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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 6: VER. 6.
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Oh my brethren, our hearts should be filled with these thoughts in our fullness; But it is with most as we read in Isa. 56. 12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch Wine, and we will fill our selves with strong Drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant: there's all that they care. And especially those fall most greedily upon carnal contentments that have been kept short a long time. So it was here.
Oh my brethren, our hearts should be filled with these thoughts in our fulness; But it is with most as we reade in Isa. 56. 12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch Wine, and we will fill our selves with strong Drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant: there's all that they care. And especially those fall most greedily upon carnal contentments that have been kept short a long time. So it was here.
I knew thee in the wilderness: But according to their Pastures they were filled; they were filled, they minded nothing but filling themselves, now they gormandize, now they fill themselves; As it's usual with them that have lived very sparingly and meanly before, if they come to a full diet they fill themselves greedily more than others, so as to distemper themselves, and occasion Plagues and grievous 1diseases by filling themselves greedily when they come to fuller diet than formerly they did enjoy; when a man hath fasted to starving almost, he had need be very careful what he doth when he comes to a full Table: Physicians will not suffer men that have fasted long to eat much; It's that which brings many diseases in Soldiers and others, because sometimes they want much, and sometimes they have abundance, and so they spoil themselves: As we read of Saul's men that they fell upon the Cattle so as they did eat the blood they were so greedy of it. Oh let us take heed of this, this should be a seasonable Lesson to those that have known what emptiness hath meant in these times, and now they are going into their Countries again, and to enjoy their Possessions, Oh let them take heed how they fall upon the comforts of the