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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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People before, but sons now. O what an encouragement is this to all apostatizing souls that have fallen off from God! Come in, come in, and be reconciled to God, and thou shalt not only find God as good as ever thou didst, but thou shalt find him much better and much sweeter then ever thou didst in all thy life. It is seldom we are so. When men fall out one with another, though possibly they may be reconciled, yet it is seldom that they are so fully reconciled, so fully one as they were before; they are but as a broken vessel soldered together, that is very weak in the soldering place; or as garments that have been rent, and are mended, soon torn and quickly ready to fall in pieces in the place where they were mended; It is not so between God and a penitent soul.
People before, but sons now. O what an incouragement is this to all apostatizing soules that have fallen off from God! Come in, come in, and be reconciled to God, and thou shalt not only find God as good as ever thou didst, but thou shalt find him much better and much sweeter then ever thou didst in all thy life. It is seldome we are so. When men fall out one with another, though possibly they may be reconciled, yet it is seldome that they are so fully reconciled, so fully one as they were before; they are but as a broken vessell sodered together, that is very weake in the sodering place; or as garments that have been rent, and are mended, soon torn and quickly ready to fall in pieces in the place where they were mended; It is not so between God and a penitent soule.
Again, sons, not only of God, but of the living God. There is much in this, that the people of God under the gospel should be called the sons of the living God: The life of God is the glory of God: he sweareth by his life: by this he is distinguished from the heathen gods, that he is the living God. Life is the most excellent thing in the world; Augustine therefore saith, that the life of a very fly is more excellent then the Sun in the Firmament: and certainly it is the glory of God, that he is the living God. And as God is the living God, so he is the object of our faith, and so he is the happiness of his people. Trust in the living God; my soul pants and thirsts after the living God, O when shall I come and appear before God.