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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.
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 Psal. 119. 18, 19. 3Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law. And then it follows, I am a stranger in the earth, hide not thy Commandments from me. Lord I account my self a stranger here in the world, Oh! let not thy Word be a stranger to me. I beseech you observe this; Those men and women that account themselves strangers in the world, will never account the Law of God a strange thing to them; but such men as account themselves to be the inhabitants of the world, they will have Gods Law to be a stranger to them. Observe it, and you shall find this to be a Note: When your hearts begin to close with the things of the world you do not meditate in Gods Word so much as you did before, nor delight to read it; but now, if you can keep your heart from the things of the world, to use them as if you used them not, then this will be your prayer, Lord, hide not thy Commandments from me; Oh thy Word is sweet unto me as honey and the honey comb.