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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. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 4 › They set up Kings, but not by me
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Secondly,1 When we have a mercy promised we must be brought into it by God, by lawful means; he that believes makes not hast saith the Scripture: many they are so greedy of places, and preferments, and other things they desire, that they make so much hast as if they did fear that if they stay for the orderly coming into the place they desire, they fear they should go without it: What blessing then can there be in that which we would seek to get without ⟨p. 20⟩God in making so much hast.
Secondly,1 When we have a mercy promised we must be brought into it by God, by lawful means; he that beleeves makes not hast saith the Scripture: many they are so greedy of places, and preferments, and other things they desire, that they make so much hast as if they did fear that if they stay for the orderly coming into the place they desire, they fear they should go without it: What blessing then can there be in that which we would seek to get without ⟨p. 20⟩God in making so much hast.
- 1Obs. 2.
And again,1 When we have a mercy (that's the third note) when we have what we would have, yet if we do not improve it for God, we do thereby renounce our acknowledgement of it from God. God hath given thee an Estate, or Honours, or Preferment: What doest thou do? Doest thou now abuse this for thine own lusts? Thou doest hereby renounce thy acknowledgement that thou hadst it from God. They have set up Kings, but not by me, I will not own that; Why? because in the way of their Administration they have indeed renounced any right I have to their Government: