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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.
Again, The things are great things in Gods Law, in regard of the great power and efficacy that they have upon the hearts and consciences of men; when God sets home the things of his Law they will bring down the proudest heart and the stoutest stomach that is, they will enlighten the blindest mind, and convert the hardest heart that is in the world, the Law hath a mighty power upon the soul, and therefore it is great.
Further, They are great things, because they make all those great that do receive them; they make them great even because they have but the keeping of them▪ much more than if they receive them; in Deut. 4. 8. What Nation is there so great, that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous as all this Law that I set before you this day? 1What Nation so great as you are? why, wherein are we greater than other people? Wherein? In this: What Nation is so great that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day? This was that which made the People of Israel a great Nation beyond all the Nations in the world; they ⟨p. 99⟩were not great in multitude, but in that they had the Law of God, and the great things of his Law revealed to them, in this they became a great Nation. The Lord honours a Nation highly but to reveal the things, of His Law to them; But how great then doth a soul come to be, that doth embrace those things, that hath all those great and good things revealed in the Law made to it as its own privilege? Surely that soul is in an high and honourable condition indeed.
Further, They are great things, because they make all those great that do receive them; they make them great even because they have but the keeping of them▪ much more than if they receive them; in