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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.
The sense of things is to be resolved in the Scripture its self, and therefore we must keep our selves very close to what is written.
Written: It was not so at first, it was delivered but from hand to hand,1 but afterwards when the Church began to multiply, then the Word was written. And this is a mighty blessing of God, that we may have the mind of God written, so as we may look into it, and search to know the mind of God, by reading it over and over again, and taking it into our hands, when we are lying upon our beds, if we light a Candle in the night, we may be reading and looking into the mind of God; If we should only hear of such a Book that were in the world, that were in China in the uttermost parts of the habitable world, if we should hear that there were such a Book, that God had written, or that God had used men to write by an inspiration of His own Spirit, a Book that was certainly indited by the holy Ghost every word of it, wherein the Lord had revealed the great Counsels of his Will concerning Mans eternal estate, if we should hear that there came such a Book down even from Heaven, and this was in the uttermost parts of the earth, Oh! what a longing desire should we have to ⟨p. 89⟩see that Book? What man or woman but would give their whole estate to have a week, or a fortnights time to see and read in such a Book as that is; if one could, he would be willing to travel to the end of the world to have the use of such a Book as that is. No man need say, Shall I go to the u•••rmost parts of the earth? for it is in your hands, it is in your houses, there is the Book wherein the great God hath written his mind, hath written all things unto you which concerns you Eternal Salvation, hath written there whatsoever he would have you to know and believe to Eternal Life; this it is that you have in your hands: however we prize it now, heretofore it hath been prized at an high rate; How many of the Martyrs would venture their lives to keep but a few Leaves of Scripture in their houses? But how vile is it then for us to neglect the reading of this written Word?