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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 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.
Fifthly, It is yet a higher wickedness to have our corruptions irritated by the Word and provoked. As they called, so they 1went away. When mens hearts grow as Lime, that the showers of the Word shall inflame them, this is a sad condition indeed; when the more clear evidence they ⟨p. 25⟩2have of the Word, the more desperate wicked they grow. We find it so in some places, when the word comes with the greatest power, this is all the effect it hath upon the hearts of men, to make them the more desperate wicked. You wonder sometimes that where the Word is preached 3with power men should grow more wicked; wonder not at it, for where the Word doth not convert sinners, it doth harden them.
Fifhly, It is yet a higher wickedness to have our corruptions irritated by the Word and provoked. As they call'd, so they 1went away. When mens hearts grow as Lime, that the showers of the Word shall inflame them, this is a sad condition indeed; when the more cleer evidence they ⟨p. 25⟩2have of the Word, the more desperate wicked they grow. We find it so in some places, when the word comes with the greatest power, this is all the effect it hath upon the hearts of men, to make them the more desperate wicked. You wonder sometimes that where the Word is preached 3with power men should grow more wicked; wonder not at it, for where the Word doth not convert sinners, it doth harden them.
- 1Obs. 5.
- 2Simile.
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