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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 2: VER. 2.
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Fourthly, When a man hath once fallen off from God in any 1degree, according to the degree he doth lose his comfort that he had in God; for some kind of comforts Hypocrites may have; as there may be Common gifts of the Spirit to enable them to do service, so there may be Common Gifts of the Spirit to comfort them; they may taste of the Powers 2of the world to come, many have some flashes of joy; but when they are departed from God then they cannot have so much comfort as they were wont to have, and when they have not the comfort they were went to have, they must have it some way, and they are fain to go sharking up and down to get it some where else; I ⟨p. 434⟩cannot have that comfort in God as I was wont to have, I was wont when I was troubled, to go & read the Word, I could find comfort there, let me go into good Company I could find comfort there, let me go into the presence of God I could find comfort there, but now I cannot, and so the heart must have comfort some way or other, and therefore goes more and more from God.
Fourthly, When a man hath once fallen off from God in any 1degree, according to the degree he doth lose his comfort that he had in God; for some kind of comforts Hypocrites may have; as there may be Common gifts of the Spirit to enable them to do service, so there may be Common Gifts of the Spirit to comfort them; they may tast of the Powers 2of the world to come, many have some flashes of joy; but when they are departed from God then they cannot have so much comfort as they were wont to have, and when they have not the comfort they were went to have, they must have it some way, and they are fain to go sharking up and down to get it some where else; I ⟨p. 434⟩cannot have that comfort in God as I was wont to have, I was wont when I was troubled, to go & read the Word, I could find comfort there, let me go into good Company I could find comfort there, let me go into the presence of God I could find comfort there, but now I cannot, and so the heart must have comfort some way or other, and therefore goes more and more from God.