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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Of the PROPHESY of HOSEA. › Chapter 11 › Verse 2: VERS. 2.
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.
They went from them: that is, Turned their backs upon them; like stubborn Children and Servants when they are called they will not hear, but turn their backs upon you; so did they to Moses From whence observe;
They went from them: that is, Turned their backs upon them; like stuborn Children and Servants when they are called they will not hear, but turn their backs upon you; so did they to Moses From whence observe;
First, It is a mercy of God, to have Gods Ministers calling 1us to obedience. Who are we that God should send his Messengers after us? What need hath God of us? Suppose we go on in the ways of death and perish, what shall God lose by it? But this is Gods mercy, that he will call after us; God may say, If you will go, go on and perish everlastingly: Oh! but he doth not so.
First, It is a mercy of God, to have Gods Ministers calling 1us to obedience. Who are we that God should send his Messengers after us? What need hath God of us? Suppose we go on in the waies of death and perish, what shal God lose by it? But this is Gods mercy, that he will cal after us; God may say, If you will go, go on and perish everlastingly: Oh! but he doth not so.
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Secondly, When God hath called us out of affliction, it is 1a great addition of mercy to call us out of sin unto duty; and we should account one as great as another. We think it a great mercy if the Lord will call us out of an affliction; but when God calls us out of a misery, and calls us to a duty, Do you think that that's as great a mercy? That's a sign of a sanctified heart indeed. You are in sickness and under great extremity; if God should say, I will give out my Word to deliver you, that would be a sweet word you would say. I but when God gives out his Word to call thee out of thy sin to a duty, thou shouldest as joyfully take an hint of that Word of God too; Oh! do you prize Gods call unto you from sin to duty, as much as from misery to prosperity.