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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 13 › Verse 2: VER. 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.
First, When one doth apostatise and sin against God, 1if it be any sin against knowledge, though never so little, For sin of mere infirmity I cannot call Apostasy, but if it be ever so little against knowledge, this breaks the bond of obedience; when I will venture to do that which I know is against God, this bond of obedience being broken, no marvel though you fall and sin more and more.
First, When one doth apostatise and sin against God, 1if it be any sin against knowledge, though never so little, For sin of meer infirmity I cannot call Apostasie, but if it be ever so little against knowledge, this breaks the bond of obedience; when I wil venture to do that which I know is against God, this bond of obedience being broken, no marvel though you fall and sin more and more.
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Secondly, Every act of sin hath such a nature in it, as to increase the habits: Corruption doth grow by acting. As 1it is with Grace, every act of Grace doth extend Grace in the heart of a man; the way to grow in Grace is, to act ⟨p. 433⟩Grace much, so that when you are acting of your Grace, you do not only that that is your duty, but you are growing in Grace, for when you are acting of Corruption, you are not only doing that that is evil, but you are increasing it, and therefore every sin that causes us to decline from God, makes us to go more and more from God.
Secondly, Every act of sin hath such a nature in it, as to encrease the habits: Corruption doth grow by acting. As