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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.
they boasted because it was a fat fruitful country, which the Romans called their granary. But we must look for all from Heaven; God by his Spirit will be as the dew.
they boasted because it was a fat fruitfull countrie, which the Romans called their granary. But wee must looke for all from Heaven; God by his Spirit will be as the dew.
You know in Paradise there were four rivers that watered the Garden of God, that sweet place,1 and made it fruitful; but the heads of all these rivers were out of Paradise. So it is with the Church of God,2 There is a River the streams whereof makes glad the City of God (as the Psalmist ⟨p. 218⟩speaks) many precious comfortable graces (the particulars whereof follow) but where is the head-spring of that river? it is in Heaven. We have all from God, through Christ the Mediator: So though we have of the Water and Dew, yet notwithstanding the head and spring of all is from without the Church, in Heaven, in Christ, in the Mediator. And therefore in all the excellent things we enjoy in the Church, let us look to the Original first cause; Christ by his Spirit, He is as the Dew to his Church.
You know in Paradise there were foure rivers that watred the Garden of God, that sweet place,1 and made it fruitfull; but the heads of all these rivers were out of Paradise. So it is with the Church of God,2 There is a River the streames whereof makes glad the Citie of God (as the Psalmist ⟨p. 218⟩