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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 13 › Verse 1: VER. 1.
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And then Thirdly, If men when they have been helped to 1go on through difficulties, yet if they shall afterwards rest in their parts, rest in their strength so as to forsake God, and sin against him, it's just with God to leave them that they shall vanish and come to nothing: He did exalt himself and prevailed in what he spake, notwithstanding the trembling of the People, for having got himself warm in the nest, and strong in his Kingdom, then he lifts up himself in another manner, and forsakes God, and trusts in his own strength, And now he dies, now God casts him off.
And then Thirdly, If men when they have been helped to 1go on through difficulties, yet if they shal afterwards rest in their parts, rest in their strength so as to forsake God, and sin against him, it's just with God to leave them that they shall vanish and come to nothing: He did exalt himself and prevailed in what he spake, notwithstanding the trembling of the People, for having got himself warm in the nest, and strong in his Kingdom, then he lifts up himself in another manner, and forsakes God, and trusts in his own strength, And now he dies, now God casts him off.
- 1Obs. 3.
Men had need take heed, though they be carried through 1many and great difficulties, and by a Spirit more than ordinary, they had need take heed (I say) that afterwards they do not walk in their own strength, but walk humbly before God; If they forsake God, they will die and perish. That's the First thing that Jeroboam spake.
Men had need take heed, though they be carried thorow 1