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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.
And so it is with a Kingdom. When God pleases to depart from a Kingdom, he doth then take away Wisdom from the Wise, he gives them up to their own Counsels, to perverse Counsels, he blinds them that they cannot foresee their danger, nor see means to help them, but they shall take ways as if they intended to destroy themselves. If God do but leave them, whatsoever their wisdom was before, all their endeavours they shall be blasted and come to nothing, & in this it is we should sanctify Gods Name, and acknowledge it, acknowledge our immediate dependence upon God for all our outward good we enjoy, whatsoever second causes we have to help our selves.
And so it is with a Kingdom. When God pleases to depart from a Kingdom, he doth then take away Wisdome from the Wise, he gives them up to their own Counsels, to perverse Counsels, he blinds them that they cannot forsee their danger, nor see means to help them, but they shall take waies as if they intended to destroy themselves. If God do but leave them, whatsoever their wisdom was before, all their endeavors they shall be blasted and come to nothing, & in this it is we should sanctifie Gods Name, and acknowledge it, acknowledge our immediate dependance upon God for all our outward good we enjoy, whatsoever second causes we have to help our selves.
Wicked men will not take notice of him in their Comforts, they cry out of this and the other cause of their evil, but it's Gods departing from them, that is the great thing they should take to heart. Particular evils must not be taken so much to heart as this of Gods departing: Whatsoever our condition be, yet if God be not departing we are well enough, though in the fire, though in the water, I will be with thee saith the Lord. Mark the ground of the confidence of the Saints in the time of affliction: in Psalm. 46. (Luther's Psalm it's called,1 that is, a Psalm that Luther was wont to call to his friends to sing,2