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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 5: VER. 5.
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, They know what to do, they can sanctify God Name in his righteous judgments, they can see mercy and the love of a Father in the sorest and heaviest afflictions that do befall them.
Thirdly, They know what to do, they can sanctifie God Name in his righteous judgments, they can see mercy and the love of a Father in the sorest and heaviest afflictions that do befall them.
Fourthly, They know what to do; they can ease their souls by pouring them forth into the bosom of a gracious and reconciled Father.
Fourthly, They know what to do; they can ease their souls by powring them forth into the bosom of a gracious and reconciled Father.
Fifthly, They know what to do; they can see beyond all these present evils, they can see Immortality and Glory, they can see that on the other side a little beyond these troubles and afflictions,1 there is an everlasting joy and day of peace coming to them. A Job can tell what to do, he can profess that though God kill him he would trust in him. A David can tell what to do,2 In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy consolations refresh my soul. A Habakkuk can tell what to do,3 Although the fig-tree should not blossom, nor fruit be in the vines, the labour of the Olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat, the flocks shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no heard in the stalls: yet will I rejoice in the Lord; yet will I joy in the God of my salvation: Thus you see the Saints they know what to do in such a day; and this is the excellency of grace, that it can never be put so to it, in any strait, but it can tell what to do; as David said to Achish in 2 Sam. 28. 2. Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. So the Saints in time of common distresses they should set their graces so on work that all may see what their faith, and humility, and patience can do, that they may be able to say, well, you shall see now what the Servant of the Lord can do: If one should say to one that hath made profession of Godliness,