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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.
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 when he heard of any danger that they were in, or any sad thing fallen out, Come (saith he) let us sing the 46. Psalm, And mark the confidence of the Saints) We will not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof; though the heathen ⟨p. 250⟩rage, and the Kingdoms be removed, yet all shall not trouble us. Why, what's the ground? The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. And it's twice repeated in the same words in the Psalm, God is not gone, God is not departed, therefore no great matter what men can do unto us: But if one be in misery and have God departed, Oh! how dreadful is that condition! It was a dreadful speech of Saul, 3in 1 Sam. 28. 15. I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me. Oh! when the Philistines make war upon a people, when there is enemies at our gates, and then our consciences shall tell us, that God is departed from us, this is a sad condition: It was a woeful speech of Saul; God is now departed when I have most need of him: Woe to them then. For,
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