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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.
Here he shows the Reason of their rejecting of all false confidence in Ashur, in Horses, in Idols: because they had planted their confidence in the true God. They said so when they had smarted by Ashur, and by Idolatry: then Ashur shall not save us, &c. They knew it by Rule before, but till God plagued them, as he did oft by Ashur and by Egypt, when he broke the reed that it did not only not up hold them, but run into their hands, they made no such acknowledgement, hence observe,
Here he shewes the Reason of their rejecting of all false confidence in Ashur, in Horses, in Idols: because they had planted their confidence in the true God. They said so when they had smarted by Ashur, and by Idolatry: then Ashur shall not save us, &c. They knew it by Rule before, but till God plagued them, as he did oft by Ashur and by Aegypt, when hee broke the reed that it did not onely not up hold them, but run into their hands, they made no such acknowledgement, hence observe,
Observ. Usually it is thus with man, he never Repents till sin be embittered to him.
Observ. Vsually it is thus with man, hee never Repents till sinne be imbittered to him.
He never alters his confidence,1 till his trusts be taken away; when God overthrows the mould of his devises, or brings them upon his own head, setting him to reap the fruit of his own ways; embittering sinful courses to him, then he returns. Instruction without correction doth for the most part little good. When Ashur had dealt falsely with them, and Idolatry would do them no good, then they begin to alter their judgement. What makes men after too much confidence in their wit, when they have by their plots and devises gone