A30574:407
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.
Thirdly,1 They accounted them a strange thing; that is, There was no suitableness between their hearts and the things that the Law did reveal unto them; they did not make the Law of God familiar to them as that which had a suitableness to their spirits. As if a man that goes into strange company, company which are altogether unsuitable to him,2 yea, perhaps they speak another language, and have altogether other customs, and diet than we have, we are weary of them, and we turn from them and are tired in the society, for they are strange things unto us that our hearts are not suitable unto: So when the Law of God is looked upon as unsuitable to the dispositions of our hearts, to our ends, to our ways, our hearts turn from those things as from strange things, whereas indeed our hearts should be familiar with the Word of God, Gods Word and the things therein should not be as strange things to our souls, but as the holy Ghost saith, it should be as our Kinswoman, and as our Delight continually, 3Prov. 6. 21. Bind them continually about thy heart, and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest it shall lead thee, when thou sleepest it shall keep thee, and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee; there should be a familiarity between our hearts and the Commandments of God, to talk with us when we awake, and when we are in ⟨p. 108⟩our journey, we should take the Law of God as our companion in our journeys, we should awake with it in the night time, and meditate on it day and night; therefore God would have his people in the Law when they rose, to talk of those things; when they go to bed, when they rose up, when they walked in the way, they should be conferring about the things of Gods Law to make them familiar to them, that they might not be estranged from them; God sees that mens hearts would quickly grow strange from his Law, therefore Commanded that by all such means and ways they should endeavour to make the Law to be familiar to them.
Thirdly,1