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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 10: VER. 10.
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.
It's true, though at first God seems to forbear the execution of Justice as a thing he hath no mind to, yet if sin be continued in, in a stubborn way, now God desires it as a thing that there's nothing more pleasing to him. He is burdened with mens sins, and desires to bring punishments upon them; as a man under a great burden desires to be eased;1 In Isa. 1. Oh! I will ease me of mine Adversaries. And in Ezek. 5. 13. 2you shall find there that God in threatening of wrath saith, that he would do thus, and thus, and he would be comforted:3 and in Prov. 1. he laughs at the destruction of wicked men, it's a thing that rejoices him at the very heart.4 And in the Revelations the wrath of God is called the wine of his wrath, because he takes so much pleasure in the execution of it.
It's true, though at first God seems to forbear the execution of Justice as a thing he hath no mind to, yet if sin be continued in, in a stubborn way, now God desires it as a thing that there's nothing more pleasing to him. He is burdened with mens sins, and desires to bring punishments upon them; as a man under a great burden desires to be eased;1 In Isa. 1. Oh! I will ease me of mine Adversaries. And in Ezek. 5. 13. 2you shall find there that God in threatning of wrath saith, that he would do thus, and thus, and he would be comforted:3