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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
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.
But you must not sow without ploughing,1 that were a preposterous way, therefore though the words come after, yet the thing is to be done before. Look that you plough up the fallow ground: you have been sinful and ungodly in your way, It will not be enough for you now to set upon some good actions, we will do better, we will do such and such good things that God requires of us: No, that's not the first work you must fall upon, but it must be to plough, to plough up your fallow grounds.
But you must not sow without plowing,1 that were a preposterous way, therefore though the words come after, yet the thing is to be done before. Look that you plow up the fallow ground: you have been sinful and ungodly in your way, It will not be enough for you now to set upon some good actions, we will do better, we will do such and such good things that God requires of us: No, that's not the first work you must fal upon, but it must be to plow, to plow up your fallow grounds.
- 1Expos. The Coherence.
In this expression you have here implied,1 first, That the hearts of men naturally are as follow grounds, nothing but thorns and briars grows upon them, they are unfit for the Seed of the Word. And by this word is here meant these three things; when he bids them plough up their fallow grounds.
In this expression you have here implyed,1 first, That the hearts of men naturally are as follow grounds, nothing but thorns and bryars grows upon them, they are unfit for the Seed of the Word. And by this word is here meant these three things; when he bids them plow up their fallow grounds.