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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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Fifthly, When one hath sinned against God, then his spirit and holy duties comes to be very unsuitable, they are harder 1than they were before, it's a more difficult thing to get his heart to any holy duty than before, and so comes to neglect Duties, and by neglecting them his Corruption grows, they were a means to restrain Corruption very much; for when a man is abroad and takes liberty, yet when he thinks thus, yea, but I must pray before I go to bed, I must go to prayer, and how shall I beg Grace from God another time, when as I wilfully sin against him? this curbs a man: so long as he can keep any kind of suitableness between his heart and holy duties, though he should fail in some kind of things, he would quickly recover; but when he begins to have holy duties so vailed as he leaves off holy duties, then he will sin more and more, for the curb is taken off.
Fifthly, When one hath sin'd against God, then his spirit and holy duties comes to be very unsutable, they are harder 1than they were before, it's a more difficult thing to get his heart to any holy duty than before, and so comes to neglect Duties, and by neglecting them his Corruption grows, they were a means to restrain Corruption verie much; for when a man is abroad and takes liberty, yet when he thinks thus, yea, but I must pray before I go to bed, I must go to prayer, and how shall I beg Grace from God another time, when as I wilfully sin against him? this curbs a man: so long as he can keep any kind of sutableness between his heart and holy duties, though he should fail in some kind of things, he would quickly recover; but when he begins to have holy duties so vail'd as he leaves off holy duties, then he will sin more and more, for the curb is taken off.
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Yea Sixthly, The presence of God is terrible to an Apostate, he cannot think of God without some terror; before he