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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.
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 ⟨p. 291⟩Chap. 7. there he described the evil of the times wherein he lived,2 Verse 2. The good man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men, they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. And then in the 4. vers. The best of them is a briar, the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge. And then the 5. vers. Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. But then in the 7. verse, Therefore I will look unto the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Oh my brethren! there may come times ere long that the knowledge of God, interest in God may be worth ten thousand thousand worlds unto us.
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 ⟨p. 291⟩Chap. 7. there he described the evil of the times wherein he lived,2