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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.
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.
Oh! how may God upbraid us with this thing, that 1not twice, but twenty, yea, an hundred times God hath appeared to us, we have had even the Visions of the Almighty, some of you at least; May not your Consciences tell you, that at such and such a time you have had the Visions of the Almighty, and yet you have stood out against them, yea, and at another time, and another time? Oh my brethren, the multiplying of Visions is a great aggravation of our sin in standing out: It was the comfort of Paul at his Conversion, in Act. 26. 19. saith he, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly Vision. Oh how happy were it for you if upon the first vision your hearts would come in! Oh that you could but say so! Though it's true, I lived at such a time, in such a place in ignorance and darkness, I knew little of God, but the first time I came to hear the Word, wherein the Mysteries of the Gospel were revealed, I bless God my heart came off then; so the Apostle he blesses God for the effect that the Word had upon the Thessalonians from the first day, even until that time. I multiplied visions. And then it follows; ⟨p. 349⟩I used Similitudes.
Oh! how may God upbraid us with this thing, that 1not twice, but twenty, yea, an hundred times God hath appeared to us, we have had even the Visions of the Almighty, some of you at least; May not your Consciences tell you, that at such and such a time you have had the Visions of the Almighty, and yet you have stood out against them, yea, and at another time, and another time? Oh my brethren, the multiplying of Visions is a great aggravation of our sin in standing out: It was the comfort of Paul at his Conversion, in Act. 26. 19. saith he, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly Vision. Oh how happie were it for you if upon the first vision your hearts would come in! Oh that you could but say so! Though it's true, I lived at such a time, in such a place in ignorance and darkness, I knew little of God, but the first time I came to hear the Word, wherein the Mysteries of the Gospel were reveal'd, I bless God my heart came off then; so the Aposile he blesses God for the effect that the Word had upon the Thessalonians from the first day, even until that time. I multiplied visions. And then it follows;