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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.
THE NINTH SERMON.
HOS. 14.6. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the Corn, and grow as the Vine, the sent thereof shall be as the Vine of Lebanon.
HOS. 14.6. They that dwell under his shadow shall returne; they shall revive as the Corne, and grow as the Vine, the sent thereof shall be as the Ʋine of Lebanon.
OUR desire of good things is not so large as God is bountiful in satisfying our desires, & going beyond them, as we see in this Chapter, their hearts were too narrow to receive all that good which God intended them. Receive us graciously, ⟨p. 278⟩this was their petition: whereunto God answers, that he would be as the dew unto them, that they should grow ac the Lillie, and cast forth their root as Lebanon: and their branches shall spread: that they should grow in all dimensions, upwards and downwards, and spread in beauty and smell, Their beauty shall be like the Olive, and their smell like Lebanon. And because he would be God-like, like himself, that is throughly and abundantly gracious and merciful, he doth not only (as we have heard) promise a blessing to Israel himself, but unto all near unto him and belonging to him: Those that are under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn.