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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.
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.
7. An empty spirit is fit for the Devil to come to possess; Mat. 12. 24. he found his place empty, and then he comes in: where the Devil sees an empty spirit, there's a fit place for him to come. It is an evil thing for you to grow upon Gods ground and to cumber it, to cumber any part of Gods ground; it may be if thou wert gone, there might be another in thy family, or place, that might bring forth fruit to God; but thou hinderest, God might have more Rent (as I may so say) for all his possessions in the world, the great Rent is, the fruit that the Church brings forth; in Cant. 8. 11. it is said,1 that Solomon let out his Vineyard, and it brought him in a thousand pieces of Silver for the fruit of it. And God he lets out his Vineyard, and his Rent (I say) it is the fruit that the Saints bring forth to him; What glory hath God in the world, if those that profess themselves to be his people should be empty?
7. An empty spirit is fit for the Devil to come to possess; Mat. 12. 24. he found his place empty, and then he comes in: where the Devil sees an empty spirit, there's a fit place for him to come. It is an evil thing for you to grow upon Gods ground and to cumber it, to cumber any part of Gods ground; it may be if thou wert gon, there might be another in thy family, or place, that might bring forth fruit to God; but thou hinderest, God might have more Rent (as I may so say) for all his possessions in the world, the great Rent is, the fruit that the Church brings forth; in Cant. 8. 11. it is said,1 that Solomon let out his Vineyard, and it brought him in a thousand pieces of Silver for the fruit of it. And God he lets out his Vinyard, and his Rent (I say) it is the fruit that the Saints bring forth to him; What glory hath God in the world, if those that profess themselves to be his people should be empty?
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