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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
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.
5. Keep out of your Counsels flesh and blood. 1I consulted not with flesh and blood, saith Paul in the first Chap. to the Galatians: I did not look unto carnal excellency, but laid aside all carnal kind of excellency; they would have advised me to this and this, and I should never have done as I did if I had consulted with flesh and blood.
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6. Yea,1 keep out of your Counsels Passion and frowardness. In Job, 5. 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 2If once you find in your Counsels your hearts begin to be hot,3 rather break off; take heed of such resolutions in your Counsels as are in a heat: It's a safe way for you if you would consult about ⟨p. 399⟩business of Moment, as soon as there begins to be a heat, rather fall to prayer; we had need of cool and quiet spirits when we are consulting: As if you would weigh a thing exactly with Gold Scales (as in Counsels we should weigh things very exactly) you would not weigh in the midst of a wind:4 when mens passions begin to be up they weigh things as a man should weigh Gold abroad in the wind: but you cannot weigh exactly. Oh! take heed of passion in your Counsels.