A30574:1518
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.
Secondly,1 God sometimes comes not presently in raining Righteousness upon his people that do sow Righteousness: Seek the Lord till he comes and rains Righteousness: As if the Prophet should say, You have hearts to seek the Lord, to be humbled, and reform, to sow in Righteousness; well, be not discouraged, continue seeking, stay till he doth rain Righteousness. After the seed is sown, you would fain have a shower the next morning, but (may be) it will not be the next morning, stay till Gods time; God doth not always hear the prayers of his people so as to answer them when they would. It is very observable concerning Elijah, at one time when he cried for fire to come down upon the Sacrifice, it came down presently: but when he cried for rain, he was fain to send his servant seven times: Elijah did not get Rain from Heaven so soon as Fire from Heaven.
Secondly,1 God sometimes comes not presently in raining Righteousness upon his people that do sow Righteousness: Seek the Lord till he comes and rains Righteousness: As if the Prophet should say, You have hearts to seek the Lord, to be humbled, and reform, to sow in Righteousnesse; well, be not discouraged, continue seeking, stay till he doth rain Righteousness. After the seed is sown, you would fain have a shower the next morning, but (may be) it will not be the next morning, stay till Gods time; God doth not alwaies hear the prayers of his people so as to answer them when they would. It is very observable concerning Elijah, at one time when he cried for fire to come down upon the Sacrifice, it came down presently: but when he cried for rain, he was fain to send his servant seven times: Elijah did not get Rain from Heaven so soon as Fire from Heaven.
- 1Obs. 2.
The Third Note is this,1