old trees are rotten, but the young trees, they likewise come to be corrupted and blasted by them, then there is little hope of any great cost to be bestowed about it, but it is likely to be digged up for the beasts to be let in up on it.
I have withdrawn my self saith God, I have done with them, and afterward he telleth us, that they shal be desolate, and this is the reason, they have begot strange children: The children, the generation that is coming after they are idolaters too, they go as their fathers did, and what hope is there of them?1 When in a Vineyard or an Orchyard not only the old trees are rotten, but the young trees, they likewise come to be corrupted and blasted by them, then there is little hope of any great cost to be bestowed about it, but it is likely to be digged up for the beasts to be let in up on it.
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Use. Much care is to be had therefore of the succeeding generation. And there is no better argument whereby we may come to divine (as we may say) what God intendeth to do with a Nation,1 than this; look how the children are, how the young ones are that are coming up in that Nation, and by that you may come to divine what God intendeth to do with the next. We have much cause to bless God for His mercy toward us herein, in that He hath in a great measure (we hope) taken away that sign of His dreadful wrath upon us in this particular. I say in a great measure; though the truth is, we have a great many of the young generation extreme rude, abundance of Apprentices and others that are fit, prepared, and ready to make riots and tumults to maintain their Fathers, their Masters old superstitions; and if ever there be any stirs