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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 8 › And with my God.
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.
Those who have interest in God they rejoice when they see faithful Ministers of God keep close to God,1 to set up God in all their ways, when they see them not to be set upon their own designs, not to warp this way or that way, but to make it to be their bent and aim to set up God, and to bring men to the knowledge of God, Oh! they rejoice in this. So the Prophet speaks with a joy, (if it be spoken of the true Watchmen) Oh! blessed be God that yet notwithstanding all the defection of the times and corruptions that there were, yet that there were Watch-men among Ephraim that were faithful with God, Oh they had no other designs but to set up God, and were willing to deny themselves in any thing so be it they might bring souls to God, thus the Prophet rejoices.
Those who have interest in God they rejoyce when they see faithful Ministers of God keep close to God,1 to set up God in all their waies, when they see them not to be set upon their own designs, not to warp this way or that way, but to make it to be their bent and aim to set up God, and to bring men to the knowledg of God, Oh! they rejoyce in this. So the Prophet speakes with a joy, (if it be spoken of the true Watchmen) Oh! blessed be God that yet notwithstanding all the defection of the times and corruptions that there were, yet that there were Watch-men among Ephraim that were faithful with God, Oh they had no other designs but to set up God, and were willing to deny themselves in any thing so be it they might bring souls to God, thus the Prophet rejoyces.
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And certainly it's a great deal of joy for the Saints to see Ministers of God to have clean spirits this way, to have no designs of their own, but to set up the honour of God among people. But even these Prophets as faithful as they were, yet they were accounted no other than a snare of a Fowler, and are even hatred in the house of their God, they are accused of being politic subtle men, who have cunning plots and reaches to set up their own way, that they are as bad as Jesuits, and such kind of Aspersions as these are the Devil casts upon them, and gets many good