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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 13: VER. 13.
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.
So that from hence we may see,1 That at the very time when God is departing from a Kingdom, or a particular man or woman, they may be in the greatest prosperity that ever they were in all their lives: When thou art nearest eternal misery thou mayest be in the highest degree of outward prosperity that ever thou wast in all thy life.2 Physicians say that the uttermost degree of health in the body, is next unto sickness. It's true here, that the highest degree of outward prosperity, it's but the forerunner of ruin; Oh! let us learn never to trust in our prosperity,3 but always to walk with fear and trembling before the Lord,4 never let us think that we are safe and well because we have outward things at our wills, we may have them at our wills and yet that very night the word may come, This night shall thy soul be taken away, as you know it was with the rich man in the Gospel, when he had his barns full and was in consultation what to do, yet now shall thy soul be taken from thee. And Nebuchadnezzar at that very time when he was glorying in his Magnificent Palace that he had made, now the word comes out against him.
So that from hence we may see,1 That at the very time when God is departing from a Kingdom, or a particular man or woman, they may be in the greatest prosperity that ever they were in all their lives: When thou art neerest eternal misery thou maiest be in the highest degree of outward prosperity that ever thou wast in all thy life.2 Physitians say that the uttermst degree of health in the body, is next unto sickness. It's true here, that the highest degree of outward prosperity, it's but the forerunner of ruine; Oh! let us learn never to trust in our prosperity,3 but alwaies to walk with fear and trembling before the Lord,