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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.
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Then learn we to charge our selves of all the evil that is upon 1us, do not put it off, neither to God nor the Devil so much, but charge our selves still, for certainly we cause more evil to our selves than all the Devils in Hell can do, All the Devils in Hell could not undo us, if we did not undo our selves; we are ready to charge it upon wicked 2men, or temptations of the Devil, and if not so, then upon God; for so you do, when any man or woman thinks to excuse his sin thus, God knows I do what I can; that's as much as if you should say, for my part I am free of any evil that comes upon me, if I perish I am free, I do what I can, and it's because God doth not give me grace, thus you put it from your selves to God: 3No, learn to charge your selves of evil; a tender heart will take even that which is the Devils to himself, and a carnal heart will put off that which is from himself to the Devil: Observe the difference between one that hath a tender spirit, and another; when any temptation of the Devil comes, that are indeed the Devils rather than his own, he presently charges his own heart, Oh! what ⟨p. 516⟩a wretched vile heart have I! when as it may not be it, but mere suggestions and temptations of the Devil and not the steam and filth of his heart, but he doth judg his heart from those temptations, and thinks it is nothing but the uncleanness and filthiness of his heart: but you shall have another man that hath a most filthy wicked heart, and there comes most abominable steams which break forth into filthy diseases, and though it comes altogether from himself, yet saith he, Oh the temptations of the Devil doth lead me aside, and I cannot tell how to resist him, it's from temptations, it's from thy self, from that wicked unclean heart of thine, and were there no Devils in Hell at all, thou hast the seeds of all sin in thy heart, it's from thy uncleanness.
Then learn we to charge our selves of all the evil that is upon 1us, do not put it off, neither to God nor the Devil so much, but charge our selves stil, for certainly we cause more evil to our selves than all the Devils in Hell can do, All the Devils in Hell could not undo us, if we did not undo our selves; we are ready to charge it upon wicked