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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 9: VER. 9.
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.
Secondly, God knows how to turn all the evil upon our 1selves, God knows how to right himself; Though we may think to lessen our evil by putting it upon God, God will turn it all upon our own heads, and make it out to all the world that we were the cause of all the evils that were upon us, both temporal evils, and all the evil that shall come upon those that shall perish eternally, it will be 2one of the great works at the day of Judgment, To make it out to men and Angels, that all the misery that comes upon the damned it is from themselves, and their Consciences will acknowledge it, and God will be cleared before all; it will be found that the cause of mans perdition it is not the Decree of God, Gods Decree it damns none, 3It is their Sin that damns them, not the Decree. The Decree of Reprobation it is but the leaving of men to be dealt withal in a way of Justice: whereas saith God, here's a company I am resolved to magnify my Grace upon to all eternity, 4Whatsoever comes between to hinder it, I am resolved that these shall be the subjects for me to exercise my Grace on to all eternity, that's Election: But there are others that I will have to a way and course of Justice, they shall have what they earn, and no otherwise; so that the Decree is not the cause of mens damnation, their sin comes in between that and their damnation, so that they destroy themselv[…].
Secondly, God knows how to turn all the evil upon our 1selves, God knows how to right himself; Though we may think to lessen our evil by putting it upon God, God will turn it all upon our own heads, and make it out to all the world that we were the cause of al the evils that were upon us, both temporal evils, and all the evil that shal come upon those that shall perish eternally, it will be 2one of the great works at the day of Judgment, To make it out to men and Angels, that all the misery that comes upon the damned it is from themselves, and their Consciences will acknowledg it, and God wil be cleered before all; it will be found that the cause of mans perdition it is not the Decree of God, Gods Decree it damns none,