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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.
The Minister of God they are Sowers of the Seed of the Word; 1and the Hearers they should be Sowers too. The Ministers sows the Word in thy ears, and then thou shouldest take it from thence and sow it in thy heart, thy life and conversation.
- 1Obs. 6.
If our actions be seeds that we sow,1 then large opportunities of doing much service for God should be our riches: like a large field, that is sown with good grain, if thou hast a heart to improve those opportunities.
- 1Obs. 7.
Oh!1 that we would but consider of this, That when the Lord gives to men and women a large opportunity for service, God lets them out so much Land, Go (saith God) you must husband so much Land, and sow it for mine advantage: Many of you that are poor people you have not a foot of Land in the world, and you think that those that are Landed-men they are happy men; Doth God give you opportunity of service to honour him? Oh! thou hast got a great deal of Land, the meanest of you that have opportunities of Service, God lets you out his Land, you have abundance of Land and Ground that God gives to you, and a man should account himself rich according to the opportunity of his Service: As men in the Country account themselves rich according to the Land that they have to plough and sow,