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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. › CHAP. VIII. › Verse 5 › It hath cast thee off.
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.
It hath cast thee off.
Hath cast thee off from me, so some have it. But rather as you have it in your books, Thy Calf hath cast thee off. Whence note.
That though Idolaters promise to themselves safety and protection by their Idols, 1yet they will leave them at last. All you that go on in the ways of sin, know that those ways of sin of yours will leave you in the lurch at the last: as they say, the Devil leaves the Witches when they come to the prison: when Judas went to the Scribes and Pharisees in the anguish of his spirit and cast down the money and said, I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. What's that to us (say they) see thou to that? Therefore the best way is to cast off our sin and wickedness first. But God will not do thus, God will not cast off his People in the time of trouble, and when our unbelieving hearts do think that God will cast us off in the time of trouble we make God an Idol, as if God would do as the Idols did, cast us off. We may in Gods Cause be brought into straights but God will never cast us off in them, when we are ready to think our selves to be utterly forsaken in straights, then God may be working the greatest good for us; we have a most notable Scripture for that in Isa. 49. 13, and 14. verses, Sing Oh Heavens, and be joyful Oh Earth, and break forth into singing Oh Mountains; for God hath comforted His People, and will have mercy upon His afflicted. But mark, Zion said, the Lord hath forsaken me. They were in a singing condition, and God calls the Heavens to sing, and the Earth to be joyful, and the Mountains to break forth into singing, because of so great a work that God was making for His People: but Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me. And so it is with particular souls, they are ready to say, the Lord hath forsaken me, but God will not do so.