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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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Fourthly, It is a great mercy for God to declare his mind to 1men again and again; I have multiplied visions, saith God: It were a mercy for God but once to tell us of his mind, and if we will not come in at first, for ever to cast us off; but I have multiplied visions, in Jer. 18. At what instant I shall speak &c. God may justly expect that at what instant Christ is preached, that people should come in, for indeed their Commission seems to run very quick, Go, and teach all Nations: he that believes, shall be saved; he that believeth not, shall be damned. As if Christ should say, ⟨p. 348⟩There shall be quick work made with men; but yet the Lord is gracious to men, to multiply visions one after another, to reveal his mind at one time, and at another time, the Lord is long-suffering: though our hearts be not moved at one time, yet still he would try, and he would have his Ministers to do so too, 2 Tim. 2. 25. Instruct with meekness those that oppose themselves, if God per adventure will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth. It was a great aggravation of Solomons sin, that he departed from God, after the Lord had appeared to him twice, 1 King. 11. 9. Oh! God took this ill, I have appeared twice to him, and yet he departed from me.
Fourthly, It is a great mercy for God to declare his mind to 1men again and again; I have multiplied visions, saith God: It were a mercie for God but once to tell us of his mind, and if we will not come in at first, for ever to cast us off; but I have multiplied visions, in Jer. 18. At what instant I shall speak &c. God may justly expect that at what instant Christ is preached, that people should come in, for indeed their Commission seems to run very quick, Go, and teach all Nations: he that beleeves, shall be saved; he that beleeveth not, shall be damned. As if Christ should say,