A30574:884
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.
That's true indeed,1 If your children were saved, what hurt is that to be taken away here and received to Heaven, and there to live for ever with Christ, not to sin, or sorrow more: but howsoever you may satisfy your selves in these three things.
That's true indeed,1 If your children were saved, what hurt is that to be taken away here and received to Heaven, and there to live for ever with Christ, not to sin, or sorrow more: but howsoever you may satisfie your selves in these three things.
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First, That they are under an indefinite promise, though not an universal.
Secondly, Suppose he should not be saved, then it were better that he should be taken away than to live to sin more against God, he might have lived to have done a great deal of mischief in the world if he were one that God did not intend to save, and therefore quiet thy self; However God sees further than thou doest, either when he denies the• Children,1 or takes them away in such times as these are.2
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