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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 › For it is time to seek the Lord.
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.
For it is time to seek the Lord.
It is time.1
- 1Expos. 1.
First,1 Yet you have time to seek the Lord; 'Tis well for you that you have time to seek the Lord; It is mercy that there is any time at all to seek the Lord. It might have been past time with you for seeking the Lord, God might have forced his honour from you in another way, have fetched out his glory from you in your eternal ruin, Oh! 'tis mercy that God will be sought of you,2 and therefore plough up your ⟨p. 473⟩fallow ground, and sow in Righteousness; for it is time to seek the Lord. Oh! you that are the oldest and wickedest, and yet live still, Oh! remember this Scripture; yet, you have time to seek the Lord, It is mercy that you have any time to seek the Lord: If you did but understand what this mercy were, ye would fall down with your faces upon the ground and bless the Lord that you have yet time to seek him. What do you think those damned creatures in Hell would now give, if it might be said of them, That they have time to seek the Lord, if they might have but one hour more to seek the Lord with any hope to obtain mercy from him? What you are now, they were not long since: Oh! do you fear and tremble, lest, if you not seeking the Lord, you ere long be, as now they are, that it shall be said of you, Time is gone, time to seek the Lord is past; I will not now be sought of you; Seek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near, It was a speech once of a woman in terror of Conscience,