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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.
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 ⟨p. 429⟩in a Kingdom about such things (as seldom superstition and idolatry can be banished from a Kingdom but some stirs will be) usually they are begun by the young ones, What,2 if you take away their Holy-days from them, you take away their lives. I make no question but so far as is fit, times of recreation will be allowed them, and there is good reason for it; though such kind of superstitious days be taken from them. But because they find liberty in those days, and their masters and many of their parents stick to the old ways of superstition therefore many young ones they do accordingly, and had almost rather lose their lives than lose them, and being heady and naught they will soon be brought to raise tumults and make seditions for them. But though there are many that are very vile that way, and such as they are, are the saddest Omen of God• displeasure against a Nation; yet on the other side we should wrong the grace of God if we should not observe His goodness towards us in the workings of His Spirit upon. Young ones. Yea many whose parents have been superstitions, wicked and ungodly, and their masters have bin so too, yet we find that the Lord hath delivered a great number of the young generation from those old superstitions, and they are not willing to fully themselves with such vanities as their parents and masters before them did; they do begin to know the Lord, and to enquire after God;