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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 12: VER. 12.
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.
VER. 12.
Sow to your selves in Righteousness, reap in Mercy.
THE holy Ghost still goes on in this Allegory of Husbandry, continuing the metaphor that he had in the Threatening, when he comes to exhortation. In the midst of his threats he falls to exhorting.
THE holy Ghost still goes on in this Allegory of Husbandry, continuing the metaphor that he had in the Threatning, when he comes to exhortation. In the midst of his threats he falls to exhorting.
Though the sins of a people be great, 1and Judgments near, yet ⟨p. 442⟩who knows what an exhortation may do? who knows what an exhortation may do to the worst people in the world? Oh! there were many things spoken concerning Israel that one would have thought it should have discouraged the Prophet to meddle with Exhortation. But God would have him yet exhort, one cannot tell what an Exhortation may do, in the most desperate hardness of mens hearts, and pride and stoutness of mens spirits, therefore the Prophet exhorts them, as if he should say, Well, if you would not plough, if you would not come under the yoke and be put into the furrows as you were threatened before, why then, sow to your selves, Oh! be willing to break up the fallow ground of your hearts, and sow to your selves in Righteousness, and so you shall reap in Mercy.