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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.
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.
And Gods Ministers when they have to deal with sinners, though very wicked, yet to give them some line of 1hope to catch at; though they be even drowned in their Covetousness in the world, and in their guiltiness, yet to cast a line of hope; there is nothing revealed to the ⟨p. 340⟩contrary but there may yet be possibility for thy soul at length to be saved. Oh! let men take heed of dispa[…]g, determining conclusions against themselves.
And Gods Ministers when they have to deal with sinners, though very wicked, yet to give them some line of 1hope to catch at; though they be even drown'd in their Covetousness in the world, and in their guiltiness, yet to cast a line of hope; there is nothing reveal'd to the ⟨p. 340⟩contrary but there may yet be possibility for thy sonl at length to be saved. Oh! let men take heed of dispa〈…〉g, determining conclusions against themselves.
- 1Ministers duty.
It's not the greatness of any sin that can be ground enough for a desperate determining conclusion; for any man or woman 1to say, God will never show mercy, I say, there's no greatness of sin, there's no circumstances to aggravate, that can be ground enough for thee to say, God will never show mercy; it is a proud, sullen, desperate spirit of thine to make such conclusions; thou mayest indeed, and thou oughtest to say, It were just with God not to show mercy, the Lord might justly cast me out of his sight, but to