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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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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 2say, That he will not show mercy, it's more than thou, or any Angel in Heaven can say, & therefore, O wretched sinful guilty Consciences, and especially you that have been Apostates, that have forsaken God and his Truths, yet return, return, O return thou Shulamite, thou mayest possibly 3find God as merciful to thee as ever he was, there's hope of mercy for thee still, and if thou doest perish eternally it will rather be for some sin to come, than for any past; If God let thee live, if God let thee live to night, I say, thou wilt rather perish for the sins committed this moment, 4than for all the sins committed in all thy life time before.
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 wil never shew 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 shew mercy; it is a proud, sullen, desperate spirit of thine to make such conclusions; thou maiest indeed, and thou oughtest to say, It were just with God not to shew mercie, the Lord might justly cast me out of his sight, but to 2say, That he will not shew mercie, it's more than thou, or any Angel in Heaven can say, & therfore, O wretched sinful guilty Consciences, and especially you that have been Apostats, that have forsaken God and his Truths, yet return, return, O return thou Shulamite, thou maiest possibly