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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 11: VER. 11.
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.
Secondly,1 Those services that bring present contentment, and present comfort, that there is present encouragement goes along with, even such as are carnal and Hypocrites can be content withal; for when they tread out the Corn, there was present supply. So it is with men, when they can have present supply in maintenance.
- 1Obs. 2.
I remember it's a speech of a learned man, even upon this very Scripture, saith he, Where men see not present gain coming in, they despise Christ there. It's a speech of Jernovius, 1Where they may have to eat for the present, there they may be easily brought to believe such a way of service and worship that is countenanced, by the State for the present, Numb. 7. 9. 2 Sam. 6. God allowed no Cart to the children of Kohath to carry the Ark, and that was their sin in putting it upon one, 1 Sam. 6. And where men may enjoy certain comings in whether they work or no, or whether they work negligently or no, there's a great temptation lies in this; there's not such a temptation lies in a mans enjoying encouragement if it be upon uncertainties, and that he shall have it no longer than he doth labour, and labour to purpose; but when men shall have their estates coming in in a certain way though they labour by themselves, or other, or though negligently, or industriously, here's a great temptation in this.
I remember it's a speech of a learned man, even upon this very Scripture, saith he, Where men see not present gain coming in, they despise Christ there. It's a speech of Iernovius,