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The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy…
The returning backslider, or, A commentary upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is showed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorn and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Gray's Inn, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his own permission before his death.The returning backslider, or, A commentarie upon the whole XIIII. chapter of the prophecy of the prophet Hosea Wherein is shewed the large extent of Gods free mercy, even unto the most miserable forlorne and wretched sinners that may be, upon their humiliation and repentance. Preached by that learned and judicious divine, Dr. Sibbs, late preacher to the honourable society of Grayes Inne, and master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge. Published by his owne permission before his death.
London: printed by George for George Edwards, 1639
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.
Sol. 1 We may know it by adventuring on ill courses and causes, thinking to bear them out with Ashur, and with Horses: but all the mercenary soldiers in the world, and all the Horses at home and abroad, what can they do when God is angry? Now, when there is such confidence in these things as for to outdare God, then there is too much trust in them; that trust will end in confusion, if it be not repented of; for that lifts up the heart in the creature, and as the Heathen man observes, God delights to make great little, and little great. It is his daily work to cast down mountains, and exalt the valleys. Those that are great, and boast in their greatness, as if they would command Heaven and Earth, God delights to make their greatness little, and at length nothing, and to raise up the day of small things. Therefore the Apostle saith,1 if I rejoice, it shall be in my infirmities, in nothing else; for God delights to show strength in weakness.
Sol. 1 We may know it by adventuring on ill courses and causes, thinking to beare them out with Ashur, and with Horses: but all the mercinary souldiers in the world, and all the Horses at home and abroad, what can they doe when God is angry? Now, when there is such confidence in these things as for to outdare God, then there is too much trust in them; that trust will end in confusion, if it be not repented of; for that lifts up the heart in the creature, and as the Heathen man observes, God delights to make great little, and little great. It is his daily worke to cast downe mountaines, and exalt the valleys. Those that are great, and boast in their greatnesse, as if they would command Heaven and Earth, God delights to make their greatnesse little, and at length nothing, and to raise up the day of small things. Therefore the Apostle saith,1 if I rejoyce, it shall bee in my infirmities, in nothing else; for God delights to shew strength in weakenesse.