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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 14: VER. 14.
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I would to God that sometimes we could not say that the third part of prayer were not bitter; bitterness in prayer, in writing, in speaking, in conferring one with another; Do not you think that this provokes God bitterly? yea, even those men that were wont to sweeten one another's spirits, and there was a sweetness came upon one another's spirits in their prayers, and yet 1now what do they do but embitter one another's spirits, so that they cannot meet together now, but they come with bitter spirits, one embittering the other, as if there were nothing but Gall and Wormwood among us? Let me apply that Scripture in Jam. 3 11. Doth a Fountain send forth, at the same place, sweet water, and bitter? What, those that were of such sweet natures and dispositions, and by grace much more sweet, and now nothing but bitterness come out of such Fountains! one would wonder to see mens natures so changed besides the work of grace: Oh! shall out of the same Fountain come forth sweet water, and bitter? It follows; Therefore shall be leave his blood upon him.
I would to God that sometimes we could not say that the third part of prayer were not bitter; bitterness in prayer, in writing, in speaking, in conferring one with another; Do not you think that this provokes God bitterly? yea, even those men that were wont to sweeten one anothers spirits, and there was a sweetness came upon one anothers spirits in their prayers, and yet 1now what do they do but imbitter one anothers spirits, so that they cannot meet together now, but they come with bitter spirits, one imbittering the other, as if there were nothing but Gall and Wormwood among us? Let me apply that Scripture in Jam. 3 11. Doth a Fountain send forth, at the same place, sweet water, and bitter? What, those that were of such sweet natures and dispositions, and by grace much more sweet, and now nothing but bitterness come out of such Fountains! one would wonder to see mens natures so changed besides the work of grace: Oh! shall out of the same Fountain come forth sweet water, and bitter? It follows; Therefore shall be leave his blood upon him.
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