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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 10: VER. 10.
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The Word doth little good till men come to apprehend 1this, That it's God that speaks by his Messengers, 1 Thess. 2. 13. the Apostle saith, That they received the Word, not as the word of Men, but (as it is in truth) the Word of God. That is observable of Samuel, God called to Samuel, and Samuel thought it had been Eli that spake, and all that time God would not reveal his mind to him, till at length Samuel gives this answer, Lord, speak, for thy servant heareth. Mark, God would reveal his mind to Samuel then, and not before: So 'tis here, You come to the Word, and you come to hear the gifts of such men, and such a man hath 2excellent gifts, and abilities, and delivery, and such kind of things; God reveals nothing to you, you go away and hear a sound, and there's all, and no more is revealed to you than if you heard an Oration in a School; but when God shall be pleased to dart this thought into your minds, I am now going to hear that which is the Word of God Himself, the Word of that God that is my 3Judg, and that must be my Judg at the great day; now see whether God will not make himself known to you, that so you shall say, Methinks I never heard Sermon before in all my life, I have come and heard a Man preach, but I never heard God preach before, It was not as the Word of God, but as the word of such a man. God expects that men should tremble at his Word, and therefore look upon it as his Word.
The Word doth little good til men come to apprehend 1this, That it's God that speaks by his Messengers, 1 Thess. 2. 13. the Apostle saith, That they received the Word, not as the word of Men, but (as it is in truth) the Word of God. That is observable of Samuel, God called to Samuel, and Samuel thought it had been Eli that spake, and all that time God would not reveal his mind to him, til at length Samuel gives this answer, Lord, speak, for thy servant heareth. Mark, God would reveal his mind to Samuel then, and not before: So 'tis here, You come to the Word, and you come to hear the gifts of such men, and such a man hath