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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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 eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth 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, 1651
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AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 12 › Verse 8: VER. 8.
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Then Fourthly, Carnal hearts they account outward things (Riches) to be the only substantial things. I have found 1substance; they think there is no substance in other things; you speak of Spiritual things, of Communion with God, of Faith in Jesus Christ, and of the Promises, they are but poor dry things that have no substance in them; but tell me of Gain, and Comings-in, there's some savour there, there's substance there; For indeed there's nothing gives substance unto Spiritual things but Faith, in Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, and the substance of things hoped for, Faith doth give a substance to spiritual things, a Believer looks upon spiritual things as the most substantial, and looks on these outward things as imaginary; Carnal hearts think spiritual things imaginary, and an outward estate substantial; it's quite contrary in those that are spiritual, in the 8. of Proverbs, vers. 21. saith Wisdom there, That I might cause them that 2love me to inherit *substance, to inherit that, that is; as if there were nothing had a substance but only that which comes in by Wisdom, by Grace. We call rich men, substantial men, such a man (we say) is a substantial man, for indeed all the substance that the world looks after, it is riches, they make account that's substance.
Then Fourthly, Carnal hearts they account outward things (Riches) to be the only substantial things. I have found 1substance; they think there is no substance in other things; you speak of Spiritual things, of Communion with God, of Faith in Jesus Christ, and of the Promises, they are but poor dry things that have no substance in them; but tell me of Gain, and Comings-in, there's some savour there, there's substance there; For indeed there's nothing gives substance unto Spiritual things but Faith, in Heb. 11. 1. Faith is the evidence of things not seen, and the substance of things hoped for, Faith doth give a substance to spiritual things, a Beleever looks upon spiritual things as the most substantial, and looks on these outward things as imaginary; Carnal hearts think spiritual things imaginary, and an outward estate substantial; it's quite contrary in those that are spiritual, in the 8. of Proverbs, vers. 21. saith Wisdom there, That I might cause them that