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Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness…Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse…
Four learned and godly treatises viz. The carnal hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulness of sin. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.Foure learned and godly treatises viz. The carnall hypocrite. The churches deliverances. The deceitfulnesse of sinne. The benefit of afflictions. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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.
PROV. 1. 28, 29. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.
PROV. 1. 28, 29. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me.
For the coherence of these words know thus much from the 20. verse to the end we shall take notice of two things mainly intended by the Spirit of God. First, the kind ⟨p. 256⟩loving and passionate invitation of wisdom to simple, sinful, scornful wretches, this we shall observe from the 20. verse to the 23. there wisdom crieth earnestly and uttereth her voice in the streets, that is, she presseth in with a kind of violence to win and woe the souls of sinners that at last they may know the things belonging to their peace. The second is the issue and success that the voice of wisdom found in the hearts of those to whom she spake, and the success is double, the first is the contempt of scorners against the call of wisdom, they stop their ears, and harden their hearts, and will not submit to Christ, and be ruled by him, and that in the 24. and 25. verses, the second issue is in the words of the Text, they rejected God, & God rejected them, they cast his call behind their ⟨p. 257⟩backs, and therefore he casteth off them, Then shall they call, saith the Text, but I will not hear; they that rejected mercy offered, shall not obtain mercy sought and desired, this is the scope of the words, Then shall they call, that is, in the time of trouble, and in the day of distress, then they will call for mercy, and comfort, No, saith the Lord, time was I offered mercy, but then mercy was not worth the receiving, I called and you would not obey, therefore call you shall, and seek you shall, but I will never answer you, you shall never find me.