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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
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 9 › Verse 1 › You will say, How can this be?
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my sin that hath broken through so many terrors of conscience, and that God hath sought by such means to keep me from my sin, it is a sign of the violence of my spirit indeed that hath broken through so much as I have done: it is therefore an abominable thing to make our profession in holy Duties a Medium to make our sins less, Doest thou think that this is a means to make thee escape that wrath? Certainly this is a great aggravation of thy sins.
We have a generation of men among us,1 that because they are Believers, therefore they need no sorrow for their sin, they must have only joy. Now certainly thy being a Believer may aggravate thy sin so much the more,2 and may make it so much the more vile, and may pierce thy heart so much the more; for if thou beest a Believer thou knowest what the pardon of thy sins cost; therefore, certainly Gods mercies towards thee are the aggravation of thy sins: The truth is, suppose our sins were not so great as the sins ⟨p. 152⟩of some other people are, yet it is not always an argument that we may rejoice as other people.
We have a generation of men among us,1 that because they are Beleevers, therefore they need no sorrow for their sin, they must have only joy. Now certainly thy being a Beleever may aggravate thy sin so much the more,2 and may make it so much the more vile, and may pierce thy heart so much the more; for if thou beest a Beleever thou knowest what the pardon of thy sins cost; therefore, certainly Gods mercies towards thee are the aggravation of thy sins: The truth is, suppose our sins were not so great as the sins ⟨p. 152⟩