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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 4 › Verse 1
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.
Eighthly, That our brethren should be so spoiled and our §8selves in such danger of drinking the dregs of the cup, yet where are our hearts? The judgment of God is upon the hearts of men that they stir not and act not like men, but they see their Brethren spoiled before them and in the mean time all that which keeps them quiet is only that they hope they shall be the last. Gods hand is upon the hearts of men this could not be else. Could one ever have thought that English men could have born this? If one had told them before that there should be an Army of Papists rise up with ⟨p. 14⟩French, Walloons, and Irish to spoil the Kingdom, to destroy our Brethren, would one have ever imagined that English men should have born it and stirred no more than they have done? You talk indeed of this and that and of going forth every fourth man, but all such resolutions and such great words of men do usually sink and fall down and come to nothing, a• if men were willing and content to lay down their necks upon the block. Surely the guilt of the blood of our Brethren may justly come upon us, and God may have a controversy with us for suffering their blood to be spilt.
Eightly, That our brethren should be so spoil'd and our §8selves in such danger of drinking the dregs of the cup, yet where are our hearts? The judgment of God is upon the hearts of men that they stir not and act not like men, but they see their Brethren spoild before them and in the mean time all that which keeps them quiet is only that they hope they shall be the last. Gods hand is upon the hearts of men this could not be else. Could one ever have thought that English men could have born this? If one had told them before that there should be an Army of Papists rise up with ⟨p. 14⟩French, Walloons, and Irish to spoil the Kingdom, to destroy our Brethren, would one have ever imagined that English men should have born it and stirred no more than they have done? You talk indeed of this and that and of going forth every fourth man, but all such resolutions and such great words of men do usually sink and fall down and come to nothing, a• if men were willing and content to lay down their necks upon the block. Surely the guilt of the blood of our Brethren may justly come upon us, and God may have a controversie with us for suffering their blood to be spilt.