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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 › Sow in Righteousness.
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.
Sow in Righteousness.
We know that the Prophet,1 though he would lead the People to Christ, yet his preaching was most in a Legal way, Sow Righteousness: that is, Go on in the works of Righteousness, those works that are right, and just, and equal, such as you may give a good account of them before God and man;2 as if he should say, Do not you think to put me off merely with outward services, with offering sacrifices, and with this kind of pompous worship, in this superstitious way, I will never accept of these things; but let me have Righteousness, let there be the works of Righteousness, according to the Rules of Righteousness, so work. And the Jews if they did but perform the the external works of Righteousness, they might have external Mercies, if so be there were a proportion between one work and another. If indeed they did some works of Righteousness, and not the other, then they could not expect mercy from God; but though there were no saving Grace in them, yet if they did but perform external works of Righteousness, and there was a proportion between one and another; there doth seem to be an external Covenant that they were under for outward Mercies that they should have for their outward Righteousness;3 Not but that I think for Heaven there they must have true Grace and Godliness, as the Saints must have ⟨p. 445⟩now; but external Mercies were more annexed to external Duties than now among us.
We know that the Prophet,