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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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Well, you that are Apostates and think to bring a reproach upon Religion and upon the Saints, and they all suffer for you; from whence is it that the people of God are reproached, but because of Apostates? Well, do you bring a reproach upon God, upon his Name, upon Profession, upon his Saints? the Lord hath ways to turn the reproach upon your selves; and usually such men as these before they die, God doth put to open shame, he 1leaves them to such vile courses as they come to be a shame, a by-word, a scorn, and cast out as dung and filth, not only to the Churches, but from such as have any kind of civility or morality at all, Oh! take heed of bringing a reproach upon God, and so by bringing reproaches upon his Saints; Oh! let the Saints go on in a constant way of holiness and faithfulness, God will wipe away their reproach, the Lord will return the reproach upon the heads of such as seek to reproach them. And when there comes a reproach upon the wicked, it shall be another manner of reproach than upon the Saints, it's called a perpetual reproach; the reproach of 2the Saints is not a perpetual reproach, but when it's upon the ungodly, it shall be a perpetual reproach, and in Jer. 41. 18. those two things are joined together, a ⟨p. 410⟩Curse, and a Reproach, Nehem. 4. 4. Hear O God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own heads, saith Nehemiah. Sanballat, and Tobiah did reproach the Servants of God, that did seek in the uprightness of their hearts to honour God; but Lord, return their reproach upon themselves, saith Nehemiah.
Well, you that are Apostates and think to bring a reproach upon Religion and upon the Saints, and they all suffer for you; from whence is it that the people of God are reproach'd, but because of Apostates? Well, do you bring a reproach upon God, upon his Name, upon Profession, upon his Saints? the Lord hath waies to turn the reproach upon your selves; and usually such men as these before they die, God doth put to open shame, he 1