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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 9: VER. 9.
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Let us consider our selves, that if all Gods merciful 1dealings towards us were to begin again, if we were to go through all those straits, and fears, and sorrows that we have passed through, our hearts would shake within us: as a Mariner that hath past through dangerous Seas, Oh he thinks if I were to pass over these again, it would be hard and grievous: Now let us consider of this, if God should but put us into the same condition ⟨p. 338⟩that we were in seven years ago, and say, you shall pass through all those straights that you have been in▪ and you shall come into the same condition that you have been in, it would be very sad to us to think of, it would make our hearts quake to think of it; I verily believe there's scarce any of you who have been any way observant of the providence of God towards you, but would be very loth to venture all again, would be loth that God should be to go over with you in all those providences; and yet God is the same God still, and may do it, yea, but flesh and blood would shake at it; now do not show your selves so unworthy of Gods gracious dealings with you, as to put him to it to bring you into straits again, to renew what he hath done unto you. Thus he.
Let us consider our selves, that if all Gods merciful 1dealings towards us were to begin again, if we were to go through all those straits, and fears, and sorrows that we have passed through, our hearts would shake within us: as a Marriner that hath past through dangerous Seas, Oh he thinks if I were to pass over these again, it would be hard and grievous: Now let us consider of this, if God should but put us into the same condition ⟨p. 338⟩that we were in seven yeers ago, and say, you shall pass through all those straights that you have been in▪ and you shall come into the same condition that you have been in, it would be very sad to us to think of, it would make our hearts quake to think of it; I verily beleeve there's scarce any of you who have been any way observant of the providence of God towards you, but would be very loth to venture all again, would be loth that God should be to go over with you in all those providences; and yet God is the same God still, and may do it, yea, but flesh and blood would shake at it; now do not show your selves so unworthy of Gods gracious dealings with you, as to put him to it to bring you into straits again, to renew what he hath done unto you. Thus he.