A30574:1476
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.
And then thirdly, Get a softness to be in your hearts; ⟨p. 467⟩as when the ground is ploughed, that which was before hard on the outside, and baked by the heat of the Sun, being now turned up there is a soft mould of the ground, and so by the softness of the mould of the ground it is prepared to receive seed.
And then thirdly, Get a softness to be in your hearts; ⟨p. 467⟩as when the ground is plowed, that which was before hard on the outside, and bak'd by the heat of the Sun, being now turned up there is a soft mould of the ground, and so by the softness of the mould of the ground it is prepared to receive seed.
There are many evils in us that we would reform,1 but we have not been humbled for them, for our ceremonies, and subjection to* false Government of the Church, Who hath bin humbled for these things, as sin? We reform them as things inconvenient,3 but not being humbled for them as sin, the very roots of these things are in the hearts of many, so as if times should change, a distinction would serve their turn to come and submit to them again, so that we sow before we plough.4 I find in Jer. 4. 3. you have this exhortation even in termiminis, That, They must plough up the fallow-ground of their hearts (only expressed a little further) They must not sow among thorns. They must not think to mingle that which is good with that which is evil, it may be a few good seeds are brought into a business, yea, but there is a great deal of evil. My Brethren, take heed of being deceived that way; many though they do not intend to deceive you, yet they may deceive you by mixing some good things with a great many evil, and therefore examine things. But I note this place in Jeremiah the rather from the consideration of the time of Jeremiahs Prophecy.