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An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…
An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughs.An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first three chapters, at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1652
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I will not add mercy (saith God) showing, that what good they had received before it was from his mercy, though they would take no notice of it; well, saith God, you shall have no more, you have taken no notice that it was my mercy that helped you before, but when my mercy is gone, then you will know it,1 but then I will not add more. Men best know what the worth of mercy is, when mercy is taken away from them, when God addeth no more.
I will not add mercy (saith God) shewing, that what good they had received before it was from his mercy, though they would take no notice of it; well, saith God, you shall have no more, you have taken no notice that it was my mercy that helped you before, but when my mercy is gone, then you will know it,1 but then I will not add more. Men best know what the worth of mercy is, when mercy is taken away from them, when God addeth no more.
- 1Obser. 4.
Again,1 I will not add mercy. God doth not use to take away his mercy fully from a people or from a soul: but when mercy hath been showed and abused, after much mercy hath been received, and that being abused, then God saith he will not add more. You have a parallel place to this, Judg. 10. 16. I will deliver you no more, saith God, I have delivered you many times, my mercy hath been abused, I will deliver you no more. It is just with God when mercy is abused, that we should never know farther what mercy meaneth. Mercy as it is a precious thing, so it is a tender thing, and a dangerous thing to abuse it. There is nothing that more quickly works the ruin of a people or of a soul, then abused mercy.