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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
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 there is another burden that we are not sensible enough of, and that is the captivity of our Brethren in the remote parts of this Land. Oh! how little sensible are we of it because we feel it not our selves?
The fourth Note from hence is this,1 That it's Gods mercy when we are running on to our utter ruin, not to suffer us to plunge our selves irrecoverably into misery, but to bring lesser evils upon us that by them we may come to bethink our selves, and if it be possible to prevent greater. You shall sorrow a little, I will not undo you presently; but return to me, or else you are utterly ⟨p. 68⟩undone, but this is my Mercy, I will bring afflictions upon you by piece-meal,2 and if you do not return to me, then you shall be utterly lost; for so this people were, they were carried away captive and never returned to this very day. Oh! doth God come to you in your family, or person, or estate? Oh! let us consider of this.
The fourth Note from hence is this,1 That it's Gods mercy when we are running on to our utter ruin, not to suffer us to plung our selves irrecoverably into misery, but to bring lesser evils upon us that by them we may come to bethink our selves, and if it be possible to prevent greater. You shall sorrow a little, I will not undo you presently; but return to me, or else you are utterly ⟨p. 68⟩undone, but this is my Mercy, I wil bring afflictions upon you by piece-meal,2 and if you do not return to me, then you shall be utterly lost; for so this people were, they were carried away captive and never returned to this very day. Oh! doth God come to you in your family, or person, or estate? Oh! let us consider of this.