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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.
Eighthly,1 It comes to have a slight esteem of what before they thought had great weight in it; there was a time when such & such things were thought to have very great weight in them, but now they are nothing, they are of another judgment:2 Just as when a man is estranged from his friend; he thought before he had a great deal of excellency in him, but now he esteems him not; and this is the argument of the estrangement of his heart from him.
- 18. Former weighty arguments now weak.
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Lastly,1 If men take not heed when they are by these degrees grown to be estranged from the Truth, they will at length violently reject the Truths of the Word, they will grow to be open enemies to the Truth: Men that have bin familiar with Gods Word, and Truth, and made profession of them, and seemed to love them most, by several degrees they have grown to be strangers from them, and at length to be enemies to them. Apostates have proved to be ⟨p. 113⟩the most desperate enemies to the truths of God of any in the world; take heed therefore of the strangeness of your hearts from the Truths of God lest you afterwards prove to be an enemy to God; it's an evil thing to account the Law of God a strange thing, but much more to account it an enemy to us,2 and our hearts to be an enemy to it. Isa. 5. 24. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust? why? because they have cast away the Law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the Word of the holy One of Israel. Oh! let us for ever take heed of this, and therefore let our prayer be that of the Prophet David in