A30574:886
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.
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
- 1Use. 2.
- 2Evil times good times to die in▪
Further, In times when public evils are threatened, they ⟨p. 266⟩are good times to die in; If better not to be born in evil time, then certainly it is no great evil to die in evil times. Good men are taken away from the evil to come. As if a woman had her breast to be lanced or cut off,1 would not the tender Father take the Children out of the room in the mean time? Who knows but God may have the breast of his his Church (our Mother) even to be cut off for a time, yet may suffer heavier things than ever she hath done, and if God shall take away his tender Children that will not be able to bear such a sight as that, what great evil is it? As we read of God towards Moses, when Gods Glory was to pass by, he puts Moses into the hole of a Rock; and truly the graves of the Saints are but as the holes of the Rock till the Glory of Gods Justice passes by a people.
Further, In times when publick evils are threatned, they ⟨p. 266⟩