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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 › You shall 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 reason is this,1 Because in all the Creation Gods Glory is there but passively, God works there and it is passively, and holds forth his glory; But now, when it comes to the Righteous Acts of the Saints, there is an Active way of glorifying God, there's an act of Gods life, There's an Act of the very Image of God, and the Life of God, and the Divine Nature is there, and therefore there is more of God in the working of Righteousness than in any thing else besides.
- 1The Reason.
Oh!1 let the Saints get a price upon the actions of Righteousness, though there be much evil mingled, yet there's a great deal of the glory of God in every Action. If we were but grounded in this principle it would make us abound in the work of the Lord; so in the morning and in the evening let not thy hand rest, trust God with thy seed, do not be deterred with this difficulty and the other,2 He that observes the wind (in Eccles. 11.) he shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds, he shall not reap. Is it a duty that God requires of thee; do not think, Oh! but it's windy weather, and ill weather: no, but sow it, Sow it in righteousness, and commit it to God, and thou shalt reap. Oh! blessed are those who have sown much for God in their life time, Oh! the glorious harvest that these shall have, the very Angels shall help them to take in their Harvest at the great day, and they need not take thought for Barns, the very Heavens shall be their Barns, and Oh the joy that there shall be in that Harvest, and the Angels will help to sing the Harvest song that they shall sing that have been Sowers ⟨p. 452⟩