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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.
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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 ⟨p. 200⟩people to drink in these things, and those who, otherwise were accounted Godly and of great use in the house of their God are now become even hatred in the house of their God, the Devil hath so prevailed to bespatter and asperse them with such stories about them and reports of them as even these men that were the most faithful with their God,1 yet now are looked upon as the troublers of the times, and as snares to people, and are even hatred in the house of their God, even by many people that otherwise have good affections: no way doth the Devil drive on his own designs more efficaciously than by this, Then by making the most painful,2 faithful, zealous Ministers of God to become even hatred in the house of their God, even among good people that are professors of Godliness. Thus Jer. 18. 22. They have digged a pit to take me, and laid snares for my feet. Isa. 29. 21. They lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate.
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 honor 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 politick subtil men, who have cunning plots and reaches to set up their own way, that they are as bad as Jesuites, and such kind of Aspersions as these are the Devil casts upon them, and gets many good