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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
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Another Note,1 It is a special means of obedience to have high thoughts of Gods Law, to convince and humble them for their disobedience: for that's the reason why the Prophet here speaks thus: I have written to him the great things of my Law, but they were accounted as a strange thing. As if he should say, If they had had the things of my Law to have been high in their thoughts, they would never have done as they have done,2 Psal. 119. 129. Thy Testimonies are wonderful, therefore doth my soul keep them: I have high thoughts of thy Testimonies, I look upon them as glorious things, I see much of thy self in thy Testimonies, and therefore doth my soul keep them. He doth not say, therefore do I keep them; but therefore doth my soul keep them, Oh my very soul is in this, in keeping thy Testimonies, for I look upon them as wonderful things. It's a good sign of the Spirit of the great God in a man when it doth raise him above other things, to look upon the things of his Word as the only great things that are in the world.3 All flesh is grass (saith the Scripture) but the Word of God endures for ever; there is a vanity in all things of the world, but in that which the Word reveals, Oh! there is an eternity there; we should therefore admire at nothing so as at the Word, and we should greatly delight in Gods Commandments, an ordinary admiration is not sufficient for the Commands of God, for the Law of God, nor an ordinary delight is not sufficient, but great admiration, and great delight there should be in the Law of God: And all things that are taken from Gods Law should be great arguments to prevail with you: It may be there comes such and such temptations to draw you to such and such evils, and you say, they are strong temptations▪ But that which is in the Law, that should be a greater argument, there is that which is greater in Gods Law than there can be in any temptation whatsoever; Therefore know, it is a dangerous thing for men and women to look at any thing in Gods Law as a little thing, so as to despise it, and to think it is no great ⟨p. 103⟩