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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.
They were to profess this to God, That they had not eaten thereof in their mourning; this was to show, that sacrifices offered with a sinking heart in sorrow, is not pleasing to God,1 God loves a cheerful giver. We must not pine away in our iniquities, sullenness and dumpishness even in sorrow for sin it sours our spirits and services, and makes them unacceptable to God; (I say) a sullen, dumpishness of spirit, though it be in sorrow for sin, it sours our spirits and makes our services unacceptable to God. There is a groaning and a sighing one to another▪ or rather, against one another: that is condemned in Scripture in Jam. 5. 9. 2the words in your books are thus, Grudge nor one against another, but in the Original, Sigh not, or groan not one against another; you shall have many that in company with others have a pensive dumpish spirit, sighing and groaning,3 and making their society to be burdensome to others. Saith the holy Ghost, do not sigh and groan one unto another, there is a sullen dumpish sighing of spirit and dejection of soul that is as unpleasing to God as it is unto men, it pollutes the heart, and pollutes duty.
They were to profess this to God, That they had not eaten thereof in their mourning; this was to shew, that sacrifices offered with a sinking heart in sorrow, is not pleasing to God,1 God loves a cheerful giver. We must not pine away in our iniquities, sullenness and dumpishness even in sorrow for sin it sowres our spirits and services, and makes them unacceptable to God; (I say) a sullen, dumpishness of spirit, though it be in sorrow for sin, it sowres our spirits and makes our services unacceptable to God. There is a groaning and a sighing one to another▪ or rather, against one another: that is condemn'd in Scripture in Jam. 5. 9.