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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 17: VER. 17.
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.
Let all the world do what they will and forsake God and seek other comforts where they will, 1but still (saith a faithful soul) God shall be my God. Hosea he lived in wicked times, generally all the ten Tribes went away from God, but still my God, my soul shall keep close to God, I have chosen the LORD to be mine, and I have found that Soul-satisfying good in Him, that he shall be mine for ever, here will I rest for ever; I have chosen the way of Gods true Worship, I will not suit my self with the common way of Worship where I live, but I will choose God to be my God whatsoever the world doth.
Let all the world do what they will and forsake God and seek other comforts where they will, 1but still (saith a faithful soul) God shall be my God. Hosea he lived in wicked times, generally all the ten Tribes went away from God, but still my God, my soul shall keep close to God, I have chosen the LORD to be mine, and I have found that Soul-satisfying good in Him, that he shall be mine for ever, here will I rest for ever; I have chosen the way of Gods true Worship, I will not sute my self with the common way of Worship where I live, but I will chuse God to be my God whatsoever the world doth.
- 1Obs. 1.
But secondly,1 this is the comfort of a gracious heart, In ill times when others forsake God, yet one that hath a gracious heart, can have God to be his God: Yea, and especially when times of trouble comes, when sore evils are ready to be upon the people generally, yet here's the comfort of a gracious heart, My God, blessed be God for that Interest I have in Him; they may take away my House, my Estate, my Means, but they cannot take away my God, I have Interest yet in God, I have Interest still in that God that they cannot take from me. This was the comfort of Micah, in