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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhill, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of the prophesy of Hosea being first delivered in several lectures at Michaels Cornhil, London / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being the seventh book published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 10 › Verse 1 › Israel is an empty Vine.
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6. Oh! how many that heretofore seemed to flourish, yet but leaves, and bearing no fruit, now their leaves are gone too, and their common gifts are taken away from them, and not only withered, but shall be cast away, cast away from God, and out of the hearts of the Saints, and men shall gather them, the men of the world they shall catch them, and so they shall join with them, and they shall make use of them, and they shall be cast into the fire and burnt; cast into the fire, not for a fiery trial, but cast into the fire that they may be burned: these are the threatenings against those that bear no fruit.1 It is the glory of Gods People,2 to be filled with the fruits of Righteousness, Phil. 1. 11. To be filled with the Spirit, Ephes. 5. 18. Yea, to be filled with all the fullness of God, 3Ephes. 3. 19. So it is expected of the Saints, that they should be filled with all the fullness of God: Oh! how contrary is this to emptying? And surely filled the Saints should be with fruit, because they are the very fullness of Christ, the fullness of him that fills all in all: In Ephes. 1. last verse,4 the Church is said, to be the fullness of Jesus Christ himself; And shall the Church be an empty Vine, when as it is the very fullness of Him that fills all in all?
6. Oh! how many that heretofore seemed to flourish, yet but leaves, and bearing no fruit, now their leaves are gon too, and their common gifts are taken away from them, and not only withered, but shall be cast away, cast away from God, and out of the hearts of the Saints, and men shall gather them, the men of the world they shall catch them, and so they shall joyn with them, and they shall make use of them, and they shall be cast into the fire and burnt; cast into the fire, not for a fiery tryal, but cast into the fire that they may be burned: these are the threatnings against those that bear no fruit.