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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 7 › And they shall reap the whirlwind.
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.
But observe out of the words,1 Just with God it is, that those that sow the wind (in all the former regards, those six particulars that were named) that they should reap the whirlwind; should be brought into trouble and vexation, miserable and unremedable distresses: you that spend your time about trifles when as God sets you in the world upon work of great consequence, it is just with God that you ⟨p. 43⟩should have horror upon your spirits hereafter,2 when God shall make you to see how you have spent that time upon which eternity depended,3 upon sowing the wind all your days: And you that spend your time in false worship and so think to put off God in your false worship, it's just with God that you should reap the whirlwind.4 And so you that spend your strength and time in formality of worship and never sanctifying the Name of God, it were just with God that horror and distress and trouble should fill your souls.5 And so you that aim at your own ends and vain glory, when as you should set up the Name of God in your ways, it's just with God that miserable horror should possess you: How many have lain upon their sickbeds and death beds and cried out, Oh I have done all in hypocrisy! and so horror of conscience hath been as a whirlwind unto their souls.6 And so carnal politicians that have left God and sought to provide for themselves and others, that by sinful courses have sought to deliver themselves out of straights, the Lord many times brings them into most dreadful straights and the worm of conscience gnawing upon them, and they have found by experience that they have reaped the whirlwind.7 And indeed we have begun of late to corrupt the Worship of God, and were carried on by wicked devilish carnal policy, How did we sow the wind? and the Lord hath now made us in great measure to reap the whirlwind. Job saith the whirlwind comes from the South; but indeed the truth is, we have had whirlwinds coming from the North and West, and may yet have whirlwinds coming from all parts of the Kingdom, For what hath the Land done of late but sown the whirlwind? Let us not wonder though God doth at this day speak unto us out of the whirlwind, as once he did to Job.