A30575:1317
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 6: VER. 6.
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.
But can we say, that according to our green Pastures that God leads us in, so are we filled? Oh! we live in green Pastures, and yet are empty. Here we see that men regard their bodies, regard the sensual pleasures of the flesh abundantly more than spiritual, as if there were a greater good in sensual delights, than there is in all spiritual comforts.
According to their Pastures they were filled, they were filled; twice we have filled, filled.
A little will serve the turn in Spiritual things for men, but they will fill, and fill up again themselves in 1sensual things.
- 1Note.
It notes the greediness of their spirits in falling upon those Contentments they had to the flesh. When they came into a fertile Land they were filled, they were filled; such is the nature of men that are carnal, to fall with greediness upon contentments to the flesh, and to think on nothing but filling themselves, filling, filling, in