A30574:1522
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 further, Thou canst not be better certainly than seeking God. Whither wilt thou go? If thou leavest seeking God thou turnest from thy own mercy to vanity. And hast thou a temptation to leave off seeking God? shalt thou get any thing by it? Certainly thou canst not do better, and therefore seek the Lord, seek the Lord Till he comes,1 Isa. 30. 18. is a most excellent Scripture to uphold the heart in seeking God though God do not seem to come. The Lord is a God of Judgment; blessed are they that wait for him. You are not a man or woman of Judgment, you know not when it is a fit time that things should be done; But God is a God of Judgment, he knows how to do things in Judgment; and therefore blessed are they that wait for him. Think of this, and deny your own Judgments, and your own thoughts, and know that you are waiting upon God, that is a God of Judgment, that is infinitely wise to come to his People in a fit season, and to come so that at last you would not wish that he had come sooner.
- 1Isa. 30. 18▪ explained.
And know, That all the while you are waiting, God is working good. We are waiting upon mens doors, and they take no notice of it: but if we knew that all the time we are a waiting our Petition were a reading and they in consultation about it, and we only waited for the issue of the consultation, it would satisfy us. And so a gracious heart may be assured of this, Hast thou sought the Lord in the ⟨p. 483⟩truth of thy heart? The thing is not come yet, but ever since thou hast sought the Lord the heart of God hath been thinking of that thing which thou soughtest him for, and wilt not thou be seeking God still till He doth come?