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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 3: VER. 3.
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.
Be not discouraged at your difficulties, but when you 1are in your way, and your conscience tells you that it is not a way that you have chosen to your selves, look up to God for guidance, cry to him; as you find in Psal. 107. 6. They cried to the Lord in their trouble; (and then vers. 7.) 2he led them forth in a right way. Mark how these two are ⟨p. 31⟩joined together: They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he led them forth in a right way. When you are in straights, cry to God in your trouble, the Lord will lead you forth in a right way. When we have been in the greatest straits 3and have had the hardest way to go, how hath God taken us up in his arms! Through Gods mercy, though we be very weak; yet we are gone on a great way even from Egypt, from our spiritual Egypt and bondage. It is unthankfulness in people, to say, We are in as bad a condition as ever we were. What God may bring us to through the unthankfulness of men we know not, but certainly through Gods mercy we have been led along a great way in our journey, God hath taught us to go; it hath not been the wisdom nor providence of men that hath carried us on in our way so far as we have been, no, we have found apparently we are not much beholden to the wisdom of men for that way that we have been carried on in, but 'tis God that hath come in in our straits, we see by what hath fallen out, how we should have perished in our way, we should have returned into Egypt; how often have we been ready to think, Would things were with us as heretofore they have been: Oh! this hath been the peevishness of our spirits, to be thinking of turning into Egypt: as it was with this people, though God was with them in their way, yet often they thought of returning back again. We have been ready to be thinking of by-ways for our selves, and every one to be shifting his own way, and what cross paths have we walked in, first one way, and then another way, undoing what we have done? First engaging men, and then discouraging 4the same men that we have encouraged; though they have continued the same, yet our spirits have not continued the same towards them. We may apply that that you have in